A half-day for executive teams evaluating AI vendors for a specific use case. We come in independent — we do not resell any of the vendors and we are not paid by them. We walk through what each contender actually does, what each costs at your scale, where each one breaks, and when you should build instead of buy. You leave with a defensible vendor recommendation.
Most vendor evaluations fail because they evaluate vendors in the abstract instead of against a defined workflow. We agree the workflow first.
Walk through every vendor that could plausibly serve the workflow. What each does, where each one's marketing sits ahead of the product. We name them.
Vendor pricing pages are deliberately ambiguous. We model the actual cost at your call volume / document count / user count, including hidden costs.
The failure modes the demo will not show. Privilege handling on legal AI. Hallucination patterns on RAG. Compliance gaps on US voice deployments.
About half the workshops we run end with a "buy" recommendation. When the right answer is "buy a vendor and ship in 4 weeks," we say so.
One-page written summary you can take to procurement, the board, or external counsel. The use case, the shortlist, the recommendation, the reasoning.
Vapi, Retell, ElevenLabs, Deepgram, Twilio Voice, Cognigy, Bland
Harvey, Ironclad, Spellbook, Casetext, Lexis+ AI, Thomson Reuters
Outreach AI, Salesloft Cadence, Apollo, Gong, Chorus, Clari
HireVue, Eightfold, Paradox, BrightHire, Modern Hire
Intercom Fin, Zendesk AI, Forethought, Decagon, Sierra
Glean, Notion AI, Microsoft Copilot for M365, Mendable
Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cognition, Codeium
We refresh the vendor lists every quarter as the market moves. If your workflow involves a vendor we have not used in production, we will say so and tell you what we know vs what we are guessing at.
Procurement-led evaluations. You have a budget and a shortlist; you want a written, defensible recommendation before signing.
Executive teams briefed by their team. An internal review has been done; you want a second opinion before committing.
Boards or audit committees. AI vendor selection has become a governance question; you want an independent voice.
Pre-build evaluations. Considering whether to buy a vendor or commission a custom build, and you want the line drawn properly.
Discovery call first. We confirm the use case, agree the format (on-site or remote), and send a one-page brief one week before.
