CREDONTIS
CHICAGO  ·  EST. 2026
AI CONSULTING FOR THE MID-MARKET

Enterprise-grade AI. Mid-market scale.

A consulting practice for the two hundred thousand companies the enterprise players will never call — built systems, transferred ownership, measured returns.

LEADERSHIP CEO · ORACLE AI SOFTWARE ENGINEER

01THE OPPORTUNITY GAP

The market above has been served. The middle hasn't.

Palantir, Accenture, and the bulge-bracket integrators built the AI transformation playbook — then priced it for the Fortune 500. Below that line sits America's mid-market: too complex for off-the-shelf software, too small for a $10M engagement, and largely without a serious AI partner.

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Average annual revenue from each of Palantir's top-20 customers, as reported in 2024.

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U.S. mid-market companies — firms between $10M and $1B in revenue.

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Of private-sector GDP is produced by the mid-market, with almost no dedicated AI coverage.

The playbook exists. It has simply never been priced for the companies that run the real economy.
CREDONTIS THESIS — 2026
02WHAT WE DO

Four ways we make AI pay for itself

Every engagement is scoped against a measurable P&L outcome — hours recovered, revenue captured, or cost removed.

I

Opportunity Audit

A two-week diagnostic that maps your workflows, data, and economics into a ranked roadmap of AI use cases — each with a projected return and a build plan.

2 WEEKS · FIXED
II

Custom AI Systems

Production-grade agents, copilots, and decision tools built on your data and your stack — deployed in weeks, and owned by you rather than rented from us.

6–12 WEEKS
III

Process Automation

Back-office, operations, and customer workflows redesigned around AI: intake, documents, reporting, scheduling, reconciliation.

SCOPED TO ROI
IV

Team Enablement

Training, governance, and operating playbooks so your people run the systems confidently — and the results outlive the engagement.

ONGOING
03POSITIONING

Same discipline. Different altitude.

We keep what makes the enterprise players effective — outcome-first deployment, real engineering — and strip out everything the mid-market can't absorb.

DIMENSION
THE ENTERPRISE PLAYBOOK
CREDONTIS
Typical contract
$10M+, multi-year
$50K – $250K per engagement
Time to value
12 – 18 months
6 – 12 weeks
Operating model
Embedded teams, indefinitely
Build → transfer → support
Built for
Fortune 500 and governments
$10M – $500M revenue companies
04HOW WE ENGAGE

From first call to production in ninety days

01

Diagnose

WEEKS 1 – 2

Opportunity audit across workflows, data, and economics. Output is a ranked, ROI-scored roadmap.

02

Pilot

WEEKS 3 – 8

Build the single highest-return system first — live users, real data, and a measured baseline.

03

Deploy

WEEKS 9 – 12

Harden, integrate, and roll out. Security review, training, and documentation included.

04

Scale

ONGOING

Quarterly retainer: monitoring, model updates, and the next use case off the roadmap.

Every phase ends with a go / no-go decision — the client is never locked into the next step.
05THE MARKET

A spend wave the incumbents aren't positioned to catch

MID-MARKET AI SERVICES SPEND, $B — ILLUSTRATIVE TRAJECTORY

The economics flipped

Frontier-quality inference is down two orders of magnitude since 2022. Enterprise-grade systems now clear ROI at mid-market budgets.

Urgency arrived

Mid-market boards and PE sponsors are mandating AI adoption — but internal teams can't build it alone.

No natural vendor

Big integrators can't serve $150K engagements profitably; freelancers can't deliver production systems. The lane is open.

The highest-return AI work isn't moonshots — it's unglamorous workflows measured in recovered hours and captured margin.
LOGISTICS · MANUFACTURING · HEALTHCARE · PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
06BUSINESS MODEL

Recurring revenue from day one

The audit funds itself, the build carries the margin, and the retainer compounds — every client becomes a pipeline for the next use case.

Opportunity Audit

$25K
FIXED · 2 WEEKS

A paid diagnostic that de-risks the relationship and seeds the build pipeline.

Build Engagements

$75K–$250K
FIXED SCOPE · 6–12 WEEKS

System builds priced against projected return, not headcount.

Care & Scale

$8K–$25K
PER MONTH · RETAINER

Monitoring, updates, enablement — and first call for every new use case.

Target mix at steady state: roughly half of revenue on retainer within eighteen months of launch.
07TIMING

Why this works in 2026 — and didn't in 2022

01

The economics flipped

Frontier-quality inference costs have fallen by roughly two orders of magnitude. Systems that only a Fortune 500 budget could justify now clear ROI at mid-market scale.

02

The tooling matured

Agent frameworks, evaluation suites, and deployment infrastructure turned year-long integration projects into six-week builds.

03

The demand arrived

Mid-market boards and PE sponsors are mandating AI adoption. The question changed from "why?" to "who do we call?" — and today there is no good answer.

04

Trust became the moat

After two years of failed pilots and vaporware, buyers want a partner who scopes to outcomes, transfers ownership, and stays accountable. That is the entire model.

START A CONVERSATION

The mid-market doesn't need a Palantir. It needs a partner.

Two weeks. One audit. A ranked roadmap of what AI is actually worth inside your company — before you commit to anything.

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