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Tier 1 — Assessment

Adaptiv Compass

A half-day AI opportunity assessment for small businesses that know AI matters but don't know where to start.

$1,000

Book a Compass engagement

What you get

A focused engagement with a small footprint and a clear deliverable.

  • 30-minute pre-call to understand the business
  • Half-day on-site (4 hours) with the owner and key operators
  • Written assessment deliverable within 5 business days
  • 30-minute review call to walk the deliverable and recommend next steps

The deliverable

Compass produces a written document you keep. Six standard sections, tailored to your business.

Executive summary
Forwardable, one page. Written so a board member or partner can act on it without context.
Business context and current-state snapshot
What you do, how you do it today, and where AI is likely to land hardest.
Ranked opportunity map
3–5 opportunities, each scored on Impact, Effort, Confidence, and Timeline.
Quick-win recommendations
Things you can do this week, no consultant required.
Prioritization matrix
A single visual that turns the opportunity list into a sequencing decision.
Recommended engagement path
Whether your next step is Spark, the Workshop, Custom, or doing nothing for now.

Who it's for

A good fit

  • Small businesses, 5–50 employees
  • Owner-operators and leadership teams
  • Businesses that know AI matters but don’t know where it fits

Not a fit

  • Enterprises with existing AI strategies — they want the Workshop
  • Buyers who already know exactly what to build — they want Custom
Add-on

Want us to build one of the opportunities we find?

Spark turns one opportunity from your Compass assessment into a working tool your team can use. Templated Claude Project, branded for your business, deployed in 3–4 weeks.

What's included

  • Branded Claude Project deployment (knowledge base + one workflow)
  • Configured with your org’s context, voice, and guardrails
  • Written runbook for the team
  • 30-minute live team training session (recorded)
  • One 30-day check-in call

Spark pricing

+$2,500 added to Compass

Total with Compass: $3,500

Spark is templated, not custom. One workflow, proven pattern. Custom builds belong in a Custom Implementation engagement.

Compass questions

How is Compass different from a free consultation?
Compass is a paid engagement with a written deliverable you keep. A free consultation is a sales call. The $1,000 ensures we both take it seriously and gives you real output — a ranked opportunity map with quantified impact and effort — that's useful whether or not you ever work with us again.
Why isn't Spark available without Compass?
Because deploying the right tool depends on understanding the right problem. Compass gets us to the right problem fast. Without it, we'd be guessing about what to build, and neither of us wants that.
What makes Spark “templated” and not custom?
Spark uses a proven deployment pattern — a Claude Project with a curated knowledge base and one workflow — branded and configured for your business. It's fast, reliable, and priced for small businesses. If you need something bespoke (custom integrations, multiple workflows, complex logic), that's a Custom Implementation.

Need an organization-wide AI strategy instead?

The Executive AI Strategy Workshop is built for leadership teams that need alignment across functions, not a single use case.

See the Workshop →