The AI & Client Value Workshop.

AI is collapsing the price of the work clients used to pay agencies for. A working session for leadership teams to see what's exposed, where the remaining value lives, and what to do about it.

Duration3 hours
GroupLeadership team, 4–6
FormatVideo + Mural board

Six questions that drive the workshop.

  1. 1 When was the last time a client got something they hadn't asked for and weren't being billed for?
  2. 2 If the biggest client's CEO described the agency to a peer, would the word "strategic" appear — or just "they do good work"?
  3. 3 For the top five clients: what problem are they actually trying to solve inside their own organization?
  4. 4 If the offering had to be redesigned from scratch today — what to keep, kill, rebuild? And why hasn't it happened?
  5. 5 Where does value get created beyond the deliverable itself? Which of those moments still work?
  6. 6 If AI made assembly free tomorrow, what's the half clients would still pay for — clearly enough that they'd understand what they're buying?

How the session runs.

1

Pick the sample together

A 15-minute pre-call. Three or four client relationships, chosen to span the range — not just the urgent ones.

2

The frameworks, applied live

Each sample client gets worked through assembly vs. judgment, value placement, AI pressure shape, and whatever else earns its place.

3

Concrete next moves

Each relationship walks out with at least one specific next move. A reprice. A scope rewrite. A new question. An escalation. A retirement.

What the team walks out with.

Assembly vs. judgment

The two layers in every engagement. AI is collapsing the price of one. The other is what's being underpriced.

From partner to vendor

The drift from co-creation to transaction. Never a decision — just years of small accommodations. Visible once named.

The AI pressure map

Which client relationships are exposed now, which are exposed later, and which conversations have to happen first.

The method that scales

The questions to bring to every other client, every new pitch, every renewal. The map is the artifact; the method is the work.

Ways we help make the changes happen.

200+ Agencies Advised RAND Corporation Researcher MIT Sloan Management Review Author of UNMANAGED 94+ NPS Across Engagements

Start with a conversation, not a pitch.

Tell me about your agency and I'll tell you whether this is the right starting point.

No pitch, no pressure. Just a conversation about what you're seeing.