New Engagement Model

Your Fractional AI Growth Partner.
Skin in the Game.

"Most advisors get paid whether or not it works. This one doesn't."

Sat embeds inside your business as a fractional AI growth partner — auditing, implementing, and optimising — with performance-based upside tied directly to your revenue growth.

UK SMEs £500k–£5m turnover
Owner-managed businesses
Performance-based upside
No fluff. Real implementation.
You win when we win.
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// Free 30-min call. No pitch. Let's see if there's a fit.

// The Proposition

What Is the AI Growth Partner?

Most advisory engagements are time-bounded and advisor-paid-regardless. You get the strategy. You get the deck. Then the advisor leaves and the implementation — where value is actually created or lost — is entirely on you.

The AI Growth Partner is a different model entirely. Sat embeds inside your business over a sustained period and takes genuine accountability for outcomes. Not just strategy — implementation, adoption, measurement, and ongoing optimisation. Month by month, getting your business to work smarter with AI.

And the pricing reflects it. Part of the upside is tied to measurable revenue growth. If it doesn't move the needle, Sat doesn't get paid for the part that didn't work. That's what real skin in the game looks like.

This is a fit for owner-managed UK SMEs who are serious about AI transformation — not a chatbot bolted on, not a pilot that never scales — but permanent operational infrastructure that changes how the business runs. Businesses where the owner is ready to commit to the process, not just a conversation.

// Target Profile

Who This Is For

// This engagement is deliberately narrow. It's not for everyone — and that's the point.

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UK SMEs £500k–£5m

Annual turnover in the £500k–£5m range. Established businesses with real operations, real teams, and real revenue worth protecting and growing.

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Owner-Managed

The owner or founder is still close to the business and involved in decisions. You can move fast when you want to — no 6-month procurement cycles.

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Zero or Basic AI Today

You're not using AI in any serious operational way yet — or you've tried a few tools without a coherent strategy. There's significant untapped upside.

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Growth-Oriented

You want to grow — more revenue, more efficiency, or both — and you're willing to invest in the process, not just talk about it. The performance-based model only works if you do.

Ready to Commit

You're not looking for a one-off conversation. You understand transformation takes months, not days — and you're ready to be an active participant in the process.

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Willing to Be Honest

You'll share the real numbers. The real bottlenecks. The things that aren't working. Performance-based upside requires transparent data — that has to be a two-way street.

// This isn't a fit if:

// The Method

How It Works — Three Phases

// A structured, time-bound engagement with clear milestones at every stage.

Phase 1

AI Audit & Strategy

📅 Month 1

Before anything is built, we need to understand the business properly. Sat conducts a thorough AI audit — mapping every operational area against AI opportunity, identifying quick wins versus strategic plays, and building a clear roadmap with measurable targets.

  • Full business and operations audit
  • AI opportunity mapping across all functions
  • Revenue uplift potential identified and quantified
  • Prioritised implementation roadmap
  • Baseline metrics established for performance measurement
  • Agreed KPIs for upside calculation
Phase 2

Implementation

📅 Months 2–3

Strategy without execution is just a document. Sat oversees and drives the implementation of the agreed AI systems — the right tools, the right vendors, the right workflows. Not just recommending, but making sure it actually gets built and adopted.

  • Tool and vendor selection and onboarding
  • Workflow design and automation setup
  • Team training and adoption management
  • Integration with existing systems
  • Build oversight and quality review
  • Early performance tracking against baseline
Phase 3

Ongoing Optimisation

📅 Month 4+

This is where the performance upside kicks in. Once the infrastructure is live, the focus shifts to measuring, optimising, and scaling. Monthly reviews, performance tracking, and ongoing iteration — tied directly to the growth in your revenue.

  • Monthly performance reviews against agreed KPIs
  • Revenue uplift measurement and reporting
  • Continuous optimisation of live systems
  • New opportunity identification as the business evolves
  • Performance-based fee calculation on measurable uplift
  • Quarterly strategic reviews

⚡ What "skin in the game" actually means

The performance component is calculated on measurable, agreed revenue uplift — not projections, not vague "efficiency gains." We establish the baseline in Month 1. We agree the KPIs. The upside is calculated on what actually changes in the numbers. If it doesn't move, that part of the fee doesn't apply. That's what makes this different from every other advisory model in this space.

