Free · 15 minutes, one-to-one

Start a conversation. No funnel to enter, no quote to chase.

Every engagement begins the same way — with a conversation about where you actually are. The honest answer might be that none of this is right for you yet, and that's fine too.

Tell us what's going on.

Share as much or as little as you like. Write it yourself, or chat with Catalyst, our AI guide, and it will ask you a few questions. Everything lands in one box that you can read and change before you send it. Whoever you meet reads it first, so your fifteen minutes start where you are.

Bring your actual context. The more specific you are about the work in front of you — what's not working, what you've already tried, what you're hoping for — the more useful the fifteen minutes will be. We ask about the friction, not the org chart.

This is what we'll read. Change anything you like before you pick a time or send it.

Up to 4,000 characters.

Want to share more context? Our AI guide can ask you a few questions and add your answers here.

Not ready to pick a time? Send what you wrote. Someone on the team replies the same business day. You can still book whenever you like.

If you would rather work out which door fits before you book, answer one question first — it shows the door to start with and how the others compare.

Who you'll meet

The consult is with an expert from the Value-First Team, matched to what you wrote — not an account representative, and not a junior team member who qualifies you before introducing you to someone else. The expert you meet does this work themselves.

  • What it is: A first conversation to work out which doorway fits where you actually are. It ends with something to act on, at least content to read or watch.
  • Who it is for: Anyone weighing whether this work fits their situation and wanting a person to say so plainly.
  • When you will hear back: Someone on the team replies the same business day.

The conversation is the work. It earns its keep regardless of where it leads.

For clarity

What the consult isn't.

  • Not a sales pitch for any specific doorway.
  • Not a qualifying call where we decide whether you're worth talking to.
  • Not the Activation Workshop — that is the paid sixty-minute working session.
  • Not a setup for a follow-up call that is the actual sales conversation.
  • Not a webinar or a recorded presentation.
  • Not a commitment from us that we can take on your engagement — that comes after we understand your situation.
Why this call is different

Most free discovery calls are pre-sales conversations dressed in coaching language. They have a predetermined destination — a paid product — and the conversation is designed to deliver you there. That is not what this is.

The goal is to figure out together which engagement shape (if any) matches your situation, then point you at the next concrete step. We do not expect you to commit to anything during or after the call. The honest answer for some people will be that none of this is right for them yet, and saying that plainly is more useful to you than any close.

The doorways

Already know what you want to work on?

Turn a card over to see where it meets you and how it works, with a link to that door's own page.

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Free · 15 minutes, one-to-one
Free 15-minute consult

A first conversation to work out which doorway fits where you actually are. It ends with something to act on, at least content to read or watch.

A session
$495 · 60 minutes, one-to-one
Activation Workshop

A paid working session where you turn guidance and coaching into action and leave having solved a real problem or added a new capability.

A session
$2,495+/mo
AI-Native Coaching, weekly

A weekly hour where your team does the work with Chris or another Value-First Coach beside them. The point is that the skill ends up in your people, not in a vendor.

Standing work
$9,995+/mo
Partnership - Embedded Engineering

Everything coaching does, plus we take on part of the work ourselves. Your team still owns it; we are in it with them, each day, week after week.

Standing work
$4,995+/mo
Fractional AI Leadership

A part-time leader inside your organization with a straight line to the CEO and the remit to communicate the change, so what gets built actually lands.

Standing work

Every door in full, with every price

Find fifteen minutes that works.

Bring your real context.