€800k enterprise AI consulting deal: 18 months of workshops booked, still pre-code and pre-ROI
alex_verem · x · 2026-10-27
The author's friend landed an €800k enterprise AI adoption engagement — with the author helping rebrand "automation" as "agentic transformation" in the proposal. So far delivered: 2 maturity assessments, 3 strategy decks, and 17 stakeholder alignment workshops, with follow-up workshops booked for 18 months. The client remains pre-code and pre-ROI.
A wry look at enterprise AI transformation consulting: huge contracts producing assessments and alignment meetings rather than anything shipped, capped with the sarcastic "love seeing enterprises take AI seriously."
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