Same goal. Radically different paths. Here's exactly what you get from each.
You're comparing options for AI transformation. BCG pitched you their approach—a "multi-year agenda" with strategy frameworks, organizational redesign, and phased implementation. Now you're looking at EverWorker.
This document cuts straight to the business case. No positioning. No marketing language. Just the facts: what each option costs, what each option delivers, how long each takes, and what you actually own when it's over.
The short version: EverWorker delivers 5 custom AI Workers in 6 weeks for $60,000. BCG delivers a strategy and maybe a pilot in 18 months for $1.5 million or more. Both promise AI transformation. One treats it as a multi-year journey requiring expert guides at every step. The other treats it as a capability your team can own—with the right platform, the right jumpstart, and the right training.
The data supports the faster path. MIT found that vendor partnerships succeed 67% of the time. Internal builds guided by consultants succeed 22% of the time. You're three times more likely to fail with the traditional consulting approach.
Read on for the detailed comparison, or jump to the section that matters most to you.
| EverWorker | BCG | |
|---|---|---|
| Investment | $60,000 | $1.5M–$3M+ |
| Timeline | 6 weeks to production | 12–18 months (their "multi-year agenda") |
| What You Get | 5 custom AI Workers (complex multi-agent systems) built for your specific use cases | Strategy documents, frameworks, roadmap; maybe a pilot in 9-12 months |
| Platform Access | Unlimited users, unlimited AI Workers, unlimited workflows, unlimited scale | You build what they scope—scaling requires new engagements |
| System Integration | Connect to anything with an API—CRM, ERP, ATS, helpdesk, legacy systems. No integration fees. | Custom integration projects billed separately |
| Knowledge Training | Unlimited—train AI on all your documents, processes, institutional knowledge | Scoped to specific use cases in the SOW |
| Who Creates | Business users. No code. No technical complexity. | Consultants build it. Your team watches. |
| Ownership | You own everything. Modify, extend, scale independently. | You own deliverables. Ongoing changes require ongoing fees. |
| Privacy | 100% private. Single-tenant. No shared models. No training on your data. | Depends on their implementation architecture |
| After 6 Weeks | Your team creates AI Workers independently. You own the capability. | You have a roadmap. Maybe a pilot. Consultants are still billing. |
| Week | EverWorker | BCG |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Discovery call. Demo of working AI Worker built for your use case. | Discovery workshop. Stakeholder interviews begin. |
| 2–4 | Building your first AI Workers with your team. They're learning the platform. | Assessment phase. More interviews. Data collection. |
| 6 | 5 AI Workers in production. Your team creates independently. Project complete. | Strategy presentation. Roadmap delivered. Pilot scoping begins. |
| 12 | You've built 10 more AI Workers on your own. Expanding to new functions. | Pilot in development. Consultants still building. |
| 18 | AI Workers across every function. Compounding returns. No consulting fees. | Maybe production. Maybe. Change management phase begins. |
| 24 | Two years of ROI captured. Capability owned. | Consultants transitioning off. Your team trying to maintain what they built. |
| What You Get | EverWorker ($60K) | BCG ($1.5M+) |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | Production in 6 weeks | Production in 18 months (if you get there) |
| Capability Transfer | Your team builds AI Workers, not consultants | Consultants do the work; your team observes |
| Independence | No ongoing consulting dependency | Changes require new engagements |
| Scale | Unlimited users, workers, integrations, knowledge | Scoped to SOW; expansion billed separately |
| Privacy | 100% private, single-tenant | Varies by implementation |
| Ownership | Platform access + AI Workers + know-how | Deliverables as defined in contract |
| Success Rate | 67% (vendor partnership model) | 22% (internal build model) |
BCG's model requires length. Discovery takes months. Strategy takes months. Pilots take months. Change management takes months. Each phase generates revenue. The longer the engagement, the better the outcome—for them.
Our model requires speed. We built a platform so business users create AI Workers without code, without engineers, without technical complexity. We built services so we work with your team in 6 weeks, not for your team over 18 months. We built enablement so you don't need us after week six.
BCG needs you to need them.
We need you to not need us. That's the goal.
That's not a criticism of BCG's people—they're smart, capable consultants. It's a criticism of the model. When your revenue depends on engagement length, you don't optimize for speed. When your value proposition is expertise, you don't optimize for knowledge transfer.
We optimize for both. Because our business model is different. We want you to succeed fast, tell others, and expand on your own. Your independence is our growth strategy.
Most vendors cap users, cap workflows, cap integrations. We don't.
Unlimited users: Roll out across every team. No per-seat fees. No adoption friction.
Unlimited AI Workers: Build one. Build fifty. Build for every function. No incremental cost.
