The work that moves your business forward is buried under work that shouldn't need your team.
That gap has a price. I close it — built on 30 years knowing exactly where organizations get stuck.
The Problem I'm Solving
Most organizations aren't losing to AI. They're losing to the work AI should already be doing for them.
Your strategists are pulling reports. Your analysts are reformatting decks. Your creative teams are checking brand compliance. Everyone is working hard — on work that should be automated.
Meanwhile, AI is moving fast. Your competitors are moving with it. And every week the gap widens because nobody has built the governed system that puts AI to work at the pace your business demands.
That's not an awareness problem. It's an execution problem. And it has a real cost — in margin, in speed, in the strategic capacity your team never gets back.
How I Help
I partner with your team to turn AI ambitions into running systems your people own, trust, and can build on. Not advice. Not a handoff. A working capability that stays after I'm gone.
Builds & Foundations
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Free · Entry Point
Before anything gets built, I diagnose where you actually are — not where you think you are. A scored diagnostic across AI usage, workflow orchestration, and data readiness produces a personalized roadmap with clear 30/60/90-day priorities. It's the foundation everything else builds on.
Free. No commitment required.
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Fixed Fee · $8K–$20K
Most organizations don't have an agent problem. They have a workflow problem — a backlog of automation ideas with no structured way to evaluate, prioritize, or design them. This workshop changes that. In one focused engagement, we map your workflows end-to-end, tag every decision point, and produce a prioritized agent roadmap your engineering team can build to immediately. Not ideas. Not a deck. A buildable spec.
You leave with: A decision-tagged Step Map for 2–3 workflows. At least one complete Agent Design Canvas covering trigger, tools, judgment map, and output contract. A written prioritization recommendation — delivered within 48 hours.
Single team (2–3 workflows) $8K–$12K
Enterprise or multi-team $15K–$20K
Workshop fee applies as a credit toward an Agent Sprint if signed within 60 days.
No retainer. No long-term commitment. One tight engagement with a clear output.
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Project-Based · From $3,500
You have a specific AI use case. In one week, I'll turn it into a governed, deployment-ready agent — designed, built, and delivered through Workflow Studio, my proprietary build environment. Every Sprint starts with a Quick Blueprint: Task Map, Design Pad, Architecture Report, and System Prompt. The Pipeline Diagnostic inside the Architecture Report identifies exactly what else your agent needs — skills, judges, fallback handlers. You decide what to add. Nothing is assumed, nothing is oversold.
Quick Blueprint $3,500 (Skills $1,000 each / Judges $1,500 each)
Full Sprint $7,500–$10,000
Enterprise Build $18,000–$25,000
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Retainer · $15K–$30K/month
Your AI Readiness Assessment identified the gaps. This is where you close them.
Before we start, we align. A focused 30-minute call ensures your roadmap reflects your actual constraints, priorities, and team reality — not just your survey responses.
Then we build. Over 90 days, I work alongside your team as an embedded AI operations partner — translating your roadmap into running systems, clear ownership, and workflows your people actually use. We move through your 30/60/90 priorities together: stabilizing what's broken, building what's missing, and positioning you to compete before the window closes.
Every 90-Day Build is scoped to your Assessment output. The priorities we work are yours — not a template. What stays consistent is the methodology: weekly cadence, documented progress, artifacts you own, and a clear handoff at 90 days so the work continues without me.
This isn't advisory. It's execution.
Month-to-month. No long-term lock-in. Requires AI Readiness Assessment completion.
Governance Capabilities
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Capability Installation · $15K–$30K / Optional retainer for ongoing calibration
Most organizations have dozens of AI ideas and no system for deciding what gets built, reviewed, or deployed. Blueprint Studio is a governed AI innovation operating system — installed inside your organization. A structured funnel that takes every idea from intake through AI scoring, governed build, Review Board evaluation, and deployment tracking. Every approved project exits with a full artifact trail. Nothing gets built in a silo. Nothing goes to production without governance sign-off.
You're not buying hours. You're buying a capability — stood up, calibrated, and handed off running. Installation is complete when your team can operate it without me. Retainer is available if you want me to stay in the loop.
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Capability Installation · $15K–$30K / Optional retainer for ongoing calibration
Creative teams spend years building a brand. One poorly governed deployment can erode it in an instant.
Brand Guardian is creative governance infrastructure for the age of AI and algorithmic creative. It puts your brand at the center—before the first ad is made, before a campaign goes live, before an algorithm decides what your brand looks like at scale. Trained on your brand bible, Brand Guardian scores every format—OOH, print, display, social, broadcast, video—against a calibrated rubric built on brand fidelity, distinctiveness, emotional impact, and authenticity. Your brand doesn’t belong to the algorithm. Brand Guardian makes sure it never will.
You're not buying hours. You're buying a capability — stood up, calibrated, and handed off running. Installation is complete when your team can operate it without me. Retainer is available if you want me to stay in the loop.
About Chuck Schultz
Thirty years on the agency side teaches you something most consultants miss: value doesn't get lost on purpose. It gets buried.
Under the daily grind, the urgent requests, the work that fills every hour before anyone gets to the work that actually matters.
I've seen it across every kind of organization. The gap between what a team is capable of and what they actually have time to deliver. That gap is real. For most of my career, closing it meant working harder. Hiring more. Adding process.
That's changed. AI has unlocked a level of automation that didn't exist five years ago. The organizations learning to harness it aren't just working smarter. They're pulling ahead in ways their competitors can't easily close.
What I bring is the combination that makes that possible: deep experience in how marketing organizations actually work, a front-row seat to where AI is going, and the hands-on expertise to turn it into real, measurable business value. Not pilots. Not proofs of concept. Not decks.
My focus is always the same: partner with you to unlock the value that's already inside your organization.
Proof Points
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Helped a global media network redirect its best people away from manual, low-value work — and toward the strategic thinking only humans can do. Designed the agentic workflow architecture that absorbs the grind, so teams can focus on what actually moves the business.
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Turned fragmented data across 26 markets into a single source of truth — so a Fortune 50 brand could stop debating numbers in meetings and start making faster, more confident decisions. No more data chaos. No more eroded accountability.
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The model I built for one global client is now the standard across the network. That's not a team — that's a blueprint. And it's what I bring to every engagement — so you're not starting from zero, you're building on what's already been proven at scale.
How We Engage
A simple way to start — no pressure, no obligation.
Free AI Readiness Assessment - No commitment required. Start here. Free
30-Min Discovery Call - No obligation. Real conversation about your challenges and fit. Free
Scoped Pre-Proposal - If there's fit, I scope it. You decide.
Engagement - Project-based or retainer. Month-to-month. No lock-in.
Who I work best with
Brands aggressively insourcing data, analytics, and AI but hitting roadblocks on execution, scale, integration, or real business impact.
Martech, adtech, and data platform vendors/partners needing expertise to accelerate client adoption and product-market fit.
Marketing and growth teams ready to move from AI experimentation to production-grade systems — without full-time hires or large builds.
Ready to Discuss?
Book a No-Obligation 30-Min Discovery Call
Start small and see the fit. No pressure—just real conversation about your challenges and how I can help.