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Future Works and EY
Two ways to run an AI transformation. Looking for an EY alternative for AI transformation? EY is a Big 4 firm: assurance heritage, a global consulting practice, and EY-Parthenon carrying strategy. Future Works does a different job. One team, agentic at the core, built for speed: AI agents in production on twelve-week, outcome-staked cycles, with verified value inside the first quarter and one team answering for the number at cycle close. This page lays out where each model fits, fairly.
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When EY fits
EY brings Big 4 coverage with a strategy arm attached. If the program needs a value case from EY-Parthenon, tax and assurance judgment inside the same relationship, and a consulting bench that can staff across functions and geographies, that shape works. It suits transformations where the board wants one professional services brand across advice, controls, and delivery, and where governance depth matters as much as pace. For multi-country programs entangled with statutory and tax questions, that coverage is hard to replicate.
When Future Works fits
If the case is made and the AI still is not in production, that is our job. We collapse the strategy-to-delivery handoff: the team that scopes the value is the team that ships it, and fees are staked on the number your stakeholders sign. AI agents in production, value baselined in Week 2, verified at cycle close. What a Tier 2 SI scopes as a 12-month program staffed on time-and-materials, we run as three 12-week cycles. Same scope. Same depth. Value shipped every cycle.
The velocity is a quality lever, not a trade-off. More iteration and more insight in the same window mean sharper deliverables, not just faster ones.
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How the two models differ.
The contrast is about model and approach, not a scorecard. A Big 4 professional services network and an agentic delivery engine are built for different shapes of work. Here is how Future Works compares to a typical EY engagement across the dimensions a buyer weighs.
Delivery model
Future Works
An AI-native service that operationalizes AI inside live operations. We do not sell infrastructure; we deliver the operating outcome.
EY
A Big 4 professional services network: assurance, consulting, strategy and transactions, and tax under one global brand. EY-Parthenon carries strategy; EY Consulting carries transformation delivery.
Team
Future Works
No pyramid. AI agents do the production work; named senior experts direct them and sign for the outcome. Substitutions need your sign-off.
EY
Partner-led engagement teams staffed from a global bench. Strategy and delivery are typically separate teams with a handoff between them, coordinated through program governance.
Speed and cycle
Future Works
Verified value in twelve weeks. Shipped workflows and a stakeholder-signed KPI delta inside the first quarter, then compound.
EY
Strategy phases hand off to delivery phases, each with its own mobilization. The cadence suits programs measured in quarters to years with formal stage gates.
Commercial model
Future Works
Outcome-staked fees, a Free Until Value pilot, and a transparent named-resource plan. Risk is shared.
EY
Fees scoped by workstream and phase, typically time-and-materials or fixed fee. The strategy engagement and the delivery program are usually priced as separate pieces of work.
Risk and accountability
Future Works
ROI or We Pay: a portion of the fee is staked on validated outcomes, with twelve months of hypercare after a cycle ships.
EY
Accountability through program governance, deliverable sign-off, and professional standards. When strategy and delivery are separate engagements, the outcome accountability spans two contracts.
AI posture
Future Works
Agentic at the core. The delivery engine is built from AI agents; the humans are senior and accountable for the number.
EY
AI capability is embedded across the consulting practice and its platform investments, applied inside client programs. The operating model stays people-led.
Commitments
Four contractual commitments,
live in every cycle.
The contrast with a Big 4 program is not just pace. It is who carries the risk across the handoff. These commitments are written into how Future Works engages, so the outcome is shared rather than split across contracts.
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ROI or We Pay
A portion of every cycle's fee is staked on validated outcomes against an Approved Value Baseline. The speed of payback is our risk too, not just yours.
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Free Until Value Pilot
A proof-of-value pilot you pay for only at a production-grade outcome, so the work proves itself on your real operation before it costs you.
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Transparent Resource Plan
Named senior experts on the SOW. Substitutions need your sign-off. No labor pyramid, no juniors learning on your operation, no black box.
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12 Month Hypercare
A full year of hypercare after a cycle ships. The agents and instrumentation keep working as the business changes, with us on the hook for the outcome.
Proof
AI operationalized at Fortune 100 scale.
We have stood up instrumented operations and shipped production AI inside asset-heavy operators across real-world industries. The mechanism is the same on every engagement: a named pod, agents owning the volume, and a baseline your stakeholders sign.
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Twenty-five minute call. A Cycle 1 sketch tied to the operation, KPIs, and P&L levers in front of you right now. Baseline mechanics, cycle scope, the fastest-payback levers. No slides, no obligation.
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