A dedicated team
About four people focused on your questions, not a template.
AI strategy & implementation
Find out where AI actually fits in your business.
You bring us your questions. A dedicated team digs into them, then hands you a clear, cited plan for what's actually worth doing plus our recommendations on where to start. Primary interviews, sourced throughout, a one-to-two week turnaround.
Why this is hard right now
Everyone's talking about AI. Few are getting real value.
The hype is deafening and the tools change weekly. Most teams can't tell what genuinely applies to their work from what's noise, so pilots stall and budgets get wasted.
~95%
of enterprise generative-AI pilots show no measurable P&L impact.
~2×
higher success buying AI from specialists versus building in-house.
#1
the skills gap is the top barrier to AI adoption today.
Sources: MIT NANDA, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business (2025); Deloitte, State of Generative AI in the Enterprise (2025).
The offering
You bring the questions. We build the plan and tell you what to do first.
Bring us whatever you need to know: where does AI fit in our corner of the business, what actually applies to us, what should we do about it? A dedicated team of about four spends one to two weeks on it, then delivers a full report, our recommendations, and a live readout with your team.
Real depth, fast
Primary interviews and cited sources, not a surface-level scan.
Advice, not just data
Clear recommendations you can act on, mapped to your business.
What lands on your desk
A report you can act on.
Answer-first and cited throughout. Built to brief a leadership team, not to sit in a drawer.
Executive summary
The top opportunities and our recommendation, on one page.
The AI landscape in your industry
What's real in your space, with named peer examples and cited data.
Applicability to you
Each use case mapped to your business, not generic advice.
Recommendations and a roadmap
What to do first, what it takes, and what scaling would need.
Simple, fixed fees
Pick the depth you need.
Three fixed-fee packages. The price moves on how deep the research goes and how far the roadmap is sequenced, never on the standard of the work. Our first five founding engagements run free, in exchange for a case study and a testimonial.
Scan
$500
One focused question. Desk research with every claim cited, one practitioner interview, a short report, and the first move worth making.
Start with this →
Where we would start you
Discovery
$1,000
Everything in Scan across your full function, three to five interviews, an audit of the tools you already use, findings scored on impact and feasibility, and two or three scoped quick wins.
Start with this →Diagnostic
$2,500
Everything in Discovery across multiple functions, five or more interviews, the roadmap fully sequenced, an AI usage policy written for your team, and a 30 day follow-up call.
Start with this →Bigger company? Pick the team, not the headcount. The sizes above describe the team we research for, so a 200-person company can start with one department and scope the next team from there. Not sure which fits? Just ask and we will tell you which one your questions actually need.
Comparable commercial AI readiness assessments start at roughly $2,500 to $3,500 on a one to two week turnaround, which is where our top package begins. Published pricing: Elevate AI $3,500 and HiVergent about $2,500.
In every engagement
The same standard at $500 as at $2,500.
Six things every engagement carries, whichever package you pick.
- Every claim sourced and dated. What we cannot source, we flag as an assumption.
- At least one practitioner interview. No AIC report is pure desk research, at any price.
- Vendor-neutral recommendations, because we do not sell software.
- A central review before any report reaches you, whichever team ran it.
- A success brief you sign off on before research starts.
- A fixed fee agreed up front. Never a subscription, never hourly.
Straight with you
Nobody's incentive but yours.
Applied Intelligence Collective helps business and finance teams put AI to work: we find where it fits, build the plan, and guide the first steps. We train sharp researchers to dig into it rigorously and turn that work into practical guidance for your own operations. The report answers your question, not a vendor's.
No vendor incentives
We don't sell or resell software, so nothing steers the recommendation.
You own the report
The deliverable is yours. We keep only our reusable research frameworks.
Recommendations you can act on
We tell you what we would do and why. The call stays yours, and our reports are research, not professional financial, legal, or investment advice.
Prefer email?
Skip the form, just write to us.
The questions are the important part, so give them as much or as little detail as you like. Owen reads every message himself and replies within one business day. Or start an inquiry and we'll take it from there.
Email Owen Burton
owen@appliedintelligencecollective.com
Tell us your company, the corner of the business where AI feels most uncertain, and what you're hoping to get out of it. A rough question is fine, we help sharpen it. Nothing you send is shared outside AIC.