Strategic Advisory · Parity Endeavors
Ongoing Retainer
A Standing Advisor For The Voice, AI, And Accessibility Calls You Can't Afford To Get Wrong.
Some teams have one bad file. Others make the same high-stakes call every week: which voice, human or synthetic, for what, and whether it holds with the audience. This is for the second kind. I stay close to your team and weigh in on those decisions as they come up, before they ship.
Retainer. Priced per engagement.
We scope it on a call, based on how often these decisions come up and who needs to be in the room. Start with a free 30 minutes.
The Problem
The Decisions Come Faster Than The Rules.
A build gives your team a standard. Then the work keeps moving. A new vendor pitches you. A new platform needs a different voice. A campaign lands with its own question about what is human, what is synthetic, and what your audience will accept.
Each of those is a judgment call. Under deadline, judgment calls made by whoever is free that day usually go the cheap way, not the right way. Then something ships that sounds slightly off, and the person who approved it is the one explaining it later.
You don't need another full-time hire for this. You need judgment you can reach quickly, held to one standard, every time the question comes back.
Where it shows up
A new AI voice vendor pitches you and nobody on the team can say whether the output will hold with real listeners.
Every quarter brings a new format, platform, or campaign with its own voice question.
Accessibility calls land on whoever is available, not whoever knows.
You have a standard on paper, but the team keeps making exceptions under deadline.
You made one voice decision last year that you are still explaining.
How It Works
Judgment On Retainer, Not A One-Time Project
Trust Architecture builds the system in 30 days. Advisory is what keeps it alive after that, or what carries you if you are not ready to build yet. We set a rhythm, and I stay close enough to your work to catch things before they ship.
01
On-Call Judgment
You bring a decision: a file, a vendor demo, a script, a rollout plan. I tell you where it holds and where it breaks, and why, fast enough to act on before the deadline.
02
Standing Review
I review the work that matters most before it ships, on a rhythm we set together. The same ear on the same standard, so quality stops depending on who happened to be in the room.
03
Vendor And Standard Calls
When you are choosing, comparing, or correcting a voice or AI voice vendor, I am in the room with a standard instead of a guess, and with the language to hold the vendor to it.
No standard in place yet? Start with Trust Architecture. We build the rules in 30 days, then advisory keeps them holding as the work keeps coming.
What You're Buying
A Standard That Holds When The Deadline Says Ship It Anyway.
The retainer buys two things: judgment you can reach quickly, and one consistent standard applied to every voice, AI, and accessibility call, so the answer doesn't change based on who is asking or how tired the team is.
Book a Free CallFast Answers
You send the question. You get a clear read on where it holds and where it breaks, in time to do something about it.
One Standard, Enforced
The same judgment on every call, so quality stops drifting between people and deadlines.
A Voice In Vendor Rooms
Someone who can hear what a demo is hiding and hold a vendor to what your audience actually needs.
Cover For The Person Who Approves
The people making these calls get a reason they can defend, not just a gut feeling they have to explain later.
Pricing
Priced To The Engagement, Not Off A Menu.
A retainer only makes sense when the cost of one wrong call is higher than the cost of the advice. That depends on how often these decisions hit your team and how much rides on each one, so I don't quote a flat number before I understand that.
The free 30-minute call is where we figure out whether the math works. If it doesn't, I will tell you, and point you to the right entry instead.
Book the CallIt's for you if...
You make voice, AI voice, or accessibility calls more than once a quarter.
One wrong call costs you more than the retainer would.
You want judgment on tap, not another full-time hire.
You have a standard and need it enforced, or you are about to build one.
It's not for you if...
You have one file, one time. That is the Trust the Signal Scan.
You want me to run your production.
You want a name to list, not a standard to hold.
The decisions are rare and low-stakes. A retainer would sit unused.
Why Roy
I Hear Where A Voice Stops Meaning What It Says. Before It Ships.
For twenty years I performed Audio Description on deadline, in single passes, with no second take. When the audience is blind, the voice carries all of the meaning or the scene is lost. That teaches you to hear the exact moment delivery breaks from intent, before anyone in the room has named it.
Advising on your voice and AI calls is the same skill, pointed at your content instead of a film. I am not drawing on general communication theory.
I hold a patent portfolio covering a way to mark, inside the track itself, whether a voice is human or synthetic. Few people bring both a performing background and patented research to this exact question. That is what you get in the room.
Selected experience
Advised teams on human versus AI voice decisions that protect audience trust
Advisory and training for organizations building accessibility into real workflows
Thousands of hours of Audio Description for Netflix, Disney+, HBO, FX, Hulu, A24, Universal, and Sony
20+ years of voice performance and delivery under deadline
Patent portfolio related to Audio Description
2021 Audio Description Achievement Award
Television Academy member · SAG-AFTRA · American Council of the Blind
Start With A Free Call.
30 minutes. We figure out how often these calls hit your team, what one wrong one costs you, and whether a retainer is the right fit. If it isn't, I will point you somewhere that is.