The short answer.
Accenture Applied Intelligence is Accenture's AI and analytics practice. Global delivery, platform partnerships, end-to-end transformation at enterprise scale.
Average Robot closes the AI Profitability Gap™ for the teams doing the work, turning surface-level AI into real business return. Independent, senior-led, sized for leadership teams that own AI change themselves.
Who they are.
Accenture Applied Intelligence operates as Accenture's AI capability across industries and geographies. Strong on platform partnerships (Microsoft, Google, AWS, Nvidia), global rollout, and enterprise integration. Their data and AI practice is published at Accenture's data and AI services page.
Who we are.
Average Robot is a San Francisco-based change firm founded by Matt Perry and Rob Cannon, PhD. We diagnose where AI adoption is breaking inside organizations whose leadership team owns the AI change and design the people, process, and platform strategy to fix it.
Where each of us wins.
| Pick Accenture when | Pick Average Robot when |
|---|---|
| You need global rollout across multiple geographies. | Your leadership team owns the AI change, with no transformation office, and needs pace without enterprise overhead. |
| The brief involves platform integration at enterprise scale. | The bottleneck is adoption inside a specific team or function. |
| You want a single SI to own end-to-end delivery. | You want named senior people, not a global pyramid. |
| Budget supports large, multi-year enterprise engagements. | Success is measured in months and four to five figure budgets. |
Questions people ask.
Is Average Robot a global SI like Accenture?
No. Accenture Applied Intelligence is Accenture's AI and analytics practice, with global delivery and tens of thousands of practitioners. Average Robot is a focused change firm for leadership teams that own AI change themselves. We do not run global delivery programs.
When should we hire Accenture instead?
When the brief is global rollout, platform integration, and operating-model change across multiple geographies and business units. Hire us when the bottleneck is adoption inside a specific team or function.
What about the consultancy overhead?
Real. SI engagements are typically multi-year programs staffed with large pyramids. Average Robot is senior-led and sized for budgets and timelines a leadership team controls directly.