About Marcellus
20 years closing aerospace deals. Now I ship AI for ops teams.
Plaid Pizazz is Marcellus Spears, independent. Fortune 500 aerospace business development discipline, turned loose on the problems keeping sales and revenue teams drafting at midnight.
Marcellus Spears, founder.
The short version
Why I left the Fortune 500 to do this.
I spent two decades inside Fortune 500 aerospace business development, proposal strategy, negotiating eight to nine-figure programs at Airbus, Boeing, Singapore Airlines, British Airways, and global tier-1 airlines. By the end, I was managing $75M+ in pipeline and spending half my week on work that AI could do in minutes.
The people doing that work were sharp. They weren't the problem. The problem was that nobody had built the system; the proposal drafts, the follow-up sequences, the pipeline briefings, the meeting summaries to actually run without them.
So I left, started Plaid Pizazz and got Google AI Certified. The firm helps $5M–$50M companies turn AI from experiments into systems that actually run. Not decks. Not frameworks. Shipped automation, trained teams, ROI you can measure inside a month.
Every engagement I've delivered so far has produced 60%+ time savings on the workflows we touched. That's the bar.
20 yrs
Fortune 500 aerospace BD
$75M+
Revenue managed
60%+
Time savings per engagement
Google AI
Certified
How I work
Six principles that decide every engagement.
None of these are branding. Each one has cost me a client at some point — which is why they stay.
Priced up front. No discovery-call dance.
Every tier is published on /services. If you can't see the price before the call, I'm doing something wrong.
Advisor, not consultant.
Consultants sell decks and frameworks. I ship automations, agents, and integrations your team actually uses — then walk away, or stay on retainer if it helps.
Refund the Assessment if the math doesn't work.
The $500 Assessment comes with a refund guarantee. If I can't surface $5K/month in recoverable waste, you don't pay. That's the deal.
No recurring charges without a working system.
Retainer is pitched only after a successful Build, never cold. If there's nothing working in production yet, a monthly fee is just hope.
Tools serve the work, not the other way around.
Zapier, Make, n8n, Claude Projects, Cursor, custom Python — whatever fits your stack and your team's maintenance capacity. No affiliate commissions. No vendor loyalty.
Discipline over hype.
I don't sell 'AI transformation.' I sell specific workflows that save specific hours. Measured in hours saved per week, not PRs generated.
The principles are the easy part. Start with $500.
If we can't find $5K/month in recoverable waste on your first call, I refund the Assessment.