Our AI consulting and audit services give you a clear, engineering-grounded view of where AI fits your business, what it takes to build it right, and which opportunities deliver real returns. Senior practitioners, structured assessments, and a plan you can act on from day one.
You see the opportunity but want a grounded view before you commit.
The business case for AI seems strong, leadership is asking questions, and pilots are starting across the organisation. Before investing in a build, you want an honest assessment of where AI fits, what it will cost, and what returns are actually achievable.
A prioritised AI roadmap with use cases ranked by effort, impact, and data readiness, so the first initiative you fund is the right one.
02Assessing existing AI
You have AI in production and want to know how well it is actually performing.
Models were deployed, teams moved on, and the system has been running quietly ever since. You want an independent review of accuracy, data quality, integration health, and governance, with a clear picture of where performance can improve.
A structured audit report covering model accuracy, data pipelines, bias exposure, and a prioritised improvement plan your team can act on.
03Ready to validate and build
You have a specific use case and want to prove it before committing to a full build.
The use case is clear, the stakeholders are aligned, and now you need to validate feasibility with real data, real architecture decisions, and an honest view of what production will require, from the engineers who will build it.
A validated PoC with accuracy benchmarks, a production architecture recommendation, and a realistic scope for the full build.
Make the right call, before you invest in a build.
AI consulting vs jumping straight to build vs generic strategy
Most teams either rush into a build before the strategy is clear or spend months on frameworks that stay on slides. Here is the honest comparison across the dimensions that determine whether an AI initiative delivers value.
What matters
Recommended
Custom build
Common alternative
Off-the-shelf SaaS
Other path
Low-code platform
Use case quality
Ranked by data readiness, effort, and business impact
Defined by stakeholder opinion
Defined by industry benchmarks
Data readiness
Assessed before any build begins
Discovered mid-build
Typically out of scope
Architecture decisions
Made before the cost is committed
Made under delivery pressure
Rarely part of the engagement
Build confidence
A PoC validates feasibility on real data
Confidence assumed
Confidence theoretical
Team alignment
Stakeholders aligned on scope and ROI before build
Alignment happens during the build
Alignment often stays at the slide level
Accuracy expectations
Benchmarked against your actual documents and data
Set after the first production results
Expressed as aspirational targets
Time to value
2 to 4 weeks for strategy, 3 to 6 for PoC
Months before the signal
Months before any engineering output
Long-term ROI
Higher: right use cases, right architecture from the start
Variable: depends on early scope decisions
Often needs further engineering engagement
Pick custom when
Leadership is asking for an AI strategy, and you want one grounded in engineering reality.
You have AI in production and want an independent view of how it is performing.
You have a use case in mind and want to prove feasibility before committing a full build budget.
You want one team to carry the assessment through to production with full continuity.
AI Consulting and Audit Services for leadership and engineering teams
From first strategy to a production-readiness review, we cover the full consulting spectrum. Start with the assessment that addresses your most pressing question and build from there.
AI Strategy and Roadmap
A prioritised roadmap of where AI delivers the most value, with honest effort estimates and a 90-day plan.
Use-case ranking/ROI mapping/90-day plan
We work with your leadership and engineering teams to map where AI can deliver the most value in your operations, ranked by data readiness, integration complexity, and business impact. You walk away with a prioritised roadmap, honest effort estimates, and a 90-day plan for the first initiative.
AI Readiness Assessment
A structured view of whether your data, tooling, team, and governance are ready to build AI.
Data audit/Infrastructure review/Team capability
Before you build, you need to know if your organisation is ready. We assess your data infrastructure, tooling, team capability, and governance posture, giving you a structured view of what is in place, what needs strengthening, and the most direct path to your first production AI system.
Use Case Identification and Prioritisation
A ranked shortlist of the workflows where AI reduces time or improves accuracy, scored on a consistent framework.
Process mapping/Impact scoring/Build vs buy
Your operations hold more AI opportunity than most teams realise. We map your workflows, identify the processes where AI can reduce time or improve accuracy, and score each use case against a consistent framework: effort, data availability, compliance constraints, and measurable ROI. The output is a ranked shortlist your team can act on.
