FlightPlan™
In short. FlightPlan™ is the AI roadmap Stratos Edge builds in a six-week, fixed-fee engagement that turns what a company has already started with AI into a plan its board will approve. It is a fixed fee, banded by company size and set before the engagement starts, and ends with a return target on every AI move, the order to run them, and who delivers each one. FlightPlan™ starts with a 30-minute conversation with Jeff Hardman, with nothing to prepare, and that conversation is also where the fee is set.
FlightPlan™ is the AI roadmap Stratos Edge builds in a six-week, fixed-fee engagement, set before the engagement starts and banded by company size. It turns what a company has already started with AI into a plan its board will approve: a return target on every move in a range finance can check, the order to run them, and who delivers each one.
FlightPlan™ assumes the company is already mid-flight: some efforts are working, some are stalled, and some are taking longer than expected. The board gets a plan built from that mixed state, not a plan built from zero.
FlightPlan™ contains a return target on every AI move, set in a range finance can check before any work starts, so a result can be compared against that range afterward rather than argued about in general terms.
FlightPlan™ contains the order to run those moves in, so the quick and certain gains come first and nothing waits on work that was never scheduled.
FlightPlan™ contains the name of who delivers each move, whether that is the client's own team or a partner Stratos Edge has evaluated against the client's objectives and technology stack.
FlightPlan™ contains the board version: the same plan shown at the altitude a board reviews it at, so the board's questions shift from whether AI pays to what comes next.
FlightPlan™ runs in three stretches of two weeks each, moving from discovery to sequencing to partner introductions.
| Weeks | Stage | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | Discovery and outcome alignment | Stratos Edge learns how the business runs and takes stock of what the company has already started with AI. |
| 3 to 4 | Sequencing and return targets | Each effort receives a return target in a range finance can check and a place in the order to run it. |
| 5 to 6 | Partner introductions and the board version | The client meets the delivery partners Stratos Edge has evaluated, and the plan is put in the form the board will review. |
FlightPlan™ is a fixed fee, set before the engagement starts and banded by company size; the figure comes from a 30-minute conversation with Jeff Hardman, and nothing about scope is negotiated afterward.
Company size moves the fee inside its band, and the fee covers all six weeks and every deliverable. The full breakdown of what moves the fee, and how FlightPlan™ compares with other ways to buy an AI adoption plan, is on the cost page.
Stratos Edge delivers FlightPlan™ principal-led: Micah Laughlin, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer with 26 years as a CIO-level executive, and Jeff Hardman, co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer with four decades in the technology channel and more than 1,000 deals, run every engagement themselves.
Radar™, the full-time research behind every partner introduction, evaluates delivery partners against the client's objectives and technology stack before FlightPlan™ introduces them, so the partners a client meets in weeks 5 and 6 arrive already briefed.
FlightPlan™ is not software: it has no login, nothing to install, and no dashboard to maintain after the six weeks end.
FlightPlan™ is not a readiness score, and it is not an open-ended retainer or a form of task management; it stays at the initiative level and ends on a date, with the first step ready to start.
After the six weeks, the client is a Stratos Edge customer with continuing access to FlightPlan™'s research. For the following twelve months, the client can refresh the plan and re-sequence the work at any point, at no additional fee.
Stratos Edge stands behind every FlightPlan™ it delivers: if the plan does not put a range on each opportunity, put them in order, name who delivers each one, and show how the pieces fit together, the client does not pay.
FlightPlan™ is Stratos Edge's six-week, fixed-fee engagement that turns what a company has already started with AI into a plan its board will approve. It is a fixed fee, banded by company size and set before the engagement starts, and ends with a return target on every AI move, the order to run them, and who delivers each one.
FlightPlan™ takes six weeks, run in three two-week stretches: discovery and outcome alignment, sequencing and return targets, and partner introductions with the board version. Stratos Edge fixes the fee and the six-week length before the engagement starts, so a client knows both before agreeing to begin.
FlightPlan™ is a fixed fee, set before the engagement starts and banded by company size; the figure comes from a 30-minute conversation with Jeff Hardman. Nothing about scope is negotiated once FlightPlan™ begins, and the fee covers all six weeks and every deliverable.
FlightPlan™ is not software; it is a six-week, fixed-fee consulting engagement with no login and nothing to install. Stratos Edge delivers the methodology, the research, the labor and the support as one engagement, and the client owns the resulting plan outright at the end of the six weeks.
Stratos Edge delivers FlightPlan™ principal-led, through Micah Laughlin, Chief Strategy Officer, and Jeff Hardman, Chief Revenue Officer, with Radar™ partners introduced once they are evaluated against the client's objectives and technology stack. Every FlightPlan™ engagement starts with a 30-minute conversation with Jeff Hardman.
After FlightPlan™ ends, the client can refresh the plan and re-sequence the work at any point for the following twelve months, at no additional fee. Stratos Edge remains available through that period as the client's results come in and priorities change.
Stratos Edge does not take every engagement, and when it agrees there is value in one, it stands behind the result. If FlightPlan™ does not put a range on each opportunity, put them in order, name who delivers each one, and show how the pieces fit together, the client does not pay.
FlightPlan™ does not replace an existing AI strategy or roadmap; as the AI roadmap Stratos Edge builds, it starts from what already exists. Stratos Edge takes the roadmap a client already has, values the return in each item on it, puts the items in order by measurable return, and shows the board the math behind each target.
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