Consultancy
AI Consultancy
Clarity before you commit budget. A defensible plan when you do. Five advisory services designed around the most common points where AI investment stalls before it starts.
What we offer
Five engagements. One senior team.
Each service is a distinct engagement shape — scoped, priced, and delivered independently. Most clients start with one and expand as trust builds.
Strategy & Consultancy
A prioritised, costed roadmap with clear use cases, build-vs-buy recommendations, and defined ROI targets. Clarity before you commit budget, and a defensible plan when you do.
Read more 02AI Readiness Assessment
A short, structured engagement to establish where you actually stand — data maturity, technical infrastructure, organisational capability, and regulatory readiness.
Read more 03AI Governance & Compliance
Governance frameworks, policy authoring, audit trail design, and model lifecycle controls aligned to EU AI Act, FCA/PRA, and UK DSIT AI Assurance requirements.
Read more 04Vendor & Procurement Advisory
Independent assessment of vendor proposals, RFP support, contract review, and TCO analysis. We work for the buyer — no commercial relationship with the vendors we assess.
Read more 05AI Transformation
AI transformation for organisations that already did digital transformation. We combine Lean Six Sigma process rigour with AI engineering — fix the process, then make it intelligent, and prove the gains.
Read moreOutcomes
What you walk away with — and what it's worth.
Every Volorai engagement ends with something specific in your hands — a roadmap, a baseline, a governance framework, a vendor recommendation — and a written commitment on the business outcome it earns. We define the ROI at the start and we measure it at the end. No vague maturity scores, no slide decks that look good and decide nothing.
Strategy & Consultancy
What you walk away with
- A 6–18 month costed AI roadmap with phased milestones and named owners.
- A scored, prioritised use-case shortlist — value, effort, risk, feasibility.
- Build-vs-buy recommendations for each prioritised use case, with TCO ranges.
- A board-ready executive briefing on the proposed investment.
The business outcome you're buying
- A defensible AI investment thesis you can take to your board with confidence.
- Budget conviction — you know what to spend, on what, and when. Stalled programmes restart with clarity; speculative ones get killed early.
- A faster commitment cycle on the next AI decision — and the one after that.
ROI commitment
ROI targets are defined per workstream at the start of the engagement, measured against your existing baseline (not a vendor's), and tracked through to the first phase of delivery.
AI Readiness Assessment
What you walk away with
- A scored baseline across six dimensions — strategy, data, infrastructure, people, governance, adoption.
- A gap analysis with prioritised, costed remediation actions.
- A regulatory exposure map covering UK DSIT, EU AI Act, FCA/PRA and ICO obligations relevant to your sector.
- A concise written findings report — fits on a page where it should.
The business outcome you're buying
- An honest answer to "are we ready to invest in AI" before you commit budget.
- A baseline you can re-measure against in 12 months to prove progress to the board, the regulator, or your clients.
- A common picture of AI readiness shared across exec, board and operating teams — no more parallel conversations.
ROI commitment
For most clients, the assessment pays for itself by avoiding a single wrong build-vs-buy decision later in the year.
AI Governance & Compliance
What you walk away with
- A governance framework specific to your AI use cases and risk profile — not a template adapted by a junior consultant.
- A complete policy stack: Acceptable Use, Model Deployment, Data Governance, Vendor AI Ethics.
- Model lifecycle controls and human-in-the-loop design specifications.
- Board reporting templates aligned to how your board actually makes decisions.
The business outcome you're buying
- A defensible posture against the EU AI Act, FCA/PRA expectations, and UK DSIT AI Assurance requirements.
- Regulator-ready evidence — not a generic policy stack you cannot actually defend.
- A board that can discharge its fiduciary AI oversight responsibilities credibly.
- Faster, cleaner procurement cycles — your teams know what they can and can't deploy without asking.
ROI commitment
Avoiding a single AI-related incident — a data breach, a regulatory finding, an unrecoverable vendor commitment — typically pays for the engagement many times over.
Vendor & Procurement Advisory
What you walk away with
- An independent assessment of the vendor proposal — architecture, pricing, delivery model, reference verification.
- A counter-position document for your procurement and legal teams.
- A risk-mapped contract review with redlines on the clauses that matter.
- A full TCO model including the cost of lock-in.
The business outcome you're buying
- A vendor decision made on evidence, not on pitch quality.
- Materially better commercial terms — typically a 10–30% improvement on first deals.
- Avoided lock-in, and avoided wrong-vendor commitments that would have cost you the next three years.
- A faster procurement decision cycle, not a slower one.
ROI commitment
The engagement fee is returned many times over in commercial savings on the contract itself — and that's before counting the cost of the wrong decision you didn't make.
AI Transformation
What you walk away with
- A measured baseline of the target process — cycle time, cost, defects, variation.
- A value-vs-feasibility map of where AI should and should not go.
- A redesigned, AI-enabled process — built and run by the same team.
- Before-and-after measurement against the baseline.
The business outcome you're buying
- You make the right processes intelligent — and leave the rest alone.
- You stop automating waste; you remove it first, then apply AI.
- Gains are proven against your own baseline, and audit-ready by design.
ROI commitment
Defined per process at the start, measured against your existing baseline, tracked through to first delivery.
Why this works
Evidence at every step. ROI defined at the start. No theatre.
- Every claim we make is paired with a number, a citation, or an example.
- ROI is defined at the start of every engagement and measured at the end.
- Artefacts are board-ready and regulator-ready by design — built for the audience that has to use them.
- Pricing is proportionate to the value at risk, not our day rate.
Beyond consultancy
Looking for an audit or a productised tool?
Volorai also delivers AI-enhanced technology programme audits and operates productised tools — a self-hosted knowledge assistant, an agentic software development workspace, and custom AI solutions.
Not sure which engagement fits?
A 30-minute call is free. Tell us what's happening — we'll tell you honestly which service (if any) is the right answer.