Free consultation
Bring us your problem. Walk away with an OpenSpec.
Thirty minutes on the phone. We listen, we map your situation to what AI can actually do, and within two business days you get the Carso OpenSpec — a written blueprint of your project, yours to keep whether you hire us or shop the spec to a competitor.
How to make the most of it
Thirty minutes, used well.
The free consultation is structured so you walk in prepared, talk through what matters, and walk out with something tangible. Here's how each part works.
Before the call
Come ready.
Think about: the one operational thing eating your team's time. The software you already use. The outcome that would make this call worth taking. You don't need a solution in mind — just a clear picture of the problem.
During the call
Bring what you've got.
Examples of the problem in action — emails, screenshots, a workflow you wish would disappear. We listen. We ask sharp questions. We map your situation to what AI can and can't do. No deck, no demo, no slides.
After the call
Walk away with an OpenSpec.
Within two business days we send you a Carso OpenSpec — a written blueprint of your project's outcome, scope, deliverables, investment range, and timeline. Yours to keep. Take it to us, take it to another consultancy. Either way, you have it.
Why we can give it away
We didn't just adjust our workflow. We adjusted our prices.
Most consultancies charge between $2,500 and $25,000+ to produce a proper scoping document. It's industry-standard work, and most firms make you pay for it before a single line of code gets written.
Here's what's actually changed in the last twelve months: one engineer with a Claude subscription now does what a four-person team did a year ago. Same quality. Smaller fraction of the time. Smaller fraction of the cost. The latest flagship AI models — Claude, GPT, the open-source frontier — empower a single founder to deliver work that previously required a full development team and a six-month budget.
Most consultancies don't want you to know this. Their business model still depends on billing four senior developers for six months — which only works as long as clients believe that's still what the work takes. It isn't. The cat's out of the bag.
Carso didn't just adjust our workflow to use AI. We adjusted our pricing to reflect what AI actually costs to run. That's how we can give an OpenSpec away for free. That's how our paid engagements come in at a fraction of agency rates. If you run a business where every dollar of investment has to earn its keep, that difference is the entire reason Carso exists.
The deliverable
What's an OpenSpec?
The Carso OpenSpec is an actionable blueprint of your project — outcome, scope, investment range, timeline, risks — built specifically around what you bring to the consultation. Yours to keep regardless of what you do next.
Take it to us. Take it to a competitor for an apples-to-apples quote. Take it home and sit on it for a quarter. Either way, you walk out of a free thirty-minute consultation with a real document you can act on or shop around with — exactly the comparable spec other consultancies won't hand you.
What's in your OpenSpec
- Project name and outcome. One sentence. What success looks like in your words.
- Problem statement. What's broken now and what it costs you, plainly stated.
- Recommended approach. Plain-English description of what we'd build and why.
- Scope and deliverables. Exactly what's included, exactly what isn't, with acceptance criteria.
- Investment range. Low, typical, and high estimates. Apples-to-apples for any consultancy.
- Timeline estimate. Realistic delivery window from kickoff to go-live.
- Risks and assumptions. What we're betting on. What could go wrong. What we'd do about it.
- Next steps. What you can do whether you hire Carso or not.
Pick a time on our calendar.
Real-time availability. Google Meet link generated automatically. Confirmation emailed instantly. Thirty minutes. Free.
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