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Nexus vs PwC AI: Platform vs Consulting

PwC brings regulatory credibility and AI governance frameworks. Nexus brings production AI agents in weeks with FDEs alongside your team. Full comparison.

Last updated: February 2026


Quick honest summary

PwC is a $56.9B global professional services firm with 364,000 people, decades of enterprise trust, and deep expertise in compliance, audit, and regulatory-adjacent work. Their AI practice spans strategy, responsible AI frameworks, and implementation services, and they recently launched an Agent OS platform for orchestrating enterprise AI agents. PwC is one of the most credible names you can bring to a board presentation. When regulatory credibility matters above all else, or when you need an AI governance framework that satisfies auditors and regulators, PwC is a strong choice. PwC has talented people. That is not in question.

What is worth understanding is where PwC's institutional DNA comes from. PwC is, at its core, an audit and compliance firm. Advisory and consulting are large and growing practices, but the culture, the risk orientation, and the way teams are structured all trace back to assurance. When PwC enters AI implementation, the approach is advisory-led: consultants scope, project-manage, and oversee technical teams rather than building directly. This is not the same as a pure strategy firm like McKinsey; PwC's instinct is to audit, govern, and de-risk before building. That instinct has real value in regulated environments. It also shapes the pace and delivery model in ways that matter when the goal is production agents, not governance documents.

What is worth examining is the structural incentive behind the delivery model. PwC's revenue is built on billable hours and multi-phase engagements. The longer a project takes, the more phases it involves, the more the firm earns. This does not mean PwC intentionally delays; it means the business model does not reward speed. The client pays for effort and time, not for outcomes delivered.

Nexus is an enterprise AI agent platform paired with white-glove service: Forward Deployed Engineers embedded with your team, change management support, and ongoing optimization. It is not just software you buy and figure out on your own, and it is not a consulting engagement that ends with a strategy deck. Nexus is built for enterprises that need autonomous agents completing business workflows in production, with business teams owning the outcome. Nexus does not bill by the day. It is incentivized to deliver results quickly, because pricing is tied to agents in production, not hours consumed.

The core question is not "which is better" but "what do you actually need right now, and whose incentives align with getting you there?" If you need a Big 4 stamp of approval for your AI governance framework, PwC delivers that. If you need production AI agents that complete work end-to-end, deployed in weeks and owned by your business teams, that is where Nexus fits.

Most enterprises eventually need both governance and production capability. The question is which to start with, and whether a billing model built on time and phases is the right structure to deliver agents that actually run in production.


