The Shortcut
The full engagement isn't always the right first step — and sometimes your own procurement cycle moves slower than the decision in front of you. These are the ways to get Ishmael's read on the problem now, without the wait.
Office Hours — $500 / hour
An hour with Ana on the problem in front of you.
You set the agenda. Bring the decision you're weighing, the system that's nagging at you, the thing you'd think more clearly about out loud with someone who's seen it before. No prep, no deck, no pitch — a working hour on your actual situation, by video. It's the fastest way to find out what it's like to have Ana thinking alongside you.
Where an hour tends to go
- A governance or AI-adoption question you need to get right
- A system or vendor decision you're weighing
- A read on where your real drag is coming from
- A transition you're walking into — or planning to walk away from cleanly
Vendor Scope Review — $500
Before you sign with a vendor, get Ishmael's lens on what you're actually signing up for.
New vendors and renewals are where tomorrow's drift gets built — a scope that looks clean on paper and quietly becomes five jobs, a dependency nobody priced, a tool that won't talk to the ones you already own.
You: send the scope of services and what you're trying to accomplish.
We: read the parts that matter for what they'll actually cost you downstream — in governance, in workarounds, in control — and send back a written read with the questions to ask before you commit.
It's not a call, and it's not legal review. It's a systems read — the kind that catches the one thing that makes the whole deal better, while it's still cheap to fix.
Offered on a limited basis.