Audit first. Activate next. Compound from there.
Most companies bought AI tools but never closed the gap between buying them and actually using them. The AI Advocate is the partner who maps your stack, activates your team, and stays in your corner as your AI strategy evolves.
$ ./ai_advocate --phases
> 01 audit 1–2 weeks $7,500
> 02 activate 60–90 days from $7,500/mo
> 03 advocate ongoing from $3,500/mo
> start anywhere. cancel anytime._
A year ago you signed up for ChatGPT Teams, Copilot, or Claude. Maybe all three. The press release went out. The all-hands was energizing.
Now the seats sit half-used. Two power users built clever workflows nobody else can replicate. Finance keeps asking why renewals keep going up. Competitors keep announcing breakthroughs you can't tell are real.
Vendors won't fix this — their job is to keep you on their tool. Consultants won't fix this — their job ends when the deck is delivered. IT won't fix this — they're already underwater.
You don't need another tool. You need someone in your corner whose only job is making sure the tools you have actually work.
I've been shipping software since 1998. I've watched cloud, mobile, big data, and now AI go through the same hype curve. The technology changes every few years. The failure patterns don't.
I built the AI Advocate role because too often 80% of the value a team needs is already sitting unused in tools they've already paid for — and because audits with no follow-through end up filed in Notion, never read.
The work isn't done until your team uses AI without me in the room.
$ whoami
Scott Pierce
$ cat experience.txt
25+ years shipping software
10+ years in production AI
4 technology hype cycles survived
$ cat allegiance.txt
"On your side. Not the vendor's.
Not the consultancy's. Yours."
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Map every AI subscription you pay for, who uses it, and what they use it for. Interview 5–8 staff. Deliver an executive-ready report with at least 5 ranked quick wins and a 90-day plan you can defend.
Hands-on with your team. Build the agents, skills, and workflows the audit prioritized. Train your power users to share, not hoard. Weekly office hours. Monthly executive readout. Adoption is the deliverable.
Your fractional AI partner. Quarterly stack reviews, vendor evaluations, new-tool diligence, executive briefings, and ad-hoc support as new models and workflows emerge. Month-to-month. Cancel anytime.
The audit isn't a deliverable, it's a starting line. The 90-day bundle includes the audit and 75 days of hands-on activation — so the quick wins actually ship while the team is still paying attention.
90 days · one invoice up front
Save $5,000 vs. buying the phases separately.
// Pricing is anchored to outcomes, not hours. Day-3 audit refund still applies.
8-page audit report (PDF, board-presentable)
1-page exec summary the board can read in 90 seconds
Subscription waste analysis — cut/expand/consolidate, with $-impact
At least 5 prioritized AI quick wins, ranked by ROI and effort
Board Game Test on the top recommendation
60-minute walkthrough call with whoever you want in the room
Build out the top 2–3 quick wins from the audit (agents, skills, workflows)
Internal AI playbook: what your team uses, when, and how
Weekly office hours for your team (90 min, recorded)
"Power user to teacher" enablement — share knowledge, don't hoard it
Monthly executive readout with adoption metrics
Quarterly stack review — what's working, what's drifting, what's new
Vendor diligence on any new AI tool before you sign
Slack/email access — ask anything, no meter running
2 executive briefings per quarter for board, leadership, or all-hands
"We cut $48,000 in AI seats nobody used."
"73% of our team is now using AI weekly — up from a handful of power users."
"We shipped three quick wins the team actually uses every day."
"Here's our 90-day plan for the next initiative — with the data to back it."
Then your AI Advocate gets quieter, because your team doesn't need them in the room as much. That's the point.
The seats keep autorenewing. Adoption stays flat. Your power users keep being your power users — until they leave for somewhere that gives them more leverage.
You hire a consultancy. You get a 50-page deck. The deck gets filed in Notion. Six months later you can't remember what was in it.
Next quarter the board asks for an AI update. You give the same answer you gave last quarter, slightly rephrased. The bill arrives six months late, in credibility instead of dollars.
The budget is the obvious loss. It's not the biggest one.
Consultants leave when the deck is done. Advocates stay until your team is actually using AI without me in the room. The deliverable isn't a report, it's adoption.
Their job is to keep you on their tool. Mine is to make sure you have the right tools and use them well — which sometimes means cancelling theirs. I sell no software. I take no referral fees. I'm only paid by you.
No. Start with the audit. If the report is enough and your team can run with it, we shake hands and call it done. Most teams find that getting the audit done without activation is the slow path to nothing shipping — but the choice is yours.
That's a finding worth having. If your AI stack is genuinely well-tuned, you'll get a 1-page report saying so — and the confidence to defend that to your board. If by Day 3 of the audit it's clear it won't pay for itself, you get a full refund.
Mutual NDA before kickoff. I work from your environment, never copy data out. Interviews are confidential at the source level — the report attributes patterns, not people. If you have stricter requirements (HIPAA, SOC 2, classified), say so on the first call and we'll scope accordingly.
Best fit: 25–500 person companies with at least one paid AI subscription and a leader who'd recognize themselves in the problem section above. Smaller, and the math gets thin. Larger, and the engagement gets longer and the price scales accordingly — let's talk on the fit call.
No pitch. No pressure. We'll talk about your AI stack, your team, and which phase makes sense to start with.
If we both think it fits, we kick off within 5 business days.
Or email me directly: [email protected]