Yours from handover. Kept polished from there.
Every Foundation we build is yours from handover: the code, the infrastructure, the IP, the documentation. From there, most owners stay with Brass Butler as their AI partner, and the system is kept polished: ongoing training, optimisation, implementation and support, with new automations layered on as the business grows. If your team is technical enough to run it in-house, that's an option too. Either way, it runs.
The Foundation runs whether we stay or not.
Everything we build lives on your accounts: full code, IP assignment, documentation, team training. From handover, the system is yours. Your team can operate it, your in-house developer can extend it, and any competent technical team can pick it up. If Brass Butler closed tomorrow, the Foundation would keep running.
That's the whole principle. You're never locked in. You decide how the system is looked after and by whom, yourself included, and you can change your mind whenever you like.
If you've got the technical horsepower, it's yours from day one.
Some owners have a technical lead, an in-house dev, or an operations manager who isn't afraid of code. Some are technical themselves. If that's you, the Foundation is ready to run in-house from handover.
You leave the training session knowing how the brain is wired, where the workforce pieces live, and how to extend the system when a new bottleneck shows up. The documentation pack covers all of it. From that day, the system costs whatever you already pay your team. Nothing else.
The team needs someone who can read code (mainstream stacks, nothing exotic), someone who can wire up a new integration when you add a new product, and someone who can watch the daily brief and flag anything drifting. Most teams on this route already have that. The training brings them up to speed on how your install is shaped.
Most owners stay on. Here's what kept polished means.
Most owners don't want to be the technical owner of an AI system. They have a business to run, and the whole point of the Foundation is to stop being a bottleneck, not to become a new one. So we stay on as your AI partner and the system is kept polished: we train the brain on what's changed in the business, optimise the workforce so the automations keep producing what they were built for, implement new automations as new bottlenecks show up, and support the operator who uses it day to day.
The formal name is AI training, optimisation, implementation and support. It isn't a fee for having our name on the account. It's concrete, ongoing work you can point to, and it scales with how active the partnership is, not to a flat number.
The exact shape varies by install. We work out the right shape together, usually a couple of months after the install lands and you've seen how the team uses it.
Light
A regular health check and occasional tuning.
Heavier
Embedded in the team's working rhythm, with a build budget for new automations and a quarterly strategy review.
Decide on the Foundation first. The rest works itself out.
The shape of the AI partnership is a post-handover question. Book the discovery call, and we'll work out whether the Foundation is the right next step first.
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