Turn AI curiosity into a practical business roadmap.
A focused 4-hour in-person strategy session for businesses that want to understand where AI, automation, and better systems can make a real operational difference.
From $3,500 + GST. Travel sessions are $4,000 + GST, with flights and accommodation charged separately where required.
The session starts before I arrive
A pre-session AI intake captures the background first, so the workshop can focus on judgement, priorities, and practical next steps.
How the strategy session works
A structured process, not a vague workshop
The intake handles the obvious background details. The session itself goes deeper into the pain points, pressure points, and opportunities that matter.
Pre-session AI intake
A private guided discussion captures your current systems, workflows, pain points, team structure, bottlenecks, goals, and constraints before the session.
4-hour strategy session
The in-person session homes in on repeated admin, messy handovers, slow reporting, customer friction, staff frustration, scattered information, and practical AI opportunities.
Written roadmap
You receive a clear written summary covering opportunities, priorities, quick wins, risks, sensible next steps, and longer-term strategy.
Follow-up reviews
Optional 1-month and 3-month reviews help you adjust the roadmap as your business changes and AI capability keeps moving.
The client experience
Every stage should feel calm, useful, and worth paying for
The goal is not to impress them with technology. The goal is to make them feel understood, prepared, and clear about what should happen next.
1. Asking about the service
The page explains the offer in plain English, sets the price clearly, and helps the client understand whether this is the right fit before they enquire.
2. Before the meeting
Arc guides them through a private 7-day intake so they can share context gradually, return later, and avoid trying to remember everything in one sitting.
3. The 4-hour session
The workshop starts with the messy reality of how work happens today, then turns pain points into practical AI, automation, process, and systems opportunities.
4. The report
They receive a clean online report and a printable PDF with the same practical checklist, because not every useful conversation happens on a laptop.
5. Follow-through
The one-month and three-month reviews keep momentum alive, check what changed, and adjust the roadmap instead of letting the session become shelfware.
What the session homes in on
The real pain points behind the AI conversation
Useful AI strategy starts with how the business actually works today: the repeated admin, messy handovers, slow reporting, customer friction, staff frustrations, and decisions made harder because information is scattered or missing.
Current systems, spreadsheets, inboxes, shared drives, and manual workarounds
Pain points, bottlenecks, repeated admin, staff frustration, and customer friction
Future state: what should be faster, safer, clearer, easier, or more consistent
Data sources, knowledge gaps, reporting delays, and source-of-truth problems
AI opportunities across drafting, summarising, triage, search, analysis, monitoring, and workflow automation
Constraints including privacy, budget, change appetite, compliance, integrations, and staff adoption
Pre-session AI intake
Four hours of quality time, not information gathering
Before the workshop, you receive a private 7-day intake link. You can return to the session during that window, continue the discussion, and build up the context I need before the in-person session.
Private intake link valid for 7 days, with the session saved so you can come back.
I receive an email summary of the findings before the workshop.
The AI system used to generate replies is configured for zero retention. Your intake transcript is kept by Lightning Developments so the session can be resumed and prepared properly.
Arc will dig into questions like
The chat experience should render clear headings, paragraphs, and lists rather than showing raw markdown, so the conversation feels polished and easy to review.
Pricing
Clear pricing for a premium advisory session
The fee covers preparation, the strategy session, the written roadmap, and the practical judgement needed to avoid expensive AI theatre.
AI Strategy Session
Best when the session can be delivered locally or without significant travel logistics.
$3,500 + GST
- Pre-session AI intake
- 4-hour in-person strategy session
- Pain point and opportunity mapping
- Written roadmap and recommended next steps
Travel Strategy Session
For clients outside the local delivery area. Flights and accommodation are charged separately where required.
$4,000 + GST
- Everything in the standard session
- Travel planning and in-person delivery
- Workshop preparation from intake findings
- Written roadmap after the session
Is this just an AI sales pitch?
No. The point is to identify where AI is genuinely useful, where better systems matter more, and where doing nothing is smarter than buying another tool.
Why use an AI intake before the session?
It captures the background before I arrive. That means the 4-hour session is spent on insight, trade-offs, pain points, priorities, and decisions instead of basic information gathering.
What happens to the intake conversation?
The AI system used to generate replies is configured for zero retention. Your intake transcript is kept by Lightning Developments so you can return to the session and so I can prepare properly.
Do I need to know what I want built?
No. It is often better if you start with the messy reality: what is slow, manual, frustrating, risky, or hard to see clearly. The session helps turn that into a practical roadmap.