Choosing an AI Consultancy and Software Development Company
Most software development companies offer not only IT services but also AI consultancy and AI-powered software solutions, which enhance customer support, engagement, and automate business workflows, aiming to integrate and optimize emerging technologies.
Businesses are increasingly turning to AI consulting firms as they seek new opportunities, but face complexities along the way. The fact is that the potential of AI is promising and brings value to businesses; however, many companies lack the in-house expertise, implementation strategy, and technical resources necessary to integrate it effectively into processes.
NOTE. Different statistical platforms forecast the AI consulting market to expand at a CAGR of 26.49% from 2024 to 2033. In 2024, the market size was estimated at USD 8.8 billion, with projections indicating growth to approximately USD 73.01 billion by 2033. This positions AI consultancy as a high-growth, high-opportunity sector as companies are willing to invest in expertise, digital transformation, and partnerships.
Key Trends Driving AI Development Servicess
| Custom LLM integration | Off-the-shelf models, such as GPT-4, offer general intelligent assistance; however, clients are beginning to see advantages in developing custom LLMs that are trained on specific data, workflows, and compliance requirements. By fine-tuning models on domain-specific data, language, and definitions, businesses can achieve more accurate AI solutions. To achieve successful product outcomes, businesses require AI consultants with in-depth expertise in prompt engineering and secure deployment strategies, making custom LLM consulting a high-value service. |
| AI-powered MVPs and prototypes | The shift toward AI-first product development transforms the approach toward MVPs (minimum viable products). Instead of building fully fledged software products, businesses now validate ideas by launching AI-powered prototypes with intelligent chatbots managed by AI agents or document analyzers and recommendation engines, utilizing APIs from OpenAI or open-source frameworks. These AI-MVPs reduce products' time-to-market and help save upfront investments raised for the development of software solutions. |
| MLOps impact on the AI lifecycle management | When clients are inclined to scale their AI solutions, they understand the importance of MLOps (Machine Learning Operations). MLOps ensures that AI models are deployed, monitored, retrained, and governed throughout their lifecycle. AI consultant firms and dedicated development teams offer full-cycle product lifetime management, including
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| Blending BI development with AI consulting |
With the vast demand for translating data into valuable insights, companies seek structured and clean data. That’s why more AI development companies are blending business intelligence development with AI services. By integrating AI with BI tools like Power BI, Tableau, or custom dashboards, companies can develop manual reporting into smart predictive analytics. BI tools organize and visualize data, while AI helps identify trends, predict outcomes, and suggest effective strategies. It turns reporting into real decision-making. The benefits for business are obvious: it saves time, uncovers opportunities, and helps teams to build proactive strategies. Professional AI consulting agencies help build AI-powered dashboards to drive growth through intelligent insights. |
| Staff augmentation and nearshoring | Struggling to find in-house AI experts, companies search for nearshoring or staff augmentation to scale their AI potential cost-effectively. Businesses seek AI development hubs that offer strong development skills and a growing startup ecosystem. |
| Multi-modal AI solutions | Software engineers integrate natural language processing, computer vision, and speech recognition to create AI assistants. Companies aim to implement multimodal solutions that integrate these technologies to enhance user experiences. Chatbots, voice agents, or generative AI utilize NLP, machine learning, and data analytics to understand user input and respond accordingly. |
What is an AI Consulting Firm?
An AI consulting firm is a specialized service provider that helps businesses understand, plan, and implement artificial intelligence solutions to automate business operations and enhance in-house workflows and communication with clients, thereby gaining a competitive edge in the market. AI consulting firms offer their services and expert teams, combining deep technical expertise in machine learning and data science to manage every stage of AI adoption for clients.
Understanding AI Consulting Services
As companies grow, so does the complexity of operations: more customers, more operations, and, as a result, scaling. AI consulting services help automate operations, improve forecasting, streamline workflows, and reduce manual workload across various departments, including logistics, HR, and customer service. However, not every business needs an in-house AI team, but nearly every growing business can benefit from AI software development services at the right time. Let's discover how Virtido's AI hub can navigate you through AI technologies.
What to Expect from a Good AI Consulting Partner
As an AI expert team, we understand AI consulting as a comprehensive scope of steps, starting with an in-depth examination of your business operations and the workflows of your teams. This involves identifying fields and concrete use cases where AI makes sense for your business and offering practical guidance with measurable results. Virtido's AI consulting flow is designed for leaders, founders, and executives who want to explore how AI can enhance their business routines.
