AI Consulting

AI consulting is rapidly becoming its own industry. Boutique AI shops, AI-augmented service firms, and AI-native software companies are all customers for the operational technology that runs a modern professional services business. We help these firms build the operations platform that lets them scale without losing the craft that made them excellent.

How We Help

What we deliver for ai consulting firms.

Salesforce + integrated PSA for AI firms

Account, opportunity, engagement, and project management unified, configured for AI/data services pricing and delivery models.

Flexible pricing model support

Contract management that supports time-and-materials, fixed-fee, outcome-based, retainer, and hybrid pricing without forcing them into one shape.

Internal knowledge platform

Confluence or Notion integrated into your CRM so that every project benefits from prior project learning.

Onboarding automation

Templated onboarding workflows triggered by deal close, kickoff scheduling, document collection, environment provisioning, team intros.

ROI capture and value-realization platform

Structured ROI baselines, ongoing measurement, and client-ready ROI reporting built into every engagement.

Security and compliance infrastructure

SOC 2 readiness, ISO controls, and the technical and process infrastructure to pass enterprise security reviews.

Common Challenges

What we see in ai consulting.

The technology and process challenges that come up in nearly every engagement we run in this industry.

Scaling without losing AI-native craft

Most AI firms start small and excellent. Growing past 20 people without losing what made you good is the central operational challenge.

Pricing experiments at scale

Outcome-based pricing, retainers, license-plus-services, AI firms experiment with pricing models that legacy CRM does not support well.

Knowledge management for repeat patterns

AI work is full of repeating patterns. Capturing and reusing them is a major productivity lever.

Client onboarding speed

AI clients expect fast onboarding. Every day of internal admin is a day they could be getting value.

Demonstrating ROI to enterprise procurement

Enterprise procurement teams want hard ROI numbers. AI firms need infrastructure to capture and demonstrate them.

Compliance and security for AI deployments

SOC 2, ISO 27001, and customer-specific security requirements increasingly gate AI deals. The infrastructure to meet them is non-trivial.

Regulatory & Compliance Matters

What we navigate in ai consulting.

Compliance is not a separate workstream, it is embedded in every workflow we deliver. The major frameworks we work within:

EU AI Act

AI system classification, risk management evidence, transparency requirements, and conformity assessment workflows.

NIST AI Risk Management Framework

AI RMF implementation, risk profile documentation, and governance workflows aligned to NIST guidance.

ISO 42001 (AI Management Systems)

AI management system certification preparation, control evidence, and continuous improvement workflows.

Sector-Specific (HIPAA, GLBA, FERPA + AI)

Sector regulations as they apply to AI systems, data handling, audit logging, and decision explainability requirements.

Copyright & IP for Generative Content

Training data provenance, output review workflows, and IP risk documentation for generative AI deployments.

Algorithmic Accountability (state laws)

Emerging state AI laws (Colorado, California, NYC bias audit), disclosure, impact assessment, and audit workflows.

Signature Service Categories

The major ai consulting practices our team runs.

Each category represents a deep specialization with dedicated playbooks, accelerators, and experienced practitioners.

Operations Platform for AI Firms

Salesforce + PSA configured for AI/data services pricing and delivery.

ROI & Value Realization

Structured ROI capture and client-facing reporting.

Compliance & Security

SOC 2, ISO 27001, and enterprise-grade security infrastructure.

Knowledge Management

AI-augmented internal knowledge platforms.

Customer Success for AI Engagements

Adoption tracking, renewal forecasting, and CSM workflows for AI/data clients.

Other Platforms

The technology stack we typically deploy here.

Salesforce + PSA platforms
PSA platform (Kantata, Certinia, etc.)
Notion / Confluence + AI retrieval
Compliance automation (Drata, Vanta)
Anthropic, OpenAI, Azure AI infrastructure
Customer success platforms
Knowledge management AI
Integration Ecosystem

The platforms we connect to in ai consulting.

Our team carries hands-on experience across the systems your firm already runs. Integration is rarely the bottleneck.

Anthropic Claude (API + Bedrock + Vertex)
OpenAI / Azure OpenAI
AWS Bedrock
Google Vertex AI
Salesforce Agentforce
Microsoft Copilot Studio
LangChain / LangSmith
LlamaIndex
Pinecone
Weaviate
pgvector
Databricks Mosaic
Hugging Face
Snowflake Cortex
Unstructured.io
Vellum / Humanloop
Arize / Fiddler
Cohere
How Clients Engage Us

Four ways to work with us on ai consulting initiatives.

From short diagnostics to fractional leadership, every engagement model is designed around the client's stage and needs.

Discovery & Strategy

Operational diagnostics for AI consultancies and AI-native software firms.

Fixed-Scope Implementation

Specific projects covering PSA, compliance, or knowledge platforms.

Managed Services

Ongoing operations support for growing AI firms.

Fractional Operations Leadership

Senior operations leadership for AI firms scaling past 20 people.

Outcomes We Deliver

The metrics we actually move for ai consulting clients.

Engagements are measured by movement on the numbers that matter. These are the directions of travel we commit to.

AI pilot to production rate
Increased
Time saved per knowledge worker
Faster
AI workflow accuracy
Improved
AI governance findings
Reduce to zero material
Time to ROI on AI investment
Faster
Employee AI adoption rate
Increased
Signature Frameworks

Proprietary methodologies for ai consulting work.

Every engagement leverages reusable assets, frameworks, blueprints, and diagnostics built up over hundreds of client projects.

AI Maturity Diagnostic

Our two-week assessment that maps where AI will and will not create value in your organization, plus a sequenced roadmap with measurable outcomes.

RAG Reference Architecture

A battle-tested pattern for retrieval-augmented generation in enterprise, covering ingestion, chunking, embedding, retrieval, and evaluation.

AI Governance Operating Model

A framework for AI inventory, risk classification, approval workflows, and ongoing monitoring that scales beyond a single steering committee.

AI Agent Design Method

Our approach to designing AI agents that handle real work, tool use, error handling, escalation paths, and human-in-the-loop workflows.

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