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Three ways to work with Faculty

From a focused week to a five-week build — each one fixed in scope and price

Most of what Faculty does begins with a clear question and a fixed shape. You should know what you’re getting, what it costs, and when it ends before we start. Three engagements, each run by Chris Shiflett — thirty years of web depth, no hand-offs between the people who decide and the people who build. The price is the whole price: no equity, no licensing, no surprises.

GEO

$5,000

About a week · visibility to AI search · diagnosis and a plan

When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity to recommend a business like yours, do you come up? For most sites the answer is no — not because the work is bad, but because the site isn’t legible to the tools doing the answering.

I find exactly why you’re invisible — the structured-data gaps, the content these tools can’t parse, the questions you should be the answer to and aren’t — and give you a specific, written plan to fix it: the exact changes, with examples, ready to implement. Not a promised ranking; anyone who promises that is guessing. What you’re buying is the diagnosis of what’s actually wrong and a clear path to correcting it. This very page is an example of the work — clean, machine-readable, built to be found.

Ask about a GEO engagement: hello@faculty.com

Security review

$10,000

About a week · a focused review, with the high-risk issues fixed

Code gets written fast now — and a lot of it ships before anyone asks how it handles input, sessions, or authentication. I read your application the way an attacker would: I find what puts you at risk, prioritize it plainly, and the high-risk issues get fixed.

My curiosity led me to web security at its most formative moment — the years when many of the standards the field still relies on were set, a number of them mine. I introduced the CSRF token, and wrote one of the early books on securing web applications. This isn’t a scan run through a tool and handed back; it’s a senior read of your real application, by someone a lot of the field learned this from.

Ask about a security review: hello@faculty.com

The Faculty Sprint

$55,000

Five weeks · one product · the full build

The deep end. We take one idea and turn it into a real, working product on your own infrastructure — strategy, design, and engineering together. You bring the vision; we bring the judgment. It won’t have every feature you imagined; it will have the right ones, and it will be live and usable when the five weeks are done.

The right engagement when you have something to build and you want it built well from the start. Full ownership, deployed to your own AWS account, yours to take anywhere.

Apply for a Sprint →

Not sure which one fits, or have something that doesn’t map cleanly to any of them? Write to hello@faculty.com and describe where you are. Every note is read personally.