Most early stage AI consulting firms don’t have the budget to hire expensive machine learning talent. For non-technical founders who can’t do the ML engineering themselves, this means getting creative when it comes to AI project delivery.
While there are plenty of non-technical AI services that a consultant can provide - much of the budget for AI services (for better or for worse) is to be allocated to technical problems, such as:

Building an AI model for X (fraud detection, product recommendation, etc)
Integrating a vendor solution into existing IT and data infrastructure
Augmenting an exist...