Strategy, engineered

Big-company strategy.
Small-business math.

A researched, pressure-tested brief on the decision in front of you — in about an hour, not a $10,000 engagement. The strategy department you never hired.

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Brief in about an hour4 research agentsPressure-tested before you see it
Brief
Subject
Meridian Coffee Roasters
Specialty Coffee · DTC + Wholesale
Question
Build a defensible position before subscription churn breaks the model.
Context
$3.8M revenue · 41% from subscriptions · churn up three quarters straight · a national brand buying market share.
4 research agentsC-suite pressure-test
Run
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Three things AI promised
and didn’t deliver.

01

It tells you what you want to hear.

Ask a general model if your plan is good and it agrees, encourages, and flatters. A real strategy has survived pushback. Cheerleading isn't analysis.

02

They're trained on the wrong logic.

General “reasoning models” are tuned on single verifiable answers: coding, math, and puzzles. Strategy is judgment under ambiguity. Completely different skills.

03

The work you offloaded just moved.

AI was supposed to free up your time for the work only the owner can do. Instead, you're prompting, vetting, and fact-checking what the model invented.

One system, doing the actual work.
You get the brief and your hours back.

Proven playbooks.
Not vibes.

Under the hood: 27+ of the analysis methods big-company strategy teams run — SWOT, Porter’s Five Forces, and two dozen more — each applied with real discipline, not a template.

  • SWOT
    Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, on one page.
  • Porter's Five Forces
    Structural attractiveness of a market.
  • Marketing 4Ps
    Product, price, place, promotion.
  • Business Model Canvas
    A business model, on a single page.
  • McKinsey 7-S
    Hard and soft elements in alignment.
  • Blue Ocean Strategy
    Where the competition isn't yet.

Run by the people
who run the place.

Owners and operators deciding the things they used to guess at.

It's like having a strategy team on demand. Every big decision — pricing, a second location, a new service line — gets a real analysis before we commit.
Daniel P.
Owner, home-services company
Same day
Strategic decisions
A strategy engagement that used to take three weeks now ships in an hour. Same framework, same depth, my evenings back.
Mark L.
Agency founder
3 wks → 1 hr
Per strategy
We priced a consultant for our expansion plan — $25,000 and a two-month wait. We ran it in-house instead, brief in hand by Friday.
Raj P.
CEO, 40-person manufacturer
$25,000
Saved per project
ChatGPT kept agreeing with me. This argued back — the CFO agent killed a move I was sure about.
Priya S.
Co-owner, e-commerce brand
4 agents
Pressure-testing
Our annual plan used to be a week of gut calls and slide-making. Now the analysis is done before the meeting and we spend the time deciding.
Alex H.
COO, regional logistics company
−80%
Prep time

Strategy isn’t expensive.
Strategists are.

A scoped strategy engagement runs $10,000 to $50,000. Here’s the same work, itemized.

Scoping and alignment
$350/hr
$700
2h
StratEngine
included
0.5h
Research
$350/hr
$2,100
6h
StratEngine
included
Automated
Framework selection
$350/hr
$350
1h
StratEngine
included
Automated
Analysis execution
$350/hr
$4,200
12h
StratEngine
included
Automated
Strategy synthesis
$350/hr
$2,800
8h
StratEngine
included
Automated
Slide build
$350/hr
$4,200
12h
StratEngine
included
Automated
Review and refine
$350/hr
$175
0.5h
StratEngine
included
0.5h
Total
$350/hr
$0
0h
StratEngine
$0/mo
1h
42×
Faster
−99.3%
Per-strategy cost

Same artifact. Same defensibility.
Different math.

Comparison run on a typical strategy engagement at a $350/hr blended consulting rate — independent strategy consultants bill $150–$500/hr. StratEngine timing reflects median end-to-end human time including scoping and review.

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Built for the kind of data
you can’t let ChatGPT see.

Your financials. Your customer list. Your plans. CASA Tier 2 certified on the application itself, running on infrastructure that carries ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II underneath.

CASA
Tier 2
Our application
ISO 27001
:2022
Inherited from Google Cloud
SOC 2
Type II
Inherited from Supabase
  • AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit
  • Hard tenant isolation at the database layer
  • Zero retention with the AI behind the analysis
  • Magic-link sign-in. OAuth for storage.

Three tiers. No quotes.
No sales call.

Pay per brief or by the month. One brief costs less than a consultant’s first hour.

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$/ per month
From $3 per brief
  • +1 free analysis at signup
  • +Every framework, every depth
  • +Import 5K files / 15 GB of proprietary context
  • +Presentation export

Essential

For growing the business.

$/ per month
billed $660 annually
  • +11 frameworks for growth
  • +2-agent research
  • +Trend-aware market analysis
  • +Import 10K files / 30 GB of proprietary context
  • +Presentation export
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  • +Every framework, every stage
  • +4-agent C-Suite debate
  • +4-agent research
  • +Assumption Exposer
  • +Proposal generator
  • +Import 50K files / 150 GB of proprietary context
  • +Presentation export
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Questions
answered.

If something else is on your mind, get in touch. A human reads it.

  • StratEngine runs strategy as a system — parallel research agents, a framework layer that applies the canonical discipline, and a C-Suite that pressure-tests the conclusion from the CEO, CFO, CMO, and COO chairs. General models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini were trained on problems with single verifiable answers — coding, math, puzzles — not judgment under ambiguity. Prompt hard enough and you can fight one toward strategy, but you’re left holding the rigor and hunting hallucinations. You get the brief, not the homework.

StratEngine AI

Stop prompting.

Start deciding.

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