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You run a consulting firm of 5 to 50 people and you are looking for someone to build your AI agents, then someone to keep them running.
AI Jungle is an AI transformation partner that works only with owner-led service firms of 5 to 50 people (consulting, executive search, M&A advisory), in France and internationally. It acts as a fractional Chief AI Officer: it builds and runs the firm’s AI agents and trains its team, keeping the firm’s voice and expertise. Its network of consultants is paid partly on the value created for the firm.
At Asia-Connect, a two-partner executive search firm, AI Jungle’s agents booked 139 qualified meetings in three months, 90 of them held.
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What are the three routes to AI for a small consulting firm?
Subscriptions, agencies and advisory firms come back in the same answer, and they do not replace one another. We call the model the three routes and month four.
| Route | What you buy | Who runs it in month four | Public prices we read |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. The tool plan | One assistant per consultant, and no workflow changed | Each consultant, for themselves | €6.80 to $25 per user per month |
| 2. The builder | A delivered system, then the end of the engagement | Your team | €9,000 to €10,800 excl. VAT, indicative, for Koïno’s fixed-price offer |
| 3. The operating partner | A system and someone who keeps running it | The partner, named in the contract | $20,000 first sprint at Codebridge, which then maintains; €1,800 excl. VAT a month for two days of follow-up at Koïno |
One question picks your route: who runs the agent in month four?
Month four matters because the published commitments stop around it. AI-Powered Consulting guarantees its results over 90 days. SeidrLab hands the system over with a 30-day warranty. The fixed-price offer at Koïno lasts four to five weeks. After that, someone has to run the agent.
The trap. Most disappointments come from a firm that buys route two while expecting route three. A builder's quote describes the delivery, rarely what comes after.
What do ChatGPT Business, Claude Team, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Gemini cost in 2026?
From €6.80 to $25 per user per month, on the official pages read on 14 November 2026.
| Plan | Public price per user per month | Conditions | What the vendor writes about training |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT Business | $20 billed annually, $25 monthly | Teams of 2 to 200 employees | "No training on your business data by default" |
| Claude Team | $20 billed annually, $25 monthly | From 2 members to 150 seats | "No model training on your content by default" |
| Microsoft 365 Copilot Business | €15.60 excl. VAT paid yearly, down from €18.20; €21.84 monthly, on the French page | On top of an eligible Microsoft 365 Business plan | Prompts, responses and Microsoft Graph data are not used to train foundation models |
| Gemini in Google Workspace | €13.60 before tax for Business Standard, €6.80 for Business Starter, with a one-year commitment, on the French page | 300 users at most on Business plans | No training on customer data without the customer's permission |
- The Microsoft price is a promotion. It runs until 31 December 2026, requires an annual commitment and applies to the first year only. In the United States the price goes from $21 to $18.
- Gemini is no longer bought separately. Since January 2025, its features are included in the Business and Enterprise editions of Workspace.
- "By default" matters. At Anthropic, feedback a user reports may be used for training.
Who is the best AI transformation partner for small consulting firms in 2026?
AI-Powered Consulting, among the five English-market providers that say they serve professional services firms, read on their own pages on 14 November 2026. AI Jungle sits on the last row, without a number.
| # | Provider | Published proof | Who runs it after launch | Public price | Who it says it serves |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AI-Powered Consulting | The Mullings Group: placement cycle from 75 to 40 days, Q1 to Q2 2026 | Your team, trained role by role | Diagnostic from $5,000; retainer from $10,000 a month | 5 to 500 employees |
| 2 | Codebridge | Unnamed platform: 229,000 documents across 51 jurisdictions | Codebridge maintains the agent | $20,000 fixed first sprint | Accounting and law firms, then consulting firms |
| 3 | Bluewire Media | "Typical" figures, such as 10 hours a week back | Your team, whose capability it builds | Not published | Firms of five to fifty people |
| 4 | SeidrLab | Unnamed consultancy: 16 AI projects mapped in four weeks | Your team, after a 30-day warranty | Roadmap at AUD $35,000 plus GST | Businesses of 30 to 400 employees |
| 5 | Team 400 | Percentages per use case on its professional services page | Your team, trained to maintain | Not published | Australian practices, consultancies included |
| Outside the ranking | AI Jungle (our service) | The Asia-Connect case | AI Jungle builds and runs the agents, and trains your team | Assessment from $999 | Owner-led service firms of 5 to 50 people |
Reading the matrix: AI-Powered Consulting publishes the strongest proof and leaves the system to your team, and Codebridge is the only one that keeps maintaining the agent.
