Services
AI consulting services
AI consulting services usually mean a senior partner in the sales call and a bench of juniors in the delivery. We’re built the other way: the senior people who scope your work are the ones who do it, fixed scopes, and prices on the page.
Who this fits
We work with companies that already run a real operation: legacy systems, regulators, and people who won’t change how they work because a slide told them to. That usually means a few hundred to tens of thousands of employees, often in traditional industries. If you’re a startup, or you need a 500-person systems integrator, we’re the wrong shape, and we’ll say so on the first call.
How an engagement works
Everything starts with the assessment: fixed scope, 3–6 weeks, priced at $20,000 to $80,000 (where in that range depends on scope: how many systems and teams we assess, company size, and regulatory exposure). At the end you get a concrete recommendation with costs and sequence attached. Sometimes the recommendation is “don’t build this.” We’d rather lose the follow-on work than have you find that out the expensive way.
Larger work only follows when the assessment has earned it, and it’s fixed scope too. For context, published 2026 ranges put a typical scoped production build at $50,000–$250,000. And that band is a single scoped build; multi-system, multi-year programs run seven figures and beyond, and scale like that is work we take.
What you get out of it
- A decision you can defend to a board: where AI pays off in your operation, and where it doesn’t.
- Systems running in production on your own infrastructure, documented so your team can run them without us.
- Guardrails your auditors, your lawyers, and your operators can all live with.
- A cost you knew before the work began.
The lanes
The work falls into a few lanes, each with its own page:
- AI strategy consulting: a decision-ready plan for where AI fits and what to build or buy.
- AI automation: building AI into the workflows you already run.
- AI governance consulting and AI risk assessment: running it safely.
- AI readiness assessment: finding out whether your data and processes are ready before you spend real money.
- Fractional chief AI officer: senior AI leadership by the day, without the full-time seat.
How the engagements fit together is on the services page.
Who you’d be working with
Nick Major, an engineer of fifteen-plus years who builds AI systems in production, and Isaac Major, an operator who has run growth and revenue teams inside global enterprises. They work from Lisbon and Salt Lake City, which between them covers most of your working day. Full backgrounds are on the about page. We also run two non-commercial organizations, the Institute of Applied Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Executive AI Leadership: common founders, separate brands, nothing funnels, and you’re welcome to judge our thinking by them.
We’re a young firm, so there are no case studies or client logos here yet. What we can show you instead is published pricing, a fixed-scope process, and the senior people who will actually do the work.
Questions people ask
- What exactly does an AI consultant do?
- Three things, in order: works out where AI pays off in your operation and where it doesn’t, builds the systems that clear that bar, and puts guardrails around them so they can run safely. A good one also tells you what not to build. If a firm skips straight to building, the order is wrong.
- How much do AI consulting services cost?
- Published 2026 rate guides put AI consulting at $150–$500 per hour. Our own engagements start with a fixed-scope assessment at $20,000 to $80,000, and larger work is priced per scope after that. The full market picture, including project and retainer ranges, is in our AI consulting rates guide.
- What is the 10 20 70 rule for AI?
- It’s BCG’s formula for where AI effort actually goes: about 10% algorithms, 20% technology and data, 70% people and process. Our experience matches it. Most failed AI projects were technical successes that nobody changed a process for, which is why we staff an operator alongside the engineer.
- Why don’t you show case studies or client logos?
- Because we’re a young firm and we won’t invent them. What we can show you today is real: published pricing, a fixed-scope process, and the senior people who do the work. Case studies will appear here when clients agree to be named, and not before.
- Do you work with small businesses?
- Mostly no, and it’s worth saying plainly. Our work fits companies from a few hundred to tens of thousands of employees, where the hard parts are legacy systems, regulation, and change. If you’re a ten-person company, a good freelancer is usually the better buy, and costs less.
Tell us about the work.
A few lines is enough. We read every enquiry ourselves and reply within one business day.