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On the G-Cloud 14 cards we checked, the Big Four's highest onshore SFIA Level 7 day rates are KPMG £2,855, PwC £2,750 for Strategy and architecture, Deloitte £2,740 on its specialist card and £2,450 on its standard card, and EY £2,600. Among the other large firms in our comparison, PA Consulting lists £3,625, Accenture £2,240 and TCS £2,050. Lower grades can cost considerably less: at Level 4, Accenture lists £1,040, TCS £1,070 and EY £1,300. These are public-sector framework rates, checked against the suppliers' own documents on 21 August 2026. Each document is linked on our pricing page. Private-sector quotes may differ. SFIA is a framework for levels of responsibility, so check the responsibilities of the specific proposed role as well as the number. The highest grade gives one point of comparison; the mix of people assigned to your engagement determines the total you would pay.

Our £1,560 partner day rate is lower than the highest SFIA Level 7 rate on each Big Four firm's card in our comparison: around 55–60% of those figures, or a multiple of 1.7–1.8 in the other direction. Across the large firms we compared, that multiple is 1.3–2.3. The grade and card matter: Deloitte also publishes a lower standard card, and a Level 7 label is not a partner job title. At Level 4, EY's rate is above our senior rate; Accenture and TCS, outside the Big Four, sit within our associate-to-senior band. To compare whole engagements, ask each supplier for the team mix and duration against the same scope.

Our day rates are £1,560 for a partner, £1,250 for a senior practitioner and £950 for an associate, excluding VAT. The AI Readiness Audit is £44,000 fixed; an Agentic Proof of Concept is £20,000–£55,000 fixed over 2–4 weeks. Monthly engagements are £35,000–£55,000 for an Agentic Design Team, £70,000–£85,000 for an Agentic Build Team and £18,000–£35,000 for Programme and Delivery Management. All engagement prices derive from the rate card at twenty billable days a month. The choice depends on the work you need to do and the capability your team already has.

Usually, on a day-rate comparison. Our estimate for a senior contract delivery manager, AI engineer or solutions architect is £530–£630 a day advertised, or roughly £610–£870 including agency margin. This is our read of the market, so check it against your own recruitment data. If you have a defined scope and someone with the time and authority to direct the work, a contractor may be the better fit. Include the time needed for architecture, governance and adoption in either option's cost. Tenhaw's engagement fee includes direction and named accountability alongside the practitioners. You can choose that support or provide it internally, depending on where your team needs help.

Budget for five things: model inference, the platform, storage and search, evaluation and monitoring, and human review time. Technology costs sit on your own vendor accounts inside your own tenancy; your team also needs time to review the work. Tenhaw does not resell or mark up models, platforms or licences, and run costs are additional to our engagement fees. Volumes, model choices and the amount of human review determine the total. The AI Readiness Audit estimates run cost per candidate workflow using prototypes built against your data. Your operations team can help establish the volumes and exception rates, while the prototypes show how often an output needs checking. Together those inputs make the estimate useful for your business case.

To give you a starting point you can check against the supplier's source document. The highest grades on the large-firm cards we compared are 1.3–2.3 times our partner rate, or 1.7–1.8 for the highest card from each Big Four firm. Some lower grades cost less than ours. Each figure links to the supplier's own PDF, with the date and comparison limits alongside it. Use those details to compare the grade, team and scope you are actually being offered. The aim is to help you compare your proposed suppliers on the same basis.

It can, but team size alone does not establish how quickly your programme will deliver. We do not have a public dataset that compares time to outcome across supplier types. Our own commitments are a proof of concept in two to four weeks at an agreed fixed price, and measurable value committed and reported monthly on delivery engagements. Compare those commitments with the other supplier's plan, including when your people would first have something useful to try.

We calculate the staffing from our published day rates at twenty billable days a month. For example, two senior practitioners at £1,250 a day cost £50,000 for a full-time month. The Agentic Design Team's £35,000–£55,000 band allows for part-time input through to full-time work with partner input. The four-week audit allows five partner days, twenty senior operator days and nine build engineer days, sold at a fixed £44,000. Fixed-price fees reflect the agreed deliverables and the scope risk we carry, rather than an exact reimbursement of each allocated day. These allocations explain the staffing behind the price; they are not a schedule of days invoiced separately. The scope and agreed fee are recorded before the engagement begins.