Side-by-side comparison

Dimension PwC AI Nexus
What it is
  • Global professional services firm
  • $56.9B revenue, 364,000 people
  • AI strategy and responsible AI frameworks
  • Implementation services
  • Recently launched Agent OS orchestration platform
  • Enterprise AI agent platform + embedded service
  • Forward Deployed Engineers, change management, ongoing optimization
  • Platform and people, not just one or the other
Delivery model
  • Advisory-led: consultants scope and project-manage technical teams rather than building directly
  • Consulting engagement: assess, design, build, hand off
  • Teams staffed by role and seniority
  • Hourly or project-based billing (firm earns more when projects take longer)
  • Agent OS available for platform orchestration
  • Builder-led: FDEs are engineers who implement directly with your team on a full-stack platform Nexus builds in-house
  • 3-month POC tied to measurable business outcomes
  • No IT dependency for deployment; business teams own from day one
  • Per-agent pricing tied to value; Nexus earns when agents deliver, not when hours accumulate
Who builds and owns it
  • PwC consultants build the solution
  • Knowledge transfer to your team at project end
  • Ongoing support typically requires follow-on engagement
  • Business teams build and deploy agents with FDE support
  • Your team owns the agents from the start
  • No dependency on external consultants after ramp-up
Time to production
  • Typical engagements: 6-18 months from strategy to implementation
  • Multiple phases (discovery, design, build, test, handoff), each generating billable hours
  • Agent OS claims up to 10x faster than traditional methods, relative to their own baseline
  • Most agents in production within 2-6 weeks
  • At one Nexus client, an outsourcing firm spent 1 year in "project management mode" before finalizing planning for a first knowledge assistant; Nexus delivered in 4 weeks
  • FDEs handle configuration, integration, and deployment alongside your team
Pricing model
  • $350-500+/hour for senior consultants
  • Strategy engagements typically start at $500K+
  • Full implementations range from $1M-10M+
  • Scope changes and timeline extensions generate additional billing; the incentive structure rewards complexity and duration
  • Agent OS pricing not publicly disclosed
  • Per-agent pricing tied to value delivered
  • No day rates, no FDE billing; you pay for agents that complete work
  • 3-month POC with measurable outcomes before annual commitment
  • You see results before committing
AI governance and compliance
  • Industry-leading responsible AI frameworks
  • Deep regulatory expertise in financial services, audit, and compliance
  • Trusted by boards and regulators globally
  • SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, GDPR certified
  • Full audit trails, decision traceability, role-based access
  • Governance built into the platform, not a separate workstream
Ongoing support
  • Post-engagement support requires new SOWs and additional billing
  • Consulting teams rotate to new clients
  • Every modification or evolution becomes a new revenue event for the firm
  • Continuous optimization included
  • FDEs analyze performance, refine agent logic, scale to new teams
  • Ongoing partnership, not project-based billing; Nexus is incentivized to make agents better, not to generate new SOWs
Integration breadth
  • Custom integrations built per engagement
  • Agent OS connects to Anthropic, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
  • Also supports Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, Workday
  • 4,000+ native integrations
  • Deploy across Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, email, phone, web
  • Connect to CRMs, ERPs, productivity tools without custom dev
Regulatory credibility
  • Exceptional brand recognition
  • PwC's name carries weight with boards, regulators, and auditors
  • Decades of trust in financial services, compliance, and audit
  • Enterprise-grade certifications (SOC 2, ISO 27001/42001, GDPR)
  • Proven with regulated enterprises including public telecoms and fintech
  • Growing but not yet Big 4-level brand recognition with regulators
Best for
  • AI governance frameworks
  • Regulatory-adjacent AI
  • Board-level AI strategy
  • Compliance-heavy industries where the Big 4 stamp matters
  • Organizations where the process of getting to AI matters more than the speed of getting there
  • Business teams needing production agents in weeks
  • Enterprise workflows completed end-to-end
  • Organizations that want to pay for outcomes, not billable hours
  • Engineering-grade support without 6-to-18-month consulting timelines

When PwC is the better choice

PwC is a serious firm with talented people and genuine strengths. The structural incentive question (billing for time, not outcomes) does not erase those strengths; it just means you should be clear-eyed about what you are buying and why. There are scenarios where their approach is the right one:

  • You need AI governance that satisfies your board and regulators. PwC's responsible AI framework is one of the most recognized in the industry. Their 2025 survey found that 58% of executives report responsible AI boosts ROI and efficiency, and companies with robust responsible AI programs see valuations up to 4% higher. If your board or regulators require a Big 4-validated AI governance framework before you can deploy anything, PwC is a natural choice. That credibility is hard to replicate. Just be aware that governance frameworks rooted in PwC's audit and compliance DNA can expand into extensive risk assessment phases before any AI actually gets built. Make sure the governance engagement has a clear endpoint and does not become an open-ended prerequisite that delays production indefinitely.

  • Your primary challenge is regulatory and compliance AI in financial services or audit. PwC's heritage is in assurance and audit. Their AI tools for audit (like GL.ai) and their understanding of financial regulatory requirements run deep. For use cases that sit directly adjacent to audit, tax compliance, or financial regulation, PwC consultants bring domain expertise that is genuinely specialized.

  • You need a comprehensive AI strategy before you know what to build. If your organization has not yet identified which AI use cases to prioritize, and you need a structured assessment across the entire enterprise, PwC's strategic consulting model (assess, prioritize, roadmap) provides that. Their consultants have seen hundreds of enterprises and can benchmark your AI maturity against peers. The risk to watch for: strategy engagements that expand in scope and duration because the billing model rewards thoroughness over speed. Set firm boundaries on timeline and deliverables upfront.

