Why mid-market companies need a specialist for AI
Companies with $10M to $200M in revenue have a lot to gain from AI and few good ways to get it. Large consultancies are built for enterprises, vendors recommend their own products, freelancers rarely stay, and internal teams are already busy. A specialist firm builds a plan for your company with current tools, then implements and maintains it.
What AI can do, and what most companies have running
Why the gap exists
The tools change every few months, and most advice about AI is written for enterprises or written to sell a product. A leadership team with a business to run has little time to sort out which of it applies to them.
Will it close on its own?
Probably, over time. Tools will get easier to adopt and good patterns will settle. Companies that wait for that point will be adopting what their competitors already use.
How to get the benefit now
Bring in specialists who learn how your company runs, build a plan around it, and implement that plan with the best tools available today.
The usual options, at your size
Each of these works well for someone. Here is where each one falls short for a company between $10M and $200M in revenue.
- Option
- Large consultancies
- Good at
- Strategy work for large enterprises, with deep benches and established methods.
- Where it falls short for you
- Their pricing and staffing are built for enterprise budgets. A mid-market engagement often gets the junior team, a long timeline and a strategy deck instead of working systems.
- Option
- Software vendors
- Good at
- Knowing their own product well and getting it switched on quickly.
- Where it falls short for you
- Their plan always includes their product. Nobody is assessing whether it fits how you operate, or what happens to cost and control as usage grows.
- Option
- Freelancers and small shops
- Good at
- Building a pilot quickly and at low cost.
- Where it falls short for you
- Security, governance and upkeep are usually out of scope. They are rarely around a year later to maintain what they built and answer for it.
- Option
- Your internal team
- Good at
- Knowing your business, systems and people better than anyone outside it.
- Where it falls short for you
- Their time already goes to running the business. Their recommendations work around internal politics, and when the person who built it moves on, the knowledge leaves too.
What Kyver does differently
Kyver is the same team as Sightsource, which has built and supported custom business software since 2009. We assess objectively, build with current tools, and handle five things every implementation needs.
Security
Pilots often give an assistant broad access and trust it to behave. We give each agent a written scope and block requests outside it before they run.
How we handle securityGovernance
We decide with you which actions need a person's sign-off, and the approval step is in place from the first release.
How we handle governanceCost
Instead of open-ended per-token bills, most of the work runs on hosted models at a fixed monthly cost, with caps on the rest.
How we handle costTraceability
Every AI session is recorded step by step, so when something goes wrong you can see why and fix the cause.
How we handle traceabilityMaintainability
We have no stake in your internal politics, we document everything, and we stay to run and update what we build.
How we handle maintainabilityScoped in the assessment
The plan sets out what each of the five needs in your business, and what it will cost to run.
How the assessment works
Waiting has a cost, and your competitors collect it
While you wait, some of your competitors are putting AI to work on the same processes you still run by hand. Their savings add up each quarter, and the distance gets harder to close.
The assessment keeps the first step small: a fixed price, a plan you keep, and the fee back if you implement it with us within 6 months. How the assessment works
Start with the assessment
Fixed price, agreed up front. Implement the plan with us within 6 months and we refund the fee.