Unlimited integrations: CRM, ERP, ATS, helpdesk, email, databases, legacy systems—anything with an API. Our Universal Agent Connector makes connecting as easy as checking a box. No integration fees.
Unlimited knowledge: Train AI Workers on every document, every process, every piece of institutional knowledge using our Agent Knowledge Engine. If your people can read it, AI can use it. No storage limits.
Unlimited scale: Your AI workforce grows with you. No renegotiation. No upgrade tiers.
At $60K, you're not buying a pilot. You're buying a platform.
Week 1: We learn your processes, your systems, your pain points. You see a working demo AI Worker for your specific use case. No charge for the demo.
Weeks 2-5: We build your five highest-ROI AI Workers together. Your team is hands-on—learning the platform, understanding the architecture, building alongside us. This is how we remove the barriers to AI-first transformation.
Week 6: Your AI Workers are in production. Your team has created at least one AI Worker independently. You own the capability.
Week 7 and beyond: You build more. You scale. You don't call us unless you want to.
Don't want to wait 6 weeks? You don't have to.
Our template AI Workers for sales, marketing, finance, HR, recruiting, and customer support are ready now. Customize them yourself. No code. Deploy today. See results this week.
The 6-week engagement is for complex, custom, multi-agent systems. For straightforward use cases, you can be live in hours.
With BCG, you own deliverables—documents, maybe some code, intellectual property as defined in the SOW. Want to modify something? Extend a use case? Add a new function? Call the consultants. Start a new engagement.
With EverWorker, you own capability:
Our goal is for you to fire us as fast as possible. That's not a slogan—it's our business model. We want you to succeed, tell others, and grow independently. Your independence is our growth strategy.
Let's be honest about the situation you're facing.
You've sat through the presentations. AI that slashes costs by 40%. AI that accelerates revenue growth. AI that transforms customer experience. The promise is intoxicating.
And then reality sets in.
You call IT. They're enthusiastic. They're capable. And they tell you it's going to take 12 months minimum. They need to build infrastructure, run security reviews, find developers who actually understand agentic AI. Maybe they'll start with a proof of concept. Maybe it works. Maybe it doesn't. Maybe it never escapes the lab because by month eight, priorities have shifted.
Or you buy the platforms everyone's talking about. Chatbot here, automation tool there, AI assistant over there. You're $400,000 in before you realize these tools can't talk to each other. They can't be customized for your actual business processes. They work beautifully for the generic use cases in the demo, but your business isn't generic.
Or you bring in the big consulting firms. $1.5 million, maybe $3 million, 18 months of engagement. They build you something impressive. The PowerPoint decks are gorgeous. The steering committee meetings are productive. And then they leave.
Suddenly you own this sophisticated system that nobody on your team knows how to modify. Can't extend it. Can't scale it. Can't even fully explain how it works. You've spent millions to create a dependency, not a capability.
Your best people are still trapped executing processes when they should be growing your business. Every day you wait is another day your competitors might be pulling ahead.
The companies that succeed at AI transformation figured out that the choice isn't "build vs. buy vs. consult." All three of those paths have fundamental problems.
The third path is custom AI Workers, delivered in weeks—not developed over years. This is how forward-thinking companies reimagine their business with agentic AI.
Picture your organization six weeks from now:
Your customer support team has AI Workers handling tier-1 tickets autonomously—24/7, in every language your customers speak. They don't just route tickets. They resolve them. Password resets. Account updates. Status inquiries. All handled automatically, using your knowledge base, your product documentation, your resolution procedures. Your human agents focus on complex cases that actually require empathy and judgment. Customer satisfaction is climbing. Response times are measured in seconds, not hours.
Your sales team has AI Workers updating CRM records based on meeting transcripts, identifying which deals need attention, drafting personalized follow-up emails based on customer context, and surfacing the strategic insights your reps should actually be acting on. Your top performers spend their days doing what you hired them for—building relationships and closing deals—instead of drowning in data entry.
Your finance team has AI Workers matching invoices to purchase orders, validating against approval policies, flagging exceptions, and posting to your ERP. One customer found a duplicate vendor payment of $4,699 on the first day. Close times shrink by 60%. Manual reconciliation disappears.
Your recruiting team has AI Workers sourcing candidates, conducting initial screenings, scheduling interviews, and managing candidate communication. 847 candidates searched. 127 applications screened. 47 passive candidates engaged with personalized outreach. 14 phone screens scheduled. All without a single manual task.
Not a roadmap. Not a strategy document. Working AI Workers in production, solving real problems, delivering measurable ROI. Many companies go from idea to employed AI Worker in just 2-4 weeks.
This transformation happens because we've built something fundamentally different from the consulting model.
