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Agentic AI consulting · The Agentic Value Assessment · Choosing an AI consulting firm (mid-size companies) · Choosing an AI consultant (small businesses) · The book: AGENT SHOCK
Agentized helps mid-market companies redesign high-value revenue and operating workflows around governed AI agents. It combines strategy, workflow redesign, implementation, governance and change management to move agentic systems from executive priority to production.
Agentized engagements begin with a paid Agentic Value Assessment, which takes four to six weeks. Each offer leads to the next.
Agentic Value Assessment (4–6 weeks); 90-Day Agentic Value Pilot (12–14 weeks, one to three production workflows); Enterprise Agentization Program (6–18 months); Managed Agentic Operations (12-month minimum); and annual Board and CEO Advisory.
The Agentized Value System is five steps from a business opportunity to an agent running in production: Diagnose, Redesign, Deploy, Prove and Scale.
Every engagement is measured against six questions: did it generate or protect revenue, reduce the cost of producing the outcome, increase throughput or capacity, compress cycle time, maintain or improve quality, and get adopted by employees and customers.
Most AI programs do not fail because the model is weak. They stall because the company selected a low-value task, preserved a broken workflow, ignored integration, never established a financial baseline, failed to assign an owner or treated governance and adoption as work to complete later.
Start with one manual internal workflow, set a measurable baseline, and choose the firm that can integrate with your existing systems and gives a scoped price. Agentized compares AI consulting firms for mid-size companies at https://www.agentized.com/best-ai-consulting-firms-mid-size-companies.
Pick one high-value operational workflow, set a financial baseline, rebuild the workflow around human judgment and agent execution, then deploy and measure it. Agentized does this through a 4–6 week Agentic Value Assessment followed by a 12–14 week pilot.
Yes, if the business has roughly $1 million or more in revenue and a defined revenue, cost, capacity or speed problem. Businesses below that can start with free help from SCORE and their local Small Business Development Center.
The Agentic Value Assessment is a paid engagement, not a free AI audit. Pricing for the assessment and pilot is on request.
Yes. Agents are built, configured, integrated and evaluated in a controlled production environment connected to your existing systems and data.
Jas Dhillon and Mark Fidelman, authors of the upcoming book AGENT SHOCK: Surviving and Profiting from the Rise of AI Agents and Robots.
The Agentic Value Assessment is a paid executive diagnostic from Agentized. It maps priority workflows, quantifies the opportunity, evaluates feasibility and risk and defines a governed path to production.
Four to six weeks. It runs in six stages: Align, Map, Quantify, Design, Prioritize and Decide. Each stage moves forward when its evidence clears the gate, not on a calendar date.
Companies that generally have at least $1 million in revenue or a comparably complex operating environment, a senior executive sponsor, enough operating data to establish a baseline, a defined revenue, cost, capacity or speed problem, and leadership prepared to fund a pilot if the assessment supports it.
No. It is a paid, board-level engagement that produces a standalone strategic and financial asset.
An opportunity map, financial case, architecture, governance design and pilot plan, ending in a board-ready executive presentation and a fund, revise or stop decision.
The application takes about five minutes. A member of the Agentized team responds personally within one business day for qualified applications.
It depends on the problem. For a first initiative with ongoing support, RSM. For finance and back-office AI, BDO Digital. For agentic transformation with change leadership, West Monroe. For cloud and data-heavy work, Slalom. For engineering-led builds, HatchWorks AI, LeewayHertz or RTS Labs. For BI-led AI, Perceptive Analytics. For governed AI agents measured against a financial baseline, Agentized.
None of the firms on this list publish prices. Ask each for a scoped price for the same workflow so the quotes compare. Agentized's pricing is on request.
Big Four firms mostly serve very large companies. Mid-size companies often get more senior attention from middle-market firms (RSM, BDO) or specialists, at a scope that matches one workflow.
At Agentized, the assessment takes 4–6 weeks and a pilot 12–14 weeks. Ask other firms for their timeline in writing.
Usually not because the model is weak. They stall when the company picks a low-value task, keeps a broken workflow, ignores integration, never sets a financial baseline, has no owner, or leaves governance and adoption for later.
AGENT SHOCK: Surviving and Profiting from the Rise of AI Agents and Robots, by Agentized founders Jas Dhillon and Mark Fidelman, is a practical guide to leading your company and running your career when agents are your colleagues, partners and customers. You can read the introduction at agentized.com/book.
Start free with SCORE and your local Small Business Development Center. For one simple automation, a vetted freelancer. For a growing business's technology partner, Xcelacore. For applied AI on Salesforce, Azure, Snowflake or AWS, RTS Labs. For data and machine learning work, Addepto. For a custom app or agent, LeewayHertz. For small businesses with roughly $1 million or more in revenue and a measurable problem to solve, Agentized.
Pick one repetitive task, try a free tool first, then choose the consultant who gives a fixed price and a monthly cost, has helped a similar small business, and builds in your own accounts.
None of the firms on this list publish prices, and freelance rates vary widely. Get a fixed quote for one defined task, plus the monthly cost of the tools it needs, from at least two options.
No price up front, building in their own accounts, no similar small business references, pushing a custom build when a free tool would do, and no plan for support.
For one simple, repetitive task, often you can do it yourself with a free or low-cost tool. A consultant is worth it when the task touches several systems, nobody on your team has time, or mistakes are costly.
Yes. SCORE mentors give free advice as an SBA resource partner, and the SBA's local assistance tool finds your nearest Small Business Development Center.
AGENT SHOCK: Surviving and Profiting from the Rise of AI Agents and Robots is a practical guide to leading your company and running your career when agents are your colleagues, partners and customers. It explains why AI agents change the economics of work and how to redesign the work, govern the agents and keep climbing.
AGENT SHOCK was written by Jas Dhillon and Mark Fidelman, the founders of Agentized.
In AGENT SHOCK, machine capability is a rising tide. Above it sits a five-rung ladder: Tasks, Workflows, Fleets, Direction, and Purpose & Trust. The goal is to stay one rung ahead of where the water currently reaches.
The Four Shocks are the four surges of machine capability: Shock I, digital agents; Shock II, Physical AI; Shock III, AGI-class systems; and Shock IV, the ASI horizon. Each is tracked by verifiable gates, not dates.
AgentShock is the disorientation a person or organization feels when the waterline reaches their rung. The book treats it as a reading on an instrument, not a character flaw, cured with a visible ladder and a signed Workforce Compact.
In AGENT SHOCK, every production agent or robot (a "boat") carries an Agent Passport: identity, owner, mission, authority, access, tripwires and a retirement plan. It earns deeper autonomy through logged evidence.
Yes. Agentized offers Executive Team, Leadership Off-Site, Conference, Board and University packages that combine books with briefings, keynotes or workshops.