Check the working day's length, the service category and the meaning of the grade. EY's G-Cloud card uses a seven-hour day where the others use eight, a difference of roughly 14%. PwC lists £2,750 at Level 7 for Strategy and architecture and £1,000 at the same level for Delivery and operation. SFIA levels describe responsibility rather than job titles, so they do not map directly to partner, director or manager. Finally, these are competitively tendered framework prices. Ask for a quote for your scope before using them as a private-sector budget. Tenhaw publishes its own partner, senior practitioner and associate rates separately, so you can ask which responsibilities in each proposal are comparable before multiplying the rates.

Two examples show the range. A £20,000–£55,000 proof of concept followed by eleven months of Programme and Delivery Management at £18,000–£35,000 a month totals £218,000–£440,000. A £44,000 audit followed by eleven months of an Agentic Build Team at £70,000–£85,000 a month totals £814,000–£979,000. Both exclude VAT, pre-agreed expenses and the system's run costs, which sit on your accounts. These are illustrative paths, not a requirement to buy services in sequence. Either monthly engagement can end on 30 days' written notice from either side. You can also buy each engagement independently. Programme and Delivery Management governs whoever is building, while an Agentic Build Team provides the people doing that delivery. Your existing capacity helps decide which path to budget for. The programme management path also needs a separate budget for your own builders or another delivery supplier; those costs are outside the Tenhaw fees shown here.

Specialist AI work can carry a premium, but the published cards do not establish one rate difference for the whole market. Our day rates are £1,560 partner, £1,250 senior practitioner and £950 associate, excluding VAT. For context, Daemon Solutions Ltd's 2023/24 G-Cloud 14 card lists £1,400 for a Senior Consultant, £1,650 for a Principal Consultant and £1,800 for a Managing Consultant, with potentially higher rates for specialised Data, AI and ML skills. Our partner rate falls between its Senior and Principal grades. The large-firm cards we quote have no separate AI column, so they cannot isolate an AI premium. For your own comparison, specify the experience and responsibilities you need. A specialist model build and the delivery of an organisation-wide programme ask for different teams, even when both are described as AI consultancy.

About £1,294 per person-day, excluding VAT. The £44,000 audit allows thirty-four people-days over four weeks: five from James Rooney, twenty from a senior operator and nine from a build engineer. That blended rate sits between our £1,250 senior practitioner rate and £1,560 partner rate. You buy the audit at a fixed price for the agreed scope, so we absorb any additional time needed to deliver it. The three published rates help explain who contributes: a partner leads the audit, a senior operator works across the four weeks and the build engineer focuses on the prototypes. Scoping agrees what those weeks cover before the work begins. Your board then has one fee to approve, with the staffing basis visible alongside it.

Not necessarily. The total depends on the rate, the number of people and how long they work. At the same rate, twice the people for twice the time costs four times as much; at twice the rate, the same team for the same time costs twice as much. Put each proposal's team mix, duration and scope side by side. Our audit and proof of concept have fixed prices, which gives you an agreed total for those first engagements. Include your own team's contribution too: time spent explaining the workflow, making decisions and reviewing the result. That work can differ between proposals even when the delivery fee is the same, and your people are best placed to estimate it.

Treat them as a dated benchmark. We last checked the G-Cloud 14 figures against the suppliers' source documents on 21 August 2026. G-Cloud 15 is the successor framework; our comparison continues to identify its G-Cloud 14 sources explicitly. For the latest availability, consult the Government Commercial Agency's G-Cloud 15 agreement page. These figures are not a G-Cloud 15 price list or a live quote. Each supplier links to its original document so you can check the date and scope, then request current pricing for the engagement you are considering. Framework status and individual quotes can change after that check. Use the linked document to understand exactly which category, grade and working-day definition a figure covers. For a procurement decision, confirm the applicable framework and prices with the supplier.

They may pay more or less; the framework cards cannot tell us what a particular private client pays. The cards are competitively tendered public-sector prices, while private quotes depend on the agreed scope and commercial terms. Most of Tenhaw's work is outside the public sector too. Use the published cards as a reference, then compare your actual quotes by grade, working-day length, team size and duration. The published card is useful evidence of one commercial arrangement, rather than a prediction of another. If your quote differs, ask what accounts for that difference, such as the staffing mix, scope or terms, and use the answer in your comparison.

The monthly fee is flat and agreed in writing before we start. Twenty billable days is the convention used to calculate the bands, rather than a timesheet quota: £35,000–£55,000 a month for a design pair and £70,000–£85,000 for a build team. Each delivery month carries a measurable value commitment and a report against it. A month that delivers no measurable value is reported as a failed month. You or Tenhaw can end a monthly engagement on 30 days' written notice. The fee includes the agreed team and partner input, so your monthly review can focus on the work, its results and the decisions needed next.

