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WHAT I DO · THE SERVICES

I build the narrative, and
the machinery to run it.

Then I hand you the standard. Three jobs — front-office narrative, back-office friction, or full institutional training. Start with one — you don’t have to buy the whole relationship.

THREE JOBS · FOR SMALL CULTURAL & MISSION-DRIVEN ORGANISATIONS

clarify the story, fix one workflow, or train the team. each is fixed-scope: what ships, the review points and the price are agreed before anything is invoiced.

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01 / NARRATIVE DIRECTION

Clarify the story

Good work is too expensive to keep explaining to rooms that don’t get it.

$9k–18k
FIXED · 3–6 WEEKS · SCOPE, MILESTONES AND COST LOCKED ON DAY ONE

We start with the story — who you are, what you’re for, why now. AI lets us pressure-test five narrative frames in a week instead of debating one across a quarter, until the words hold under scrutiny. Then we build the outward-facing engine, so funders, press and partners run into you instead of you chasing them.

WHAT SHIPS
  • → core narrative architecture & positioning
  • → visual identity system & brand asset kit
  • → launch web presence
  • → funder deck & partnership collateral

long-tail assets — newsletters, press releases, print — built as the narrative requires, not as a menu.

discuss your story →
02 / OPERATIONAL DRAG

Fix one workflow

You didn’t build this mission to fill reporting templates at 11pm.

$4.5k–9k
FIXED, PER BUILD · ~2 WEEKS

We take one recurring task apart — the board report, the donor draft, the grant assembly — and automate the first draft inside the tools you already use. No migrations, no software debt. A named person on your team runs it.

Before anything gets built, I sit down with the person whose work this changes: how the task really runs, which parts need their judgment, and what happens to the hours it frees. Their time is in the budget. If the goal is to cut their pay, I’m the wrong person to build it.

WHAT SHIPS
  • → grant & report pipelines, tested on real examples
  • → board & ops reporting templates
  • → recurring stakeholder drafts, with review steps

legal — contracts, HR policy, copyright — stays with your counsel; we just cut their first-read time.

automate a workflow →
03 / INSTITUTIONAL HANDOVER

Train the team

The point of this engagement is that you stop needing me.

$12k–24k
FIXED, PER COHORT · 6 WEEKS

A training residency on your live deadlines — no abstract webinars. Your team writes its own use cases, builds its prompt library, and learns when the machine is adding work instead of removing it. Leadership trains on its own floor: board updates, governance, strategy.

WHAT SHIPS
  • → cohort training on live briefs
  • → an AI-use policy your people can actually follow
  • → reusable prompt & review systems that outlast the contract

no dogma — calibrated for claude, gemini or whatever your stack already is.

train your team →
HOW WE RUN · SAME RULES, ALL THREE
We scope

deliverables, review milestones and fixed cost locked on day one. what falls outside the project is named in the proposal.

We direct

AI produces the velocity; human judgment sets the line. you own the decisions and stay the author — i’ll tell you when something isn’t holding.

We ship

everything staged in shared docs and mockups before sign-off. in person across northern california; remote worldwide.

ADVISORY & FOCUSED SPRINTS
  • $2k–4k / month — systems advisory after an engagement: workflows maintained, outputs reviewed, leadership supported. the retainer names capacity and responsibilities.
  • free / 45 minutes — the diagnostic call. your narrative, your tool stack, and whether an engagement makes sense at all.
  • artist & community slots — sliding-scale, reserved for individual poets, artists and independent makers. ask on the call.
request a call by email →

Bring the thing that’s stuck.

the deck you keep rewriting. the report that takes three days. the team that tried AI and quietly went back to doing everything by hand.

SABA@POETICA.STUDIO →
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SABA KHALID · POETICA STUDIO
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