For business consultants

Your clients already trust you. Be the one they ask about AI.

They need an answer on AI, and they will buy it from someone they already trust. Sell it yourself: where AI belongs, one workflow in production, then an ongoing engagement, under a co-brand. You stay their advisor. They pay you.

What stays yours

Free. Twenty minutes. Bring a question a client already asked. No preparation.

You stay the advisor they already trust.
They pay you for it, at your price.
Same practice. We do the build.

Example of what a client sees

Linden Advisory

CO-BRANDED

Prepared for your clients

Linden Advisory can answer what you should do about AI

You already bring us the hard questions. If you are deciding where AI belongs in the work, we can answer that too. One recommendation, one workflow, then an ongoing engagement.

2–3 wks

A recommendation

1 workflow

Built and measured

Ongoing

You stay in it

Put your name on it

The question

What they are already asking you

Clients already ask you these, inside work you are already doing.

What should we actually do about AI?
The board asked for a point of view. Can you give it?
We bought the tools. Nothing in the work has changed.
An outside firm wants to be our AI advisor. Should we let them?
Where does this belong in the business, and where should we leave it alone?
Can you stay with this after the recommendation?

The decision

Who answers the question

They will get an AI answer from someone. The choice is whether that someone is still you.

01Leave it unanswered

This quarter The trust, until they ask someone else

02Name a tool

Days A license, and the same question next quarter

03Send them to a stranger

Weeks The introduction

04Answer it

Six weeks The trust, and the work they pay you for

The shift

You already advise them. Add the AI work.

The relationship stays the same. The AI question gets an answer from you, not from someone else. We do the build. You keep the client and the price.

Already yours

The relationship you already have

01The CEO, the executive team, or the board
02Where you already see value the client is not using
03A client who already takes your advice

What you add

The recommendation and the build

01A recommendation on where AI belongs, in your words
02One workflow, built with you, at your price
03You stay their advisor after the recommendation

Delivery

You keep the advice. We do the build.

Your practice owns

The advisory relationship

01The relationship, and the advice
02Pricing, and what the client is told
03Final approval before anything ships

Outsized Outcomes handles

The prep, and the build

01Which clients have a workflow worth building
02The one-pager, in your words, and the first meetings
03The build, unless the client’s team should own it

Week 0 Revenue Map We look at the clients you already advise and name which ones are ready for a build. You leave with a ranked list of where to start.
Week 1 Package the offer Scope, pricing, co-brand, and how you open it inside an engagement you already have. Something you can take into the next meeting.
Week 3 Prepare the meeting One-pagers and a talk track for the meetings you already sit in. A small practice does not need a sales floor. You review everything before a client sees it.
By week 6 Join the first conversations We sit in on the first three. After that, an advisor stays available whenever you want us in the room.

In writing

The client stays yours

12 months: Your clients are never our prospects, during the work and after it, except companies we already work with, which we disclose up front
$0 fixed: No subscription or fixed starting cost
6 weeks: Target from kickoff to the first client conversation
Every deal: Your approval before anything reaches a client

Choose your depth

Start where the practice is comfortable

Introduce

You make the introduction. We do the build under a co-brand. Your practice shares in the fee.

Shared fee

You sell it Usual path

You bring it into the engagement you already have, on your paper, at your price. We join the meeting. We build, unless the client’s team should.

Your price

Embedded

A dedicated strategist beside the practice, for a firm with a deeper book. Joint planning and negotiated economics.

Custom

What the client buys

What you sell, inside work you already have

Wholesale prices. What your practice pays us. You charge the client more and keep the difference. Each figure is a starting price, not a cap. If the right answer is not a build, the assessment says so. You do not sell a pilot to justify the work.

Assessment Usual first yes

Where that client should use AI, and equally importantly, where they should not. Two or three weeks, ending in one recommendation you can defend with the executive team.

Applied in full to the first month if they start an ongoing engagement within 30 days.

$6kStarting at

Pilot

Six to eight weeks. One workflow, with written success criteria. We build it. If the client has a team that should own the build, they can.

$12kStarting at

Ongoing engagement

A fractional chief AI officer, plus the execution. Strategy, the builds, and keeping what is live. It sits next to the advisory relationship.

$6k/ month

Executive AI Kickstart

Thirty days. A leadership team using AI on their own work: a short prep, a 3-hour session, then support through day 30. Each leader leaves with an assistant, guardrails, and a short plan. Up to 6 leaders. A second session or a larger team is priced above that.

Credited in full if they move into an ongoing engagement within 30 days of the check-in.

$4.5kFrom

Illustrative shape

Hiring a team for this takes a year. This does not.

Building your own delivery team is a hire, and a long wait before the first fee. Here, nothing is fixed to start. You begin with clients who already pay you. In a practice of about twelve, two assessments is the first-year shape we use. Wholesale on those two is $12k. You bill above that and keep the difference. One may become a pilot. One may become an ongoing engagement.

A Revenue Map replaces this sketch with your clients. The figures above are wholesale starting prices. You set the client price above them.

Year-one sketch 12 relationships

Engagements with a real next step2
Where each one startsAssessment
Wholesale on those two$12k

What you keep Yours

A pilot or an ongoing engagement on top Your price

Straight answers

What consultants ask before they say yes

Our clients hired us for judgment, not for systems. Will they take a build seriously?

They already take the judgment seriously. That is why they hired you. What they may not believe is that the advisory practice is now also a delivery firm. The co-brand keeps those roles apart: your name on the advice, ours on the build. We join the first conversations so the client hears both.

We do not want a delivery practice.

You do not get one. The practice stays advisory. We do the build. You review it before the client sees it, and nothing ships without your approval.

We already answer their strategy questions. Why bring you in for AI?

The answer is still yours. What is usually missing is one workflow in production, with a written definition of done, and someone who stays on it after the meeting. That is the part we handle, so the client still hears it from you.

What if the right answer is not a build?

Then that is the recommendation. The assessment ends in one next step. If the value is not a workflow, you do not sell a pilot to justify the partnership.

Will you go around us to our clients?

No. We never go after your clients. Your clients are never our prospects, except companies we already work with, which we disclose up front. That holds during the work together and for 12 months after. We only work your book through you.

Who inside the client buys this?

The person who already buys your advice. This is not a separate technology project looking for a new sponsor. It is scoped to the work you are already in, with the CEO, the executive team, or the board.

I do not have a team to sell this.

You do not need one. You open it inside engagements you already have. We prepare the materials and join the first conversations. You decide what the client hears.

This qtr

If one client asks you about AI this quarter, the answer should be yours.

Twenty minutes. Bring the question. If it is worth selling, we map which clients to start with. The map is yours either way.

Free. No preparation. Starts with a short alignment call.