We absorb the additional time needed to deliver the agreed scope. The audit remains £44,000, and a proof of concept keeps the fixed price agreed within its £20,000–£55,000 band before work starts. That responsibility is what the fixed-price premium covers. If you request work outside the agreed scope, we price it from the same rate card and agree the change with you in writing before starting it. The specific agreed deliverable matters as much as the number: both belong in the Statement of Work. Where your team learns something that changes what it wants to build, we can discuss the options and their cost before you make a further financial commitment.

The £44,000 buys an assessment with working prototypes, rather than the scoping of a potential engagement. Over four weeks, a partner-led team of three builds against your data inside your tenancy, estimates run cost per candidate workflow and presents the findings to your board. A free scoping exercise may be enough if you already have the evidence and need a proposal. Our own 30-minute discovery call is free: you leave with a rough scope and a realistic range, including a view on whether one of our engagements fits. You can use the audit's findings in a later procurement exercise or take the next step with your own team. There is no obligation to buy another Tenhaw engagement.

Our senior practitioner rate is £1,250 a day, excluding VAT, equivalent to £25,000 over twenty billable days. An Agentic Proof of Concept includes one or two engineers pairing with yours for two to four weeks at £20,000–£55,000 fixed. An Agentic Build Team includes three practitioners under partner oversight at £70,000–£85,000 a month. For design work, the two-person Agentic Design Team is £35,000–£55,000 a month and does not include a build engineer. We agree the engagement price in writing before work starts. The day rate explains the engineer's contribution to that price. Your engineers work alongside ours on the live build, so their knowledge of the systems and exceptions can shape what gets delivered.

It is a substantial commitment, and the useful comparison is what your programme needs the team to deliver. Three practitioners under partner oversight at £70,000–£85,000 a month equate to £1,167–£1,417 per person-day over twenty billable days. The highest Level 7 rate from each Big Four firm we quote falls within £2,600–£2,855, but those grades are not a direct match for every role in our team, and some mid-grade rates sit within our band. Compare the proposed mix and duration. Our fee is flat, agreed before we start, and cancellable on 30 days' written notice from either side. If your own team can carry the direction and adoption work, compare a smaller engagement or contractors too.

The first month should give you evidence to judge the work. The £44,000 four-week audit produces working prototypes against your data, estimated run costs per candidate workflow and a board readout. A recommendation to stop is a valid result. On our London specialty insurance engagement, a two-week proof of concept took PDFs to business intelligence on Azure, covering work the business had pursued for roughly a year. The client engineer paired throughout and reported 70% confidence in running the process unaided afterwards. That is one engineer's self-reported confidence, and the build was a proof of concept. Use your own workflow and baseline to decide what evidence would make the first engagement worthwhile.

That depends on the other supplier's scope and terms. Ours include a fixed £44,000 audit with the agreed scope risk carried by us; ownership of deliverables, code and documentation created specifically for you on payment; and monthly engagements with an exit date agreed at kickoff and 30 days' written notice from either side. We report a delivery month with no measurable value as a failed month. You can read our method and the open-source engineering standard of 72 rules with RFC 2119 severities before buying. If you have a settled scope and the capacity to direct it, a contractor may offer better value. Ask both suppliers what their price includes and what your own team would need to provide. That makes the difference something you can assess against your programme.

Yes. Use Tenhaw's published £44,000 price excluding VAT for a four-week AI Readiness Audit, with the scope and binding fee recorded in the Statement of Work before work starts. The audit has a fixed price; scoping settles what fits into the four weeks. Your finance team can confirm the approval route, whether its threshold includes VAT and whether professional services use a different threshold from software. Include any pre-agreed expenses in the budget too. The number lets your budget holder consider the investment before a proposal cycle. You can bring the approval paper to the discovery call and work through the remaining scope questions with James Rooney, including whether this audit is the right starting point.

No. Tenhaw's AI Readiness Audit is a standalone £44,000 engagement with no obligation to continue. It pays for evidence you can act on, including a recommendation to stop. You keep the working prototypes, code in your repositories, estimated run costs and costed plan whether you continue with us or not, with ownership passing on payment. Any later engagement is priced separately from the same rate card at twenty billable days a month. The findings help you choose what, if anything, comes next. A useful finding may narrow the plan, change the order of the work or show that a workflow is not worth pursuing. The standalone fee leaves you free to act on that finding.

