AI Readiness Assessment: $150K Consulting vs. Automated Scan
A Big 4 AI readiness engagement takes 6–8 weeks and costs $80K–$200K. An automated Yoetz.ai scan takes 2 hours and costs a fraction of that. Here is exactly what each delivers, what each systematically misses, and the hybrid model that wins.
1. What a Big 4 AI readiness engagement involves
Stakeholder interviews (2–3 weeks). Manual tenant sampling — never 100% coverage. A readiness deck for leadership. A remediation recommendation document. No automated execution. No rescan validation. 6–8 weeks. $80K–$200K.
2. What Yoetz.ai delivers
- Every configuration finding in under 2 hours.
- Verified fix steps with exact navigation paths.
- Effort estimates and owner assignments.
- Compliance mapping (SOX, GDPR, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS).
- Rescan in another 2 hours after remediation.
3. The coverage gap
Consultants check what's on their checklist — usually 20 items. Yoetz.ai checks the full population, including the ISU nobody mentioned in the scoping call, the calculated field that has been silently multiplying the wrong column since R2 of last year, and the security group an admin created in 2019 for a project that ended in 2020.
4. When you still need a consultant
- Stakeholder change management around remediation.
- Manual control testing for SOX 404(b) external attestation.
- Peer benchmarking using the firm's proprietary client data.
5. The right model
Yoetz.ai for discovery — 100% coverage in 2 hours. Consultants for execution and change management on the highest-severity findings. Cuts total spend by 60–80% while increasing coverage by an order of magnitude.
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