  • Stakeholder alignment requires a trusted third-party name. In some organizations, internal champions cannot get budget approval without an external firm validating the approach. PwC's brand opens doors at the C-suite and board level. If political credibility is the primary barrier to moving forward, that brand carries real weight.

  • You need help across multiple transformation workstreams simultaneously. PwC can staff teams across AI strategy, data governance, organizational change, process redesign, and technology implementation at the same time. For enterprises running large-scale transformation programs that extend well beyond AI agents, a firm with 364,000 people can resource that breadth. The trade-off is that broad, multi-workstream engagements also compound the billing model: more workstreams, more staffing, more billable hours. Ensure each workstream has independently measurable outcomes so progress does not hide behind the scale of the overall program.


When Nexus is the better choice

Enterprises that partner with Nexus tend to share a specific pattern: they have already tried at least one AI approach (consulting engagements, internal builds, AI SaaS tools), realized the timeline or ownership model did not deliver what they needed, and chose a platform + service approach instead. In many cases, the previous approach was structurally misaligned: the provider earned more the longer things took, and the client paid for effort rather than results.

  • You need production agents in weeks, not a strategy deck in months. PwC's typical AI engagement follows a structured path: discovery (4-8 weeks), strategy and design (6-12 weeks), build (3-6 months), testing and deployment (2-4 months), knowledge transfer and handoff (4-8 weeks). That is 6-18 months before agents run in production. Each of those phases generates billable hours; the structure itself creates a financial incentive to be thorough rather than fast. Consider a real example: at one Nexus client, an outsourcing firm spent a full year in "project management mode," only finalizing the planning phase for a first knowledge assistant. Twelve months of billing, zero production output. Nexus came in, scraped the relevant data, implemented the assistant, and pushed it to production in 4 weeks. With Nexus, most agents go live within 2-6 weeks. Orange deployed customer onboarding agents in 4 weeks. Lambda's Head of Sales Intelligence, Joaquin Paz, built his first agent in days. If the business cannot wait 12 months for results, the timeline difference is decisive.

  • You want your business teams to own the agents, not depend on consultants for every change. With PwC, the consulting team builds the solution. When they leave, your team owns something they did not build and may not fully understand. Modifications require either bringing PwC back (new SOW, new billing) or relying on internal engineering capacity. Notice the structural incentive: every change the client cannot make independently becomes a new revenue opportunity for the firm. Dependency is profitable. With Nexus, business teams build and deploy agents with FDE support from the start. When Lambda needed to adjust data sources or account segmentation, Joaquin did it himself. No consulting engagement. No waiting for availability. No new SOW.

  • You want per-agent pricing, not day rates that compound. PwC charges $350-500+ per hour for senior consultants. A modest AI implementation can run $1M-3M, with larger programs reaching $5-10M+. Scope changes, timeline extensions, and follow-on work add up. This is the core incentive misalignment: when the provider bills by the hour, every scope expansion, every additional "phase," every risk assessment that could have been lighter is a revenue event for the firm. The client pays more when things take longer; the firm earns more when things take longer. Nexus charges per-agent pricing tied to the value the agent delivers. You do not pay for FDEs. The 3-month POC is structured so you see measurable results before committing to an annual contract. The economics are fundamentally different: Nexus is incentivized to get agents into production quickly, because that is when the value (and the pricing) activates.

  • Your AI initiative cannot afford to stall after the strategy phase. This is the central challenge in the build vs buy decision. A common pattern with large consulting engagements: the strategy phase produces excellent deliverables, but implementation momentum stalls. Internal teams are not staffed to execute. The consulting team has moved on to new clients. The AI roadmap sits in a slide deck. From the firm's perspective, the strategy engagement was a success; it was delivered on time, within scope, and fully billed. The fact that nothing reached production is not the firm's structural concern, because the firm was paid for the phase, not the outcome. Nexus skips the multi-month strategy phase entirely. Forward Deployed Engineers work with your team to identify the highest-impact use case, build the agent, deploy it, and iterate based on real results. Strategy emerges from doing, not from decks.