There is little room on Tenhaw's published rates, but we can discuss scope and the shape of the engagement. The rates are £1,560 partner, £1,250 senior practitioner and £950 associate, with engagement bands based on twenty billable days a month. An Agentic Proof of Concept ranges from £20,000 to £55,000 according to the workflow's scope; Programme and Delivery Management starts at £18,000 a month for roughly three days a week of a senior lead with partner oversight. Bring the budget you have and we can work through which option fits it. If the budget is fixed, we can explore a smaller first workflow, less delivery capacity or a shorter engagement where the scope allows it.

Plan time for your sponsor, subject-matter experts and any engineers pairing on the build. Your people know the exceptions, systems and decisions we need to understand. Your Statement of Work with Tenhaw names the access required, and you nominate an executive sponsor empowered to make decisions within the agreed scope. If an access delay materially affects the timeline, we flag it in writing at the time. Agree who can take part and how much time they can protect before kickoff; the sponsor's availability can be as important as engineering capacity. Your engineers contribute to the actual build through pairing. Make that time visible in the business case alongside our fee, so learning the method and reviewing outputs have a place in the plan.

Use the agreed Statement of Work for the scope, fee and billing schedule. It records a fixed price, such as £44,000 for the audit or an agreed figure within £20,000–£55,000 for a proof of concept, or a flat monthly fee such as £70,000–£85,000 for a build team. You contract with Tenhaw LTD, registered in England and Wales, company number 12735685. Invoices are in sterling, exclude VAT and include pre-agreed expenses at cost. Your finance policy determines whether the order covers the full engagement or is raised monthly. The SOW also records the deliverables and end of the engagement, giving procurement a defined piece of work to order. We can discuss your purchasing requirements during scoping.

Tenhaw's billing follows the engagement's agreed schedule. The four-week AI Readiness Audit is £44,000 fixed and invoiced against milestones recorded in the Statement of Work. Monthly engagements are invoiced in advance and payable within 30 days; either side can give 30 days' written notice. If you need the work or invoices to fall in a particular quarter, raise that when we agree the scope and milestones. Your finance team decides how those costs are recognised across the March year end. A fixed-price engagement can also end on written notice, with fees for work performed and committed costs incurred up to termination. The scope, billing milestones and notice provisions give your finance team the information it needs to plan the commitment.

We quote and invoice in sterling. Tenhaw LTD is a London-based, VAT-registered company in England and Wales, and the published prices apply to work abroad too: £44,000 fixed for the audit and £70,000–£85,000 a month for a build team, excluding VAT. Pre-agreed travel and subsistence are charged at cost. We work across the UK, Europe and the United States, with past delivery in Australia, the USA and Singapore. Outside the UK, the team travels from the UK; we have no local office. We agree the travel requirements with you as part of the scope. Your local teams' availability and the visits needed to understand their work shape that plan. The travel arrangements and costs are agreed before they are incurred.

BS7858 screening is included by Tenhaw for every practitioner before client access. Higher insurance limits can add a cost. Published cover includes £1m professional indemnity and £10m employers' liability. If your supplier standard requires a higher limit, the increased cover is in place within three working days, with the additional premium shown in the engagement price. The MSA, SOW template, DPA and completed security questionnaires are standing documents provided without an additional charge. Share your requirements early so we can establish what is needed. You can share those documents with procurement and security before deciding on the engagement. Your third-party risk standard sets the limits and evidence they need to review, and we can work through any gaps with them.

A change of priority within a monthly engagement changes the work, not the agreed fee. A Tenhaw Agentic Build Team remains three practitioners under partner oversight at £70,000–£85,000 a month; you and the team agree each month's priorities and the value they are intended to deliver. On a fixed-price AI Readiness Audit or Agentic Proof of Concept, re-sequencing within scope costs nothing. A different workflow is separately scoped and priced for you to decide on before work starts. Agree at kickoff who can approve those changes on your side. A new priority also needs a clear trade: what moves out of the current plan, what your people need to decide and what the revised month should achieve. We make that choice with you.

Include the engagement price, the total for the period, expected run costs, the benefit case and a clear stopping condition. The first step might be a £44,000 AI Readiness Audit or a £20,000–£55,000 Agentic Proof of Concept. Tenhaw's illustrative first-year paths total £218,000–£440,000 for a proof of concept followed by programme management, or £814,000–£979,000 for an audit followed by a build team. Those are Tenhaw fees and exclude VAT, pre-agreed expenses and run costs on your accounts. In the programme management path, budget separately for your own builders or another delivery supplier. The audit estimates run cost per candidate workflow. Monthly engagements have 30 days' written notice from either side. Your own baseline supplies the benefit assumptions the board needs to weigh against that spend. Include who will review the evidence and decide whether to continue.

