The next step after AI productivity

Turn your firm’s method into an automated client diagnostic.

Give your clients faster answers they can trust, and outcomes they can measure - using your firm’s own method. Lead with the outcome, show what’s in the way and prove it moved.

Consultant time~30 minutes per assessmentA first reading, ready for your consultant to review.
Time to valueA working model in a daySupported through month one, commercially live by month two.
Fits your stackNothing to replaceWorks alongside your CRM, delivery tools and AI.
In use30+ consultanciesAcross 8 countries.

Some of the consultancies using TheAX

Consultants BusinessAxiologikTD SYNNEXThe Career EstablishmentUniFidacih SolutionsCTMSJK ResearchLUMOEncouraging PotentialMAINBearing 45MDC Ventures

Two minutes

AI has made consulting faster. What comes next?

In two minutes: why faster consultants do not automatically create a more scalable consultancy - and what TheAX does next.

From productivity to scalability

Speed was step one.
Everyone has taken it.

AI has made research, proposals, analysis and drafting faster across the market - and your clients now expect consulting to be faster, more evidence-led and accountable for outcomes. That speed is worth keeping. But faster consultants do not automatically create a more scalable consultancy.

Step one · AI productivity

Faster consultants.

Use AI to remove effort from research, analysis, proposals and drafting. Your clients and competitors can do the same, so speed alone is becoming table stakes.

Keep the productivity.
Step two · TheAX

Make the method repeatable.

Turn your firm’s own method into a diagnostic every consultant can run on every client - backed by evidence, reviewed by your people and repeatable without days of senior analysis.

Now make the consultancy scalable.

What clients want now

Your clients now ask
five questions.

01Where are we now?Assessment on your model
02What is stopping us achieving the outcome?AXAT diagnosis
03What should we do about it?Advice from your method
04Why should we believe you?The evidence trail
05Did it work?Outcome Pathways

TheAX helps you answer all five - with evidence.

Where scalability breaks

Three commercial moments. The same senior expertise.

The people who know how to read the client’s situation are usually the same people needed to win the work, defend its value and identify what comes next. The problem is not their expertise. It is how far that expertise can reach.

01

Win the business

Today

Deep discovery is rationed because it eats senior pre-sales time, so proposals lean on past work and propositions.

With TheAX

An evidenced diagnosis that any consultant or salesperson can run in around 30 minutes - giving the client immediate insight and a plan of what needs to change.

02

Defend the fee

Today

Progress is reported as activity, so month three becomes a debate about tasks and effort rather than progress in delivering outcomes.

With TheAX

A baseline at the start and clarity on which actions will move the needle, so the value conversation is about the client capabilities improved and the outcomes being delivered.

03

Earn the follow-on

Today

Account growth rests on relationships and on which senior people are free. New work becomes a sale rather than an obvious next step.

With TheAX

Evidence of the client capabilities improved and the measurable outcomes becomes a standard deliverable - so the next phase of improvement becomes a natural step.

Fast, evidence-based diagnostics, delivered with low effort to a consistent high standard. Propose against outcomes, evidence their delivery across the engagement, and free your senior people for the judgement that matters most.

See what TheAX actually does

Lead with the outcome. Diagnose what’s in the way. Prove it moved.

TheAX turns your method into a repeatable diagnostic flow - from the first client reading through delivery and remeasurement.

AXAT assessment summary showing corroborated position, capability floor and confidence
01 · Lead with the outcome

Give the client a baseline, not a generic pitch.

Start from the outcome they want and establish an evidenced position early enough to shape the opportunity.

AXAT report showing actions identified by the assessment and where to start
02 · Diagnose what’s in the way

Show what is holding the outcome back.

AXAT connects stakeholder perceptions, symptoms and evidence to the capabilities and actions in your method.

Capability and KPI movement chart from baseline to remeasurement
03 · Prove it moved

Come back with evidence of movement.

Remeasure the same capabilities and track the KPIs that matter, so value is shown as change rather than activity.

TheAX Atomic Model makes your firm’s reasoning reusable. AXAT, the AX Assessment Triangulation method, applies it to the client and makes the reading defendable.

A defendable diagnosis

What people think. What is happening. What can be shown.

A self-assessment tells you what people believe. AXAT adds the signals that make the conclusion harder to dismiss.

Perception

What people think

What stakeholders say about the way the organisation currently works.

Symptoms

What is happening

What people experience in practice - the recurring signs that the capability is or is not working.

Evidence

What can be shown

The artefacts, data and records that demonstrate what is actually in place.

Corroborated position
Named confidence
Disagreement surfaced
Targeted recommendations

Where it puts your firm

Expertise the client can test.

Most firms sit in one of two places: the trusted expert whose judgement rests on reputation, or the workshop where everybody agrees a number. Both are hard to defend when the client pushes back. AXAT is the combination: the expert’s judgement, and data the client can check it against. It gives every consultant the data and evidence to enhance their interactions with the client.

