An executive cannot say yes to “AI transformation”. They can say yes to three weeks with a named output on a named day. We sit inside your organisation, map how the work moves, pick three use cases that can reach production under your own controls, write the delivery plan with the controls in it, and ship one working proof against your systems before the sprint ends.
We are a forward-deployed engineering firm. Much of our work is in healthcare and other regulated settings, and we train your team while we build.
Interviews and read access. How work and decisions actually move.
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Scope
Three use cases, each with its approvals, record and cost per outcome.
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Prove
One use case running against real systems, evidence trail on.
04
Carry
Forward-deployed engineers, a Fractional Head of AI, or training.
The sprint runs inside your boundary. Nothing leaves it, and the compliance lead is in the room for the proof.
Who it is for.
Organisations with a mandate to do something with AI and a compliance function that has so far said no to everything.
Health plans and TPAs
Medicare Advantage, Marketplace and Medicaid plans and the administrators behind self-funded employers, where prior authorisation, claims, member services and appeals are the use cases and CMS is in the room.
Provider systems and health-tech
Health systems, physician enterprises and the software companies that serve them, where patient access, documentation and revenue cycle are the work and a Business Associate Agreement governs it.
Regulated enterprises
Financial services, insurance, government contractors and others whose first question about any AI system is who approved the action and where the record is.
Leadership without an AI leader
Organisations that need the mandate, the operating model and the first delivery set by someone who has run regulated operations, before they hire for the role.
What we deliver.
On day fifteen you hold a map, three scoped use cases, a plan your compliance officer can sign, and a working proof.
Current-state map
The workflows, systems, data and decision points that matter, drawn from interviews and read access rather than a questionnaire, including where AI is already being used unofficially.
Three governed use cases
Each scoped to production: the decision it touches, the data it needs, who approves what, what the record of each action looks like, and what it costs per accepted outcome. Ranked.
Delivery plan with controls
A ninety-day plan for the first use case: architecture inside your boundary, the human authorisation points, evidence per action, the audit trail and the rollback. Written for the compliance officer's signature.
One working proof
The first use case running against your real systems in a non-production environment, with the evidence trail turned on, demonstrated to the sponsor and the compliance lead together.
Team readiness
A skills map of the people who will own the work and the ALTITUDE learning path recommended for each, on training.lockedinlabs.ai.
After the sprint
Forward-deployed engineers who carry the first use case through production and start the second; a Fractional Head of AI who sets the mandate and runs the governance forum; or ALTITUDE cohorts for your engineers and operators. Each sold separately, none required.
How an engagement starts.
A conversation, a scoping call, a fixed fee. The sprint starts within two weeks of your go-ahead and ends on the date in the quote.
01Request a conversation below, or reply to the founder on LinkedIn. Twenty minutes on the mandate, the systems and who has to sign.
02A one-hour scoping call with the sponsor and the compliance lead: stakeholder groups, systems in scope, the non-production environment for the proof. You receive the fixed quote in writing the same day.
03The sprint: three weeks on site and inside your systems, with the readout to your leadership team in the final week.
Price.
Fixed fees, set in writing before work starts. The sprint fee is credited to the first month of any retainer signed within sixty days.
AI Readiness and Delivery Sprint
$25,000
Three weeks. Up to three stakeholder groups, three scoped use cases, one working proof, the readout.
Readiness Sprint, single department
$15,000
Two weeks. One department, three scoped use cases and the delivery plan, without the working proof.
Forward-deployed engineering pod
$48,000 a month
A lead and two engineers embedded with your team, carrying the first use case through production and starting the second. Three-month minimum. A single embedded engineer at $18,000 a month.
Fractional Head of AI
$15,000 a month
The founder, two days a week, as your AI leader: mandate, operating model, vendor and model decisions, the governance forum, the board readout. Three-month minimum.
ALTITUDE team training
Quoted per cohort
Role-based AI and forward-deployed engineering paths on training.lockedinlabs.ai, run as cohorts with live sessions.
Engagements and prices
Engagement
Price
What that buys
AI Readiness and Delivery Sprint
$25,000
Three weeks. Up to three stakeholder groups, three scoped use cases, one working proof, the readout.
Readiness Sprint, single department
$15,000
Two weeks. One department, three scoped use cases and the delivery plan, without the working proof.
Forward-deployed engineering pod
$48,000 a month
A lead and two engineers embedded with your team, carrying the first use case through production and starting the second. Three-month minimum. A single embedded engineer at $18,000 a month.
Fractional Head of AI
$15,000 a month
The founder, two days a week, as your AI leader: mandate, operating model, vendor and model decisions, the governance forum, the board readout. Three-month minimum.
ALTITUDE team training
Quoted per cohort
Role-based AI and forward-deployed engineering paths on training.lockedinlabs.ai, run as cohorts with live sessions.
Scopes beyond three stakeholder groups are quoted separately. Nothing larger is sold as a sprint.
What you receive in writing.
Written for the sponsor, the compliance officer and the board, in that order.
The current-state map, with the systems, data flows and decision points named.
Three use-case briefs: decision, data, approvals, record per action, cost per accepted outcome, ranking.
The ninety-day delivery plan with the controls, the authorisation points and the rollback written in.
The working proof: the running system, its evidence trail, and the demonstration record.
The team skills map and the recommended ALTITUDE path for each role.
The executive readout: one page for the sponsor and the hour with the leadership team.
A written quote for whichever next step you choose, if any.
Request a conversation.
Tell us the mandate, the organisation, and who has to sign. The founder replies within one business day.
Written by the founder, answered by the founder. Twenty minutes, no deck.