Engineering. AI. Automation. Custom welcome.
Productized engagements with fixed scope. AI reliability audits, RAG and agent ops, automation pipelines, customer-facing AI products, retainers, diagnostic on-ramps, and full done-for-you bundles. Or scope something custom — free 30-minute call, 48-hour proposal, no asterisks.
Three quick questions.
1 / 2 · What stage are you in?
Engineering & QA
Fixed scope, fixed price, Stripe checkout. The original Sage Ideas catalog — strategy audits, marketing-site sprints, brand work, and platform builds.
Site Starter
Three fixed-scope site builds — Landing, Marketing, or Pro.
- Stripe checkout, fixed price, no scope creep
- Pro tier ships with CMS-backed blog
Build
Site + app + automation + SEO. Live in one sprint.
- A live, full-stack business in production
- Site + app + automation + SEO under one strategy
App Development
A purpose-built web app for your small team — spec, prototype, build, launch.
- A live, custom web app your team and customers can use
- A spec, a prototype, then a real production app — in that order
Ship
A production marketing site, in two weeks.
- Live, fast, indexable marketing site
- CMS your team can update without engineering
Automate
One critical workflow, automated end-to-end.
- One workflow runs without human supervision
- Monitoring + alerting in place — you know when it breaks
SEO Sprint
Technical SEO + on-page foundation, fixed in 30 days.
- Every technical SEO blocker fixed — crawl, schema, vitals, sitemaps
- Programmatic SEO scaffolding for templated landing pages
Brand Sprint
Verbal + visual identity, ready to ship — in 2 weeks.
- A brand identity that looks like it belongs to a real company
- Verbal system: positioning, voice, taglines, messaging hierarchy
Sage Audit
A focused set of eyes on your stack — in one week.
- Prioritized list of the 10 highest-leverage fixes
- Loom walkthrough you can share with your team
Content Engine
Editorial-grade long-form, every week, for compounding reach.
- 4 long-form pieces per month — research-backed, editorially tight
- Distribution kit for every piece (LinkedIn, X, newsletter)
Scale
SEO + Content Engine running in lockstep — the compounding stack.
- Compounding organic traffic — typically 3–9 month payback
- A content moat in your category
Operate
Engineering ownership on retainer. About twenty hours a week.
- A dedicated engineer who owns one critical surface area
- Weekly syncs + async availability
Twenty-two more ways we can help.
Six categories spanning AI reliability, automation pipelines, customer-facing AI products, productized retainers, diagnostic on-ramps, and full done-for-you bundles. Inquiry-first — every engagement is scoped before you commit.
AI Flagship Suite
Custom AI agents, voice agents, and lead engines — built on your business.
AI Agent Development
from $2,600A custom AI agent trained on your business — running 24/7, measurable, and yours.
AI Voice Agent
from $1,800A phone agent that handles one workflow well — measurable, always on, never tired.
AI Lead Engine
from $2,200A pipeline that finds, enriches, scores, and engages your ideal leads — with a dashboard you actually open.
AI Implementation Consulting
from $1,000Stop guessing where AI fits. Get a build plan you can actually ship.
Agent Operations Retainer
from $600Your agent gets better every month — or we tell you why it isn't.
AI services
Make your AI features measurable, defensible, and production-grade.
AI Reliability Audit
from $4,500Find out if your AI feature actually works — in two weeks.
RAG Systems Engineering
from $9,500Productionize the prototype your team has been demoing for six months.
Agent Ops
from $7,500Keep your agent from burning $400 in a loop overnight.
Internal AI Copilot
from $9,500A Slack/Teams bot trained on your docs that actually answers questions.
Prompt & Eval Library Setup
from $3,500Stop versioning prompts in Notion. Treat them like code.
RAG-as-a-Service
from $1,800Your docs, searchable by an agent that cites every answer.
Churn Prediction Model
from $3,800Know which customers are about to leave — while you can still save them.
Automation pipelines
Boring, reliable workflows that replace manual handoffs.
