The new side of
revenue strategy.
AI-first consulting for your digital revenue performance. We partner across the entire payments stack—acquirers, orchestrators, local schemes, and more—to ship high-impact, working artifacts. From payment diagnostics and cost reviews to vendor playbooks, we deliver real-time insight that moves the needle.
Engagements
that deliver.
Pick a fixed-scope session or a multi-week sprint. Every engagement ends with a measurable artifact — a playbook, a model, a board-ready report. Pay online, no proposals to chase.
See all engagementsA focused 4–6 week sprint (longer for complex scopes) where SideB plugs in as your dedicated AI operating partner — scoping, enabling, and optimizing AI inside your business or revenue operations stack. Covers AI-stack and vendor review, model and tooling selection (enterprise-tier, contractually zero-training), playbook authoring for the workflows AI will own, change-management and adoption rituals, and an ROI dashboard the leadership team can read. Pricing scoped to depth and duration. For CFOs, COOs, Heads of Revenue, Heads of Payments, and Chiefs of Staff adding AI capability inside revenue, finance, or operations.
A 90-minute working session plus a written diagnostic of your payments stack, delivered in 10 business days. Covers cost-of-acceptance, authorization-rate benchmarking against peers, fraud-cost ratio, chargeback ratio, scheme-mandate exposure, and vendor-renegotiation flags — all quantified with a prioritized action plan ready to share with Finance and Procurement. Includes a 60-minute readout. For payments leaders at fintechs, SaaS, marketplaces, and PSPs.
A two-week working sprint for teams ready to act on payment cost AND acceptance lift, not just identify the opportunities. Includes the full Payments Diagnostic plus a vendor renegotiation playbook (target rates, BATNA, scripts), BIN-routing optimization, decline-recovery rules, and a sequenced 90-day execution plan. Weekly working sessions and a final read-out. For Heads of Payments, CFOs, and RevOps leaders at fintechs, marketplaces, and PSPs.
Consulting that pays back — and keeps paying.
A 5-year compounding payments partnership.
+$18M recovered, a 1.5x return-customer flywheel.
Real-time margin visibility, baked into the operating loop.
Crisis-grade payments operator, kept on the bench.
A three-phase operating loop.
From diagnosis to durable system. Each phase ties to a specific engagement on the catalog — pick the entry point that matches where you are.
Deep-dive into your revenue operations and payment stack. Identify product gaps, vendor risk and the actionable items that move margin.
Quantify your acceptance costs and success rates against operators in your category. Numbers your CFO can defend.
Translate findings into a vendor decision, costs roadmap or year-round operating cadence. You leave with a working asset, not a binder.
Keep us on the bench.
Year-round.
For teams that want sideb.io in the room year-round. Every retainer is mutually scoped at activation — the examples on the right show what that often looks like in practice. We got you when you need us — cancel anytime.
We got you — on the call, in the negotiation, across the org.
- AI-informed market intelligence & competitive positioning
- Strategic supplier economics & intelligent partner management
- Predictive revenue modeling & monthly recurring performance reports
- Plug-and-play fractional leadership for AI-first organizations
- Comprehensive revenue technology & automation reviews
Each retainer is mutually scoped at activation. Higher-touch arrangements — typically anything over 10 hours of face time per month — move to a custom services agreement. See §2.4 of the Online Services Agreement for the framework.
Notes from the field.
Procurement Modernization for AI-First Orgs
The annual-RFP cadence dies the moment your engineering team can spin up a new AI vendor in an afternoon.
Agentic Commerce and the New Revenue Surface
Your best customers won't see your checkout page much longer. Here's what payments teams should be building instead.
BNPL & Wallet Mix as a Margin Lever
Stop treating funding-method mix as MDR variance. Start running it like portfolio allocation.
Artifacts,
not advice.
Every engagement produces a tangible, owner-shippable artifact — built for the person running the business after we leave.
Your next quarter is waiting.
Book a session, or send a brief and we'll quote you within 48 hours.