AI Consulting & Strategy · India & Global
AI advice from people who build, not decks.
Most AI strategy fails at the same spot: the gap between the slide and the system. Our consultants are the engineers who would be accountable for making it real, so the advice survives contact with production.
How we help
Use-case discovery & prioritization
A structured sweep of your workflows to find where AI genuinely pays, scored by feasibility, ROI and risk, with the unviable ideas killed early and explicitly.
Architecture & vendor review
Second opinions on proposed AI architectures, model choices and vendor pitches. We've seen what breaks; we'll tell you before you sign.
Build vs. buy decisions
An honest analysis of when an off-the-shelf tool is enough and when custom is worth it, including the answer consultants hate giving: don't build this.
AI roadmaps & pilot design
A sequenced plan from first pilot to production platform, with eval criteria defined up front so success isn't a matter of opinion.
What you get that generic consultancies don't have
Frontier-lab calibration
Our engineers worked on projects for OpenAI and Google during their time at Turing. We know what state-of-the-art actually looks like, and what's marketing.
Numbers, not adjectives
Every recommendation comes with a cost model covering tokens, infrastructure and people, plus an eval plan. If a proposal can't be measured, we don't make it.
Implementation-ready output
Deliverables are written for the engineers who build next: architecture docs, data requirements, risk registers, eval specs. No 60-slide decks that die in a drive.
Skin in the game
We're happy to be held to our own advice. Many consulting engagements convert into us building the thing we recommended, at the price we estimated.
Typical engagements
The AI opportunity blueprint is ₹75,000 in India, AED 10,000 in the GCC or $3,000 in the United States. It produces a prioritized use-case map, ROI model, architecture and risk boundaries, and a decision-ready pilot scope. Focused pilots use the regional ranges published on the pricing page.
- 2-week AI opportunity assessment for a leadership team
- Architecture review before a major AI vendor contract
- Rescue review of an AI project that isn't converging
- Data-readiness audit before an ML or RAG initiative
- Fractional AI-lead support for a growing engineering team
FAQ
Questions we hear a lot
Do you provide AI consulting in Delhi and across India?
Yes. Mindela is India-based and works with teams in Delhi NCR, Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai and other cities, either on site when the engagement needs it or remotely. We also serve clients worldwide. We do not claim a local office in every city; you work directly with the senior engineers responsible for the advice and delivery.
Who is AI consulting for: startups or enterprises?
Both, with different shapes. Startups usually need architecture and build-vs-buy decisions made fast and cheaply reversible. Enterprises need feasibility, compliance and integration mapped before committing budgets. We run both playbooks and price them differently.
What does an engagement look like?
Most start with a fixed-scope, fixed-price assessment of 2 to 4 weeks: interviews, systems review, use-case scoring, and a written plan with costs and eval criteria. From there you can build with us, build in-house against our spec, or stop. The deliverable stands alone either way.
Can you review work from another vendor?
Yes. Architecture reviews and project-rescue assessments are a significant share of our consulting work. You get a written, evidence-based read on what's sound, what's fragile and what it would take to fix, which you can share internally or with the vendor.
Do you only recommend solutions you would build?
No. When an off-the-shelf product, a simpler automation or doing nothing yet is the right answer, that's the recommendation. Our consulting is only worth buying if it's independent of our delivery pipeline.
How do you price consulting?
The fixed-scope AI opportunity blueprint is ₹75,000 in India, AED 10,000 in the GCC or $3,000 in the United States. It includes workflow discovery, use-case prioritization, ROI, architecture, data and risk boundaries, and a pilot scope. Embedded advisory and implementation are quoted separately with the number and boundary agreed before work starts.
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Ready when you are.
Tell us what you're working on. You'll get an honest read on feasibility, timeline and cost.