Compare both the expected total and the amount you could be committed to for the same scope. Read whether the estimate is a cap, how contingency can be used and what triggers a scope change. Tenhaw's AI Readiness Audit is £44,000 fixed, and an Agentic Proof of Concept has one agreed price within £20,000–£55,000, with the agreed scope risk carried by us. Set that fixed figure against the other proposal's estimate and permitted contingency. If its total is also capped for the same deliverables, compare the two caps directly. Your commercial team can also check which assumptions each supplier relies on, such as timely access to data or named decision-makers. Those dependencies help explain what the quoted price can reasonably cover.

Yes, once you separate delivery fees from licences and operating costs. Tenhaw's engagement prices cover our work; we do not resell or mark up models, platforms or licences. Compare the other supplier's delivery fee with ours, then add each option's run costs over the same period and at the same volumes. Our technology costs sit on your vendor accounts inside your tenancy, including any enterprise discounts you have negotiated. The audit estimates run cost per workflow using your actual data, which helps make that comparison specific. Include human review, evaluation and monitoring in both options, not only licence fees. A lower delivery fee may come with a different operating model, so the total should reflect how your team would actually run each system.

If £50,000 is your budget before VAT, expenses and run costs, Tenhaw's £44,000 AI Readiness Audit fits and buys four weeks, two or three prototypes against your data inside your tenancy, and a costed plan. An Agentic Proof of Concept starts at £20,000 and tests one workflow over two to four weeks; we would agree a scope and fixed price within your budget. Programme and Delivery Management starts at £18,000 a month, so £50,000 is just under three months at that rate. Whether you need to choose a workflow, test one or govern existing delivery will help us work out which option is useful. Three full months of programme management would cost £54,000. If the £50,000 includes VAT, we would first establish the fee budget available.

The aim is for the Tenhaw fee to fall as your permanent team takes over. The exit date is agreed at kickoff, your engineers pair with ours during the build, and recruiting your permanent team is a stated deliverable. Governance alone at £18,000–£35,000 a month would total £216,000–£420,000 over twelve months, compared with the illustrative £814,000–£979,000 first year of audit and build team. Your internal staffing and run costs remain part of the budget. How they change depends on the workflows you keep running and their volumes. A permanent team still needs time to maintain the system and check its outputs. We help plan the transition while the work is live, so those responsibilities are visible before the engagement ends.

The Agentic Build Team fee stays the same: £70,000–£85,000 a month for three Tenhaw practitioners under partner oversight. Your engineers pair with ours so they can learn the system while helping build it. If you already have enough engineering capacity and need someone to direct and govern the work, Programme and Delivery Management may fit better at £18,000–£35,000 a month. It can cover a programme built entirely by your people or other suppliers. We can work through the choice using your team's skills, availability and the decisions they need support with. Your knowledge of the estate remains valuable in either arrangement. The useful choice is how much support you need around the engineers, rather than how many of their days can be swapped into our fee.

The binding Tenhaw price is the one in your signed Statement of Work. Website prices support budgeting: the AI Readiness Audit is published at £44,000, and an Agentic Proof of Concept is agreed within £20,000–£55,000. Where a band is shown, the SOW records the specific fee for your scope before work starts. A fixed fee does not change unless you request a scope change, which we agree in writing before the additional work begins. Monthly engagements also use an agreed flat fee, derived from the published bands. The SOW brings the scope, deliverables, personnel, timeline and fees into one document for your team to review. You can use the website to plan the budget, then use that document to confirm exactly what the commitment covers.

No. Support for recruiting your permanent team is included in the monthly Tenhaw engagement fee, with no introduction or placement fee charged for that support. On an Agentic Build Team at £70,000–£85,000 a month, we write the job specifications and run the hiring work across months five to nine, while the system is being built. The final sixty days provide a documented handover against an exit date agreed at kickoff. Your hiring process still sets the recruitment timetable, so we plan it with you while there is time to act. The aim is for new colleagues to join a working capability and learn from the people building it. We agree the exit date at kickoff, and either side can end the monthly engagement on 30 days' written notice.

You pay for work performed and committed costs incurred up to termination. That is Tenhaw's published basis for ending a fixed-price engagement on written notice, rather than an automatic charge for the full £44,000. You receive the work product produced to that point, including documentation and code deployed in your environment, with ownership on payment of the applicable fees. The amount depends on the work completed and costs committed within the audit's thirty-four people-days. Monthly engagements have a separate notice provision: 30 days in writing from either side. We can then review what is available to your team and what, if anything, you want to take forward yourselves.