Ask our consultant
Day is the consultant we run ourselves, and this is where you can put a question to him directly. Ask what we do, how an engagement runs, or which part of our work fits the problem you are carrying. He answers from our own published pages and names the section he took the answer from, so you can open it and check him.
What you get. An answer with its source named, or a plain “I cannot answer that from what we have published”. What it costs. Nothing. This box reads our pages, and it is billed to us rather than to you. What it takes. A question in ordinary words.
Put a question to Day
The passages come from an index committed beside the pages themselves, so an answer here cannot quietly disagree with what the site says. No key, no account, no sign-up.
Clear this conversation? The turns are only stored in this browser, and there is no undo.
Ask what we do, what an engagement costs to start, or which service fits your problem. The answer arrives whole, with a card per source that opens the exact section it came from.
Or start with one of these:
Enter asks · Shift + Enter adds a line · free to you — this box is billed to our own account, never to yours
What Day does on a real engagement
The box above is the small half: he reads what we have written and answers about us. On an engagement he works the whole problem, in this order, and every step leaves something you can read afterwards.
- He asks what you need. If your first description is missing something he cannot work without, he asks for it — once, not an interrogation.
- He names the kind of problem it is. Scheduling, routing, allocation, a recurring judgement, a counting problem off a camera. Naming it is what decides everything after it, and he says so out loud rather than assuming.
- He writes it down as a model. The things you are choosing between, the rules that are real rather than habitual, and what you are trying to make bigger or smaller.
- He solves it, and hands over the check. The answer arrives with a certificate: a statement of how far from the best possible answer it could still be, which you can re-check yourself rather than take on trust.
- He reports the trade-offs. Not just the answer, but what each rule cost you — so you can see what relaxing any one of them would be worth before you argue about it.
- He bills the time. The consulting time on an engagement is a line of its own, separate from the work delivered, and it appears on your statement as its own entry.
He is the instrument behind the engagement shapes on how we work — not a self-serve product you buy on this page.
What he will not do
- He does not guess. When he cannot tell what kind of problem you have brought, he says so and asks, rather than answering a question you did not ask. A refusal is a result here, not a failure.
- He does not hold your personal data. This box reads published pages and nothing else. Anything confidential moves later, through an arrangement we set up on purpose — see our privacy page.
- He cites what he used, with its terms. Every answer names the source it came from; where a source is someone else’s published material, the attribution and the licence it was published under travel with it.
- Nothing here writes your answer for you. There is no language model anywhere in the answer path. The words you get back are computed from what is published and quoted from it, which is why a source can always be named.
What his time costs
Asking on this page is free. Beyond it, we do not publish an hourly figure for his time, and we would rather say that plainly than print a number we would then have to argue about: consulting time is priced inside the engagement it belongs to, in a written quote, before work starts. The one rate we do publish is for running a finished model, on embark.day/pricing.
On an engagement, his time is billed as its own line beside the work delivered, so an invoice says which of the two you are paying for. How the surrounding work is priced — fixed fee for diagnostics and pilots, capped time and materials for build work — is on how we work.
Being measured, not switched on: answers recalled by settling in Day’s own Hilbert space of these pages, the same memory you can rent as Hilbert as a service. Given a passage it has not seen, it finds that passage’s page first time 49% of the time when asked with the passage’s own reading, which is how we test it, and 15% of the time when asked in words, the way a visitor asks.