Choosing, costing and comparing AI partners and platforms — buyer guides, vendor selection, Claude vs ChatGPT vs Copilot, proposals and ROI for UK & Ireland mid-market leaders.
43 articles
Claude Enterprise and an annual Claude Team seat both cost $20 per seat per month. They are not the same product: one includes usage, the other bills every token on top. Here is how to pick.
Google lists Gemini Enterprise from $21 per seat. What the headline leaves out is that the cheapest tier does not include enterprise-grade security and compliance. An honest head-to-head for UK buyers.
More than 40,000 firms have applied to join the Claude Partner Network since March 2026. Almost none sit at the same tier. What Select, Preferred and Global Premier actually require, and how to verify a claim.
Only 11% of larger Irish organisations report a positive return on the AI they have already bought. How to choose an AI consultancy in Ireland: six shortlist criteria, who actually regulates you, and what state funding really covers.
Small consulting firms took just 3% of the UK's £21.8bn market in 2025. We are one of them. Here is the honest comparison of cost, team, speed and accountability, including the four situations where a Big 4 firm is the better buy.
UK AI adoption has almost tripled since 2023, but only 10% of adopters use AI extensively. That gap is usually the contract shape, not the technology. How PoC, project and retainer really differ.
The median UK contract AI engineer bills £588 a day, and the same job title spans £415 to £858. Here are 2026 day rates by role and seniority, including our own published rate card.
Gartner expected 30% of generative AI projects to be abandoned after proof of concept by the end of 2025. If you can only buy one supplier first, buy the build, scoped narrow, and write the strategy from what it measures.
The UK has more than 2,500 venture-backed AI startups, and plenty of them list a London address. Here is what a London AI consultancy actually adds to the price, when the postcode matters, and how to shortlist.
54% of UK firms now use AI, but only about one in ten SMEs has moved past generic tools. Here is what changes when you buy AI consulting below enterprise scale: budgets, data, and where to start.
UK AI consulting comes down to seven things you can actually buy. Discovery £10,000 to £20,000, a two-month proof of concept £20,000, implementation £10,000 to £20,000 a month. Plus the three lines that are usually padding.
In 2025 the average organisation scrapped 46% of its AI proofs of concept before they reached production. A lot of that is buying the wrong kind of supplier. Here is how the two actually differ.
Gartner predicted at least 30% of generative AI projects would be abandoned after proof of concept by the end of 2025. Here is what a UK AI consultancy should actually hand you, per engagement type, with price bands and the artefacts you keep.
MIT found 95% of generative AI pilots produce no measurable return. Almost none of that is model quality. Here are the ten questions to put to an AI assistant development team before you sign, and the answers a team that ships actually gives.
76% of enterprise AI use cases are now bought rather than built, up from 53% a year earlier. Yet 78% of builders expect to build more in 2026. Both are true. Here is how to sort your own list into four buckets.
Only 31% of UK organisations have a policy covering AI use and shadow AI (IBM, 2025). A practical 30-day plan to find out what your people are actually using, and route it somewhere safe.
Veracode tested 100+ models on 80 coding tasks: 45% of the code contained an OWASP Top 10 vulnerability. Here is how to audit an AI-built app before it meets real customers and real data.
The EU AI Act reaches UK companies that sell into the EU, and 2 August 2026 is still a live date. Here is what applies now, what moved to 2027 and 2028, and the six things to do in the next 90 days.
Gartner expected 30% of generative AI projects to be abandoned after the demo by the end of 2025, often on cost. The bill you miss is not the licence, it is the run. A UK mid-market guide to AI total cost of ownership.
Nearly half of workers never use AI at work, and only 7% of companies have scaled it. The gap is not the model, it is adoption. A practical playbook for UK and Ireland mid-market teams.
78% of employees use AI tools their employer hasn't approved. Shadow AI is already in your building. Here's what an AI governance policy should contain, who signs it off, and how the EU AI Act reaches UK firms.
Gartner expected up to 30% of generative AI projects to be abandoned after the proof of concept. Most stall because the PoC proved the wrong thing. Here is a fixed six-week plan to run one that reaches production.
Worldwide AI spending will near $1.5 trillion in 2025, and 72% of leaders now track returns. A practical UK framework for measuring the ROI of an AI implementation, from baseline to payback.
MIT found 95% of enterprise AI pilots produced zero measurable impact. A Claude AI operating system is the layer that moves AI from a stalled pilot into daily operations.