The private AI stack for boutique consulting firms
Private copilots connected to your playbooks, methodologies, and past projects, running on infrastructure you control. Your team works with the firm’s full context, while senior staff focus their time on recommendations. We implement and operate it.
“Since we started using Astraed, everything changed: how we work, our speed, and our quality. Today we cannot imagine operating without it.”
Astraed is not software you download. It is a team that delivers your private AI working and keeps it that way: implementation, customization, hosting, and maintenance, with an initial four-week implementation.
01 · Knowledge
At most boutique consulting firms, methodology lives in a handful of people’s heads. Astraed loads your firm’s documents — playbooks, methodologies, past deliverables, and proposals — into a private knowledge base. Your team asks questions in natural language and receives answers with citations to the sources used.
Context that once required years beside a partner is available from a new consultant’s first week.
02 · Capacity
Large firms are restructuring their base: AI handles the research, synthesis, and first drafts that once justified teams of junior staff. Boutique firms have an advantage in this shift: less structure to dismantle.
Senior time stays focused where clients pay for it: the recommendation.
03 · Commercial reach
Many boutique firms decline two kinds of projects before quoting: work that requires a larger team than the firm has, and work for clients whose contracts prohibit processing information with public AI services.
For the first, each consultant covers more scope. For the second, we deploy on infrastructure you control and prepare the documentation required by the client’s procurement team.
04 · Proposals
Proposals often wait for a partner because only they remember the precedents: the similar case, how it was priced, and which study to cite. Once the knowledge base is loaded, any team member can draft with the firm’s actual precedents and figures.
The partner steps in to decide the approach, not rebuild the history.
Every prompt, draft, and uploaded document belongs to a client, a scope, and a partner accountable for it. A consulting firm needs AI that respects the project.
The pressure is already inside the firm
Market research, interview synthesis, competitor analysis, financial models, and first drafts of deliverables and proposals.
Which tools touched their information, who had access, where records are stored, and how work is reviewed before it reaches them.
When that work happens in personal ChatGPT accounts, the firm loses the record of what happened precisely where confidentiality matters most. Astraed gives the firm one managed entry point: approved models, firm knowledge, and project-level permissions in one place partners can see.
The product
Assistants designed for consultants: fast, reliable, and grounded in the firm’s context.
Upload your firm’s playbooks, templates, and past deliverables. Ask in natural language and get answers with citations.
Client folders with their own context and instructions. Every conversation understands the project scope.
Access from any device, with a native experience optimized for mobile.
Past analyses, client work, or methodology notes in seconds. The firm’s collective intelligence, searchable.
Drop in PDFs, spreadsheets, presentations, or images. The copilot understands them and extracts what matters.
Privacy and control
More clients now include AI questions in their vendor assessments. These are the answers when your firm uses Astraed:
Client review
Before approving a vendor, your clients’ procurement and security teams want to know where the system runs, who has access, and which models are involved. Astraed delivers that package ready to use:
Pricing
Initial implementation
US$5,000
One-time payment. Deployment, configuration, initial knowledge setup, and training.
Monthly operation
From US$1,500
10–20 users. Volume pricing for 21–40. Custom proposal for more than 40.
Model usage
Based on usage
Your firm pays for its tokens directly to the provider or through Astraed at cost.
Questions
The stack combines proven open-source software — the interface and knowledge-management layer — with the models your firm approves and the infrastructure you choose. Astraed provides the service: component selection, secure deployment, methodology loading, team training, and ongoing operation. You pay for a working capability, not a license.
No. The copilot produces drafts, research, and synthesis; your consultants decide what to recommend and stand behind it with the client. Judgment and relationships remain the firm’s product.
The deployment runs on infrastructure you control; conversations and documents are not sent to third parties except model providers your firm configures. For maximum privacy, use local models with no external API calls. Permissions are managed by user, group, and project, with audit trails in your database.
Astraed. Installation, monitoring, backups, and updates are part of the service. If you have an IT team, we work within its policies; if you do not, one is not required.
Initial implementation costs US$5,000. Monthly operation starts at US$1,500 for 10–20 users; volume pricing applies for 21–40, and we prepare a proposal for more than 40. Your firm pays for its tokens directly to the provider or through Astraed at cost.
Everything is yours: the infrastructure is in your name, and conversations, documents, and knowledge bases can be exported in full. There is no proprietary platform holding you back.
Optional add-on · PathMBA
A curated library for research, decks, and workshops. US$599 per month or US$5,990 per year.
In a 30-minute conversation, we review your operation, the knowledge your firm has documented, and estimate the case using your numbers.
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