UK enterprises are spending billions on AI consultancy and getting precious little back. A survey of 1,000 senior leaders at large UK businesses found that half of all consultancy-led AI projects are falling short of expectations, with the most common cause being an excessive focus on technology rather than business outcomes. Valliance launched as an AI-native consultancy with a fundamentally different model. Fees are tied to value delivered, not hours billed.
As reported in City AM - Valliance is backed by $15m in private equity from New York-based Siguler Guff, and founded by Tarek Nseir, Anita Rajdev and Rad Parvin, and had already signed three clients at launch.
Nseir has been direct about the scale of the problem. Billions are being spent on AI initiatives that will never reach production, and the biggest consulting firms are driving that waste with outdated commercial models. Valliance was built to fix that. The launch arrived at a moment when the broader professional services sector was under significant pressure, with the Big Four facing job cuts, recruitment freezes and mounting questions about their pricing and profitability in an AI-driven world.
