Consulting & AI Fast Start

AI Fast Start is CyberWarrior's flagship consulting product. It is designed for business owners and operators who are done waiting to figure out AI and want to deploy it without hiring a data scientist or building an internal team from scratch.

The engagement has three components, each building on the previous.

Learn (Days 1 and 2: AI Operator Training):

A two-day hands-on workshop for your team that goes beyond AI awareness into practical AI operation. Participants leave with real skills, reusable workflows, and a personal prompt library built around your business. This is not a generic AI overview; it is configured for your team's specific roles and the tasks they perform.

Automate (Weeks 1 through 4: Consulting and Workflow Builds):

Four weeks of structured consulting at two half-day sessions per week. Sessions are focused on auditing your operations, identifying automation opportunities, and building automated workflows your team can run immediately. By the end of the engagement, you have working automations, not just recommendations.

Scale (Week 4: AI Roadmap):

At the end of the 30-day engagement, CyberWarrior delivers a customized and prioritized action plan based on everything learned about your business during the engagement. The roadmap specifies what to automate next, how to do it, and the foundation for a longer-term AI strategy. This document is yours to keep and execute independently.

Total investment: $15,000 for the complete 30-day engagement. One-time, fixed-scope, no ongoing commitment required.

The deliverables from AI Fast Start are concrete, not advisory. Here is exactly what you receive.

From the training component (Days 1 and 2):

• Each participant leaves with a personal prompt library of 10 to 20 reusable prompts built around their specific role
• At least one automated workflow configured and tested during training sessions
• Practical fluency with AI tools relevant to your business's operations
• The ability to continue building on these skills independently

From the consulting component (Weeks 1 through 4):

• A documented operations audit identifying the highest-value automation opportunities in your business
• Working automated workflows built and deployed during the engagement (not planned for later, but built now)
• A configured tool stack appropriate for your business's automation needs

From the AI Roadmap (delivered at end of Week 4):

• A prioritized list of the next 5 to 10 automation opportunities in your business, with implementation guidance for each
• Best practices for continuing to expand AI use in your organization
• A foundation document that serves as your ongoing AI strategy reference

What you own at the end:

Everything. The prompt library is yours. The workflows are deployed in your tools. The roadmap is a document you own. CyberWarrior does not maintain any lock on the work product from the engagement.

AI Fast Start is a fixed-price consulting engagement at $15,000. It is not a subscription, not a monthly fee, and not a sliding-scale arrangement. You pay for the engagement and receive the deliverables.

Payment structure:

The standard billing structure is payment at the start of the engagement. This is typical for fixed-scope consulting work: the scope is defined, the price is agreed, and the engagement begins upon payment.

Split payment:

If your business needs payment spread across the 30-day engagement (for example, 50% at start and 50% at delivery of the roadmap), that can be discussed during the proposal process. We are a small business and we understand cash flow considerations. Bring up timing in the discovery call and we will find a structure that works.

What is not included in the $15,000:

Any software subscriptions or tool licenses needed to implement automations after the engagement. CyberWarrior uses tools that are available to you and helps you configure them, but ongoing subscription costs for those tools are your cost after the engagement ends. We recommend tools that are low-cost or free for SMBs wherever possible.

Is AI Fast Start WTFP-eligible:

No. AI Fast Start is a consulting engagement, not a workforce training program. WTFP covers training delivery costs for employee skill development. The consulting and roadmap components of AI Fast Start fall outside that scope. Do not represent AI Fast Start as WTFP-reimbursable. If you are a Massachusetts employer looking for WTFP-funded AI training, our workforce training programs (separate from AI Fast Start) are the eligible option.

This is one of the most important distinctions to understand when evaluating CyberWarrior's services, because it determines which is the right fit for your situation.

AI Fast Start Consulting: Duration is 30 days, then the engagement ends. The deliverable is skills, workflows, and a roadmap that you own and execute. You and your team do the ongoing work, using the skills and tools from the engagement. Best for business owners who want to build internal AI capability and manage AI operations themselves. Cost: $15,000 one-time.

AI Ops (Managed AI Operations): Duration is ongoing, month-to-month. The deliverable is monthly execution of a specific business function (marketing, sales, support, back-office). CyberWarrior does the ongoing work on your behalf, continuously. Best for business owners who want the output of AI-powered operations without managing the execution themselves. Cost: $2,500 per function per month.

Which is right for you depends on one question: do you want to build and run AI operations internally, or do you want to hand the execution to CyberWarrior?

Many clients do both, in sequence. AI Fast Start first (to understand their business's AI opportunities and build their team's capabilities), then AI Ops for the specific functions where ongoing managed delivery makes more sense than internal management. These are not competing options; they can be complementary stages in the same journey.

At the end of AI Fast Start, CyberWarrior's engagement concludes. Here is what that transition looks like.