| 01. Executive Workshops | We lead engaging, comprehensive workshops that showcase specific use cases without overloading with technical details. These workshops foster a shared understanding at the leadership level and prepare your team to make informed decisions about implementing AI solutions. Our In-depth discovery sessions will bring you up to date with the latest knowledge on AI capabilities. |
| 02. Opportunity Mapping | Using a structured analysis of your company's processes, goals, and data, we identify high-impact solutions and use cases you need, including quick wins that can generate value immediately and be implemented quickly. We can also offer strategic initiatives to plan for long-term value, changing business routine tasks for you and your team, including people change. |
| 03. AI Strategy & Roadmap | Together we device a strategy and roadmap with a step-by-step AI adoption plan tailored to your business model, drawing on our strong background in strategy consulting intertwined with high technical expertise in all things AI. You can access our guidelines, expert skills, and recommendations on tools, and assess data readiness, which helps you understand the flow of AI implementation. |
Rapid Prototyping and MVP Development
Rather than investing heavily in untested AI solutions, consulting firms help companies start smart. It is when a business validates a product idea with AI rapid prototyping or develops minimum viable products to get feedback from early adopters in the market, before proceeding with a fully-fledged product. This process helps validate the AI model's performance, usability, and market relevance, making it valuable for both early-stage startups preparing for fundraising and enterprises seeking internal buy-in.
| 01. From Idea to Interactive Prototype | Virtido’s engineers utilize AI tools, APIs, and frameworks to develop functional prototypes that can be tested in the market or with potential investors. We can implement a smart chatbot, a recommendation engine, a predictive analytics dashboard, or a generative AI assistant to demonstrate the product's value to users. By combining design thinking with AI engineering, our agile teams deliver interactive prototypes that demonstrate real potential and are ready for early validation. |
| 02. Validate Business Idea to Save Big | One of the most significant risks in AI product development is building something no one needs. That’s why we help you test business ideas early, using real user feedback and lightweight pilots. With a working AI prototype, you can:
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| 03. Build to Scale | Our interactive prototypes aren’t just demos; we ensure your solution is powered by a secure and flexible architecture, allowing it to grow with your business. You receive a product with core functionality that can be pitched to investors, presented to stakeholders, or launched as a pilot. Our strong engineering teams will ensure that the first prototype is brought to maturity and deployed in a resilient, secure production setting. |
Generative AI Consulting
It's a rapidly growing service area that focuses on helping companies strategically adopt and customize generative AI tools across business operations. Generative AI consultants work with systems that generate text, images, code, or synthetic data, automating content-heavy workflows and reducing human workload.
Working with generative AI consultants unlocks operational efficiency as they:
| Identify high-value use cases | (e.g., customer support bots, document summarization, AI-powered content creation, logistics coordination); |
| Fine-tune large language models (LLMs) | leveraging company-specific data, for example, to build RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) solutions fast that will massively improve the output of your AI workflow and make them highly specific to your business; |
| Build custom AI assistants | that integrate into CRMs, helpdesks, or internal tools, streamlining your processes and increasing efficiency and reliability; |
| Establish governance and safety protocols | ensuring responsible use and data privacy across jurisdictions, making sure you are aligned with regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, EU AI Act, and more; |
| Validate performance and optimize user experience | through continuous testing, ongoing training, supervision, and monitoring. |
AI Agent to Enhance Your Workflows
Agentic AI is an intelligent, autonomous system designed and trained to make decisions and take action without constant human input, handling repetitive tasks, reducing errors, and scaling operations seamlessly. An artificial intelligence development company helps you design, test, and deploy agentic AI that delivers lasting business value across various fields, enhancing operational efficiency.
How AI Agents Benefit Your Business
| Customer support agents | Handle inquiries, resolve issues, and personalize user experiences across chats, emails, and voice assistance, reducing workload and response times to customers. |
| Sales & lead qualification bots | AI agents are capable of qualifying leads, recommending the next strategic steps, and scheduling meetings autonomously. This type of AI assistance enhances conversion rates and alleviates the pressure on sales teams' workloads. |
| Routine process automation | You can automate workflows like HR onboarding, invoice processing, report generation, and task tracking within your company's workflows. |
| Data insights agents |
Monitor performance metrics, presenting them on dashboards and trigger alerts based on anomalies or business KPIs. |
Custom AI Solutions: Virtido Example
Tailored solutions address the specific challenges that every business faces in the market. Clients choose custom AI development expertise as it helps align with the unique data, workflows, and regulatory needs of your industry. Virtido's cross-functional teams possess expertise in various domains, including healthcare, insurance, finance, HR, e-commerce, and more.
