How do I choose an AI consultancy for a mid-market company?

Start from one process with a named owner and a measurable cost, and ask each firm how it would prove value on that process for a fixed fee. The answers show quickly who builds and who only advises.

How much does an AI consultancy cost in the US?

It varies widely with scope. A few firms on this list publish starting prices on their own sites; most, including New Odyssey, quote after scoping a first step.

No. The firms are listed alphabetically, with New Odyssey last because we wrote the page. Every fact about another firm comes from that firm's own website.

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AI Consulting Firms for Mid-Market Companies in the US: 9 Companies Compared

Last updated November 13, 2026

The short answer

AI consultancies that work with mid-market companies in the US include Baker Tilly, BDO USA, Centric Consulting, HatchWorks AI, RSM US, RTS Labs, Slalom and West Monroe and New Odyssey. They differ mainly in whether they advise or build, whether the first step has a fixed price, and which sectors they know. This page compares them using facts from each firm's own website, checked on November 13, 2026. It is written by New Odyssey, which is one of the firms listed, so it is a comparison and not a ranking.

The consultancies compared

Facts below come from each firm's own website, checked on November 13, 2026. Firms are in alphabetical order. New Odyssey wrote this page and is the last row.

Firm	Based	What it offers	Who it is for	Worth knowing
Baker Tilly	Its press release is datelined Chicago	Markets AI strategy and road maps, use case prioritization, solution development (embedded AI, custom generative AI, AI agents, workflow automation), governance aligned with NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001, readiness assessments and adoption training.	Not stated on the AI services page; the headline of its October 2025 press release calls its Collaborative AI offering a middle market generative AI solution.	Announced Collaborative AI, a set of AI enablement services, in a press release dated October 6, 2025.
BDO USA	Its press release is datelined Chicago	Markets AI adoption as a people-led program, with a workforce-based assessment it calls AI Diagnosis, governance support, and training for employees to build agents.	Its BDO Digital page says it serves both enterprise and middle-market organizations.	Announced on February 26, 2026 that it had been recognized as a Microsoft Frontier Partner through the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program.
Centric Consulting	The site lists offices in Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, Louisville, Miami, Pittsburgh, Seattle and St. Louis, plus India	Markets AI strategy and governance, data management, custom AI agent development on its own Agent C framework, and implementation of Microsoft Copilot and Salesforce Agentforce.	The AI page addresses enterprise organizations and does not mention the mid-market; listed industries are energy and utilities, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, and insurance.	States it is a Microsoft Cloud Partner, an Oracle NetSuite Alliance Partner and has been a Salesforce partner for more than 15 years.
HatchWorks AI	The site lists offices in Atlanta, Chicago and Dallas, plus San Jose (Costa Rica), Medellin (Colombia) and Lima (Peru)	Markets AI strategy, AI-driven software development, AI change management, agentic automation and data modernization, delivered through forward deployed engineers or small teams it calls Agentic AI Pods.	Addresses enterprises; company size is not otherwise stated.	Lists Anthropic, Google Cloud, Databricks and OpenAI as partners.
RSM US	Its press releases are datelined Chicago	Markets AI consulting in three stages: advisory (readiness assessments, use case prioritization, governance), implementation (copilots, generative AI deployments, integration with enterprise systems) and managed services.	Middle market companies, as stated on its About page.	Describes itself as a long-standing Microsoft solutions provider, and published a Middle Market AI Survey on July 21, 2026 that it says covered 1,030 senior business leaders in the US and Canada.
RTS Labs	Glen Allen, Virginia	Markets AI advisory, generative AI consulting, AI integration and agentic AI development.	Describes its clients as high-growth companies; listed industries are financial services, insurance, logistics and transportation, real estate and construction, and private equity. A mid-market focus is not stated.	Publishes a case study of an agent portal built for Landstar.
Slalom	Seattle, Washington, USA	Markets AI consulting covering machine learning, generative AI and intelligent products, and says it designs, builds and operates agentic workflows as a managed service.	Company size is not stated; the site lists financial services, healthcare and life sciences, retail and consumer goods, energy, technology, media and communications, manufacturing and the public sector.	Lists AWS, Databricks, Google Cloud, Microsoft, OpenAI, Salesforce and Snowflake as AI partners, and names Siemens, PUMA and Norwegian Cruise Line in its AI customer stories.
West Monroe	Its press releases are datelined Chicago, and its About page lists offices in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, the Washington D.C. area, London and Costa Rica	Markets AI strategy and governance, agentic transformation, AI-native software engineering, AI-enabled workforce change and AI for M&A value creation, supported by its own Intellio set of tools.	Company size is not stated; the site lists consumer and industrial products, energy and utilities, financial services, healthcare, high-tech and software, insurance, life sciences and private equity.	Announced an Agentic Transformation service and an accelerator called Intellio Agent in a press release dated December 10, 2025.
New Odyssey (the author of this page)	London, with US operations in Dallas, Texas	Finds where AI belongs in a workflow, then builds it: custom AI agents for a company's own process, and Pegasus, packaged agents for common workflows such as the month-end close, onboarding, contract review and privacy requests.	Mid-market operations, finance, HR, legal and compliance teams in the UK and US	Built the AI help desk the Talking News Federation runs in production, where a person approves every reply. Does not publish prices.

How to choose

Decide whether you need advice or a build. Some firms stop at a strategy or an assessment; others stay until something is running in production. Ask which one you are buying.
Ask for a fixed first step. A firm confident in its method can scope one process for a fixed fee before you commit to more.
Check who does the work. Mid-market projects are small enough that the people in the sales meeting should be the people building.
Ask how success is measured, and insist on a baseline recorded before the work starts.
Ask who owns the code, the prompts and the data at the end.

Where New Odyssey fits

New Odyssey is a build-led AI consultancy. We find the workflow where AI pays back, build the agent inside the systems a team already uses, and measure it against a baseline. Where one of our packaged Pegasus agents already covers the workflow we use it; where it does not, we build a custom agent. If you mainly want a board-level AI strategy, several of the firms above are a better fit.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I choose an AI consultancy for a mid-market company?: Start from one process with a named owner and a measurable cost, and ask each firm how it would prove value on that process for a fixed fee. The answers show quickly who builds and who only advises.
How much does an AI consultancy cost in the US?: It varies widely with scope. A few firms on this list publish starting prices on their own sites; most, including New Odyssey, quote after scoping a first step.
Is this a ranking?: No. The firms are listed alphabetically, with New Odyssey last because we wrote the page. Every fact about another firm comes from that firm's own website.

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