SERVICES

From assessment to delivery, with the same team.

Most AI work stalls between the strategy deck and production. Centractive is built to close that gap. We can start with a two-week review or a full roadmap, and we stay through the build and, when it helps, the running of it. Same people throughout; no handoff to a delivery bench that was not in the room.

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HOW WE ENGAGE

Four ways to engage.

  1. 01

    Assess

    Readiness and architecture reviews

    Senior review of an AI system, an engineering organization or a platform you plan to build on. Written findings, prioritized, in weeks.

    Includes
    • AI readiness review
    • Architecture review
    • AI-SDLC baseline
    Best fit
    you have shipped something with AI in it, or are about to, and want experienced eyes on it first.
    About Assess
  2. 02

    Plan

    AI strategy and roadmap

    A strategy that names the use cases, puts them in order, estimates the investment and is honest about the risks. Written to be executed, not presented.

    Includes
    • Use-case discovery
    • Sequencing and roadmap
    • Investment, governance and risk
    Best fit
    leadership has asked for an AI plan and wants one that engineering will recognize as real.
    About Plan
  3. 03

    Build

    Modernization, AI-SDLC adoption, production AI

    The work that produces working systems: modernizing the applications the business runs on, making engineering teams faster with AI-driven development, and building AI features that hold up in production.

    Includes
    • Enterprise application modernization
    • AI-SDLC adoption
    • Production AI systems
    Best fit
    you need something built or changed, and you need the team to be able to run it afterward.
    About Build
  4. 04

    Lead

    Fractional CTO and program leadership

    A named senior leader embedded with your team: owning the technology direction, the AI program, or both, for as long as the company needs it.

    Includes
    • Fractional CTO
    • AI program leadership
    • Ongoing advisory
    Best fit
    founders and executives who need senior technical leadership now, without a full-time hire yet.
    About Lead

HOW WE WORK

What you can expect from any engagement.

  1. 01

    Senior people on senior problems.

    Engagements are led by Centractive principals who have delivered applied AI inside Fortune 100 software companies. Architecture decisions are not handed to people who learned about LLMs last year.

  2. 02

    Honest scoping.

    We would rather decline an engagement than overcommit. If we are not the right fit, we say so directly and point you to who might be.

  3. 03

    Defined deliverables.

    Every engagement has a written scope, milestones and an endpoint. Reviews finish on schedule. Projects have gates. Retainers can be paused or stepped back as your needs change.

  4. 04

    We leave you able to run it.

    Handover, documentation and training are part of every build, not an add-on. The goal is a team that owns the result, not a dependency on us.

Not sure which one fits? Start with a call.

30 minutes over video. Tell us what you are working on and we will tell you where we would start - or that we would not.

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