Three ways to work with St Lue.
Every engagement starts with the same question: where is AI working for your business, and where is it quietly working against you? From there, we choose the right depth of engagement. A focused diagnostic. A targeted build. Or an ongoing practice that evolves teams and infrastructure together.
FIRST ENGAGEMENT - ONE MONTH
The Audit
A focused engagement to map your AI footprint, surface what is working, what is not, and where the highest-leverage moves are. Delivered as a written report with a prioritized plan.
What You’ll Get
A clear-eyed read of every place AI is currently touching your business, scored across five dimensions: spend efficiency, workflow integration, team adoption, infrastructure fit, and competitive positioning.
A prioritized plan for the next ninety days, ranked by leverage and effort. No vendor recommendations. No tool lists you did not ask for. Just the moves that matter for your specific operating reality.
A live working session where we walk through findings together. You leave with the plan in hand and the rationale in your head.
Who It's For
Owners and operators who know AI matters but are not sure where to start. Businesses where AI spend has grown faster than AI returns. Founders preparing for a transition (succession, acquisition, scale-up) who want a clear-eyed audit before they invest deeper.
The Structure
Week one: discovery interviews and surface mapping. We meet with you and up to three of your team members. We review every place AI is currently in your operation.
Week two: external assessment. We test how your business surfaces in AI search, examine your customer-facing AI touchpoints, and benchmark against three to five comparable businesses.
Week three: synthesis and plan construction. You receive a draft for review.
Week four: working session and final delivery. We walk through findings, refine the plan together, and you receive the final document.
SECOND ENGAGEMENT - THREE MONTHS
The Build
A focused engagement to design and deploy a single high-leverage AI workflow inside your business. Built to your tools, your team, and the way you actually operate.
What You’ll Get
One AI-powered workflow, designed, built, and deployed inside your existing operation. Not a strategy document. A working system that handles real work in your business.
Documentation written for your team, not for a vendor handoff. Includes how the system works, what the inputs and outputs are, where human judgment still belongs, and how to measure whether it is earning its keep.
Sixty days of post-deployment support to handle the edge cases that emerge once the workflow meets real volume.
Who It's For
Businesses that have already identified the workflow they want to transform but lack the time or expertise to actually deploy it. Owners and operators who are tired of pilots that never reach production. Companies ready to make one focused bet rather than scattering investment across ten initiatives.
The Structure
Month one: design. We define the workflow in detail, identify the right tools and integrations, and produce a technical specification you sign off on before any building starts.
Month two: build. Construction happens. You see weekly progress and you have visibility into every decision. No black boxes.
Month three: deployment and tuning. The workflow goes live. We monitor it under real conditions, tune it where needed, and train your team on how to operate it day to day.
Post-engagement: sixty days of monitored support to absorb the edge cases that only show up in production.
THIRD ENGAGEMENT - SIX MONTHS & ONGOING
The Practice
An ongoing engagement to evolve teams, processes, and infrastructure together. For organizations that want AI to compound, not drain.
What You’ll Get
A standing relationship that treats AI as core operating infrastructure rather than a side project. Monthly working sessions with leadership. Quarterly deep dives into a single new domain. Continuous calibration as the technology evolves.
Direct access to St Lue between sessions. Real questions get real answers without scheduling a separate engagement.
A measurement framework you can hand to your board, your investors, or your future buyer. AI investment in, AI ROI out, drift trend over time. The kind of data that turns a soft capability into a hard asset.
Who It's For
Organizations that treat AI as foundational infrastructure rather than a tactical purchase. Owner-operators who recognize that the technology will keep moving and that their advantage comes from compounding adaptation. Family offices and succession buyers who have inherited an operation and want a steady hand through the modernization.
The Structure
Month one: foundation. We complete the equivalent of an Audit, deeper. The output is a twelve-month roadmap and the baseline measurement framework.
Months two through six: execution. Monthly leadership sessions. Quarterly capability builds (typically one Build-class engagement per quarter included in the engagement scope). Continuous access between sessions.
Months seven onward: ongoing practice. The engagement continues month to month, with quarterly recalibration on priorities. Most clients stay for twelve to twenty-four months. We never bind you to a long contract.
Two Paths
If you are not sure where you fit, start with the Free AI Drift Assessment. Twenty questions, five minutes, an instant read on how your AI investments are currently performing and where the biggest leaks are. It is the same diagnostic we run as the first hour of every Audit. If you already know which engagement is right and want to talk, book a consultation directly.