TerraEdge
Engagement

A POC-first model built for
enterprise procurement.

Most AI vendors sell you a platform and hope. We sell you a POC against signed KPIs — and only if it hits, we build. Seven engagement models, one ethos: outcomes before invoices.

Engagement Flow

Four phases. Four to twelve weeks to value.

A predictable path from first conversation to production, with go/no-go gates at every phase. No phase lasts longer than it needs to.

012–4 weeks

Discover

Walk in with a hunch. Walk out with a sized ROI model, an architecture your CTO will sign, and a POC scope your CFO can approve.

024–12 weeks

Prove

Validated business case on real data, against signed KPIs. Fixed-fee. Either it clears your numbers — or you keep the architecture blueprint and walk away.

032–6 months

Scale

Production system in your perimeter. Deployed models, APIs, dashboards, and ML Ops — handed over to your team to own.

04Ongoing

Operate

Managed services with drift detection, retraining, and performance SLAs. Pay against the metric you care about, not against headcount or hours.

Commercial Models

Seven ways to engage. All auditable.

Every model has fixed deliverables, a defined duration, and a pricing structure that enterprise procurement can approve. Pick the one that matches where you are — or start with a POC and migrate as you scale.

012–8 weeks

Consulting & Advisory

Fixed-price or T&M
Deliverables

AI readiness assessment, due diligence, use-case prioritization, ROI analysis, roadmap.

Ideal for

Early-stage clients exploring AI transformation.

024–12 weeks

POC / Pilot Mode

Fixed cost (with conversion credit if scaled)
Deliverables

Prototype / working model, business impact metrics, success criteria.

Ideal for

Clients testing value of document automation, voice analytics, or predictive models.

032–6 months

Project-Based Delivery

Fixed-price or milestone based
Deliverables

Deployed models, APIs, dashboards, documentation.

Ideal for

Well-scoped AI solutions — visual inspection, chatbots, sentiment analysis.

046–8 months, ongoing

Managed Services

T&M or retainer
Deliverables

Model performance monitoring, drift management, updates.

Ideal for

Enterprises running production AI systems.

05Variable

Value / Outcome-Based

Base + performance-linked incentive
Deliverables

Defined performance metrics, continuous measurement.

Ideal for

Mature clients confident in measurable ROI.

06Ongoing / long-term

Staff Augmentation

Monthly FTE or T&M
Deliverables

Data scientists, MLOps engineers, annotators on demand.

Ideal for

Large organizations needing flexibility and scalability.

07Subscription / Pay-as-you-Go

Platform-as-a-Service

Platform fee + transaction-based pricing (mobilization setup for customization)
Deliverables

Multi-tenant access to the TerraEdge AI Framework — Doc-In-Sights, Voice Insights, ConverseAR — on pay-per-use economics.

Ideal for

Teams with steady volume but without the appetite to run their own ML Ops.

Pricing Philosophy

Outcome pricing. Not story pricing.

We don't sell story points, or seats, or undifferentiated hours. We price against the metric that matters — accuracy gained, volume processed, cost displaced.

POC

Fixed fee against KPIs. Conversion credit on scale.

Production

Milestone-based billing or outcome share. Your choice.

Managed

Monthly retainer with performance SLAs. Transparent drift reports.

Outcome

Base + performance incentive. Reserved for clients with clean baselines.

Frequently asked

What procurement actually asks.

Cost, payback, ownership, what-if-it-fails, perimeter, and data residency — the six questions every CFO and CIO brings to the conversation.

What does a typical TerraEdge engagement cost?
Fixed-fee POCs (typically 4–12 weeks) followed by fixed-price or milestone-based production builds. We commit to the number up front — not by the hour. Specific bands are shared in your first scoping call, once we understand data volume, deployment topology, and integration depth.
Who owns the AI you build with us?
You. Models, model weights, training data, pipelines, integration code, and dashboards transfer to your environment at production handoff. There are no public model weights in the pipeline by default. TerraEdge retains no commercial right to re-deploy your bespoke models elsewhere.
What happens if the POC doesn't clear KPIs?
You keep the architecture blueprint and the validation data. The POC was fixed-fee, so there's no overhang. You can either re-scope a second POC with refined KPIs (we apply conversion credit toward it) or walk away — no retainer, no vendor lock-in.
Can the system run inside our perimeter — on-prem or air-gapped?
Yes. Default deployment is inside your VPC on AWS, Azure, or GCP. Hybrid and fully on-premises deployments are routine; air-gapped deployments are supported for defence, law enforcement, and regulated workloads. The framework was built for air-gap from day one — it isn't an upgrade path, it's the baseline.
Earlier in the journey?

Not ready for AI yet? Want to chat about possibilities?

No pitch, no pressure. Just a conversation about where AI could fit, or where it can wait. Bring your skepticism — we'll bring ours.

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Scope a POC

Tell us the metric. We'll tell you the POC.

Six fields, one conversation. If we can define a KPI we both believe in, we'll scope a 4–12 week POC in under a week.