Imagine how much you could get done if you had proper AI working for you at its full potential.
95% of AI projects fail.
We are the 5% that succeed.
Done with you AI architecture, for CMOs and their team. Built in 2 weeks, owned by your people, countersigned by your CTO.
Architect is the team of two that ships your team's first AI project on a 4-approval CTO-aligned architecture, then expands one department at a time as the wins compound.
AI is powerful. But AI without your accurate, well-structured business data can never be the AI you need it to be. AI + your business data = AI super powers for you and your team.
You are not solving for one audience. You are solving for three.
Most AI marketing vendors solve for the board mandate only. We solve for the board, the team, and the CTO peer at the same time. That is why Architect lands when other vendors stall.
Board and CEO
Show measurable AI deployment by Q3. Story reportable. Wins visible. The "do AI" mandate from the retreat is closed by quarter end.
Your team
They are overloaded. They do not want another tool to learn. They want to look smart, ship more, and not have AI added to their plate as one more thing.
CTO peer
They want architecture they can sign off on. Isolation. A vendor who does not break their systems or go around them.
Solve for one audience and the other two break the engagement. Solve for all three and the engagement compounds.
Why 95% of AI projects fail.
And how the 5% pattern wins.
Eight patterns separate the 95% from the 5%. Every principle Architect runs on maps to a specific cause of project failure that the 95% trip on.
| The 95% pattern | The 5% pattern (Architect) |
|---|---|
| Proprietary architecture they own | Architecture lives on your GitHub |
| Shared client data | Isolated per-company GCP project |
| Vendor lock-in | Open-source, tool-swappable, model-agnostic |
| Black-box deliverable | Source of truth in your repo, inspectable |
| Consultant is the hero | Your team is the hero |
| Pre-built solutions looking for a fit | Problem-first design |
| Read and write access by default | Read-only by default, explicit before write |
| No migration path | Easy to take in-house when you are ready |
Five principles. Three themes. Zero conflicts of interest.
Every engagement runs on these. They are not marketing copy. They are how Andrew builds, and why Architect engagements ship instead of stalling.
Default headless
We empower the AI super-apps your team already uses. We ship results, not screens.
Your stack, your control
Your GitHub, your isolated GCP project, your option to self-maintain at any time.
Portable by design
Open-source foundation. Tool-swappable. Model-agnostic. No lock-in, ever.
Problem-first architecture
We listen, design to your team's actual problem, show our design before we build.
Your team is the hero
1-on-1 training. They own the final project. They present the win to the org.
You own everything. It is portable forever. We empower, never replace. These three sentences are why our projects succeed instead of stalling.
Four approvals your CTO countersigns at engagement start.
Not theory. Already shipped at a DTC subscription brand whose CTO signed off on this exact 4-approval architecture. Your CTO becomes the second name on the doc you carry into your next board prep.
"GitHub is the source of truth. Everything else is a view."The headline that lands with CTOs.
GitHub structure
Personal folders + department canons. Review-gated. Git history is the audit trail. Your CTO approves the org structure before we write a line.
Tool calls and Secret Manager
All credentials in Secret Manager inside a YOUR-COMPANY-isolated GCP project. Read-only by default. We notify before any non-read-only tool call.
BigQuery isolation
Quantitative data lives in a separate isolated GCP project. No comingling. No shared datasets. No cross-project queries with other clients.
Orchestration UI
Open-source orchestration layer self-hosted on a client-only VPS. GitHub stays the source of truth. Easy migration if you want it in-house later.
The principles produce the approvals. The approvals produce the CTO alignment. The CTO alignment removes the lateral-risk objection your buyer committee needs removed.
Your team is excited, trained, and adopting. Not added to a queue of vendors to manage.
This is the engine. Most consultants make themselves the hero. We make your team the hero. That is why teams love the engagement and CMOs re-engage.
Listen
We interview the marketing leader and each direct report we will work with. What is the actual problem on their plate this week? What is breaking?
Design
We propose an AI-architect-shaped solution to that specific problem. We name the workflow we will ship, the tools that will power it, the place it will live in the repo.
Show and adjust
We walk the team through the design. We invite pushback. We change the design where their feedback improves it before we write code.
1-on-1 training
We sit with each team member who will operate the workflow. We onboard them to their personal folder in the repo. We watch them run it. They leave the session capable, not dependent.
They own the final project
When the workflow ships, the team member who operates it owns it. It lives in their repo folder. They are the named owner.
Help them present the win
We help them write the internal announcement. We help them present in the weekly marketing meeting or the all-hands. The story is their story.
The result
Your team member is the hero. The org sees them as the AI-fluent operator. They are excited. Your metric moves because your team is AI-powered. You report to the board that your team shipped AI. Your CTO is calm because the architecture was 4-approval-aligned from day one.
The Hero Transfer is the inverse of every consultant who delivers a black-box deliverable and takes the LinkedIn case-study credit.
$5,000 setup. $5,000 per month per department.
Transparent up front. No surprises in procurement. The 2-week setup phase scopes and locks the recurring number before you commit to it.
