AI consulting
Independent guidance on where AI pays off, what it costs, and how to govern it.
- Engagement
- Fixed-fee independent assessment
- Typical timeline
- 2–3 weeks
- Starts with
- Fifty real examples of the work you want a model to do.
A vendor has quoted a six-figure sum for an AI platform, your team has opinions, and nobody in the room has run one of these in production. The decision is about to be made on confidence rather than arithmetic.
Investment aimed at outcomes instead of hype.
What we build
Concrete artefacts, handed over and documented.
- 01
A written verdict on each proposed use case: worth doing now, worth revisiting later, or not worth doing
- 02
A running-cost model per thousand tasks, model calls, retrieval, human review, at your real volumes
- 03
An accuracy bar per use case: what the system must get right, how that is measured, and who signs it off
- 04
A clause-by-clause reading of any vendor proposal on the table, including what happens to your data
- 05
A short list of what to ignore this year, with the reason each item did not make the cut
What changes
A spending decision defended by a cost model instead of by enthusiasm
The use cases that would have failed quietly are stopped before a budget is committed
Your team can tell a demonstration apart from something that would survive a Monday
How it runs
01Listen
Conversations with the people whose work would change, and with whoever is currently selling you something.
02Test cheaply
We put your own examples through two or three models and measure the result, rather than trusting a vendor’s benchmark.
03Verdict
One document, read aloud in the room, with a recommendation you are free to argue against.
Chosen per project. Named here so you can see the shape of it.
- OpenAI
- Anthropic Claude
- Promptfoo
- Notion
Questions we get asked
Related work
Tell us the outcome, not the tooling.
Send us the situation you are in. We will tell you which discipline it belongs to, what we would do first and what it costs, including when the answer is to wait.