  • You have already done the strategy work and need execution. Some enterprises come to Nexus after a Big 4 firm (like Deloitte or Accenture) has already completed an AI strategy engagement. They have the roadmap. They know which processes to automate. What they need is a platform and embedded team that can actually deploy agents in production. Nexus is built for exactly this moment.

  • You need agents that adapt to exceptions, not rigid custom builds. Consulting-built AI solutions are often rigid: designed for the original requirements, difficult to modify when business reality changes. This is also a limitation of workflow automation tools that rely on hard-coded rules. Rigidity is not accidental; it is a byproduct of the billing model. A flexible, self-evolving system generates less follow-on work than a rigid one that needs consultant intervention every time requirements shift. PwC's Agent OS is a step toward flexibility, but agent orchestration still requires configuration and ongoing development. Nexus agents are built to handle exceptions intelligently, escalate with context when uncertain, and adapt as processes evolve. At Orange, when the agent cannot confidently approve, it escalates to the salesperson with full context. Every decision is logged. The agent is the control layer.


What enterprises experienced

Orange Group: 4 weeks to production, $4M+ yearly revenue impact

Orange Group is a multi-billion euro telecom operator with 120,000+ employees across Europe and Africa. They have significant internal resources. They could have engaged any Big 4 firm or built internally. In fact, before Nexus, an outsourcing firm at Orange spent a full year in "project management mode," only finalizing planning for a first knowledge assistant. Twelve months of billable work, zero production output. The firm was paid for its time; the client received planning documents.

Nexus came in and delivered differently. While most governance-first consulting engagements are still scoping after 4 weeks, Orange's business team (not engineering, not external consultants) built customer onboarding agents across multiple European markets. Deployed in 4 weeks. 50% conversion improvement. $4M+ incremental yearly revenue. 100% adoption. 100% compliance. Scraping, implementation, and push to production: 4 weeks.

The contrast is stark: 1 year of billable planning versus 4 weeks to production. The difference is not just speed; it is structural. Nexus does not bill for time. The incentive is to deliver working agents, not to extend phases. A typical Big 4 engagement would still be in the discovery phase at week 4.

Lambda: a $4B+ AI company chose platform over consulting

Lambda is a $4B+ AI infrastructure company with 500M+ ARR. They employ world-class AI engineers and could have built custom solutions internally, or engaged any consulting firm to build for them. A consulting engagement for a company of Lambda's scale would typically start at $500K+ and take 6-12 months before a single agent ran in production.

They chose Nexus. Joaquin Paz, Lambda's Head of Sales Intelligence (not an engineer), built an autonomous research agent that monitors 12,000+ enterprise accounts annually. $4B+ in cumulative pipeline identified. 24,000+ research hours added annually. Deployed in weeks. No day rates. No phased engagement. No SOW for every modification.

Lambda is now expanding from one agent to a fleet across sales and marketing. Anticipated value: more than $7M by 2026. When Joaquin needs to adjust data sources or account segmentation, he does it himself. There is no structural incentive for anyone to make that process slow or complicated.

"I'm not an engineer. I built this in days. With the automation tools we looked at before, I would have needed to spec everything out and wait months for development."

Joaquin Paz, Head of Sales Intelligence, Lambda

European telecom operator: 40% support capacity freed with full compliance

A multi-billion euro telecom operator with 13,000+ employees deployed a multi-agent suite for support, compliance, and customer registration. 40% of support capacity freed. Full audit trails and compliance assurance. 12-week deployment. Handles millions of customer interactions. A consulting-led approach to the same scope would typically involve months of governance assessment and compliance review before any agent touched a live customer interaction. The compliance was not an afterthought at Nexus; it was built into the platform from day one, without requiring a separate multi-month workstream billed at consulting rates.


Key differences explained

Platform + FDEs vs. consulting engagement: fundamentally different delivery models and incentive structures

This is the core distinction, and it goes deeper than "software vs. services." It is about whose incentives align with your goals.