$5,000 setup + $5,000/mo per department
2-week setup ends with your first AI project shipped. Recurring locked at the architecture review, not before. Your team owns the result either way.
Architect requires the StarMynd ABI data foundation underneath, priced separately at $895/month starting. ABI scales with your data sources over time.
| Engagement shape | Departments | Architect recurring | Combined with ABI |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMB starting point | 1 department | $5,000/mo | ~$5,895/mo |
| Mid-market default (Elena-shape) | 2 to 3 departments | $10,000 to $15,000/mo | ~$15,895/mo standard footprint |
| Multi-department enterprise | 4+ departments | Custom | Custom |
Three steps. Each one you can see, each one your CTO can sign off on.
No long contract upfront. No recurring commitment before you see the architecture. Diagnostic call is free.
90-minute diagnostic call
$0
Free Calendly call with Andrew. We listen to you and one or two direct reports. We name the actual problem your team is solving this quarter. We propose the AI architecture shape that would solve it.
- You leave with a one-pager for your CTO and CEO
- Zero procurement friction. No credit card.
- If we are not a fit, we tell you on the call.
2-week setup phase
$5,000
GitHub repo provisioned in your org. Isolated GCP project provisioned under your company. 4-approval CTO document signed. First department's data substrate live. Week 2 ends with the first AI workflow shipped, your team's name on it.
- Week 1 ends with the architecture review
- Week 2 ends with the first AI project shipped
- Recurring scope locked at end of week 2, not before
$5,000 per month per department
$5k/dept/mo
We engage each marketing department as a separate workflow track. CRM is one. Performance marketing is another. Lifecycle is another. Each department's lead becomes an internal AI champion as the wins compound.
- Horizontal expansion as the first win lands
- Each department's win compounds the AI-first credibility
- Cancel any time. The 4-approval doc is yours either way.
90 days from now is the same calendar. Two very different rooms.
The board prep is on the calendar regardless. The question is what slide you walk in with.
Your board prep slide still says "evaluating vendors."
Your best performance marketer becomes the second one to leave for a competitor who is paying market. Your CTO peer hires an AI infrastructure consultant who reports to him, not you. Your marketing AI strategy becomes a subordinate stream under engineering's broader AI plan.
Your window to be the AI-first marketing leader in your industry closes. Your CEO finds someone else in the org to own AI for marketing.
She is not fired. She is bypassed. That outcome is worse.
Your board prep slide reads: "Our CRM team shipped an AI workflow that recovered 18% of churning subscribers in the first month."
Your performance marketing team is running an AI workflow that flags channel cost-per-acquisition drift before it compounds. You rolled this out across two departments. Your CTO countersigned the architecture. Your engineering team has not added a single hour of work.
The board claps. The CEO asks where else you can roll this out. Your CTO peer is the second name on the architecture doc. Your team is excited.
You become the case study other CMOs cite next quarter.
Three bonuses for the first three engagements after June 10, 2026.
Once the three slots are filled, these bonuses retire with them.
Andrew on your calendar, weekly
A weekly 30-minute strategic session with Andrew for the first 90 days. Normally engagement is team-of-two delivered with Dominic primary. This bonus locks Andrew's calendar for your account.
Full team Skool membership
Every direct report on your marketing team gets a Skool seat for the duration of the engagement. They learn the consultant/doer inversion as individual operators while we build the workflows alongside them.
Quarterly AI Maturity Review
For the life of the engagement, Andrew sits with you and your direct reports for 60 minutes per quarter. We review team AI progress, name the next layer of capability to build, and surface emerging architectural shifts that should reshape your roadmap. A quarterly reportable to your board.
Three engagements maximum. Once the three slots are filled, you wait for one to free up. Your competitor's CMO is on the same LinkedIn feed you are.
Team of two. Andrew Warner and Dominic.
We are not the LinkedIn AI guy. We respond fast. We charge transparently. We have capacity for the relationship. The capacity wall is real, not marketing copy.
Andrew Warner
CPA, marketing CFO, DTC operator, Infinite Entry author
CPA. Ten years as a marketing CFO managing $150M+ in spend. Built and sold a DTC ecommerce brand. Authored the Infinite Entry framework. Two years shipping AI architectures into paying client environments. He sees the unspoken business problem under the spoken AI problem, because he was that buyer for a decade.
Dominic
Relationship lead, operator trust layer
Owns the relationship layer with operators who trust him. Runs the front-of-house when Andrew is in the architecture work. Your day-to-day touchpoint. Your weekly check-in. The reason engagements move forward instead of stalling on slow inboxes.
Three engagements maximum. Andrew's hard line. If we are full, you wait for one to free up. You are not buying a name. You are buying a delivery model with a capacity wall.
See What Starmynd Sees in your business data.
A free 90-minute Calendly call with Andrew. We name the actual problem your team is solving this quarter and propose the AI architecture shape that solves it. You leave with a one-pager you can take to your CTO and your CEO. No credit card. Free to book.
If we are full at three engagements, you join the waitlist. Once a slot opens, we reach out in order. We do not oversell capacity.