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Enterprise AI Strategy
& Architecture Consulting

Strategic AI consulting for enterprises ready to move beyond pilots and build production-grade AI systems that deliver measurable business outcomes.

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Engagements

Fixed scope. Published prices.

I quote engagements, not hours. You know what it costs before we talk, and the scope is written down before we start. Most clients begin with the audit and decide from there.

Most common starting point

LLM Eval Readiness Audit

Find out what will break before your users do.

$8,000 – $12,000
2 weeks · fixed price

Who it’s for: Teams with a GenAI feature in or near production that behaves unpredictably, and no systematic way to tell whether a change made it better or worse.

  • Reliability gap analysis across your current pipeline
  • Golden-dataset design sized to your actual traffic
  • Prioritized guardrail backlog — schema validation, grounding, self-consistency
  • Cost and latency baseline with the obvious savings identified
  • Written eval readiness report plus a 90-minute walkthrough
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Evaluation Framework Sprint

Ship the eval layer, wired into CI.

$35,000 – $60,000
6–8 weeks · fixed scope

Who it’s for: Teams that know they need evaluation infrastructure and want it built and handed over rather than researched.

  • LLM-as-a-judge framework with versioned, context-matched rubrics
  • Golden datasets built from your real data with human labelling workflow
  • Shadow-eval regression gates running in your CI pipeline
  • LLM observability — distributed tracing, token and cost telemetry
  • Statistical reporting: agreement scores, confidence intervals, significance tests
  • Team handover, documentation and runbooks
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AI Reliability Retainer

Keep it reliable as models and prompts change.

$8,000 – $15,000
per month · 3-month minimum

Who it’s for: Teams running GenAI in production who need evaluation maintained rather than rebuilt every quarter.

  • Ongoing eval maintenance and regression triage
  • Model-migration testing when providers ship new versions
  • Continuous inference cost optimization
  • Architecture and code review on AI surfaces
  • Governance review — documentation and audit evidence
  • Priority async access and a weekly working session
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Team Training

Build the capability in-house.

$3,000 – $6,000
per day · remote or on-site

Who it’s for: Engineering teams that want to own evaluation internally instead of depending on a consultant indefinitely.

  • GenAI architecture and evaluation design
  • RAG systems — retrieval quality and evaluation
  • LLM orchestration and agentic workflows
  • Reliability engineering: guardrails, judges, regression gates
  • Hands-on labs using your own systems and data
  • Rated 4.8+ by past enterprise participants
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How it works

  • 1 · Discovery call, 45 minutes, free. We work out whether evaluation is actually your bottleneck. Sometimes it is not, and I will say so.
  • 2 · Written proposal. Fixed scope, fixed price, defined deliverables and dates. No hourly billing.
  • 3 · Delivery. Weekly written updates. You keep everything — code, datasets, documentation.

What I don’t do

  • Staff augmentation or general full-stack contracting
  • Foundation-model training or ML research
  • Prompt tweaking without an evaluation harness behind it — it does not hold up
  • Engagements where nobody on your side owns the outcome. Evaluation needs a counterpart who can make decisions about quality.

Prices are in USD and exclude applicable taxes. Engagements are contracted through Pernicia Consultancy Pvt Ltd. Ranges reflect system complexity and eval-set size — the written proposal always names a single fixed number.

Services

Consulting Services

AI Strategy Consulting

Develop comprehensive AI strategies aligned with business objectives. Includes opportunity identification, prioritization frameworks, and build vs. buy analysis.

Enterprise AI Architecture

Design scalable AI system architectures for enterprise environments — covering data pipelines, model serving, integration patterns, and security considerations.

GenAI Product Development

End-to-end guidance on building AI-first products — from concept validation to production deployment, with evaluation loops and user feedback mechanisms.

RAG Architecture Design

Design and implement enterprise knowledge retrieval systems using RAG patterns. Covers chunking strategies, embedding selection, hybrid search, and re-ranking.

AI Agent Systems

Architect multi-agent systems for complex enterprise workflows — autonomous agents, tool integration, human-in-the-loop patterns, and agent evaluation.

AI Team Enablement

Build internal AI engineering capabilities across your teams. Includes capability assessment, hiring guidance, process design, and upskilling programs.

AI Workflow Automation

Identify and automate high-value business workflows using AI. Document processing, support automation, data extraction, and intelligent routing systems.

AI Transformation Roadmaps

Create detailed 6–18 month AI transformation roadmaps with prioritized initiatives, resource requirements, risk mitigation, and milestone-based execution plans.

How We Work

Engagement Process

A structured, outcome-focused consulting process designed to minimize risk and maximize the speed of AI value delivery.

01
60 min

Discovery Call

60-minute free consultation to understand your business context, AI maturity, current challenges, and transformation goals.

02
1–2 weeks

AI Readiness Assessment

Deep-dive assessment of your data infrastructure, team capabilities, existing systems, and business processes to identify AI opportunities.

03
2–3 weeks

Strategy & Architecture Blueprint

Detailed AI strategy document and system architecture blueprint covering prioritized initiatives, technical design, and implementation roadmap.

04
Ongoing

Implementation Support

Hands-on technical guidance during implementation — architecture reviews, code reviews, team mentoring, and problem-solving.

05
2–4 weeks

Enablement & Handover

Structured knowledge transfer to your team, documentation of AI systems, and establishment of internal AI governance processes.

Advisory Retainer

Ongoing strategic AI advisory on a monthly retainer. Includes weekly check-ins, async Q&A, architecture reviews, and priority access.

Best for: Organizations in active AI transformation

Project Engagement

Fixed-scope project engagement for specific AI initiatives — RAG system design, agent architecture, AI strategy, or team enablement.

Best for: Specific AI system builds or assessments

Fractional AI CTO

Part-time strategic AI leadership for startups or enterprises without an AI-focused technical leader. Includes team leadership and stakeholder management.

Best for: Startups scaling AI capabilities

Framework

Enterprise AI Transformation Framework

A proven five-pillar framework for enterprise AI transformation, developed through engagements across startups, MNCs, and government organizations.

01

AI Readiness

  • Data infrastructure audit
  • Team capability assessment
  • Technology stack review
  • Compliance mapping
02

Strategy Design

  • AI use case prioritization
  • ROI modeling
  • Build vs buy analysis
  • Risk assessment
03

Architecture

  • System design
  • Data pipelines
  • Model selection
  • Integration patterns
04

Implementation

  • PoC development
  • Production engineering
  • Testing & evaluation
  • Safety & governance
05

Scale & Operate

  • LLMOps setup
  • Monitoring
  • Team enablement
  • Responsible AI & AI Governance
  • Continuous improvement