AI Consulting & Strategy Services

Consulting produces a prioritised roadmap, architecture blueprint, and business case — no code is shipped. It's the decision-making layer that typically precedes a build engagement, whether with Halkwinds or another vendor.

Focused opportunity assessments start at $35,000. Full roadmap and architecture engagements covering multiple business units range from $80,000 to $220,000 depending on scope.

Focused assessments typically complete in 4–6 weeks. Multi-business-unit roadmaps with architecture blueprints range from 8–12 weeks.

We do both, but they are separate, optional engagements. Roughly 78% of our advisory clients move into a funded build with us; the roadmap and architecture remain fully usable with any vendor you choose.

Yes. The build-vs-buy analysis is scoped against your existing cloud provider, procurement constraints, and any current vendor contracts rather than assuming a clean slate.

Our recommendations are evaluated against your cost, latency, data residency, and compliance requirements, not vendor partnership incentives. Where a SaaS tool outperforms a custom build, we say so.

Common. We assess existing initiatives alongside new candidates so the roadmap sequences investment across what's already running and what's proposed, rather than starting from zero.

All engagements are covered by mutual NDA. The roadmap, architecture documents, and business case are fully client-owned deliverables upon completion.

When you have more than one plausible AI use case and limited budget to test all of them, or when the build decision (buy vs. build, fine-tune vs. RAG, single vendor vs. multi-model) isn't obvious yet. If you already know exactly what to build, skip straight to the relevant development engagement.

Discovery typically works from de-identified samples and architecture diagrams rather than full production data access — we scope the minimum data access actually needed for an accurate assessment, under mutual NDA.

Both. Startup engagements are typically a compressed 2-3 week readiness assessment; enterprise engagements run the full discovery-to-roadmap process across multiple business units.