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AI Product Strategy From Someone Who Has Shipped It, Not Slide-Decked It
Most AI product advice comes from people who have never carried an AI product through enterprise review gates, model validation, and a revenue target. SproutVest brings hands-on experience turning models into products and products into revenue.
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What we do
AI product strategy and roadmapping, ML model evaluation and selection, MLOps and deployment architecture, and responsible development. Engagements run from the Yield Sprint, 6 to 8 weeks covering commercial narrative, ICP definition, GTM hypothesis, and pricing model, to embedded fractional product leadership over 6 to 12 months.
Where AI products actually fail
Rarely on the model. They fail on ICP discipline, on enterprise trust and review gates, on pricing that ignores inference costs, and on founders scaling past their own operating structure. Hence the commercial instruments in the toolkit: four-box segmentation, falsifiable GTM hypotheses, and, where the bottleneck is the founder, the Trellis Leadership Diagnostic.
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Frequently asked questions
Do you build models or advise on them?
We are a product organization, not an ML contractor. We evaluate and select models, design the product and deployment architecture around them, and lead the teams who build. For pure model-building we will say so and help you scope the hire.
Do you work with companies adopting AI, or only AI-native startups?
Primarily AI-native and data platform companies, plus enterprises modernizing a product line around AI, as at Google and Elevance Health.
How do engagements start?
A 30-minute discovery call, then usually the Yield Sprint, 6 to 8 weeks, before any longer commitment.
What does it cost?
Sprints and retainers are scoped per engagement on the discovery call. The coaching front door, the Trellis Leadership Diagnostic, is free to take self-serve; the full version with Erick's written perspective and a 90-minute debrief is $2,500, credited in full toward the first month of coaching.
Ready to turn the model into revenue?
Bring the product and the sticking point; the discovery call will tell you whether the Yield Sprint or an embedded engagement fits.
Is the bottleneck the product or the founder? Two minutes to find out →