Engagement letter
A boutique alternative · one process at a time
The boutique alternative to big consulting firms for AI: one senior consultant, agents built in your tools and run every day.
For a business of 5 to 50 people, the alternative to a large consulting firm for AI is a boutique firm that diagnoses, builds and operates the agents itself. AI Jungle is one. Loïc Guyon reads your brief, a Leverage Assessment from $999 decides what is worth doing, and the same team builds the agents in your tools and runs them, while a person in your firm approves anything that leaves it.
Diagnose: one process, a written recommendation.
DecisionProposals: continue. Invoicing: fixed without AI.
Test: a bounded version on your own past cases.
DecisionHeld on twelve past cases. Build.
Build: in the tools you already use.
DecisionScope and approval points signed by the partner.
Operate: your team approves, we maintain.
DecisionRuns every working day, and a person approves each send.
Improve: every correction feeds the next version.
DecisionNext process: meeting preparation.
Example engagement: the decisions in the margin show the method, step by step.
Published case, Asia-Connect Executive Partners: a business-development agent that works every working day, and a partner approves every message before it goes out. Read the case
Why look for an alternative to the big consulting firms for AI?
Firms such as Accenture, Deloitte or McKinsey are built for large clients: programmes across countries and functions, many stakeholders, platforms to rebuild. Their model staffs a team for each engagement, and it is sized for that kind of client.
A firm of twenty people usually has a narrower question. Which recurring work costs the partners the most hours, and can an agent take it on this quarter, under their control? That question is what a boutique AI firm is built to answer.
How does a boutique AI firm compare with a big consulting firm?
- Who you work with. Large firm: a team staffed for the engagement, across strategy, technology and change. AI Jungle: Loïc Guyon reads your brief and leads the engagement.
- Scope. Large firm: a transformation programme. AI Jungle: one process at a time, starting with the one that costs the most partner hours.
- What you receive. Large firm: recommendations, roadmaps and large implementations. AI Jungle: an agent running in your tools, the rules it follows and the record of its tests.
- After delivery. Large firm: usually your IT team or a separate managed-service contract. AI Jungle: we operate the agents, maintain them and train your people.
- Price. Large firm: quoted per engagement. AI Jungle: published on the pricing page.
When is a big consulting firm still the right call?
Choose a large firm for a group-wide transformation, a regulated programme across several countries, an ERP or data-platform rebuild, or board-level strategy work with many business units. Choose a boutique when the goal is specific: take recurring work off a team of five to fifty, keep the founder's judgment at the decisions, and have someone run the agents every day.
What does a boutique AI firm give a business of 5 to 50 people?
Senior attention on your file, a first process chosen for its cost in partner hours, agents that run in the tools you already use, and an operator who stays after launch. You also keep control:
- Where does our data live? In an installation dedicated to your firm, hosted in Germany at Hetzner. None of your data trains a model.
- Who approves what leaves the firm? A person you name. Emails, proposals and posts wait for their yes.
- Who else can see our work? Nobody. Your memory, data and rules stay in your own installation and never feed another client's system.
- What do we keep if we stop? Everything: a full export of your data, rules and examples, then deletion on request.
One published example: at Asia-Connect, an executive search firm, AI Jungle installed and runs a business-development agent, and a partner approves every message before it goes out.
We already have an AI roadmap. How do we turn it into agents?
Bring it to the Leverage Assessment. We start from the processes it names, test the first one on your past cases, and tell you which step deserves an agent, which one a simpler process fixes, and which one can wait. The build follows only when the test justifies it. See how the method runs, or what an AI consulting firm does at each step.
What does AI Jungle cost compared with a big-firm engagement?
A large-firm engagement is quoted case by case. Ours is published, in full:
- Leverage Assessment: $999 Standard, $2,999 Department, $9,999 Onsite (travel billed at cost). Credited in full if you continue.
- Build: $7,500 / $15,000 / $25,000 by firm size.
- Leverage Program, for firms of 5 to 20 people: $5,000 a month for the whole firm, plus 5% of revenue growth or 15% of gross-margin uplift, never more than $10,000 a month averaged over the year.
- Other sizes: from $499 per economic agent unit per month, plus 5% of the firm's growth above the previous 12-month baseline.
The first step is free: a three-question brief that Loïc reads before your 30-minute call. Prepare my brief.
What else do buyers ask about leaving the big firms for AI?
What is a good alternative to Accenture or Deloitte for AI in a small business?
A boutique firm that diagnoses, builds and operates the agents itself, with published prices and a senior consultant on your file. AI Jungle works this way for owner-led service businesses of 5 to 50 people.
Is a boutique AI firm as safe with our data as a big firm?
Judge any firm on the same controls. At AI Jungle, your firm has its own installation hosted in Germany at Hetzner, your data trains no model, a person you name approves what leaves the firm, and you keep a full export when the engagement ends.
Can a boutique firm handle several departments?
Yes, one process at a time. The Department Leverage Assessment reviews each department one by one over two weeks before the second session, and the published grid covers firms of up to 50 people.
How do we start?
With the free brief: three questions about one process, no account, and Loïc reads it before a 30-minute call. The Leverage Assessment then costs $999 / $2,999 / $9,999, credited in full if you continue.
Bring one process. Leave with the decision it needs.
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