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Future Works and KPMG
Two ways to run an AI transformation. Looking for a KPMG alternative for AI transformation? KPMG is a Big 4 firm with deep roots in audit, risk, and regulatory work, and its AI offering leads with governance. Future Works leads from the other end: verified value in twelve weeks, AI agents shipping into production on outcome-staked cycles with the controls composed in. This page lays out where each model fits, fairly.
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When KPMG fits
KPMG's center of gravity is trust: audit, risk, regulatory response, and controls. If your AI program's binding constraint is a regulator, a risk committee, or an internal audit finding, a firm that leads with governance frameworks has real pull. One relationship covers the framework, the attestation posture, and an advisory bench to roll it out across the enterprise. For AI change where the first deliverable must be a defensible control environment, that shape fits.
When Future Works fits
If the binding constraint is that nothing has shipped, that is us. We run twelve-week, outcome-staked cycles: AI agents in production, value baselined in Week 2, verified by the stakeholders who own the number. Governance is a property of the build, not a phase that precedes it: agents run in production with instrumentation, audit trails, and human-in-the-loop controls where the risk warrants them. 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 governance-led advisory firm and an agentic delivery engine are built for different shapes of work. Here is how Future Works compares to a typical KPMG 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.
KPMG
A Big 4 professional services network anchored in audit, tax, and advisory. AI transformation work typically leads with risk, governance, and target operating model design.
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.
KPMG
Partner-led multidisciplinary teams with genuine depth in risk, controls, and regulatory domains, staffed through the firm's pyramid.
Speed and cycle
Future Works
Verified value in twelve weeks. Shipped workflows and a stakeholder-signed KPI delta inside the first quarter, then compound.
KPMG
Framework and assessment phases precede build. The sequence favors defensibility: control environment first, deployment after, on timelines measured in quarters to years.
Commercial model
Future Works
Outcome-staked fees, a Free Until Value pilot, and a transparent named-resource plan. Risk is shared.
KPMG
Fees scoped by workstream and seniority mix, typically time-and-materials or fixed fee per phase. Priced for governance depth and coverage.
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.
KPMG
Accountability through program governance, deliverable sign-off, and professional standards. Risk is managed with controls and documentation, not staked against P&L outcomes.
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.
KPMG
AI is approached governance-first: trusted AI frameworks, risk assessment, and responsible deployment guidance, with delivery running through the advisory practice and its alliances.
Commitments
Four contractual commitments,
live in every cycle.
Governance tells you the system is defensible. These commitments tell you it pays for itself. Written into how Future Works engages, so the outcome is shared rather than billed by the phase.
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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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