Services
Strategy, leadership, growth, consulting and builds. One team.
Five ways to work with PropelAI, priced up front. Advisory work runs on a monthly retainer. Anything we build runs through Liftoff: three phases, a fixed price, and a system in production at the end.
[ 01 ]What we do
Five service lines. Pick where the pain is.
Most clients start with one. The strategy work usually finds the build; the build usually earns the retainer.
Fixed-price engagement · 2 to 6 weeks
Digital strategy
Where technology should go next in your business, and in what order. You get a plan you can price and staff, with the first build already scoped.
- Technology roadmap for the next 18 months, sequenced by return
- Build, buy or keep decisions on the systems you already pay for
- AI readiness: what is worth automating and what is not
Monthly retainer · 2 to 6 days a month
Fractional CxO
Executive technology and operations leadership without the full-time hire. Someone who has held the seat, on your leadership team, making the calls.
- Vendor selection, contract negotiation and budget ownership
- Running the technology or operations function through a growth phase or a transition
- Board and investor reporting on technology risk and spend
Monthly retainer · 2 to 6 days a month
Fractional growth / CRO
Revenue leadership without the full-time hire. Someone who has carried a number and built the channels, running your sales motion alongside you.
- Go-to-market plan, pricing and packaging, and the pipeline to prove it
- Partner and channel strategy, including cloud and SaaS marketplace deals
- Government and enterprise capture: qualifying, teaming and the proposal itself
Fixed-price engagement or retainer
Business consulting
Operations, revenue and delivery problems worked by someone who has run them. We stay until the fix is in place, not until the deck is delivered.
- Quote-to-cash, intake, dispatch and reporting workflows
- Government contracting capture and proposal operations
- Post-acquisition integration for PE-backed service platforms
Liftoff · fixed price · XS to L
Product development
Custom software and AI systems, designed and built by the same team that scoped them. Every build ends with a production system your team uses.
- Internal systems that replace the spreadsheet the business runs on
- Customer-facing products, from prototype to launch
- On-premise and air-gapped builds when data cannot leave the building
[ 02 ]The methodology
Three phases. Right-sized to the work.
Every engagement runs through the same three phases. We adapt the scope, not the process.
01
Ignition
Prove it works
A paid scoping sprint that produces a working prototype on your real data. Not a slide deck. You know exactly what we’re building, what it costs, and how long it takes before you commit.
3 hours – 1 week
02
Ascent
Build it for production
Your system goes from prototype to production, running against real data, with your team starting to use it.
3 days – 4 weeks
03
Orbit
Ship and embed
Your operators get trained, your documentation gets written, your system gets handed off, with an optimization window sized to the engagement.
2 weeks – 3 months
[ 03 ]Engagement sizes
Pick the size that fits your scope.
Every build gets sized during a free 30-minute discovery call. No endless scoping meetings, no surprise pricing later.
[ 04 ]Why it works
What makes Liftoff different.
Fixed price, no hourly billing.
You get a fixed number before you sign anything. If scope changes, we reprice through a change order, not a surprise invoice.
Paid Ignition phase.
We don’t do free scoping. Ignition is a paid sprint that produces a working prototype. If you don’t proceed, you keep the prototype and the brief. If you do, the Ignition fee credits toward the engagement.
Production, not pilots.
Every Liftoff engagement ends with a system running in your business, not a recommendation in a slide deck. If we can’t ship it to production, we don’t take the engagement.
Operator-first design.
Your operators are the ones running the system after we leave. Every workflow is designed for them, not for the executive who bought it.
Handoff-first, not handoff-last.
Orbit is a full phase of the engagement, not a last-week afterthought. Documentation, training, and optimization are scoped into every size.
Real delivery credentials.
We’ve built proposal automation, operations platforms, field services tooling, and government technology systems for organizations from small businesses to the Fortune 100.
[ 05 ]After Liftoff
Keep the system running.
Most customers continue working with us after Orbit through a monthly retainer. Ongoing optimization, small feature additions, and priority access when something breaks.
| Completed size | Retainer | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| XS | $1,500/mo | 8 hrs/mo support + tuning |
| S | $3,500/mo | 16 hrs/mo support + tuning |
| M | $6,000/mo | 32 hrs/mo support + tuning |
| L | $12,000/mo | 80 hrs/mo support + strategy |
Month-to-month commitment. Cancel anytime.
[ 06 ]Fit
Who this fits.
- Growing businesses & organizations: defense & GovCon, membership orgs & nonprofits, professional services, and field-service & trade businesses
- Operations-heavy organizations: you have workflows, you have operators, you have a clear pain point
- Owners or operators with authority to decide: single decision-maker engagements land fastest
- Companies that want the work done, not just described: strategy engagements end with the first build scoped and priced
[ 07 ]FAQ
Common questions.
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