AI Consulting
Also called: AI consultancy, AI consultant, artificial intelligence consulting
AI consulting is the professional service of helping an organisation decide where artificial intelligence will create value, then designing, building and deploying the systems that deliver it. An engagement usually runs through five stages: a readiness assessment, choosing the use cases, deciding whether to build or buy, deploying into live workflows, and measuring the result against a baseline. An AI consultant is an individual adviser; an AI consultancy is a firm that can staff the whole sequence, from strategy through engineering.
In practice
Judge a consultancy on three things: whether it builds as well as advises, whether you own the code and models it produces, and whether it reports results measured against a baseline rather than hours spent. In the UK, day rates run from about £500 for a junior consultant to £3,000 for a senior partner, and fixed-price engagements tied to a defined output are the common alternative to time and materials. QuantSpark's AI consultancy ladder runs from a free readiness assessment to full builds.