What you have at the end:

A trained team, working automated workflows, and a prioritized AI roadmap. These are yours. You do not need CyberWarrior to continue operating the workflows or executing the roadmap.

What happens to the tools:

Any AI tools or automations built during the engagement are configured in your own accounts and tool stack. CyberWarrior does not maintain proprietary control over the tools or workflows. You manage them going forward.

What CyberWarrior's team does after:

The consulting team's active involvement ends. You will have your account manager's contact information for any follow-up questions, and we conduct a brief check-in call at 30 and 90 days post-engagement to see how implementation is going. This is not a sales call; it is a genuine check-in.

Common next steps clients choose:

Engage AI Ops for specific functions: Clients who complete AI Fast Start sometimes identify one or two functions where ongoing managed delivery makes more sense than internal management. The roadmap often surfaces this clarity. Transitioning to AI Ops after Fast Start is a natural path and the handoff is smooth because CyberWarrior already knows your business from the consulting engagement.

Enroll additional teams: Some clients complete AI Fast Start for their leadership team and then want to roll out training to their broader staff through WTFP-funded workshops. The Fast Start roadmap often identifies this as a recommended next step.

Execute independently: Many clients complete AI Fast Start, implement the roadmap, and do not need additional CyberWarrior services. That is a successful outcome by any measure.

AI Fast Start does not have a technical prerequisite. The program is explicitly designed for business owners who are not AI experts and do not want to become AI engineers.

What you need to bring:

Knowledge of your own business (your operations, your workflows, your team's functions, your biggest inefficiencies), willingness to engage actively during the training and consulting sessions, and the ability to provide access to your operational tools (CRM, email, scheduling, document management) so that CyberWarrior can assess and build against your actual environment.

What you do not need to bring:

Prior AI experience, coding or technical skills, specific tools or software (if you do not have a CRM, we will recommend one appropriate for your size and needs), or a predefined scope of what you want automated.

What the training component does:

The two-day training meets your team at their current skill level. Part of that assessment happens during the initial discovery call and is finalized in the first few days of the engagement. If some participants have prior AI experience and others have none, the instructor calibrates delivery accordingly. No participant is left behind for lack of technical background.

What the consulting component does:

CyberWarrior's consultants learn your business during the audit phase and bring AI expertise to the analysis. You do not need to translate your business into technical language; our consultants translate AI capabilities into your business language.

The most productive Fast Start clients are not the most technically sophisticated. They are the ones who know their business deeply and are honest about where the inefficiencies are.

AI Fast Start was designed for small businesses, and businesses at the smaller end of the range often see the highest ROI per dollar invested.

Here is why smaller businesses benefit particularly:

• Owner time is the scarcest resource: In a 10-person business, the owner is often doing work that AI can handle: drafting responses, formatting documents, researching, scheduling, following up on leads. Every hour of automated work is an hour returned to the owner for higher-value activities. The leverage is higher than in a 100-person organization where those tasks are already delegated to staff.
• Automation has immediate impact: In a large organization, adding one automated workflow is a marginal improvement to a large operation. In a 10-person business, automating two or three key workflows can meaningfully change the team's weekly capacity. The before-and-after contrast is visible and motivating.
• No organizational change management required: Implementing AI in a 100-person organization requires change management, stakeholder alignment, and policy development. In a 10-person business, the owner can decide and implement within days. AI Fast Start is built for that speed.

What the engagement looks like for a small team: The two-day training often includes the whole company or most of it. The consulting sessions involve the owner directly. The roadmap reflects the whole business rather than a division or department. This is a feature, not a limitation.

Ownership of deliverables is a critical question to ask any consulting vendor, and we want to be unambiguous about it.

What you own outright:

• Prompt libraries: Each participant's personal prompt library, built during the training component and delivered in a portable document format. These belong to the individual participant and to your business.
• Workflow automations: Every automated workflow built during the consulting component is deployed in your own tool stack, not in a CyberWarrior proprietary platform. The workflows run in your accounts. CyberWarrior does not maintain control or access after the engagement ends. If we configured a workflow in your CRM, it is your CRM and your workflow.
• Operations audit document: The documented findings from the operations audit conducted during the consulting phase belong to you. This typically includes a current-state map of key operational workflows, identified inefficiencies and automation opportunities, and prioritization analysis.
• AI roadmap: The final deliverable is a written document (typically 15 to 25 pages) that is yours to keep, share with your team, and execute against. CyberWarrior has no ongoing involvement required for you to benefit from the roadmap.

What CyberWarrior retains: Our own methodologies, templates, and frameworks used to develop your deliverables. These are our intellectual property. Your specific application of those frameworks to your business is yours. This is standard consulting IP policy.

What happens to system access after the engagement: CyberWarrior revokes all access to your systems (CRM, email, cloud storage, scheduling tools) within five business days of the engagement end date. We confirm this in writing.