Question 1

How does an engagement begin?

Accepted Answer

Every engagement begins with a confidential executive scoping conversation. We discuss the operating problem, the business case and what a production outcome would need to look like. If there is a credible opportunity, Arktika will recommend the appropriate next step.

Question 2

What does the AI Opportunity Assessment include?

Accepted Answer

A workflow, data and technology audit; a ranked opportunity portfolio; feasibility and risk scoring; an ROI model; an architecture recommendation; an implementation roadmap; and an executive readout. The Assessment is $20,000, and $10,000 is credited toward a Production AI Launch or AI Transformation Partner engagement signed within 60 days.

Question 3

How are engagements priced?

Accepted Answer

Engagements are fixed-scope, not hourly. The AI Opportunity Assessment is $20,000. A Production AI Launch starts at $135,000. An AI Transformation Partner engagement starts at $275,000. Ongoing support is available through the AI Performance Partnership from $25,000 per month.

Question 4

What qualifies as a production AI system?

Accepted Answer

A system operating inside the business, not a demonstration. It is integrated with the real workflow and source systems, covered by evaluations, guardrails and monitoring, documented, and operated by an accountable internal team.

Question 5

Who works on the engagement?

Accepted Answer

A phase-matched senior delivery team led by Joshua. Depending on the phase, that includes an engagement and strategy lead, an AI/ML architect, an applied AI engineer, a data and integration engineer and an adoption lead. Final composition is established after scope, and clients meet the proposed delivery leads before work begins.

Question 6

How does Arktika protect client data?

Accepted Answer

An NDA is signed before the Assessment begins. Work is performed inside approved client environments wherever practical, using least-privilege access. Client data is not used to train models and is not shared across engagements.

Question 7

Who owns the resulting IP?

Accepted Answer

The client does. Client-funded code, prompts, evaluations, pipelines and documentation transfer at handover under an agreement signed before work begins. Nothing proprietary to Arktika is left in the production path.

Question 8

How is success measured?

Accepted Answer

Against acceptance criteria defined before implementation begins and a business baseline captured during the Assessment. Criteria cover business outcome, technical performance, operational readiness and adoption, and the system is instrumented to report against them.

Question 9

What happens after deployment?

Accepted Answer

Phase 05 covers performance monitoring, model and retrieval optimization, governance reviews and roadmap updates. Clients can run this internally after handover or continue with the AI Performance Partnership from $25,000 per month.

Question 10

How is Arktika different from staff augmentation?

Accepted Answer

Staff augmentation supplies people and leaves architecture, adoption and measurement to the client. Arktika takes a scoped outcome through gated phases and is accountable for a system that is deployed, adopted and measured before the engagement is considered complete.

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