Businesses that run on AI from day one.
AYCAS Studios is an AI business-build studio. We design and ship the brand, the digital presence, and the AI operating system — and hand you a specialist team that lets a small operation work at the scale of a much larger one. One engagement, one Principal, one point of contact.
Four capability clusters.
One flagship engagement.
Every cluster has named specialists and a published scope. Click a cluster to see what's inside it.
01
Brand & voice
How the venture sounds and what it stands for.
Brand identity & strategy
One brand book per engagement. Positioning, narrative, voice, visual direction, written guardrails. Twenty-five to forty pages governing every output. The brand specialist owns it; everyone else builds inside it.
Copy & editorial
Writing in brand voice — bios, press releases, web copy, reports, scripts, pitch decks, stakeholder comms, newsletters. Plain English, editorial cadence. A copy library the client uses for years.
02
Visual & production
How the venture looks — every still and every frame.
Graphic design & print
Editorial design, identity systems, packaging, merch, print production. Source files, naming conventions, and a documented handover. We do the pre-flight on print jobs ourselves.
Photography & image-making
Campaign, product, editorial, portrait, event. Concept through retouch and delivery. We use photographers we have worked with for years; we don't farm briefs to stock or AI.
Film, video & motion
Brand films, founder narrative pieces, explainer videos, training content, event capture, short-form, motion graphics. Per-platform cuts baked into every delivery. We colour-grade the final.
03
Operations & AI
How the venture runs day-to-day.
Web, digital & integrations
Public sites, stakeholder portals, landing pages — plus the integration plumbing the AI operating system needs (domain, email routing, file structure, workflow connections). Hand-coded HTML/CSS. Owner-owned domain and repo.
AI operating system — the core deliverable
The deliverable that defines the studio. We design the AI team your operation actually needs, build the knowledge base it draws on, write the procedures it works to, and wire it into your day-to-day tools. Your leadership gets an AI counterpart that lets a small operation run at the scale of fifteen — without the headcount.
04
Reach & comms
How the venture is heard, seen, and covered.
Social media & content
Platform strategy, content calendars, captions, short-form scripts, posting cadence, community management guidance. We don't automate the voice. Deliverable: a launch calendar and a published rhythm the client can run after handover.
Advertising & campaign
Campaign concept, creative development, media planning, paid social, tracked performance. From the headline to the dashboard. We publish the performance numbers, not just the creative.
PR & media relations
Launch and milestone press campaigns, trade and sector press, podcast placements, industry-association visibility, stakeholder press for institutional clients. Personalised pitches, no mass-blast lists, no paid-as-editorial.
Flagship · the whole operation
Venture Build
Whole-operation stand-up. Brand identity, digital presence, AI operating system, enablement, plus the first ninety days of comms — delivered as one engagement. Ten to sixteen weeks from signed scope. We build the operating system; your team runs it.
Principal interviews, current-state map, bottleneck audit, scope lock. Signed off by the principal before any build work begins.
Positioning, voice, visual direction, brand book — plus the voice direction that aligns the AI team to the brand.
Website, custom domain, email routing, privacy-respecting analytics. Hand-coded HTML/CSS. Owner-owned domain and repo.
An AI team mapped to your operations, the knowledge base it draws on, the procedures it works to, and the integrations into your day-to-day tools — file system, email, calendar, workflow.
Service contracts, scope and change-order templates, invoice templates, first-year compliance calendar.
First ninety days of social, press launch, founder narrative — seeded by the studio, then handed to your AI team to run.
The Operating Playbook (your manual for working with the AI team), a 60–90 minute live handover session, and thirty days of monitored operation on standby.
Registration orchestration, statutory compliance map, external legal partner coordination. For greenfield ventures only.
How we charge
Fixed-fee, milestone-billed, USD default. Smaller pilots run on a 50/50 deposit-and-final split; larger engagements on a 30/30/30/10 split across the four phases. No hourly billing. Care Plan, when bought, is a separately-documented monthly retainer.
Care Plan
A monthly retainer activates on day 31 after handover — three tiers (Lite, Standard, Growth) covering hosting, knowledge-base maintenance, monthly review, and specialist hours. The product that keeps your AI team alive, measured, and improving.
Craft you can see.
Every AYCAS Studios case study is referenceable — live links, named outputs, real ship dates. Nothing in the window is stock or filler. We publish a case study only after the client has signed a public release, so our portfolio grows slower than our client list. That's a discipline, not a delay.
Four phases.
Milestone billed.
Every Build engagement has a fixed scope, a fixed fee, and a milestone payment per phase. No hourly. No drip pricing. Care Plan, when bought, is a separately-documented monthly retainer with its own commitment terms.
Week 1–2
Discovery & Scope
Intake interviews, scope lock, signed agreement, deposit. Free on the first call.
A 90-minute Discovery call — no charge, no obligation — opens every engagement. From there: leadership interviews, current-state mapping, bottleneck audit, sector research, and a baseline of the metrics that matter.
Output: a signed Venture Diagnosis — the canonical record of where the operation stands and what we're committing to move. The Service Agreement and Scope of Work issue from the Diagnosis.
30% deposit on signature
Week 3–6
Foundation
Brand book, entity and licensing where applicable, AI team architecture, ops scaffolding — all built in parallel.
Foundation runs in parallel. The brand strategy locks into a brand book — positioning, voice, visual direction, plus the voice direction the AI team works to. The AI team is designed against the Diagnosis, with a specialist for each function the operation actually runs.
Operating documents come together: service contracts, scope and change-order templates, invoice templates, first-year compliance calendar. Greenfield ventures run entity registration through external legal partners.
30% at end of Foundation
Week 7–12
Build
Websites, content kit, launch comms, first procedures, commercial templates. Everything ships against the locked brand book.
Build is when the operation comes alive. Website goes live on a custom domain with email routing and analytics wired in. The AI team is fully scaffolded — knowledge base, procedures, integrations into your day-to-day tools.
Launch comms drafts: founder narrative, first ninety days of social, press kit. Data handling is signed off. Everything ships against the locked brand book; nothing leaves the shop without QA.
30% at end of Build
Week 13–16+
Launch & Handover
Go-live, leadership training on the AI operating system, 90-day comms calendar delivered, 30-day support window.
Launch is the moment your leadership sits with their AI team for the first time. A 60–90 minute live handover session walks through how to brief, how to approve, how to get back what you need. The Operating Playbook — your manual to working with the team — locks.
Thirty days of monitored operation follow, with check-ins on days 3, 7, 14, 30. On day 31, the Care Plan retainer activates and the team you built keeps running.
10% on handoverRead before you enquire.
Our standard commercial templates live on the site. An Engagement Brief template is downloadable now. Service Agreement, Scope of Work, Change Order, and Invoice templates are finalising through legal review — published here when they lock. Transparency is a positioning choice, not a disclaimer.
Engagement Brief
The intake spec Discovery uses to lock scope and price. Editable in browser.
Download HTML ↓Service Agreement
Our standard master services agreement. In legal review.
Publishing when lockedScope of Work
The deliverables, milestones, and payment schedule template.
Publishing when lockedChange Order
How we log and price scope changes. No silent scope creep.
Publishing when lockedStart an enquiry.
The enquiry form takes about five minutes. From there we set a Discovery call, scope the work against your actual business, and come back within seven days with a written proposal and a fixed price. No cost to that session. No obligation either way.