Listening
Telling
Facilitated opinionWe held a workshop, and everyone agreed we were a three.
AXATDefended diagnosisHere is where you stand, how sure we are, and where your own people disagree.
Traditional expertTrust me. I have seen this before.
Evidence-led analysisThe data says you are a two, whatever your people think.
Expert opinion
Evidence-backed diagnosis

AXAT does not replace the expert. It strengthens the judgement, and frees up the diary.

The consultant still interprets, challenges and recommends. They are now doing it from a reading that can be explained, tested and improved.

More value, less effort

A diagnosis early enough to help win the work. Without days of senior analysis.

From one worked exampleSunshine Power · real AXAT output, fictional client
30 minConsultant time
2.4Corroborated position
1.7Capability floor
84%Confidence
42Unresolved questions
11Could move a rating

Half an hour of consultant time on the platform. Every score traces back to why, and the consultant decides what the client sees. See the worked example →

Diagnose before the client has paidPut a client-specific view into the commercial conversation rather than relying only on proposition and past evidence.
Use senior time where it adds valueMove collection, collation and first-pass analysis to the platform; keep judgement and client conversation with the consultant.
Run the same standard across the firmThe firm’s method is reusable, so depth and consistency are not limited to a handful of senior diaries.

The consultant stays at the centre

Automation where it helps. Judgement where it matters.

Automated where speed matters.

Structured intake, collation and first-pass analysis happen without blank-page work.

Evidence-led where confidence matters.

Findings trace back to perceptions, symptoms and evidence rather than standing on opinion alone.

Consultant-governed where judgement matters.

Your people author the model, challenge the reading and decide what the client sees.

TheAX gives senior expertise more reach. It does not replace it.

The diagnosis is the start

From a first reading to evidence of change.

A report is useful. A repeatable measurement system is more valuable. The same diagnostic can carry the evidence from discovery into delivery and the follow-on.

01

Resolve

Focus investigation on the uncertainty that could materially change the diagnosis.

02

Baseline

Agree the outcome measures while both sides still have an open mind about what success means.

03

Advise

Prioritise and sequence actions from your own method; the consultant decides what reaches the client.

04

Re-measure

Use the same method again to show what moved, what did not and where the next opportunity sits.

When you can evidence outcomes, you can sell them.That opens the path from evidence-led projects to outcome-linked pricing and, where it fits, continuous services.

Fast to start

A working model in a day.
Nothing to replace.

Build your first model in a day, ready to test on a live client. We support you closely through the first month, so you are commercially live and seeing a return by month two - sooner, if you want to move faster. And TheAX sits alongside the CRM, delivery tools, documents and AI you already use.

Keep what already works.

Your existing systems continue to manage pipeline, projects, resourcing, documents and AI-assisted production.

CRMDelivery toolsDocumentsYour preferred AI

Add the diagnostic step they do not cover.

TheAX applies your own method to the client, establishes the baseline and gives the consultant evidence they can carry into delivery and remeasurement.

Your methodClient diagnosticBaselineEvidence of movement
AXAT assessment report export options: Word, web page, Excel and AI-ready data, for use in Microsoft tools, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and your other tools

The report

Built from the sections you choose, in your branding. Export as an editable Word document or a self-contained web page, or share a link.

The workbook

An Excel workbook with capabilities, level attainment, root causes, recommendations, every answer, and the state of the investigation.

The AI-ready data

Shareable structured JSON, so the agents, GPTs and workflows you already run can continue from the assessment.

From £595 for a guided first month, or £1,995 with a TheAX consultant doing the build. Month to month after that, and you keep the model.

Questions we hear

Every reason to wait, answered.

“We already have AI.”

Good - that was step one, and you keep it. A copilot makes one person faster with your content. TheAX is step two: it diagnoses from your method, measures what changed and changes what the firm can sell.

“Isn’t this an LLM with our documents in it?”

No. The LLM only drafts the language. The diagnosis runs on your model, deterministically - same inputs, same answer - and every score traces back to the perception, evidence and symptoms behind it.

“Can’t our senior people just do the discovery?”

They can, and they should stay close to it. But senior-led discovery takes days, so it gets rationed. TheAX gives them a defendable first reading in around 30 minutes of consultant time, on every client.

“We could build this ourselves.”

Then you are running a software business: replicating the method, owning the build and the maintenance, and keeping pace with technology that moves every quarter. Your advantage is the expertise, not the platform that carries it.

“Does the consultant stay in control?”

Yes. Your people author the Atomic Model, review the AXAT reading, challenge the interpretation and decide what the client sees.

“It can wait a year.”

The moment one competitor can evidence what moved, the rest are explaining why they cannot. That is a renewal cycle, not a planning horizon.

Start with one live client situation

Which client situation would you put through TheAX first?

Bring one. In a 15-minute conversation we can establish whether there is a credible first use case and whether TheAX fits the way you want your consultancy to grow.

No preparationNo system replacementA working model in a day