// Investment

Pricing — The Full 4-Stage Model

// Total 3-year value per client: £35,000–50,000. Built on a foundation of long-term partnership, not one-off transactions.

// Stage 01 · Entry point
AI Efficiency Audit
2-Hour Session
£495
// Fixed fee — credited against Stage 2 if you proceed

A 2-hour deep dive that maps all automatable work in your business and delivers a prioritised action plan. The starting point for everything — and the lowest-risk way to find out what's possible.

  • Full automation opportunity mapping
  • Prioritised action plan with ROI estimates
  • Tool and vendor recommendations
  • Written output within 48 hours
  • No obligation to proceed to Stage 2
Book the Audit — £495
// Stage 02 · Build phase
AI Implementation
4–8 Weeks
£3,500–£8,000
// Fixed scope, based on audit findings

We build the automation. Right tools, right vendors, working systems live in 4–8 weeks. Not strategy. Not slides. Actual operational infrastructure that runs from day one.

  • Vendor selection and onboarding
  • Workflow design and automation build
  • Team training and adoption
  • Integration with existing systems
  • Quality review and sign-off
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// Stage 04 · Optional add-on
AI-Ready Website + SEO
Add-on to Stage 03
£300–£500/mo
// Monthly, add-on to Stage 03 retainer
Old sites won't appear in AI search.
Google AI Overviews pull from schema-rich, continuously updated content. Static sites are invisible.

Schema markup, structured content, AI Overview eligibility signals, and monthly SEO iteration — so your site appears when AI answers questions your customers are asking.

  • Schema markup and structured data
  • AI-optimised content structure
  • Google AI Overview eligibility signals
  • Continuous content refresh
  • Monthly SEO performance reporting
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Total 3-year value: £35,000–50,000 per client.
Audit (£495) + Implementation (£3.5–8k) + 36-month retainer (£18–29k) + optional website/SEO add-on (£10.8–18k). Not a one-off transaction — a long-term AI transformation partnership with compounding returns.

// Start with the £495 Audit. Book it here →

Why 3 Years?

// AI isn't a one-time install. It's a living capability that compounds — or quietly degrades without maintenance.

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MODELS UPDATE CONSTANTLY

GPT-4 → GPT-5. Claude 3 → Claude 4. Gemini evolves quarterly. The models your AI runs on today will be replaced by significantly more capable versions within 12–18 months. Active management means you're always on the best available model — not silently running on last year's.

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BOTS DEGRADE WITHOUT MAINTENANCE

Prompts drift. Context windows expand and change behaviour. APIs deprecate. A chatbot or automation built in Year 1 and left untouched will silently underperform by Year 2 — and you won't know until a customer notices. Monthly maintenance catches degradation before it becomes a problem.

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NEW TOOLS EMERGE MONTHLY

The AI tooling landscape in 2026 barely resembles 2024. What's best practice today will be replaced by something dramatically better within 18 months. The businesses pulling ahead are the ones with a partner tracking this and applying it — not reading about it in a newsletter and doing nothing.

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GOOGLE AI SEARCH REWARDS CONSISTENCY

AI-generated search answers pull from sites with structured data, schema markup, and continuously updated content. A static site from 2022 won't appear in AI Overviews. The sites winning in AI search are being actively optimised every single month — not just once at launch.

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COMPOUNDING RESULTS OVER TIME

Every optimisation builds on the last. Month 6 is better than Month 1 because you have 6 months of performance data to work from. Month 24 is dramatically better than Month 6. AI transformation compounds — but only if someone is actively managing it, not leaving it to drift.

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THE MATHS OVER 3 YEARS

Audit (£495) + Implementation (£3.5–8k) + 36-month retainer (£18–29k) + optional website/SEO add-on (£10.8–18k) = £35,000–50,000 total value. That's the real number. Long-term AI partnership, not a one-off transaction.

If your business is ready to grow with AI, let's find out if this is the right fit.

Book a free 30-minute discovery call. Sat will ask about your business, your current AI position, and whether the Growth Partner model makes sense for your situation. If it doesn't, he'll tell you that too — and point you toward what does.

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Or email directly: sat@installsmart.ai

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