K.I. Invest gets embedded in your business — building the actual platforms, running the strategy alongside you, and staying until the work is done. Not a consultant who advises and leaves. Not a developer who builds and moves on. A partner embedded in your growth from day one.
Strategy consultants hand clients a roadmap and leave. Development shops build what they're told and move on. K.I. Invest does both — and stays.
Strategy + platform build + embedded executive leadership under one engagement. One team. One budget. One partner who owns the outcome end to end. We stay in your business until the work is done.
Centric Consulting, GK5A, Chalifour Group. They deliver recommendations, frameworks, and roadmaps. Then the client hires a development shop separately to execute. Coordination overhead. Budget double-spent.
Savas Labs, Digital Mettle, custom dev firms. They build what they're told. No fractional executive function. No ongoing operational ownership. Client must already know what to build.
One team that understands the business problem AND can build the technical solution. A partner who stays through deployment, iterates in production, and grows with the organization.
Our pricing sits at or below what comparable firms charge for strategy alone — and we deliver both strategy and build. Full pricing is shared after a discovery call where we can explain the value in context.
Initial assessment, strategy, and foundational build. Best for businesses clarifying their systems before scaling.
Learn MoreFull platform build, integrations, and launch. Comparable work from a dev shop alone costs $50K+.
Learn MoreComplete ecosystem — multiple platforms, AI features, payments, investor readiness. One team, one budget. This is the Milestone Metrics tier.
Start Here →Everything in Ascent plus ongoing fractional executive leadership, investor outreach support, and platform ownership.
Let's TalkOur retainers are not strategy-call subscriptions. Every month we are embedded in your platform — a feature delivered, a system improved, a problem solved. Priced competitively with senior executive retainer market rates of $3,000–$18,000/month, with significantly more delivered because we also build.
Wendy Scott came to us with a people-centered early childhood assessment service and a disconnected, manual workflow. We turned it into a technology-enabled platform — live in production, serving providers, facilities, and families across the region.
This is what a K.I. Invest Ascent-tier engagement delivers. One team. One budget. Fourteen months of build, strategy, and execution.
The DC–MD–VA–NC market is full of consultants who serve mid-market enterprises. Nobody in this space is building for these clients.
Early childhood assessment, behavioral health, family services, and community wellness organizations that have funding and need operational infrastructure to deploy it.
First-generation business owners, women-owned businesses, and minority-owned enterprises that are growing and need technology that matches their ambition.
Training academies, workforce development programs, and educational organizations that need platforms to manage enrollment, delivery, and outcome tracking.
We do not share full pricing before a discovery call — context is what makes the difference. Tell us what you're building, what's broken, and what you cannot afford to staff full-time. We will tell you exactly how we get embedded and what that looks like for your business.