Founder-led consulting
Consulting you keep.
The platform, and everything it learned, stays with you when the engagement ends.
Most strategy engagements end the same way: the firm leaves, the deck stays, and when the world moves, the update is a new quote. This one ends differently. You keep every deliverable and the working platform that produced them, loaded with the engagement's research, so your team updates the work instead of rehiring for it.
$28,980 plus your Calafai license, from €179 a month. 30 minutes to scope.
Priced in EUR. If you are billed in another currency, the amount is converted at the European Central Bank rate on the day the invoice is issued.
The four workshops
Download → Analysis → Action Plan → Reflection.
Workshop 1
Download
We sit with you and the people closest to the decision. What you have, what you do not, the hidden constraints, the political reality. Ground truth before analysis. By Friday we have a clean brief and an attachment set Calafai can work with.
Workshop 2
Analysis
The Calafai team runs the analysis in parallel: sources, financials, competitive landscape, risk surface, scenario models, regulatory exposure. AI specialists drawn from a roster of more than forty, working at the same time, not in series. Chris directs the work. Every claim is sourced. Every conclusion is challenged before it reaches you.
Workshop 3
Action Plan
We bring back a structured set of options and a recommended path. You read, steer, refine. Calafai re-runs targeted parts of the analysis against your direction. The deliverable ends with what to do first, and when.
Workshop 4
Reflection
We close the loop. What worked, what to revisit, which decisions still need a human. Who else inside your organization should see this. You keep the Calafai license, the analysis is repeatable, the work compounds, future questions sit on top of the same foundation.
Who it is for
Operators with a real decision in a defined window.
Senior leaders who need a structured strategic decision in a defined window, without the cost or timeline of a six-month consulting engagement.
Founders weighing a major pivot, expansion, or repositioning where AI search and AI-mediated buying are reshaping the category.
Operating partners and PE/VC operations leads scoping a portfolio company decision that has to happen on a board cycle, not a quarterly cycle.
Heads of strategy who want a senior team in the room without the procurement loop a brand-name firm requires.
How it differs from a consulting engagement
What a strategy firm delivers, with Calafai running the analysis.
Tactical next steps in every deliverable
Not a deck of findings. Each report ends with what to do this week, this month, this quarter. The work is organized so you can act on it, not just read it.
Refine & Iterate built into the cadence
The analysis evolves with you between workshops. You add context. You challenge a conclusion. Calafai re-runs the affected parts. The recommendation that lands in Week 3 is the recommendation you actually steered.
Your Calafai access stays with you
When the engagement closes, you keep your Calafai license. The analysis is repeatable, the work compounds, and future questions sit on top of the same foundation rather than starting from zero.
Built around your situation, not a template
The four-workshop scaffold is the cadence; the content is yours. We do not have a deck of frameworks waiting for your name to be dropped on top.
EU AI Act limited-risk
EU AI Act Article 50 transparency on every output we produce.
Tenant-isolated
Row-Level Security at the database. Your engagement never touches another customer's space.
GDPR · SOC 2 infrastructure
Calafai B.V., Netherlands-incorporated. We do not train on your data, ever.
Thirty minutes is the right place to start.
Tell us the decision you are trying to make. We will tell you honestly whether the four-workshop engagement is the right shape for it, or whether a different shape (Calafai Brand Standing, a Brand GEO Report, a focused Calafai project) fits better.
$28,980 plus your Calafai license. License starts at the Analyst tier (from €179 per month).
Brand-name firms price this class of work from €200,000, on a two-to-six-month clock.