How we work
We find the workflows costing you the most, prove the number, and build the AI that fixes them — priced against the value, not the hours.
| Stage | What you get | Price | Commitment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diagnose | The AI Readiness Report — scored across five dimensions, your costliest workflows priced from your own numbers | $49–995 | About 30 minutes |
| Prove | A standalone scoping artifact: baseline numbers, a build specification, and a fixed build price | $1,500–2,500 | Credited toward the build |
| Build | A working AI workflow, deployed into your business and matched to the scoped specification | $12,000–40,000 | Scoped per project |
| Keep it working | Care keeps it running as models and APIs change; Growth adds new automation each month | Care $750–1,500/mo Growth $2,500–5,000/mo | Optional monthly plan |
Diagnose
The AI Readiness Report — scored across five dimensions, your costliest workflows priced from your own numbers
- Price
- $49–995
- Commitment
- About 30 minutes
Prove
A standalone scoping artifact: baseline numbers, a build specification, and a fixed build price
- Price
- $1,500–2,500
- Commitment
- Credited toward the build
Build
A working AI workflow, deployed into your business and matched to the scoped specification
- Price
- $12,000–40,000
- Commitment
- Scoped per project
Keep it working
Care keeps it running as models and APIs change; Growth adds new automation each month
- Price
- Care $750–1,500/moGrowth $2,500–5,000/mo
- Commitment
- Optional monthly plan
Stage 1 · Diagnose
Find your direction
We find the workflows costing you the most.
A guided, conversational audit — powered by Claude — walks through how your business actually runs, one question at a time.
It captures your own numbers — lead response times, quote turnaround, document processing hours, reporting load — and those numbers become the diagnosis.
You walk away with
- A consulting-grade AI Readiness Report
- An AI Readiness Score across five dimensions
- Your priority opportunities, each with a cost attached
Automated — $49
The full audit and report, self-serve.
You + Claude
Reviewed — $495–995
The same audit; a senior consultant reviews, annotates, and walks you through it. Your $49 is credited if you upgrade.
Reviewed and debriefed by a senior consultant
- Commitment
- about 30 minutes
Stage 2 · Prove
Prove your position
We prove the number before you commit to a build.
The audit finds the opportunity; scoping proves its value. We take one workflow and show the math — baseline, conservative assumption, first-year value.
The transparency is the point. You see exactly how the price is derived, so the build is a decision about value, not a leap of faith.
You walk away with
- A standalone strategy artifact
- Baseline numbers, target metrics, and a build specification
- A fixed build price — credited back if you proceed
Simple pattern from our catalog → near 10%. Genuinely custom → toward 20%. Never below our $12,000 project minimum.
- Price
- $1,500–2,500
- Commitment
- credited toward the build
- Who
- You + a Meridian strategist
Stage 3 · Build
Bridge the gap
We build the AI that fixes the workflow.
We build against the workflow the audit surfaced — on platforms we know and have patterns for, so the estimate holds and the build ships.
Your report names this in every opportunity: the Meridian bridge — the specific thing we’d build for you, where the off-the-shelf part ends and the custom work begins. Stage 3 is where the bridge gets built.
Pricing is a share of the value we proved, not a stack of hours. When the workflow is worth more to fix, the price reflects that — and never the reverse.
You walk away with
- A working AI workflow, deployed into your business
- The delivered build, matched to the scoped specification
- A baseline to measure the improvement against
- Price
- ~10–20% of first-year value
- Commitment
- scoped per project
- Who
- Meridian builds · you approve the spec
Stage 4 · Keep it working
Stay on course
We keep it working — and keep it improving.
AI workflows are living systems: models change, APIs change, your business changes. Care keeps what we built running as the ground shifts.
Growth adds a standing lane of new automation each month — the next opportunities from your audit, burned down instead of re-scoped one at a time.
Care and Growth are optional monthly plans that start after your build ships — most clients attach Care.
You walk away with
- Care: monitoring, fixes, and model/prompt updates
- Growth: everything in Care, plus new automation monthly
- A workflow that stays current instead of decaying
- Price
- Care ~$750–1,500/moGrowth ~$2,500–5,000/mo
- Commitment
- monthly retainer
- Who
- Your standing Meridian team
The difference isn't the tool — it's knowing which workflow to fix first, and being able to prove what fixing it is worth.
Already know you want strategy or build work? Talk to us.
Every engagement starts with the audit.
$49 · about 30 minutes · report included