PwC's delivery model is built around consulting engagements. A team of consultants is staffed based on the scope of work: partners, directors, managers, associates. They assess your current state, design a solution, build it, test it, and hand it off. The engagement has a defined start and end. When the team leaves, your organization owns what they built, plus whatever knowledge transfer happened during the final phase. The economic engine behind this model is time: the firm bills by the hour, staffs by seniority tier, and generates revenue in proportion to duration and headcount. There is nothing nefarious about this; it is simply how the business model works. But it means the firm's financial incentive is structurally misaligned with the client's desire to get to production quickly and cheaply.

There is also a subtler dimension. PwC's institutional roots are in audit and assurance. The firm's culture is oriented around risk identification, compliance validation, and governance. When this mindset enters AI implementation, the natural posture is advisory: consultants project-manage and oversee technical work rather than building directly. This is different from, say, a strategy firm trying to become technical. PwC's instinct is to wrap implementation in layers of governance and oversight, which is valuable when compliance is the primary concern, but which adds process and time when the primary concern is getting agents into production.

Nexus is a platform paired with Forward Deployed Engineers. The platform provides the agent infrastructure: 4,000+ integrations, multi-channel deployment, enterprise governance, and the agent-first architecture that lets business teams build and own agents. FDEs are real engineers embedded with your team who identify the highest-impact use cases, design agents for your specific reality, handle integration complexity, manage organizational change, and optimize continuously. You do not pay for FDEs separately. Nexus earns when agents are in production delivering value, which means the incentive is to get there as fast as possible.

The difference is not just speed. It is ownership and alignment. With PwC, the consulting team holds the knowledge during the engagement and transfers it at the end. With Nexus, your team builds and owns from day one, with FDEs alongside them. When the engagement matures, there is no handoff gap because your team was building the whole time.

PwC's Agent OS vs. Nexus platform: orchestration layer vs. agent-first architecture

PwC launched its Agent OS in March 2025 as an enterprise AI command center for connecting and scaling AI agents. It supports drag-and-drop workflow creation, natural language transitions, and integration with major cloud platforms and enterprise systems.

This is a meaningful step from PwC toward productizing their AI capabilities, and PwC's investment in building real AI tools is genuine. But context matters: Agent OS is primarily an orchestration layer on top of existing AI agents and frameworks. It connects agents from different platforms (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, etc.) into workflows. The agents themselves still need to be built, trained, and configured. PwC's consulting teams or your internal engineers still do that work, which means the advisory delivery model remains the primary mechanism. The platform capability is new; the delivery posture, consultants overseeing and project-managing rather than building directly, is the same.

Nexus is agent-first from the ground up. The platform is purpose-built for creating, deploying, and managing autonomous agents that complete enterprise workflows. Business teams build the agents directly, supported by FDEs. The platform handles governance, compliance, integrations, and multi-channel deployment natively. It is not an orchestration layer on top of other tools; it is the tool. And because Nexus prices by agent value, not by consulting hours spent configuring the orchestration layer, the economics stay aligned with your goal: agents in production, completing real work.

For enterprises that already have multiple AI agent frameworks and need to orchestrate them, Agent OS may add value. For enterprises that need to go from "no agents" to "agents in production completing real work," Nexus is built for that path.

The consulting engagement trap: strategy to production gap

Here is a pattern Nexus sees regularly, and it is rooted in incentive structure, not incompetence.

An enterprise engages a Big 4 firm for AI strategy. The engagement costs $500K-2M and takes 3-6 months. The deliverable is a comprehensive AI roadmap: prioritized use cases, technology recommendations, organizational readiness assessment, governance framework. The work is thorough. The strategy is sound.

Then implementation stalls. The consulting team moves on. Internal engineering is already stretched with core product work. The AI roadmap sits in a slide deck. Six months later, the enterprise is in the same place operationally, just with a more expensive slide deck.

This is not a criticism of PwC's people. It is a structural challenge with the consulting model. The firm was paid in full for the strategy phase. Whether that strategy ever reaches production does not affect the firm's revenue. The team that understands the strategy is different from the team that needs to execute it, and there is a gap between the two. The business model has no mechanism to close that gap, because closing it is not where the revenue comes from.