AI Model and System Audit
An independent technical review of the AI already running in your environment, with a prioritised improvement plan.
Accuracy benchmarking/Bias review/Integration health
An independent technical review of AI systems already running in your environment. We evaluate model accuracy on current production data, assess bias exposure, review data pipeline integrity, and check integration health, delivering a structured report with a prioritised improvement plan and clear benchmarks for each finding.
Data Readiness and Governance Assessment
A clear view of whether your data and governance are production-ready, with a remediation plan.
Data quality/Pipeline review/Governance framework
AI performance is determined by data quality long before a model is chosen. We assess your data pipelines for completeness, consistency, and availability, review your governance posture against relevant compliance requirements, and give you a clear remediation plan so your data is production-ready when your AI initiative is.
AI PoC and Feasibility Validation
A 2 to 4-week engagement that proves your use case on real data, with a production recommendation.
Real data/Accuracy benchmarks/Production path
A structured 2 to 4-week engagement that proves the feasibility of your target use case on your actual data and real documents, rather than synthetic benchmarks. We build a working prototype, measure accuracy against agreed targets, surface the architectural decisions that will govern the full build, and deliver a production recommendation your engineering team can plan against.
Start here
Every strong AI build starts with the right question.Tell us where you are. We will tell you what to assess first.
Different questions, same rigour. Whether you are assessing strategy, systems, or data, you get the same senior consultants, the same structured methodology, and findings your team can act on.
Clarity on where AI creates real value for your business.
AI opportunity mapping
A structured review of your operations to identify the workflows where AI can reduce time, improve accuracy, or unlock new capability, ranked by impact and feasibility.
Competitive and market benchmarking
Where your industry peers are using AI, what is working, and what is still early, so your strategy is informed by production reality rather than hype.
Build vs buy vs partner analysis
An honest assessment of which AI capabilities to build in-house, which to procure, and which to develop with an engineering partner, based on your team's capability, timeline, and total cost of ownership.
A clear picture of what your AI systems are actually doing.
Model performance and accuracy audit
Evaluation of model accuracy on current production data, including drift detection, confidence calibration, and a benchmarked view of where performance can improve.
Bias and fairness review
A structured assessment of algorithmic bias across your model outputs, identifying where automated decisions carry fairness exposure and how to address it before it becomes a compliance or customer issue.
Integration and infrastructure review
An end-to-end review of the systems your AI models connect to: data pipelines, API contracts, monitoring coverage, and the operational health of everything downstream.
The foundation every AI system depends on.
Data quality and completeness assessment
A structured review of your core data assets: coverage, consistency, labelling quality, and the specific gaps that will affect model training and production performance.
Data governance and compliance review
An assessment of your data governance posture against the frameworks that matter for AI, GDPR, DPDP, HIPAA, and sector-specific requirements, with a clear remediation plan.
Data pipeline and infrastructure readiness
A review of the pipelines that feed your AI system: ingestion, transformation, storage, and freshness, with a readiness score for each and a prioritised action plan.
Consulting for every vertical.
Built for how your industry actually operates
FinTech and Banking
AI strategy and audit for credit decisioning, fraud detection, regulatory reporting, and KYC automation. Every assessment is structured around RBI, PCI DSS, and audit compliance from the first session.
Insurance
Use-case identification and model audits for claims triage, underwriting data, and policy document processing, built for the data volumes and compliance controls that define insurance operations.
Healthcare and Life Sciences
Readiness assessments and PoC validation for clinical document extraction, prior authorisation, and patient-journey automation. HIPAA-aware from the first data review.
Logistics and Supply Chain
AI opportunity mapping and data-readiness assessments for demand forecasting, shipment exception handling, and vendor invoice reconciliation, built for the data quality realities of field operations.
Enterprise SaaS and B2B Platforms
Strategy and use-case prioritisation for teams building AI into their product or scaling internal AI capabilities across customer success, operations, and product analytics.
Manufacturing and Retail
AI readiness and governance assessments for quality control, inventory optimisation, supplier onboarding, and demand planning, structured to work with existing ERP data estates.
FinTech and Banking
AI strategy and audit for credit decisioning, fraud detection, regulatory reporting, and KYC automation. Every assessment is structured around RBI, PCI DSS, and audit compliance from the first session.
