If consultants can deliver the AI they promise,why haven’t their prices dropped?

An apology first: we are about to lead with costs, and it is crude. But the new value point of this work is largely unknown, and it needs putting in front of you plainly.

Two shapes of work, from our model of an ordinary department. A feature spends thirty weeks getting from asked-for to live, and two-thirds of that is waiting. A medium issue — identified, fixed, tested, released — is fourteen elapsed days and about £4,500 through people. Through an agent with a human review step: four hours and about £30, papers in order. The hours the work needs have not drifted down. They have collapsed.

Our trade is implementation — realising those hours inside your own business: finding where they hide in your queues, turning them into capacity, shortening the road from spend to value. Time-to-value is the number we move.

Discovery is eight hours of our expertise against your numbers, and you choose what it prices. A view of the effort to complete a project you already have in flight, or nearly have. Or a view of where AI fits your own processes, and what applying it would return.

We suggest starting with the project. It is concrete, its history is known, and the answer is useful the day it arrives. You keep the model and the figures either way — and at worst they are a price comparison that whoever bids for the work next has to beat.

We implement. Experts directing AI delivery teams — solutions built, infrastructure scripted, AI systems put to work — with a human answerable for every step. Our prices dropped because the hours did, and the saving is passed on: by our own arithmetic, a £4,500 fix becomes a £30 one, in the price you pay.

Start with the needs you already have — the system to finish, the integration to fix, the next version to build. AI enablement comes second, and comes easier: by then you know what a build costs before anyone quotes you.

A stalled project is the most straightforward case. We call that engagement a treatment — the ten days work pointed at the project’s arrears to restore good order: catching up to your own timeline, then we leave, and you’ve a better idea of AI abilities within your remaining technical or project procurement staff.

The whole of it: name the challenge, give us eight hours from £300, and hear what finishing it costs at agent rates — model, figures and every assumption included. If nothing is worth doing, you hear it straight. If something is, the ten days implement it.

Three lines is enough — where the work waits, what different would look like, who owns the decision. Replies come from principals, usually within a working day.