How long is a typical AI strategy engagement?

Four to eight weeks depending on the number of business units and systems in scope.

Do you help execute the strategy?

Yes — the same team delivers the first pilots, which keeps the roadmap grounded in what the estate can actually support.

What if the organisation is not ready?

The readiness view says so explicitly and the roadmap starts with the data, integration or governance work that has to precede use cases.

How is this different from a Big-4 strategy engagement?

We staff strategy with people who have actually implemented these platforms. Our roadmaps are bounded by what we know will deliver — no throw-over-the-wall risk.

Do we have to use pronix.ai for implementation afterwards?

No. Deliverables are portable to any SI. That said, most clients continue with us for implementation because acceptance criteria, business case and governance were designed together.

How long does a strategy engagement take?

6–10 weeks for a funded roadmap on one domain (e.g. CX, ops). 10–14 weeks for enterprise-wide portfolios spanning multiple LOBs.

Do you have a lighter, faster option?

Yes — the AI Readiness Assessment is a self-serve 10-minute tool that produces a scored report and a recommended engagement path.

Strategy & Consulting

Roadmaps, business cases and readiness — before the build.

AI strategy, use-case discovery, platform selection, model-risk framing and CFO-ready business cases. We start every engagement here so implementation is fundable, defensible and tied to measurable outcomes.

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How we deliver

Assess → Design → Pilot → Implement → Scale → Operate.

One delivery model that moves from strategy to production without handoffs — with managed operations built in.

See how we deliver

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Assess

Readiness, data estate, existing AI footprint.

wk 1

Design

Portfolio, platform fit, governance model.

wk 3

Pilot

Business case for the flagship use case.

wk 5

Implement

Handover to implementation with acceptance gates.

wk 7

Scale

Portfolio governance, funding cadences, KPI cascade.

wk 9

Operate

Quarterly strategy review and portfolio rebalance.

wk 11

6–10 wk

From kickoff to funded roadmap

3–5

Prioritized flagship use cases

CFO-signed business case

100%

Governance mapped to EU AI Act / NIST

Once your roadmap is funded, our Implementation Services team picks it up under the same delivery contract — see /services/implementation-services.

The enterprise challenge

Ambition is easy. A defensible portfolio is not.

Boards want AI outcomes this year. Regulators want documented controls. CFOs want unit economics. Our strategy engagements resolve that tension with prioritized use cases, sized business cases and a governance operating model — in 6–10 weeks, not two quarters.

Too many use-case candidates
Every function has a wish list. Without an outcome-scored portfolio, capital gets spread thin and nothing scales.
Platform lock-in fear
Azure OpenAI vs Bedrock vs Vertex vs Agentforce vs Kore.ai — buying committees stall for months on decisions we resolve with a scored fit assessment.
No business case the CFO will sign
Vendor slideware doesn't survive finance review. We build models with your baselines, sensitivities and payback horizon.

Capabilities

A CFO-ready operating plan for enterprise AI.

Six services that turn ambition into a funded, governed, implementable program.

AI Readiness Assessment

Data, talent, governance, platform and change readiness scored against enterprise AI benchmarks — with a 90-day remediation plan.

Use-case discovery & portfolio

Workshops across LOBs to surface, score and prioritize use cases on value, feasibility, risk and time-to-impact.

Platform selection

Independent scoring across AI foundation models (Azure OpenAI, Bedrock, Vertex, watsonx, Anthropic), CCaaS and agentic platforms — tied to your data estate and buying preferences.

Business case & unit economics

Baseline, target and sensitivity models the CFO will actually sign — with per-interaction and per-workflow cost curves.

AI operating model & governance

RACI, MRM alignment, EU AI Act / NIST AI RMF mapping, and the CoE / federated model that fits your org.

Executive roadmap

Sequenced 12–24 month plan with pilots, foundation work, scale gates and organizational change milestones.

AI governance control plane

One control plane across every model, agent, tool and dataset.

Policy, identity, data boundaries, evaluation, monitoring and incident response — enforced across the four AI layers, not scattered across teams and tickets.

Policy & risk

Map every use case to enterprise risk tiers, EU AI Act obligations and NIST AI RMF functions before it ships.

