What we offer

Three ways to work with us.

Every engagement is scoped to your business — not a vendor playbook. No upsells, no bait-and-switch. You get what we say you're getting.

Architecture Assessment

$15,000 fixed

Know where you stand before you build.

3 weeks
  • AI readiness audit — existing stack, data sources, integrations
  • Agentic design patterns: what your workflows actually need
  • Vendor and tooling recommendations (no kickbacks, no preferred partnerships)
  • Prioritized roadmap with effort vs. impact scoring
  • Plain-English summary you can share with your board or investors

What you get

A clear picture of where you are and a prioritized roadmap of where to go.

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Implementation Sprint

$28,000 fixed

Your first production agent system — built right.

8 weeks
  • Architecture design and review
  • Multi-agent orchestration (not a single chatbot wrapper)
  • Governance, audit trails, and escalation paths built in from day one
  • Integration with your existing tools and data sources
  • User acceptance testing with your team, not ours
  • 90-day support window post-launch

What you get

A production agentic system, not a proof of concept.

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Monthly Retainer

$8,500/month

Keep improving. Keep running.

monthly
  • 12 hours per month of focused implementation work
  • System monitoring, incident response, and triage
  • Quarterly roadmap reviews
  • Priority access — no waiting in a support queue
  • Straight-talking advice: if a vendor or tool is wrong for you, we say so

What you get

A dedicated partner who knows your system — not a ticket queue.

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50+ agentic systems
deployed

Production environments across fintech, logistics, e-commerce, and professional services.

8–15x Year 1 ROI
on integration
investment

Not a projection — a result of replacing busywork with autonomous execution across core workflows.

$25–35K avg. annual
engagement

Fixed-scope work with a named team. No partner overhead, no offshore handoffs, no change-order surprises.

Why Phaos

Not another AI vendor

The AI consulting market has two bad ends: offshore firms that build shiny demos that don't integrate with anything, and tier-1 consultancies that charge $200K to tell you what to build. Critical Path Foundry is neither.

We work with the people who run the business — owners, operators, heads of — not just the technical team. Because an agentic system that doesn't fit your actual workflow won't get used. And an agentic system without governance is a liability.

Our founder has shipped production AI systems, authored books on AI security, and spent years advising enterprise merchants at Adobe. We've seen what works. And more importantly, we've seen what fails at scale.

  • Multi-agent orchestration, not a single chatbot wrapper
  • Governance and audit trails built in from day one
  • Clear escalation paths and human-in-the-loop logic
  • Production systems, not proof-of-concept demos
  • Aligned to your tools, your data, your workflows
  • No agent sandboxes with no recovery path when they fail
  • No "we'll improve it later" governance — that's where breaches happen

Not sure which package fits?

We don't do one-size-fits-all. Tell us what you're trying to accomplish and we'll scope something that actually works — whether that's one of these packages or a custom engagement.

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Every business that runs on software should have AI agents running alongside it. Critical Path Foundry builds the systems that make that real — not next quarter, not when the budget clears. Now.

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