Nexus collapses this gap by design. Forward Deployed Engineers do not produce strategy decks; they deploy agents. The first agent is typically in production within 2-6 weeks. Strategy emerges from real deployment, not from hypothetical roadmaps. If the first use case does not deliver measurable value, you know in weeks, not months. Nexus's pricing is tied to agents in production, so there is a direct financial incentive to get past strategy and into execution as fast as possible.

The cost structure: day rates vs. per-agent pricing, and what each incentivizes

PwC's billing model is built around time. Senior consultants bill at $350-500+ per hour. A team of 4-6 consultants working for 6 months generates a significant invoice before any agent runs in production. Scope changes (which are common in AI projects, since requirements evolve as you learn) trigger additional billing. Follow-on support requires new statements of work.

This is worth examining honestly. When the provider earns more the longer a project takes, there is a structural incentive to add phases, to expand scope, to frame problems as more complex than they may need to be. PwC's audit and compliance heritage reinforces this tendency: extensive governance reviews, risk assessments, and readiness evaluations can precede any actual AI deployment by months. These are not unnecessary activities, but the billing model rewards expanding them rather than streamlining them. Consulting firms are skilled at making problems feel more complex than they are, because complexity justifies more billing.

Nexus charges per-agent pricing tied to the value delivered. You do not pay for FDEs. The 3-month POC lets you validate results before committing. You are not paying for consultants' time. You are paying for agents that complete work. The economics scale differently: each additional Nexus agent builds on the infrastructure already in place. Each additional consulting engagement starts from scratch. Nexus is structurally incentivized to simplify, not to inflate complexity.

Orange generated $4M+ in incremental yearly revenue from agents deployed in 4 weeks. Lambda anticipates more than $7M in value by 2026 from their expanding agent fleet. The ROI calculation is straightforward because the agents produce measurable business outcomes, not deliverables.


Frequently asked questions

Can we use PwC for AI governance and Nexus for agent deployment?

Yes, and some enterprises do exactly this. PwC's strength in AI governance frameworks and regulatory credibility complements Nexus's strength in deploying production agents quickly. If your organization needs a Big 4-validated responsible AI framework and production agents that complete workflows, using both is a reasonable approach. PwC sets the governance guardrails; Nexus deploys agents within them. The key is to scope PwC's governance work tightly with clear deliverables and deadlines, so the governance phase does not expand indefinitely under a billing model that rewards duration. Nexus can start its 3-month POC in parallel with or immediately after the governance engagement.

We already have a PwC AI strategy engagement underway. Does Nexus still make sense?

It may make even more sense. If PwC has already identified and prioritized your AI use cases, Nexus can move directly to deployment. Many enterprises find that the hardest part is not knowing what to automate (strategy), but actually getting agents into production (execution). The strategy-to-production gap is where consulting engagements most often stall, because the firm's incentive structure ends at the strategy deliverable. Nexus and its Forward Deployed Engineers are built for the execution phase. Your PwC strategy work becomes the input; Nexus delivers the output. You get the benefit of PwC's strategic thinking without depending on a billing model that is not optimized for fast execution.

PwC has an Agent OS platform now. How is Nexus different?

PwC's Agent OS is an orchestration layer for connecting and managing AI agents across different platforms and frameworks. It helps enterprises who already have multiple AI agents coordinate them into workflows. Nexus is a purpose-built platform for creating, deploying, and managing the agents themselves. If you need to build agents from scratch and get them into production with business team ownership, Nexus handles the full lifecycle. If you already have agents from multiple vendors and need to orchestrate them, Agent OS addresses that. They solve different problems. One additional consideration: Agent OS still requires PwC consulting teams to build and configure the underlying agents, which means the hourly billing model remains the primary economic driver. The platform is new, but the incentive structure has not changed.

PwC's brand gives us credibility with our board. How does Nexus address that?

Nexus is backed by Y Combinator (F25 batch) and General Catalyst, with $4M in seed funding. The platform is SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, and GDPR certified. Named enterprise customers include Orange Group (multi-billion euro telecom, 120,000+ employees) and Lambda ($4B+ AI infrastructure company). Nexus has a 100% POC-to-contract conversion rate, meaning every pilot has converted to an annual contract. For board presentations, the proof points are concrete: $4M+ yearly revenue impact at Orange, $4B+ pipeline identified at Lambda, deployed in weeks not months. Results carry weight alongside brand names.

