AI programs rarely stall on the model. They stall on everything around it.

IQ Consulting Group runs defined projects that move AI systems from promising to production, and sharpens how the products built on them are sold.

  • Fixed scope
  • Fixed price
  • A date it finishes

Four projects, each with a scope, a price, and an end date.

Every project ends in written artefacts your team keeps and can act on without further help. Scope is agreed before work begins and does not drift.

AI Readiness Assessment

Three weeks

For organisations with AI ambitions, competing internal opinions, and no agreed plan.

Deliverables
  • Current-state architecture and data review
  • Use cases ranked by value against feasibility
  • Build, buy, or wait recommendation per case
  • Costed twelve-month roadmap with staffing

Pilot to Production

Eight to twelve weeks

For a demo that works in the hands of its author and nowhere else.

Deliverables
  • Production architecture and deployment pipeline
  • Evaluation harness with pass thresholds
  • Security, tenancy, and access model
  • Operations runbook and team handover

Retrieval Rebuild

Six weeks

For a retrieval system that answers confidently and incorrectly.

Deliverables
  • Corpus, chunking, and embedding audit
  • Benchmark across candidate vector stores
  • Tuned hybrid retrieval and reranking pipeline
  • Regression suite that fails loudly on drift

Go-to-Market Repositioning

Six weeks

For technical products that demo beautifully and close slowly.

Deliverables
  • Buyer, champion, and competitive map
  • Positioning and message architecture
  • Packaging and pricing model
  • Sales narrative with objection handling

Every project runs the same way.

Four stages, in order, each ending in something written down.

One

Scope

An hour on a call, then a written read on whether the project fits. No charge, and sometimes the answer is that it does not.

Two

Diagnostic

Time inside the actual problem — stack, constraints, incentives, people. It ends in an assessment that could go to a board.

Three

Build

The plan gets executed, not supervised. Named deliverables, weekly written progress, no change orders for work already agreed.

Four

Handover

Documentation, training, and a clean exit. A project has succeeded when nobody needs to call about it again.

Worth a conversation, or probably not.

A good fit

  • A pilot exists and the question is what production costs
  • Two credible architectures and no way to choose between them
  • A technical product that wins demos and loses deals
  • A board asking for an AI plan with numbers attached

A poor fit

  • Staff augmentation measured in bodies per month
  • A decision already made that needs outside endorsement
  • Training a foundation model from scratch
  • Work that cannot begin until a reorganisation finishes

Describe the project and get a straight answer on scope.

A paragraph is plenty: the problem, the deadline, and who is already involved. Replies usually come within a day, including the ones that say no.