Scoped to the outcome. Not a rate card.
AI consulting priced against a fixed deliverable — not an hourly rate. Every engagement is scoped in a 30-minute briefing, then priced fixed against the target we agree in writing. See what automation is worth to you first →
Four bands by company size
Each band is a different engagement shape
Company size and engagement complexity determine which band fits. Click through to see the engagement shape for your size — the specific pricing lives inside each lane page, where the context is right.
API integration sprint
1 week · 1-2 specialists
Low four-figure investment
Outcome
Connect your existing application to a managed AI model. Prompt engineering, guardrails, deployment. No custom infrastructure, no ongoing overhead.
Fit for
Owner-led teams and small businesses adding AI to an existing product or workflow — where the goal is a working integration, not a platform.
Managed RAG deployment
3 weeks · 2-3 specialists
Low five-figure investment
Outcome
A grounded AI assistant that answers from your documents. Managed retrieval on Bedrock Knowledge Bases or Azure AI Studio. Internal Q&A or customer-facing support.
Fit for
Midmarket brands and multi-location operators deploying grounded AI on internal knowledge or customer support — where managed infrastructure beats custom models.
Production pipeline sprint
6 weeks · 3-4 specialists
Mid five-figure investment
Outcome
A production AI pipeline in your cloud account: managed model inference, ETL orchestration, vector search, monitoring dashboard. Handoff to your engineering team.
Fit for
Venture-backed founders and product teams needing AI in production, not in a notebook. Fixed scope, delivery guarantee, full IP transfer.
Enterprise AI platform
Multi-quarter · 4-8 specialists
Low-to-mid six-figure investment (per phase)
Outcome
A multi-cloud AI platform: knowledge graphs, GraphRAG, custom fine-tuned models, governed data lake, real-time inference, MLOps automation, and a dedicated senior squad on quarterly cadence.
Fit for
Fortune 500 CDOs, CTOs, and VPs of Data in regulated industries deploying AI across multiple business units, with compliance and security envelopes to respect.
Why scoped pricing beats a rate card
Most AI consulting is priced against time — an hourly rate multiplied by an estimate. That model favours the consultant: overruns become billable hours, discovery drifts into scope, and the buyer carries all the budget risk.
We do the opposite. Every engagement is fixed-scope, fixed-price against a target agreed in writing before the engagement starts. If the pilot misses the target, it's free. If delivery takes longer than planned, that's our cost, not yours.
This works because the four bands above are not price tiers — they are engagement shapes. An SME integration sprint is a different product than an Enterprise platform build. Same team, same delivery discipline, different scope of what ships. The investment matches the scope; the scope matches the outcome you need.
What a briefing looks like
- 130-minute call — you walk through the outcome you want, the systems it needs to touch, and the compliance envelope it operates in.
- 2Scoped proposal — within 48 hours you get a fixed-scope proposal with the deliverable, the target, the timeline, and the total investment.
- 3Guaranteed pilot — the target is written into the agreement. Miss it, and the pilot is free. Hit it, and we've earned the roadmap conversation.
How the investment model works
How much does AI consulting cost?
AI consulting is scoped, not listed. Real cost depends on the outcome you need, the systems it touches, and the compliance envelope it operates in. A one-week API integration is a different engagement than a multi-quarter enterprise platform build. We scope each engagement against a defined deliverable in a 30-minute briefing, then price it fixed against that scope — not against an hourly rate. Every band on this page links to a solution page where you can see the specific engagement shape for your company size.
Why don't you publish specific prices?
Because scoped consulting priced against outcome is not comparable to a rate card. A $10k engagement for a small business is a different product than a $10k engagement for a Fortune 500 CDO — the same dollar amount buys different scope in each context. Publishing a specific price signals the wrong thing to both ends of the market: too high for the small business, too low for the enterprise buyer whose procurement team will want the same rate applied to a much larger scope. Scoped pricing keeps every engagement matched to the value it actually delivers.
How do you know which band fits my company?
Company size and engagement complexity are the two axes. A 500+ employee organisation with regulated data and multiple business units is Enterprise. A 50-500 employee scaleup deploying AI in production is Scaleup. A 10-50 employee midmarket brand doing managed RAG is Midmarket. A 1-10 employee owner-led team adding AI to an existing product is SME. In the briefing we confirm which band fits by walking through the outcome you want and the systems it needs to touch.
Do you charge hourly or fixed price?
Fixed price. Every engagement is scoped against a defined deliverable — not time-and-materials. This means you know the total investment before the engagement starts, and we absorb the cost of any overrun on our side. The trade-off is a slightly higher headline price than an hourly consultant, in exchange for zero budget risk and a delivery guarantee.
Is there a delivery guarantee?
Yes. Every engagement carries our Guaranteed Pilot: we hit the target agreed in writing before the engagement starts (typically 90% hallucination reduction or a specific measurable outcome), or the pilot is free. The target is defined against your workflow — not our template — so the guarantee is meaningful.
Ready to scope your engagement?
30-minute briefing. A senior engineer scopes the work.
No sales team, no pitch deck. Scoped proposal within 48 hours, delivery guarantee written in.