You know the one…
📊 8–12 weeks 🧑🤝🧑 25–40 people 🧾 a small rainforest of decks …and everyone’s exhausted, but somehow nothing’s implementable.
At Synaptyx AI , we routinely do strategy in ~3 weeks with 2–3 specialised, senior people. Not because we’re trying to be edgy. Because we’re AI-first in how we operate, not just in what we say. Now the part that made me smile (and slightly roll my eyes)…
I read a report this week on the future of professional services in the AI era, and it basically described our working model back to us. Thank you for affirming everything we’ve been saying and doing for the past year !
It says “the firms that move beyond advice to building and orchestrating will shape the future of the AI economy.”
Yes. Exactly. When doers advise, it’s usually spot on… because we’ve had to make it work in production, not just in PowerPoint.
It also calls out what “orchestrating” really means: “implementation, integration, scaling, and governance of AI agents across fragmented infrastructure.”
That’s the real grind. Not “vision”. And for anyone still emotionally attached to the pyramid…
The report is blunt: “The traditional consulting pyramid (many juniors per partner) is under pressure.” And: “the model is inverting toward senior-heavy, specialized teams.”
So those moments when someone wonders how we do this without an army… Well. That’s the whole entire point. Finally, the bit I care about most…
It predicts an “evolution from project-based billing to more software-like models.” And says: “we expect increasing experimentation with outcome-based pricing models as AI performance improves.”
Good.
Because paying for effort made questionable sense before AI. And we started shouting this out from the rooftops in January this year !
At Synaptyx AI , we’re not AI-first in a marketing sense. We’re AI-first in a how we operate sense. We use AI to deliver faster, govern better, and stay accountable to outcomes… not billable hours.
So yes, this report felt like a neat external stamp of approval.
And honestly… it makes those “wait, how are you doing this with 12 people?” moments less cringeworthy.
Because the answer is simple:
We’re not pretending it’s 2015.