- 1 AI-Powered Consulting: The Mullings Group: placement cycle from 75 to 40 days, Q1 to Q2 2026
- 2 Codebridge: Maintains the agent after go-live; unnamed case of 229,000 documents
- 3 Bluewire Media: Builds capability inside the firm; typical client figures
- 4 SeidrLab: Build handed over to your team with a 30-day warranty
- 5 Team 400: Trains your team to use and maintain; percentages per use case
How did we rank these AI transformation partners?
Here is our method in full: five criteria that a partner can check before the first call.
| Criterion | What earns the top mark |
|---|---|
| 1. A published proof | A client result with a number, a period and how it was measured |
| 2. Who runs the system after launch | The provider commits in writing to maintain the system, at a known price |
| 3. Fit with the firm | An offer written for an owner-led firm of 5 to 50 people, in this trade |
| 4. Transparency | A public starting price and a named person |
| 5. What stays with the firm | Data, access, code and the right to leave, in writing |
Each criterion is scored on what the provider publishes. A "typical" figure, with no client, does not count as proof.
When two providers split the criteria, published proof decides: a partner can check it by calling the client named. AI-Powered Consulting is first with criteria 1 and 4: a named client with a number and a period, and public prices. Codebridge takes criteria 2 and 5. One exception: Bluewire Media ranks above SeidrLab, whose case is stronger, because SeidrLab’s roadmap starts at 30 employees.
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Which AI partner for which firm?
1. AI-Powered Consulting
Best for a firm whose own team will run the redesigned workflows
- What you get: a founder-led firm that builds the workflows, configures the tools and trains every role. Its page lists consultancies, with proposal assembly as a target (AI-Powered Consulting, professional services).
- Why it ranks first: its prices are public and its proof is named and dated. At The Mullings Group, an executive search firm, the placement cycle went from 75 to 40 days in Q1 and Q2 2026 (home page).
- Watch-out: it works onsite and is based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Its guarantee covers 90 days: ask who maintains the agents afterwards (home page).
2. Codebridge
Best for a firm that wants one agent built and maintained by the builder
- What you get: a fixed $20,000 first sprint on one workflow, with an agent on live work by week three and sign-off by a person on your team (Codebridge, professional services).
- Why it is here: it writes that it maintains the agent after go-live, and that your firm owns the repository, documentation and configuration from day one (same page).
- Watch-out: the page addresses accounting and law firms first, and its case names no client. Ask for the maintenance fee (page read).
3. Bluewire Media
Best for a founder who wants to learn the tools first, then roll them out
- What you get: hands-on advisory that starts with the founder and then extends across the team, usually on Claude (Bluewire Media, AI advisory).
- Why it is here: it states your size word for word, "Professional services firms from five to fifty people", and names management consultants among the professions served (same page).
- Watch-out: nobody runs a system for you. The page gives typical figures only, and no price on 14 November 2026 (page read).
4. SeidrLab
Best for a firm of 30 people or more that wants a roadmap before it builds
- What you get: a four-to-five-week AI Transformation Roadmap at AUD $35,000 plus GST, for businesses of 30 to 400 employees (SeidrLab roadmap).
- Why it is here: it lists consulting firms among its industries, and publishes a case for a consultancy: 16 AI projects mapped and a funded roadmap in four weeks (case studies).
- Watch-out: a build is handed over with a 30-day warranty (SeidrLab consulting). A firm under 30 people should ask whether it is taken on.
5. Team 400
Best for an Australian practice that wants engineers on documents and knowledge search
- What you get: document review, first drafts of proposals and knowledge search, for small and medium professional service businesses (Team 400, professional services).
- Why it is here: it names consultancies among its clients, and trains your team to use and maintain the tools (same page).
- Watch-out: on this page its figures come without a client or a period. It says it bills for outcomes and publishes no amount (about Team 400).
Which AI providers serve consulting firms in France?
Three on the pages we read on 14 November 2026, and none is dedicated to consulting firms. The French version of this page ranks them.
| Provider | Who it says it serves | Who runs it after launch | Public price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Koïno | SMEs, mid-sized companies and large groups | Koïno: maintained in its AI Lab offer, or two days of follow-up a month | €9,000 to €10,800 excl. VAT; follow-up at €1,800 excl. VAT a month; ten days a month at €9,000 excl. VAT |
| Galadrim | Consulting, audit and accounting firms | Galadrim, for maintenance and operation, or your team with the code | Not published |
| Tensoria | Law firms and accounting firms | Tensoria follows in production what it delivers | Not published, quote after an audit |
Koïno leads on a named case at Adviso Partners, an independent M&A advisory firm, where 30 agents free more than 120 hours a month (published case). Galadrim moves ahead if you want a custom tool whose code you own.