Ops Automation Sprint
$4,500Five workflows shipped in one week. Boring, reliable, no no-code toys.
Incident → Postmortem Pipeline
from $5,500Sentry alert → Slack thread → Notion postmortem → Linear actions. All automatic.
Release Notes Automation
$3,500PRs → categorized changelog → customer email — automatically.
Customer Feedback Router
from $6,500Intercom + Zendesk + email → deduped, categorized Linear tickets with frequency counts.
Data Hygiene Bot
from $4,500Find the broken data in Stripe, HubSpot, and Salesforce before your CFO does.
AI Meeting Notes + CRM Sync
from $900Every call summarized, every action item assigned, every CRM field updated.
Stripe Integration Sprint
from $1,800Production-grade billing in one week.
Auth + Billing Foundation
from $3,200The boring 2 weeks every SaaS skips and regrets.
Customer-facing AI
AI features your users actually use — with citations and analytics.
Docs-as-a-Product
from $7,500Your docs as an AI search experience that knows what your users keep asking.
AI Onboarding Concierge
from $9,500In-app guided activation that adapts to what each new user is trying to do.
Support Deflection Layer
from $9,500Tier-1 answers with citations. Clean handoff. Eval loop you trust.
AI SDR Agent
from $2,400Outbound prospecting that researches before it writes.
AI Customer Support Agent
from $2,200Triages every ticket, drafts every reply, escalates the hard ones.
AI Internal Knowledge Bot
from $1,400A Slack bot that knows your SOPs better than half your team does.
Productized retainers
Recurring scope with concrete monthly deliverables.
AI Quality Retainer
$2,500/moMonthly evals, regression report, one upgrade, one fix. Your AI ages well.
Automation Retainer
$2,000/moTwo new pipelines per month plus maintenance of everything we ship.
Reliability Retainer
$3,000/moOwn your alerting hygiene, run a quarterly chaos drill, ship a monthly scorecard.
Founder's Tech Partner
$3,500/moWeekly strategy + async Slack + one ship per month. Half the price of fractional.
Diagnostics
Cheap, fast, on-ramps. Find out before you commit.
48-Hour AI Readiness Assessment
$1,500A one-page scorecard that tells you where AI helps and where it doesn't.
Stack X-Ray
$1,200Tooling spend + integration debt audit. Find $X/month and 5 automation wins.
Hallucination Hunt
$2,000Two-day stress test of your AI feature. Ranked vulnerability list at the end.
Compliance & security
SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR — readiness sprints that hit audit-ready milestones.
Growth engineering
SEO foundations, attribution, and conversion infrastructure that compounds.
Fractional leadership
Seasoned technical leadership without the $300k headcount.
Bundles & bespoke
One contract for the whole AI stack — or scope something custom.
We ship these patterns ourselves first.
Every offer above is built on a pattern already running in production — in our Lab or in shipped client work. Three concrete examples:
Nexural — GPT-4 Discord assistant in production
Real-time fintech platform with an LLM-backed Discord bot answering portfolio queries. 200+ AI queries per week, 0 billing incidents, 61 test suites covering the AI surface.
Jobpoise — citation-grounded generation, no hallucinations
AI cover letters where every output traces to a source (resume bullet, JD requirement) via a structured citation layer. Three-tier Stripe billing, Chrome extension, Gmail integration.
AlphaStream — 200+ indicators, 5 ML models, automated signal pipeline
End-to-end ML signal engine: data ingestion, feature engineering, training, evaluation, and signal output — all automated. The pattern behind our automation-pipeline offers.
Care plans
Lightweight monthly retainers for teams who already shipped. Cancel anytime.
“Cut our flake rate from 12% to 0.4% in three weeks. The eval suite caught two regressions on day one of running in CI.”
Or scope something custom.
Need a hybrid engagement? A multi-month build? A retainer with specific deliverables? Every engagement can be custom-scoped — transparent quote, fixed price, no asterisks.
Not sure which fits?
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Book a free 30-minute discovery call. We'll talk through what you're building, what you've already tried, and which engagement — if any — is the right fit.
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