the entry engagement
The Stalled Pilot Autopsy.
Somewhere in your company is an AI project that consumed budget, produced a demo, and stopped. Nobody wants to be the one who says it out loud. We are the outside engineer who says it with numbers.
What you get
| price | €2,500–5,000 fixed — scoped on the discovery call, 50% on signature, 50% on delivery. 20–30% is credited if you proceed to a Build. |
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| duration | 6–8 working days from access granted. If access stalls, the clock pauses — that is in the contract. |
| access | Read-only. We change nothing during an autopsy. |
| verdict | KILL — the use case cannot clear its accuracy bar; stop spending. FIX — the pilot is salvageable; here is the costed plan. REBUILD — the need is real, the implementation is not; smaller scope, different architecture. |
| you keep | The autopsy report, the eval baseline pack (golden test set + harness), the AI-system inventory entry, and the readout deck. Whatever the verdict. |
The four artifacts, by name
- 01Autopsy Report — what was built, what it actually does, why it stalled. Technical and organizational causes, separated. Read a full specimen report for a fictional law firm — this is the exact document you receive.
- 02Eval Baseline Pack — a golden test set built with your subject-matter expert and a runnable harness that scores the pilot against it. Numbers, not adjectives. The harness starter is public.
- 03Compliance Position — where this system sits under the EU AI Act risk tiers and GDPR, in engineering language. What documentation exists, what is missing. Reviewed by a partner lawyer when it crosses defined triggers. Template pack here.
- 04Budget-Holder Readout — sixty minutes, the verdict, the costed options. Built for the person who signs, not the person who sponsored the pilot.
Who this is for
Companies of roughly 25–250 people in the EU that have already spent five figures or more on AI — a vendor build, an internal pilot, a tool rollout — and cannot show a P&L line for it. Professional services firms are our home turf: law, accounting, and other regulated back offices where "roughly right" is not an acceptable model output.
It is explicitly not for companies looking for their first AI idea. If nothing has been tried yet, there is nothing to autopsy — and an agency that sells you enthusiasm at that stage is part of the problem we exist to clean up.
Book it
One thirty-minute discovery call. We ask about the pilot's history, who owns the budget, and what "working" would mean in one sentence. If an autopsy is not the right instrument, we say so on the call and it costs you nothing.
email: ai@coherentperspective.eu — subject line: "autopsy"
Not ready to talk to anyone? The self-diagnostic takes four minutes and does not ask for your email.