Is PwC's AI practice actually building agents, or mostly strategy?

PwC's practice spans both. Their strategic consulting (AI maturity assessments, responsible AI frameworks, AI roadmaps) remains a core offering. On the implementation side, they have built over 250 AI agents and launched Agent OS for orchestration. PwC's attempts to build real AI capabilities are genuine, not just marketing. However, the delivery model is still advisory-led: teams of consultants staffed to engagements, project-managing technical work, billing by the hour. The implementation capability is real, but it is wrapped in the same advisory delivery structure that characterizes all of PwC's work. The difference with Nexus is not whether PwC can build agents (they can), but how long it takes, who owns the result, what happens after the engagement ends, and whose incentives are aligned with getting you to production quickly. PwC's talented people operate within a business model that rewards thoroughness and duration. Nexus operates within a model that rewards speed and outcomes. Nexus's CEO is a former McKinsey consultant who has seen firsthand how advisory firms, including the Big 4, approach technology: as an extension of the advisory relationship rather than as a product to be built and shipped. Nexus was built to be the opposite: a builder-led platform where engineers implement directly, on infrastructure Nexus builds in-house, with no IT dependency.

What does the 3-month POC look like?

Every Nexus engagement starts with a 3-month proof of concept tied to specific, measurable outcomes defined upfront. Most agents are in production within the first 2-6 weeks. A Forward Deployed Engineer is embedded with your team for the entire period. You see the results, measure the impact, and decide whether to continue. You can exit anytime. This is why the POC-to-contract conversion rate is 100%: the engagement is structured to deliver measurable value before you commit.

We are in a heavily regulated industry. Can Nexus handle our compliance requirements?

Nexus is SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, and GDPR certified. The platform has deployed agents for public companies (Orange Group), regulated telecoms, automotive marketplace platforms with KYC/AML requirements, and European fintech companies with zero-hallucination compliance accuracy. Every agent decision is traceable with full audit trails, and agents operate within existing enterprise systems (Slack, Teams, CRM), so every action is logged. That said, if your specific situation requires Big 4 attestation of your AI governance framework for regulatory submission, PwC may need to be part of the picture. Nexus handles the operational compliance; PwC can handle the attestation. One thing to watch: PwC's audit and compliance heritage can lead to extensive governance and risk assessment phases before any AI gets built. This is sometimes called "complexity inflation," where the compliance process expands to fill the available billing capacity. With Nexus, governance is built into the platform from day one, not treated as a separate, billable workstream. A European telecom deployed agents handling millions of customer interactions with full compliance in 12 weeks. Nexus starts with a 3-month POC, not a 6-month governance review.


Worth exploring?

If your team has been evaluating consulting-led AI implementations and weighing the trade-offs (timeline, cost, ownership, incentive alignment, what happens after the engagement ends), it might be worth seeing how enterprises like Orange and Lambda approached the same decision.

Orange had every resource available: internal engineering, budget for any consulting firm, and the scale to justify custom builds. An outsourcing firm spent a year in project management mode before finalizing planning for a first assistant. Nexus deployed customer onboarding agents in 4 weeks. $4M+ yearly revenue impact. 100% adoption. Business teams own the agents. The difference was not just capability; it was incentive structure. Nexus does not earn more when projects take longer.

Lambda, a $4B+ AI company with world-class engineers, concluded that the opportunity cost of building or outsourcing was too high. They deployed in days what would have taken months under a consulting model. Anticipated value: more than $7M by 2026. No day rates. No phased billing. No SOWs for modifications.

Every Nexus engagement starts with a 3-month proof of concept tied to specific outcomes. Forward Deployed Engineers work alongside your team from day one. You do not pay for FDEs. You see results before committing. You can exit anytime. The incentive is aligned: Nexus succeeds when you succeed.


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Every engagement starts with a 3-month proof of concept tied to specific, measurable business outcomes. Forward Deployed Engineers embed with your team from day one.