Let's delve into some examples of use cases we could dive into with you.
| Healthcare |
AI solutions that streamline diagnostics, automate medical documentation, and provide patients with answers to their questions about prescriptions or diagnosis explanations: Leveraging NLP and LLMs for summarizing medical records; AI chatbots provide 24/7 to assist with appointment scheduling and medical information; Anomaly detection in imaging and lab data, etc.; Making sure all solutions meet data privacy and compliance standards (e.g., HIPAA). |
| Fintech |
AI development services enable financial institutions to effectively manage risks and ensure regulatory compliance. Onboarding. We can build intelligent AI assistants that streamline onboarding by guiding customers through account setup, document submission, and identity verification in real time. Financial fraud. Machine learning models are trained on historical transaction data to detect anomalies and suspicious behavior, flagging fraudulent attempts in real-time. Compliance requirements. We utilize natural language processing (NLP) to develop contract analysis tools that scan and interpret extensive volumes of legal and financial documents. These tools extract critical clauses, flag non-compliance risks, and ensure consistency with evolving regulations (e.g., AML, GDPR, Basel III). |
| HR |
Companies are seeking AI software development services to create intelligent HR tools for recruitment, employee engagement, and talent management. For example, custom-built screening bots are trained to evaluate candidate profiles against job requirements, skill sets, and experience levels. These AI models will analyze resumes, assess fit, and prioritize the best candidates, reducing time to hire and improving recruitment outcomes. AI models enable HR managers to develop fair and competitive compensation strategies. By analyzing internal data, market trends, and role-specific benchmarks, these tools will deliver transparent salary recommendations tailored to your company structure, ensuring equity and retention across your workforce. To retain valuable employees and increase overall satisfaction with work and salary rates, companies are increasingly utilizing sentiment analysis tools that process feedback from surveys, reviews, and internal communications to identify patterns in employee satisfaction, flag emerging issues, and support data-driven engagement strategies. |
| Logistics and supply chain |
In the logistics and supply chain industry, AI consultancy and development services bring transformative value. AI systems can optimize nearly every aspect of the supply chain, starting from demand forecasting and inventory control to route planning and communication between stakeholders.
Developers can create autonomous AI agents that act as virtual dispatchers or support agents. These voice- or text-based agents can:
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| Legal Tech |
Legal tech faces pressure to process large volumes of documents, maintain regulatory compliance, and deliver fast and cost-effective services. Virtido helps legal companies modernize their operations by building custom AI-powered software that automates time-consuming tasks and reduces operational risks. Efficient AI solutions powered by natural language processing (NLP) help navigate document turnover while adhering to the industry's confidentiality, accuracy, and compliance standards.
Virtido experts can help legal firms deploy chatbots available 24/7 to support staff and assist clients with online consultations:
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| E-commerce |
Our engineers help online retailers and digital marketplaces gain an edge through AI-powered software to enhance user journeys. Our machine-learning models analyze user behavior and purchase history to deliver highly personalized product suggestions. These AI recommendation engines help increase order value and improve conversion rates, minimizing cart abandonment and offering what clients are looking for based on their real-time interactions. E-commerce platforms integrate AI assistants to provide 24/7 customer support, answer product-related questions, and offer personalized recommendations. AI agents guide customers through the sales flow, offering to upsell and cross-sell based on customer intent. |
| Education |
Virtido, as an AI software development company, can support educational projects and Edtech companies build online learning platforms, launch digital courses, or manage educational operations to support students, teachers, and administrators. We can engineer personalized learning systems that adapt to each student’s pace, performance, and preferences. ML algorithms help recommend tailored content, suggest next-step lessons, and provide intelligent feedback. We can also build intelligent tutoring systems and AI-powered chatbots that offer 24/7 support. These virtual assistants help answer questions, guide students through assignments, and recommend helpful resources. |
Key Steps in AI Lifecycle Management with MLOps
Many clients miss the fact that deploying advanced AI models is only the beginning. To offer a human-like experience to target users while remaining accurate, efficient, and compliant, AI models require continuous monitoring, training, and improvement based on your data, clients' interactions, and business workflows.
We recommend embedding MLOps best practices to leverage cutting-edge technology solutions, enabling you to manage the entire AI lifecycle.
| Model versioning and experiment tracking |
The AI development team should track every model iteration, including training data, hyperparameters, and performance metrics. |
| Automated model training and deployment |
Use CI/CD pipelines for ML to automate training, testing, and deployment. Incorporate user feedback into regular retraining cycles to keep your models relevant, taking into account user behavior and the changing market environment. |
| Performance monitoring | Once engineers deploy the solution, models must be monitored for signs of performance degradation, also known as drift. MLOps systems monitor key indicators and alert your team when retraining or tuning is needed. MLOps practices include validating incoming data, handling missing values, and flagging anomalies to avoid feeding inconsistent data into your models.. |
| Security and compliance |
MLOps helps enforce access controls and documentation standards. This is essential, especially in regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, and insurance. |
Artificial Intelligence offers valuable opportunities for business growth. To support this tendency, AI consultants help you cut through the hype and focus on practical, high-value opportunities. After experts analyze your workflows, data assets, and business goals, they define where AI can improve business processes, without wasting time or budget.
Virtido's AI Hub combines deep technical expertise, industry understanding, and agile delivery to guide you from testing business ideas to market-ready AI solutions. Let us help you build AI that delivers real business outcomes.
