One model. No theater.

The first hour is free. After that, work begins with a $500 deposit, which covers discovery: the time we spend inside your business naming the real problem and coming back with a solution that will hold. If the job turns out to be a small one, that $500 often covers all of it. Beyond that it depends on the move, and we'd be guessing to say otherwise before the diagnosis. You'll see every recommended move ranked by cost and impact before you commit past the deposit.

We publish the two that are knowable in advance: the first hour is free and starting costs $500. Past that, a price list is a menu, and a menu makes you order. Half the businesses we talk to arrive asking for the wrong thing: a rebrand when the knot is operations, a new site when the knot is pricing. Naming the real move first is the whole point, and a number on a page can't do that.

Then that's what we'll tell you in the free hour, and we'll scope exactly that. Nobody gets upsold into a journey they don't need. On a job that small the $500 deposit is often the whole cost, and if one clean deliverable is the entire piece of work, we ship it and we're done.

Say so early. It shapes the work instead of ending the conversation. The first hour costs nothing, so you can find out what you're actually dealing with before spending anything, and $500 is the whole commitment until you decide to go further. The ranked move list exists for exactly this: highest-impact, lowest-cost moves at the top, so a smaller budget still buys a real result. We'd rather do one thing that matters than pad a scope you can't afford.

Discovery, and a viable answer at the end of it. We go into the business, walk the five lenses (brand, product, operations, people, money), and come back with a solution we believe will actually work rather than a proposal designed to sell you the next thing. On larger work it is the deposit that starts the engagement. On smaller work it frequently covers the entire job.

The first conversation can happen this week, and once you say yes to a move, operators are at the file within 72 hours. From there a real artifact ships every month, not a status deck. An actual thing you can use. We ship, we don't deck.

Every project gets a technology read before we pick a single tool. We use AI where it genuinely makes the work faster or sharper, and leave it out where a human hand is the point. When AI removes real hours, that shows up in the scope and the price; we never add it just to pad a number, and you can opt out of AI entirely. You can read the whole approach at /ai.

The first conversation can happen this week. Once you say yes to a move, operators are at the file within 72 hours. The same people who ran the diagnosis, not a handoff to a team you've never met.

Often, yes. The five lenses (brand, product, operations, people, money) are the same wherever the business lives, so a knot in one industry usually looks familiar from another. If it's genuinely not a fit, we'll say so in the free hour rather than take work we can't do well.

Say so, and you say it to the same people doing the work, because there's nobody else. Engagements are shaped move by move, so stopping is a conversation, not a contract dispute. No lock-in, no cancellation theater.

We drop to quarterly checkpoints instead of a monthly invoice. Your team learns the method while we work, so by the end you can run the play without us. And we stay on call, same hands, for the hard decisions.

No. No pitch team, no account layer, no theater. Unstuck is an arm of Talk Circles. Operators who name what's stuck and walk the next move with you, the same hands start to finish.