The old number doesn’t apply anymore. Billing by the hour worked because there was a general agreement about how long things took. That’s less true now, yet a lot of firms are still pricing like it is. It’s the same with AI costs. Plenty of people are working off a price they heard about last year, without checking if it still holds for what they’re actually trying to do. More than anything, the safety rules built around AI have this problem. The risks change faster than the rules can be written. We’re here to take the ambiguity head on and catch up with what AI costs and who’s on the hook for its decisions.
In Progress
When AI starts accelerating every project, the hour stops measuring what it used to.
A project priced by time gets penalized for the same efficiency that gets clients better results, faster. Pricing by outcome instead of by hour is how firms start getting paid for what they actually deliver, not for how long it took to get there.
In Practice
From Quarterly Reports to Real-Time Care Insights
Integrity Partners for Behavioral Health was managing quality reporting by hand across 39 partner organizations in rural New York, with data compiled manually and reports going out quarterly. Innovative built them a real-time pipeline that turned that into a live dashboard, then layered in a predictive model that flags clients at risk of missing appointments before they fall out of treatment.Now, Integrity Partners’ network can see how care is performing across the state as it happens.
AI Unplugged Podcast
AI capability is proven. Responsibility is still up for grabs.
In Episode 17 of AI Unplugged: AI Gone Rogue: Security, Slop & the Cost of Intelligence, we get into what happens when an agent does what it was told and something goes wrong.
In Action
The AI project you shelved for cost reasons a year ago might be the right price today.
Prices have moved the most on routine work. The frontier’s still expensive, but most of what a typical project actually needs isn’t priced like it used to be. It’s worth running the math again before assuming the answer’s still no.SIGN UP TODAY
