Exec × AI
EMEA Edition

Essay · cost comparison

By The editorial desk

London·

How a Big Four firm prices AI strategy, line by line

A 4,000-word breakdown of the cost stack inside a typical Big Four AI strategy proposal, with the figures.

You will see the line items, the day rates, the offshore mix and the partner-time loading. Where Exec × AI is materially cheaper, we explain why. Where we are not, we say so.

The savings sit in three places: senior-only delivery, fixed-price scope, and the absence of a sales-and-pursuit overhead. We publish the figures.

If your procurement team prefers a Big Four, we will tell you when that is the right call. It often is, on programmes above 50 million pounds.

The right answer is the one that pays back. Sometimes that is them. Often it is us.