Question 1

What does Agentic Consulting do?

Accepted Answer

Agentic Consulting provides fractional AI operating leadership to founder-CEOs of 20 to 500 person companies. A senior operator embeds for 90 days and builds the measurement, adoption, workflow, and governance systems that turn AI spend into measurable productivity.

Question 2

Why does AI fail to scale in mid-sized companies?

Accepted Answer

95 percent of AI pilots fail to scale, and the failure is behavioral, not technical. The bottleneck is the operating layer between leadership intent and daily workflow. At 20 to 500 employees, no one inside the company has the time, authority, or operating discipline to own the work end to end.

Question 3

What is the difference between fractional AI leadership and hiring a head of AI?

Accepted Answer

Hiring a head of AI takes 6 to 9 months and costs 250 to 400 thousand annually all-in, with a thin candidate pool. A fractional senior operator delivers the operating system in 90 days at a bounded cost, with a measurable outcome and a clean exit.

Question 4

How is the engagement structured?

Accepted Answer

One spine, two accelerators. The spine is a 90-day fractional operating engagement. Accelerators are training and adoption, and joint implementation with our long-standing partner IgniteIQ. Clients buy one engagement with one team and one point of accountability.

Question 5

What are the three paths for joint implementation with IgniteIQ?

Accepted Answer

Path one is prebuilt agents that let the client outsource work to us and be more productive, at fixed price. Path two is an innovation partnership for custom-built agents, delivered three to five times faster than traditional implementation at half or less the cost, with the client owning the solution IP, in three phases: Build, Train, Measure. Path three is the IQ Agent Platform, licensed to partners building their own agents at scale, including ISVs accelerating agentic flow, marketing agencies increasing their margins, and syndicated data and content owners monetizing their content.

Question 6

Who is the IQ Agent Platform for?

Accepted Answer

The IQ Agent Platform is for partners who want the infrastructure to build, train, and scale agents under their own brand and economics. Three core audiences: independent software vendors who want to embed agentic capabilities into their products without rebuilding their platform, marketing agencies who want to deliver more client work with the same headcount, and syndicated data providers and content publishers who want to monetize their content through agent-powered products and APIs.

Question 7

Can prebuilt agents use our existing LLM subscription?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Prebuilt agents on the lightweight platform connect to the client's existing Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini subscriptions, so clients get full value from LLM spend they have already committed. Clients who prefer a single invoice can take an LLM subscription baked into the platform, with the right model assigned per task to optimize token cost.

Question 8

What is the 60/30/10 rule of smart automation?

Accepted Answer

Roughly 60 percent of the work in most companies is deterministic and should be fully automated without AI. Roughly 30 percent benefits from AI assistance through pattern recognition, intelligent routing, and smart suggestions where the work has variance. Roughly 10 percent should stay with people for final judgment, oversight, and strategic decisions. We sequence builds in this order rather than jumping to AI agents before automating the deterministic work underneath.