The short answer.
Accenture's AI and data practice. Its strengths are global delivery and platform partnerships at enterprise scale.
Average Robot closes the AI Profitability Gap™ for the teams doing the work, so the AI you have already bought starts to pay. We are independent and senior-led, sized for leadership teams that own AI change themselves.
Who they are.
Accenture's AI and data practice operates across industries and geographies. In 2023 Accenture set a goal of growing it to 80,000 people. Strong on platform partnerships (Microsoft, Google, AWS, Nvidia), global rollout, and enterprise integration. Their data and AI practice is published at Accenture's AI and data services page.
Who we are.
Average Robot is a San Francisco-based change firm founded by Matt Perry and Rob Cannon, PhD. We diagnose where AI adoption is breaking inside organizations whose leadership team owns the AI change and design the people, process, and platform strategy to fix it.
Where each of us wins.
| Pick Accenture when | Pick Average Robot when |
|---|---|
| You need global rollout across multiple geographies. | Your leadership team owns the AI change, with no transformation office, and needs pace without enterprise overhead. |
| The brief involves platform integration at enterprise scale. | The bottleneck is adoption inside a specific team or function. |
| You want a single SI to own end-to-end delivery. | You want named senior people leading the work. |
| The brief is an enterprise-scale program. | Success is measured in months, at a budget your leadership team controls. |
Questions people ask.
Is Average Robot a global SI like Accenture?
No. Accenture's AI and data practice has global delivery and tens of thousands of practitioners. Average Robot is a focused change firm for leadership teams that own AI change themselves. We do not run global delivery programs.
When should we hire Accenture instead?
When the brief is global rollout, platform integration, and operating-model change across multiple geographies and business units. Hire us when the bottleneck is adoption inside a specific team or function.
What about the consultancy overhead?
Average Robot is senior-led and sized for budgets and timelines a leadership team controls directly.
Who does the work?
The two founders, Matt Perry and Rob Cannon, PhD, do the work themselves, on your own team. The scope and the price are sized for one leader and one team, starting at $19,999 for the AI Profit Sprint. When more than one team is in scope, the AI Transformation Advisory runs a Sprint for each, with a leadership layer across them.
Do you work outside the US?
Yes. Average Robot is based in San Francisco and works with clients across the US, the UK, Europe and Australia. The AI Profit Workshop runs on-site or remote, whichever suits your team. The AI Profit Sprint ends with a live 90-minute readout, where we walk you and your team through the plan for the year ahead.