ServicesAdvisory
Not every organization needs Celadon to build something. Advisory is standing access to senior, vendor-neutral judgment for leaders making AI decisions with their own teams, their own engineers, and their own suppliers.
Get a second opinion →Platform vendors recommend their platform. Systems integrators recommend a large integration. Internal teams advocate for the approach they already know. Each of those views may be right, but each comes with incentives and blind spots that a leader without a technical background has to referee.
Advisory provides judgment without vendor commission, platform resale, or implementation hidden inside the retainer. The Advisory scope excludes delivery. If a later recommendation leads to a Celadon Build, that is a separate decision, scope, and commercial agreement, including when the better recommendation is to keep the work internal or not proceed.
A senior read on a proposed design before it is committed: where it will hold, where it will strain, and what it will cost to change later.
Evaluating proposals, contracts, and claims on data handling, hosting, controls, capability, and total cost, without vendor commission or a resale incentive.
Helping an internal team define what correct means for their system and build a test set that will actually catch regressions.
A structured second opinion on which initiatives deserve funding, which should be deferred, and which are solving a process problem with software.
Practical guidance on access, retention, review paths, and disclosure, proportionate to the risk rather than to the anxiety.
Briefings that give non-technical leadership an accurate mental model, so they can ask better questions of their own teams and suppliers.
Advisory does not include implementation, and it is not unlimited access. It is a defined amount of senior time each month (sessions, reviews, and written recommendations) at a fixed retainer typically in the $5,000–$12,000 range, rather than an open line for any question at any hour. Any later Celadon Build requires a separate decision, scope, and agreement.
If the work needs building, that is Build. If the question is which opportunity to fund in the first place, a Decision Sprint answers it faster and more thoroughly than a retainer will.
A focused conversation about the decisions in front of you and where independent judgment would be worth having.
Tell us what you are evaluating, building, operating, or trying to get adopted. Email is the first step; if a call would be useful after we review the context, we will suggest one.
