What Clarinet is built for.
Clarinet says it helps organizations develop fluency with AI, build high-impact workflows and agents, and set strategy to scale transformation. Its own FAQ places it between a solo consultant and a large firm. The options below are built for different parts of the same problem, and the right one depends on whether you need skills, software, a change method or a return on the AI you already have.
The options side by side.
| Option | Built for | Named on this page | Hire it when |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarinet | AI fluency training, AI strategy, and building AI workflows and agents with your teams. | The firm you are evaluating. | You want AI fluency across the workforce or hands-on help building AI agents and workflows. |
| Average Robot | Closing the AI Profitability Gap™ for the C-suite, where people already use AI and the return has not shown up. | Average Robot. | AI is in daily use and you need to know why it is not paying back. |
| AI training and adoption platforms | Coaching a large workforce and tracking AI use across the company in software. | Section. | A Head of AI wants one platform to guide and measure adoption company-wide. |
| Change management firms with an AI practice | The human side of change, with AI-specific work built on an established method. | Prosci, Kotter. | Your organization already uses ADKAR or Kotter and wants that method applied to AI. |
| Large consulting and technology firms | Large programs across the enterprise. | Accenture, BCG X, McKinsey QuantumBlack. | The brief is an enterprise-wide transformation program. |
Average Robot.
Best for: closing the AI Profitability Gap™ for the C-suite, where people already use AI every day and the return has not reached the P&L. A change management firm built around AI at work, run by its two founders, so the AI you have already bought starts to pay. Average Robot does not run training courses or sell software of its own. See Average Robot vs Clarinet for the side-by-side.
AI training and adoption platforms.
Section describes itself as an enterprise AI training and adoption platform, and calls Section HQ a command center for Heads of AI to measure, guide and scale adoption. Choose a platform when the job is coaching a large workforce and tracking use over time. Average Robot vs Section sets out where it fits.
Change management firms with an AI practice.
Prosci says its AI work includes the Prosci AI Adoption Framework and a one-day leader program built on an AI-specific evolution of the ADKAR Model. Kotter describes itself as a strategy execution and change management consultancy, and promotes an AI approach for leaders and a new AI course. Both apply an established change method to AI. See Alternatives to Prosci and ADKAR vs Kotter.
Large consulting and technology firms.
Accenture, BCG X, McKinsey QuantumBlack: large consulting and technology firms, built for large programs and right when the brief is an enterprise-wide transformation.
Questions people ask.
Why look for an alternative to Clarinet?
Because the need may sit somewhere other than training and building. If your people already use AI every day and the return has not reached the P&L, the work is finding out why and changing how the work is done. If you want software to track AI use, look at a platform. If your organization already runs a change method, look at a firm built on it.
Is Average Robot a like-for-like replacement for Clarinet?
No. Clarinet describes itself as an AI enablement firm, with fluency training, AI strategy and workflow building. Average Robot is a change management firm that researches your own teams to find out why the AI tools you already have are not paying, then fixes the first things blocking them. Average Robot does not run training courses.
Can we keep Clarinet's training and work with Average Robot?
Yes. Training builds skill with the tools. Average Robot works on whether that skill is pointed at work that returns money, and what to change where it is not. Agree up front which firm owns which part of the work.
How is Average Robot priced?
Per step, and the first one is free. The AI Profit Readiness Assessment costs nothing. The AI Profit Workshop is $2,999 for up to six participants and is credited in full toward the AI Profit Sprint if you start one within six months. The Sprint starts at $19,999. The AI Transformation Advisory is scoped and priced to the organization.