Insurance
Use-case identification and model audits for claims triage, underwriting data, and policy document processing, built for the data volumes and compliance controls that define insurance operations.
Healthcare and Life Sciences
Readiness assessments and PoC validation for clinical document extraction, prior authorisation, and patient-journey automation. HIPAA-aware from the first data review.
Logistics and Supply Chain
AI opportunity mapping and data-readiness assessments for demand forecasting, shipment exception handling, and vendor invoice reconciliation, built for the data quality realities of field operations.
Enterprise SaaS and B2B Platforms
Strategy and use-case prioritisation for teams building AI into their product or scaling internal AI capabilities across customer success, operations, and product analytics.
Manufacturing and Retail
AI readiness and governance assessments for quality control, inventory optimisation, supplier onboarding, and demand planning, structured to work with existing ERP data estates.
How we consult, every step of the way.
How we structure and deliver AI consulting engagements
Structured methodology, senior practitioners, and findings your team can act on. Here is how every engagement runs in practice.
Every engagement starts with a structured discovery session mapping your current workflows, data assets, team capabilities, and business objectives. We come prepared, ask the right questions, and turn the outputs into a clear picture of the landscape before any assessment begins.
Stakeholder interviews
Process mapping
Data inventory
Full landscape mapped in the first week
Evidence-based assessment
Our assessments are built on your actual data, your actual systems, and your actual team's capabilities. Every finding is supported by evidence, and every recommendation is scoped to what your organisation can execute.
Real data analysis
System access
Architecture review
Findings grounded in your environment
Prioritised, actionable output
Every engagement delivers a structured report with findings ranked by impact and effort, a recommended action sequence, and enough technical detail for your engineering team to act without starting over. No slide decks that go on a shelf.
Impact-ranked findings
Technical specs
90-day plan
Action plan ready at handover
Continuity from assessment to build
The consultants who assess your AI landscape are the engineers who can build it. If the engagement surfaces a clear build opportunity, the same team carries it forward, so context stays intact and the transition from advice to execution is measured in days.
Assessment to build
Same team
Full continuity
Zero handoff loss into build
Every assessment is grounded in your actual data and systems. Recommendations are scoped to what your team and infrastructure can realistically execute, with timelines your organisation can plan against.
Why teams choose Zethic for AI consulting and audit
Engineers who assess, then build
Our consultants are AI engineers. They have shipped production systems, run evals, and debugged models at 3am. When they assess your AI landscape, they are telling you what they would actually build.
Your data, your findings
Every assessment runs on your actual data and systems. Recommendations are grounded in what we find in your environment: your pipelines, your models, and your team's capabilities.
Output your team can act on
Findings are ranked by impact and effort. Every recommendation comes with enough technical detail for your engineering team to execute. The deliverable is a plan your team can act on, not a slide deck.
One team from assessment to production
The consultants who assess your opportunity are the engineers who can build it. Same team, same context, so nothing is lost between advice and execution.
Selected work Real outcomes.
Featured Work
Selected AI consulting and audit engagements across financial services, healthcare, logistics, and enterprise operations.
Structured stakeholder interviews, workflow mapping, data inventory, and systems review. You walk away with a documented picture of your current AI landscape, your key constraints, and the specific questions the assessment will answer.
We run the agreed assessment, strategy mapping, model audit, data review, or PoC build, on your actual data and systems. Every finding is evidence-based and every recommendation is scoped to your environment.
A structured report with findings ranked by impact and effort, a prioritised action sequence, and technical specifications for each recommendation. Presented to your team with the context to act on it immediately.
Ranked findingsTechnical specsAction plan
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Implementation support
If the engagement identifies a clear build opportunity, the same team carries it forward, scoping the build, running the PoC, or embedding as your engineering partner. Assessment to execution in one continuous engagement.
Build continuitySame teamEngineering support
Engagement models, built to fit.
Pick the model that fits what you need
Senior AI consultants engaged from week one. Choose the shape that matches your question, your timeline, and how far you want to take it.
Defined deliverable
Fixed-Scope Assessment
A structured assessment with a defined scope, methodology, and deliverable. Fixed price, a clear timeline, and a findings report your team can act on at handover.