Risk register
AI Act tiering
NIST mapping
Approval workflow

Identity & access

Scoped credentials per agent and per tool, with per-action authorization and full audit trails.

Scoped tokens
Per-action auth
SoD controls
SSO / SCIM

Data boundaries

Enforce residency, tenancy, retention and PII redaction inside the runtime — not just the ETL layer.

Residency zones
PII redaction
Retention policy
Purpose binding

Evaluation

Gate every release with automated evals, red-team suites and human review for high-risk intents.

Eval sets
Red-team suite
Bias & safety tests
Human review

Monitoring

Continuous observability on quality, cost, latency, drift and safety events across every agent and channel.

Trace pipeline
Drift detection
Cost per outcome
Safety alerts

Incident response

Kill switches, versioned rollback and post-incident review wired into the same on-call surface as production software.

Kill switch
Versioned rollback
On-call runbooks
Post-incident review

Operating model

A federated CoE — not a bottleneck committee.

Central policy and evaluation, federated build. Business units ship faster because controls are pre-approved patterns, not exception reviews.

Central AI CoE owns policy & evals
Business units own use cases
Platform team owns runtime & tools
Risk / MRM signs off once per pattern

How we deliver

A six-step model, from assessment to managed operations.

Every engagement follows the same rhythm — so business, IT and delivery stay aligned from opportunity to outcome.

Assess

Readiness, data estate, existing AI footprint.

Design

Portfolio, platform fit, governance model.

Pilot

Business case for the flagship use case.

Implement

Handover to implementation with acceptance gates.

Scale

Portfolio governance, funding cadences, KPI cascade.

Operate

Quarterly strategy review and portfolio rebalance.

Where it lands

Use cases already in production with enterprise clients.

Enterprise AI roadmap

Board-ready 24-month plan across CX, ops and revenue — with dependencies, funding and org design.

Agentic AI portfolio review

Prioritize where autonomous agents actually beat traditional automation — with sized business cases.

Platform selection

Vendor-independent scoring for foundation-model, CCaaS and agentic platforms tied to your data estate.

AI governance operating model

MRM, EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF alignment — plus the CoE / federated model that fits your org.

Industry patterns

Industries where this ships fastest

Financial Services
Healthcare Providers
Health Payers
Insurance
Retail & Ecommerce
BPO

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Runs on

Grounded on your data. Governed on day one.

Every platform we implement is only as good as the retrieval, connectors and controls behind it. These are the horizontal solutions we ship with every engagement.

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Quick answer

What should an AI strategy consulting engagement produce?

An AI strategy engagement should produce four artifacts: a scored readiness view across data, integration and governance; a prioritized use-case portfolio with baselines and expected value; a target architecture and platform recommendation; and a funded 12-month roadmap with owners and decision gates. A strategy without baselines and owners is not executable.

Last reviewed 2026-08-05

Value cases use the client's own numbers

Volumes, handling times and cost per case come from the client's systems, so the business case survives finance scrutiny instead of relying on industry averages.

Architecture decisions are made once

Retrieval, evaluation, observability and identity choices are set at strategy stage so use cases inherit them rather than each team choosing differently.

Decision gates prevent zombie pilots

Every roadmap item has a date and a threshold at which it scales, changes or stops.

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A working session on where AI earns its keep in your portfolio, what to fund first, and which platforms fit your estate.

Opportunity and readiness assessment
Roadmap with funding sequence
Platform selection guidance

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Frequently asked

Questions buyers ask us first.

How is this different from a Big-4 strategy engagement?: We staff strategy with people who have actually implemented these platforms. Our roadmaps are bounded by what we know will deliver — no throw-over-the-wall risk.
Do we have to use pronix.ai for implementation afterwards?: No. Deliverables are portable to any SI. That said, most clients continue with us for implementation because acceptance criteria, business case and governance were designed together.
How long does a strategy engagement take?: 6–10 weeks for a funded roadmap on one domain (e.g. CX, ops). 10–14 weeks for enterprise-wide portfolios spanning multiple LOBs.
Do you have a lighter, faster option?: Yes — the AI Readiness Assessment is a self-serve 10-minute tool that produces a scored report and a recommended engagement path.

Next step

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30 minutes. Your architecture, your data, your KPIs. You leave with a concrete pilot outline and a business case worth defending.

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