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Presidio newsroom (with corroborating market examples from CloudMasonry and Insight Global)·4 min read

Consulting firms race to build dedicated AI practices and blueprints

Professional ServicesTechnologyFinancial Services

Presidio, a global digital services and AI solutions provider, announced its largest AI investment to date, launching an AI Blueprint methodology, a dedicated Lighthouse AI consulting group, and an innovation lab for AI validation. Similar moves from firms like CloudMasonry (Claude-focused consulting practice) and Insight Global (doubling its AI practice) show consulting providers rapidly productizing AI roadmaps, implementation, and managed services into structured offerings rather than ad‑hoc projects.

Why it matters for leaders
As a professional services advisor, you are now competing in a market where clients will expect a named AI blueprint, reference architectures, and a packaged consulting offer for AI transformation, not just generic strategy decks. This is the moment to define your firm’s first AI MVP offers (for example, 1–2 vertical workflows you can repeatedly implement) and the operating model around them before these blueprints become table stakes.
Opportunity signal

Design a repeatable AI advisory and build offering with named modules (readiness, blueprint, build, adoption, managed improvement) so you can credibly stand beside emerging ‘AI blueprint’ competitors and win multi‑year transformation work.

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Risk signal

If your AI work stays at pilot studies and ideation workshops while competitors show production labs, agentic workflows, and reference implementations, you risk becoming a subcontractor or being bypassed entirely when clients award large AI transformation mandates.

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