A senior AI consultant embedded in your leadership and engineering conversations, running assessments, validating decisions, and bridging strategy to execution as your AI programme evolves.
It depends on where you are. A strategy engagement maps your AI opportunities, ranks them by impact and feasibility, and gives you a prioritised roadmap with honest effort estimates. A readiness assessment looks at your data, infrastructure, and team capabilities. An audit reviews AI systems already in production. A PoC validates a specific use case on your actual data before a full build is scoped. We scope each engagement to the question that matters most to you right now.
Most strategy consultancies deliver frameworks and slides. We deliver findings grounded in your actual data, systems, and team capabilities, written by engineers who have shipped production AI themselves. When the assessment is done, the same team can carry it forward into building, in one continuous engagement.
We assess your data infrastructure for quality, coverage, and pipeline health, the foundations that determine model performance before a model is chosen. We also review your tooling, team capability, and governance posture. The output is a structured readiness score, a gap analysis, and a remediation plan with a clear sequence for addressing what matters most.
A focused strategy or readiness assessment typically runs 2 to 3 weeks. A full use-case prioritisation engagement runs 2 to 4 weeks. A model or data audit runs 1 to 3 weeks, depending on the complexity of the systems involved. A PoC validation runs 2 to 4 weeks on real data. Timelines are confirmed in scope before any engagement begins.
You do, fully. Every deliverable, findings, reports, roadmaps, PoC code, and architecture recommendations, is yours at handover. We build on open, portable foundations and transfer everything cleanly.
We sign an NDA before any data or system access. Assessments can be structured to work with anonymised samples, synthetic data, or isolated environments depending on your data sensitivity requirements. We architect the assessment around your compliance posture from the first planning session.
The assessment report is structured to be acted on without additional context. If the findings surface a clear build opportunity, the same consulting team can carry it forward, scoping the build, running a PoC, or embedding as your engineering partner. Many clients move from assessment to build with us in a single continuous engagement.
Yes. Independent audits of third-party or in-house AI systems are a core part of our practice. We review model accuracy on current production data, data pipeline integrity, integration health, and governance posture, regardless of who built the original system.
Cost transparency, before the call.
What does an AI consulting engagement actually cost?
We put numbers on the page. Here is the honest band by engagement type, plus the five variables that move the number once we scope your specific situation.
Tier comparison
Single question or auditFocused Assessment$8K - $25K₹6.5L - ₹20L
Most chosen
Most chosenFull Consulting Engagement$25K - $80K₹20L - ₹65L
Series A and beyondAI Programme Advisory$80K - $200K₹65L - ₹1.6Cr
A single-system audit is materially simpler than a full organisational readiness assessment spanning multiple data estates and teams.
02
Data access complexity
Clean, accessible data with clear schemas is faster to assess than fragmented, multi-source estates that need significant discovery.
03
Number of systems in scope
Each AI system or data pipeline in scope adds assessment time, especially where integrations, APIs, or legacy connectors are involved.
04
Compliance requirements
Engagements covering HIPAA, RBI, PCI DSS, or GDPR require additional governance review and documentation that adds scope.
05
Depth of PoC
A lightweight feasibility test on a single document type is far simpler than a multi-category PoC with accuracy benchmarks across five variants and edge-case coverage.
Bands include consulting time, structured deliverables, and all findings documentation. Any PoC build costs are included in the scoped engagement price.
Let's scope your assessment
Tell us the question you are trying to answer: strategy, readiness, audit, or PoC validation. A senior AI consultant replies within one working day. Direct conversation, real answers, a real plan.
Step 1 - Tell us where you are
Which AI question is most pressing right now, and what a useful answer looks like for your team. We sign an NDA before any specifics.
Step 2 - Speak to an AI consultant
A senior AI consultant joins within two working days to map your situation, your constraints, and the right assessment scope for your stage.
Step 3 - Get a real plan
A structured assessment scope, a timeline, and a findings format you can actually use, built for your specific situation.
Let's scope your assessment
Tell us the question you are trying to answer: strategy, readiness, audit, or PoC validation. A senior AI consultant replies within one working day. Direct conversation, real answers, a real plan.