Engagement model 04
AI Consulting & Audit
An AI readiness assessment, time boxed, that reviews your data, your systems and your candidate use cases, then hands back a costed and sequenced roadmap.
01 What you get
A decision, not a deck
The deliverable is something you can take to a board and act on, including the recommendation not to build.
Review
Weeks 1 to 2
- Data inventory: what you hold, and whether it is usable
- Systems and integration review
- Workshops with the teams who would use it
- Candidate use cases, gathered and written down
Assessment
Weeks 3 to 4
- Each use case scored on value, effort and risk
- Build, buy or do-nothing assessed for each
- Compliance and data-residency constraints named
- A proof of concept where the answer is genuinely unclear
The roadmap
Final week
- A sequenced plan with costs against each step
- Risk ranking, including the ones we would not take
- Reference architecture and stack recommendation
- A readout with your leadership, and the document itself
If the honest answer is that AI is not worth it here, that is what the roadmap says. You still keep the document.
02 Commercials
One fee, one deliverable
Priced and time-boxed before it starts, so an audit cannot quietly become a project.
- Term
- 3 to 6 weeks Scoped and dated before the contract is signed.
- Billing
- Two instalments Half on start, half on delivery of the roadmap.
- Team
- Principal consultant plus an ML engineer Named before you sign.
- Who owns scope
- We do Agreed up front and not extended mid-engagement.
- Credit
- Deducted from a build The full fee comes off a fixed-scope build started within 90 days.
- Exit
- Ends on delivery The roadmap is yours whatever you do next, and with whoever.
Where a proof of concept is needed, cloud and model costs are billed at cost and agreed in advance.
03 Fit check
Right for you if…
This is the model to buy when you are not yet sure there is anything worth building.
Pick this when
- There is pressure to do something with AI and no agreed target.
- You need a costed case before anyone will fund a build.
- The data situation is genuinely unclear.
- Several use cases are competing and nobody has ranked them.
Pick something else when
- The use case is already decided and validated.
- You want a working product at the end, not a plan.
- You need engineers on an existing build right now.
- You want the roadmap to endorse a decision already made.
Already know what to build? See Fixed-Scope Delivery
04 Proof
Where the audit led
Roadmaps that turned into products, and the scopes they saved.
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06 Compare
How this compares
The other three models, on the same questions.
| Fixed-Scope Delivery Most Chosen | Dedicated Remote Team | IT Staff Augmentation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | A defined product with a launch date | A long-running product with an evolving roadmap | An in-house team that needs more hands |
| Term | 8 to 16 weeks, milestone-based | Rolling, three-month minimum | Rolling, one-month minimum |
| Who owns scope | We do, fixed after discovery | You do, we advise | You do, entirely |
| Team | A full pod, staffed by us | Cross-functional pod plus a delivery lead | Individual engineers, inside your process |
| Billing | Fixed price per milestone | Monthly, per seat | Weekly or monthly, per engineer |
| Ramp-up | 2 to 4 week discovery first | 3 to 4 weeks | 2 weeks |
| Exit | Documented handover at the final milestone | 30 days' notice | 2 weeks' notice |
| Read more | See the model : Fixed-Scope Delivery | See the model : Dedicated Remote Team | See the model : IT Staff Augmentation |
07 Questions
Before you decide
What you keep, and what happens next.
Yes, and most long-running clients do. A fixed-scope build that turns into an ongoing product usually becomes a dedicated team at handover, same people, new commercial terms. We re-paper the engagement; you do not re-onboard anyone.
You do, in every model, from the first commit. The repository is yours, hosted in your organisation where you want it there, and the licence transfer is in the contract rather than an invoice at the end.
Discovery exists to find that out before the price is fixed, which is why it is billed separately. If something material surfaces mid-build we price the change against the remaining milestones and you decide, we do not absorb it quietly, and we do not stop work while you think about it.
An audit or a two-week discovery is the usual way in. It is a fixed fee, it produces something you keep whatever you do next, and nothing about it obliges you to carry on with us.
Notice is two weeks for staff augmentation, thirty days for a dedicated team, and none for fixed scope work, which simply ends when the scope is delivered. Offboarding includes a handover of code, documentation and access, so nothing you rely on depends on a particular person still being reachable.
08 Start
Book an audit
Tell us which systems and which use cases are on the table. We will scope the audit and price it before you commit.
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