We start with your processes, not our frameworks.
We don't force you into a generic "Deploy, Reshape, Invent" agenda. We map your actual workflows—with all their specific steps, exceptions, and requirements. Then we identify your five highest-ROI use cases. The processes that, if automated completely, would deliver the most value to your business.
We train AI Workers on your knowledge.
Your AI Workers learn from the same documentation you'd give a new hire. Process guides, product information, institutional knowledge, examples of good work. Our Agent Knowledge Engine handles all the technical complexity—vector databases, RAG pipelines, embedding models—so you focus on what actually moves the needle: your domain expertise, written down. If your people can read it, AI can use it.
We connect to every system you already use.
CRM, ERP, ATS, helpdesk, marketing automation—if it has an API, your AI Workers can work there. Our Universal Agent Connector supports API, MCP, webhooks, and agentic browser. Connecting AI Workers to your stack is as easy as checking a box and writing a few sentences. No integration backlog. No months-long projects.
We build with you, not for you.
Here's the difference between EverWorker and consulting firms: our goal is for you to fire us as fast as possible.
We deliver pilot AI Workers in days so you can see results immediately. We refine them into production-ready workers in weeks. And we build them hand-in-hand with your team so they're learning the entire time. By week six, you have five AI Workers handling complex business processes. More importantly, you have a team that understands how to create more.
The training wheels come off fast because the goal isn't for us to be your AI department. The goal is for you to become an AI-first organization.
You own everything we build.
No vendor lock-in. No subscription to someone else's limitations. AI Workers that get smarter over time because they're learning from your business. Your team can modify them as your processes evolve. They can extend them to handle new use cases. Real capability you control—forever.
The traditional AI transformation paths all share the same flaw: they create dependency.
Consulting engagements are designed so the longer you need them, the more they make. Internal builds require specialized engineering talent you'll spend years trying to hire. Off-the-shelf platforms lock you into their limitations and their pricing.
EverWorker is designed around independence.
Platform: A complete AI infrastructure that business users can actually operate—not just IT. Agent orchestration for complex multi-agent systems. Integration with 50+ business systems. Support for multiple LLMs so you're never locked into one vendor. No-code creation through EverWorker Canvas. AI solutions for every business function—marketing, finance, HR, operations, customer support.
Services: Expert guidance that accelerates your success without creating dependency. Discovery to identify your highest-ROI use cases. Hands-on building alongside your team. Training that transforms your people from AI users into AI creators. Six weeks to production-ready AI Workers. Then you're self-sufficient.
Enablement: Free certifications through EverWorker Academy covering AI fundamentals, advanced concepts, strategy, and implementation. Your people go from AI novice to AI creator in hours, not months. The organizations that transform fastest aren't the ones with the biggest AI budgets—they're the ones that unleash their people's creativity by giving them the tools and knowledge to build AI solutions themselves.
This is the Virtuous Cycle of AI-First Transformation: find use cases, create AI Workers, empower your team to create their own, repeat and expand. Each cycle gets faster. Each cycle delivers more value. Each cycle builds more capability.
The consulting mindset is built on scarcity. Do more with less. Cut costs. Optimize. Slash capabilities and teams, cripple innovation, sacrifice customer experiences—just to lower the cost of doing business.
That's the wrong frame for AI.
AI isn't about doing the same work faster. It's about doing work you never had capacity for. It's about giving your team AI teammates that handle the repetitive processes, the data reconciliation, the customer follow-ups—all the work that currently falls through the cracks because nobody has time.
This is the shift:
From automation to delegation. You don't just speed up tasks. You hand off work entirely.
From siloed tools to integrated execution. AI Workers that operate across every system, every team, every process.
From engineers building for the business to the business building for itself. Domain experts creating AI solutions without waiting for development sprints.
The companies that win won't be the ones who optimized their way to success. They'll be the ones who expanded their way there. More ideas shipped. More work done. More of the business you've always wanted to run.
This isn't about whether BCG has smart people. They do.
This isn't about whether consulting can work. It can—22% of the time.
This is about what you're buying:
Option A: $1.5M+ for an 18-month journey with a 22% success rate, ongoing dependency, and a team that watched consultants work.
Option B: $60K for 6 weeks of building together, a 67% success rate, zero dependency, and a team that owns the capability forever.
One option treats AI transformation as a years-long expedition requiring expert sherpas. The other treats it as a capability your team can own with the right platform, the right jumpstart, and the right training.
One conversation. We build you a demo AI Worker—for your specific use case, at no charge, with no obligation.
That's not consulting theater. That's confidence.
EverWorker: $60K. 6 weeks. 5 AI Workers. Unlimited everything. You own the capability.