08 / 08 · OTHERS
Not everything fits a category.
Some problems need a starting point before they need a category.
A route for AI work that does not fit neatly inside the other seven - custom builds, automation, agents, integrations, data preparation and one-off problems - scoped on its merits and referred elsewhere when someone else is the better answer.
Special projects: AI work that crosses several divisions, or fits none of them - scoped from the problem, not from a price list.
THE PROBLEM
A problem reshaped to fit a price list.
Seven divisions cover the questions organizations ask most often about AI. They do not cover every question. A finance team wants a single reconciliation workflow automated. A hospital wants to know whether a clinical tool it has been offered is credible. A family office wants an AI agent that reads its own documents. A regulator wants a briefing paper on a technology nobody has written about yet. None of these is a strategy engagement, a governance framework, an audit or a visibility programme.
The usual industry response is to reshape the request until it matches something already on the price list. That produces engagements that are larger than the problem, and it is the reason so much AI consulting spend produces so little. The honest response is to look at the request as stated, say whether it is worth doing, and say plainly when the answer is no or when someone else is better placed to do it.
Before
A problem reshaped to fit a price list.
After
From uncertain to honestly scoped.
HOW OTHERS WORKS
From uncertain to honestly scoped.
DESCRIBE
State the problem as it is.
ASSESS
Decide if it is worth doing.
SCOPE
Define boundaries and end point.
DELIVER
Build or advise to the scope.
CLOSE
End when the work is done.
SERVICES
Others, in practice.
WHO THIS SERVES
Organizations with a specific AI problem that does not match a standard service line: teams that need one workflow built rather than a transformation programme, boards that need a second opinion before signing, functions sitting on data that is not ready for the tools they have bought, and anyone who has been quoted for an engagement that feels larger than the problem it is meant to solve.
QUESTIONS
Others, in plain answers.
STARTING POINT
Describe the problem, not the solution
The most useful first message describes what is actually happening - the workflow, the decision, the proposal on the table - rather than the AI service it might need. We respond with whether it is worth doing, roughly what it would take, which of the eight divisions it genuinely belongs in, and whether someone else in the ecosystem is the better answer. That reply costs nothing.
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Others is one of eight. They work as one.
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