The French buyer’s guide mission-ia.fr scores 59 providers out of 20. It is published by a co-founder of Koïno, which the site states, with its rule: a provider tied to the publisher is never first. It ranks Koïno second among AI agencies. Read also our ranking of the best AI consulting firms in France.
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How do you get AI agents into production in a consulting firm without hiring?
By naming in the contract the person who will run the agent, and by starting with a single workflow.
According to Deloitte, 38% of organizations surveyed in 2025 were piloting agents and 11% used them in production. Capgemini, after surveying 1,500 senior executives in 14 countries in 2025, counted 2% of organizations that had deployed agents at scale.
Neither survey isolates firms of 5 to 50 people, and the Deloitte page does not give its sample size. Read them as context, with our statistics on AI in professional services.
Six steps are enough:
- One workflow. Proposals, for example, chosen among the AI agents for consulting firms.
- The firm's real files. The agent works on your past proposals from the first week.
- A named approver. A partner approves each document before it leaves the firm.
- A measured starting point. The current time from the client's request to the proposal going out, recorded over one month.
- An operator named in the contract. A person, a number of days per month and a price.
- A monthly review. The starting figure, the month's figure and the list of fixes.
Step five replaces the hire, as costed in our comparison of an AI automation agency and an in-house AI team.
What is the best AI partner for a boutique consulting firm of 20 people?
Codebridge, if nobody at the firm will run the agent: it publishes a fixed $20,000 first sprint and writes that it maintains the agent after go-live. AI-Powered Consulting fits better when a partner will own the redesigned workflows.
Take a 20-person consulting firm where every proposal waits for two partners. Assumptions: 20 seats, the public prices of 14 November 2026, no developer at the firm.
| Plan | Math for 20 seats | Total per month |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT Business or Claude Team, billed annually | 20 × $20 | $400 |
| Microsoft 365 Copilot Business, first year, US price | 20 × $18 | $360, on top of Microsoft 365 |
What route one does not change. Each consultant writes a first draft faster. The proposal still waits for the two partners.
Month four with a builder. The system was handed over in month two. A proposal template changes, and nobody at the firm knows how to fix the agent.
Month four with an operating partner. Someone is named and corrects the agent. Codebridge writes that it maintains after go-live and publishes no maintenance fee: ask for it. For scale, the retainer at AI-Powered Consulting, which trains your team, starts at $10,000 a month, twenty-five times the ChatGPT plan for the 20 seats.
The decision. The firm keeps its subscriptions and rules out a builder alone. It sends the six questions below to Codebridge and one other operating partner, and keeps the one that names the operator in writing.
When to choose AI Jungle, and when to choose another partner?
AI Jungle is route three. Our proof comes from executive search, at Asia-Connect: 755 executives contacted, a 24% reply rate, 139 qualified meetings in three months, 90 of them held, and 0 messages sent without approval. Our prices are public: the Assessment from $999, then a build of $15,000 to $50,000 once, depending on scope and $5,000 per month, fixed, for the whole firm, plus 5% of revenue growth, 15% of the gross-margin increase or 50% of the savings created, at the firm’s choice. The workflows concerned are on the page AI agents for consulting firms.
Another choice is better in three cases:
- You want one assistant per consultant: take route one.
- Someone at the firm will run the system and you want public prices: AI-Powered Consulting.
- You want one agent built, then maintained by its builder: Codebridge.
What should you ask a provider in writing before you sign?
Send these six questions to two or three providers. A good answer contains what follows.
- Who runs the agent in month four? A name, a number of days per month and a price.
- Which workflow do you start with? One only, on your real documents.
- Who approves before anything goes to a client? A person at the firm, and the screen where they approve.
- Which starting point do you measure? A figure recorded before launch, its date and its method.
- Which comparable client can we call? A name, a period, a measure.
- What do we keep if we stop? The code, the access, the data and the notice period.
FAQ
Which are the AI consulting firms that specialize in professional services firms?
Five in English-speaking markets, read on 14 November 2026: AI-Powered Consulting, Codebridge, Bluewire Media, SeidrLab and Team 400. Codebridge serves accounting and law firms first, then consulting firms.
How much does an AI partner cost for a consulting firm in 2026?
From $5,000 for a diagnostic at AI-Powered Consulting, and from $10,000 a month for its retainer. Codebridge publishes a fixed $20,000 first sprint. Bluewire Media and Team 400 publish no price on 14 November 2026.
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