Generative AI ROI Consulting

Pick one bounded workflow, record the current unit cost and error rate, ship a system that takes production traffic, and compare both the process metric and the eval suite. ReinforcedX does that in four weeks when the work is well bounded. Golden sets, rubric judges, and CI gates are part of the measurement so “faster” cannot hide “wrong.” Book /demo with the workflow and the baseline, or we will not invent the number.

They never leave the sandbox, they have no process owner, and they have no golden set. A demo that impresses a steering committee is not ROI. Production requires permissions, traces, fallback, and a quality bar agreed at kickoff. Our four-week path includes shadow-mode in week three specifically so the metric is observed on real traffic before anyone claims savings.

It is the work of locking a metric, building the system that can hit it, and leaving you with evals and runbooks so the number remains auditable. Pricing is a platform subscription plus a fixed-scope fee quoted before week one. You pay the model provider; there is no token markup. You own weights, datasets, eval suites, and runbooks. See /faq for the same commercial terms.

On workflows. Seat licenses without a unit of work produce a bill, not a return. If a vendor copilot already closes the workflow under a quality bar, buy it. If it cannot act, retrieve with permissions, or pass a golden set, measure ROI on a custom system in your cloud instead. Build-versus-buy is a strategy question; the ROI ledger still needs production traces.

They sit on your invoice to the provider. We do not mark up tokens, so the cost model is the provider’s price plus the quoted implementation fee and subscription. Routing easy cases to a smaller model is allowed when the eval suite stays green. Cost cuts that fail CI are not savings. /how-to covers self-serve cost patterns if your team wants to run that work internally.

After shadow-mode on real traffic — week three of a standard four-week implementation — you know whether the golden set and the process metric move together. Claiming ROI at the kickoff workshop is fiction. Financial-services governed pilots typically need 8–12 weeks, healthcare 10–14, ecommerce 6–10, because reviews delay production traffic, which is the thing ROI requires.

The process owner named in week one, with the engineer who inherited the stack. You keep the datasets, eval suites, and runbooks. Thirty days of on-call cover the window where the number is still fragile. The weekly 45-minute review is how drift, incidents, and quality are tied back to the same ledger. Evaluation systems for that cadence are described under /ai-systems.

No. We will not invent a multiple. We will bound a workflow, quote the fee before week one, put the system in your cloud, and show the baseline versus production traces and evals. If week one cannot name a metric, we decline the work. That is the honest version of ROI consulting, and it is the version written on /faq.