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List your AI practice

How the AI Consultancy Finder directory will work for consultants, what it costs, when billing starts and the free blue tick for the founding 50.

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Listing your AI consultancy

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Key facts

  • The directory lists UK AI consultancies; the first practice is listed, and the directory opens to other practices soon.
  • A listing costs £24 + VAT a month including 1 consultant, plus £12 + VAT for each extra consultant, with no minimum term.
  • Billing starts only after a practice's first qualifying enquiry, and we take no commission on the work.
  • Directory order and badges are never for sale.
  • The first 50 consultants to join get a free blue-tick application; it can still fail.

The directory is not open to other practices yet

We are building a directory of AI consultants, agencies and freelancers for UK businesses. The first practice is listed: Digital Tactics, the company that runs this site, with that interest declared at the top of its listing. The directory opens to other practices soon. We are publishing our advice for buyers first, because that is how buyers will find us, and we are talking to consultants who would like to be listed.

We have not set an opening date, and we won't give one until we are sure we can keep it.

How it will work

  • Buyers find you. Businesses will search the directory by the service they need and where they are, and contact you from your profile.
  • We introduce, you contract. We pass the enquiry to you. We are not a party to the work, we don't act as an agent for either side and we don't handle project payments. You and the buyer agree terms directly.
  • No commission. You keep all of your fee.
  • No pay-to-rank. Directory order is never for sale, and neither are badges.

What it costs

WhatPriceIncluding VAT
A practice listing, including 1 consultant£24 + VAT a month£28.80
Each extra consultant£12 + VAT a month£14.40

There is one plan, priced by the number of consultants. It is monthly and rolling, with no minimum term: you can cancel at any time, and the cancellation takes effect at the end of the month you have paid for.

Billing starts with your first enquiry

You add a card when you list, and we charge nothing until your practice receives its first qualifying enquiry. An enquiry qualifies only if all five of these are true:

  1. It comes from an identifiable organisation: a business email domain, or a verified phone number.
  2. It asks for a service you list.
  3. Its stated budget is at or above the minimum project size you set on your profile.
  4. It isn't a sales pitch, a recruiter, a job application or academic research.
  5. It isn't from your own practice or anyone connected with it.

When it arrives, we email you the same day. You then have 7 days to tell us it doesn't qualify, and the first charge is taken only after those 7 days. From then on billing is monthly, including in months when no enquiry arrives.

The blue tick

The blue tick is extended vetting of your standing and experience: your track record, case studies, references and credentials. The badge says what we checked and when, and it lapses if it isn't renewed.

The fee pays for the vetting, not the result. Applications can fail, and no plan includes or speeds up a badge. The price is provisional: £195 + VAT for an application and £95 + VAT a year for re-vetting. We will confirm it before applications open.

The founding 50

The first 50 consultants to join get their blue-tick application free. It is the same vetting, with the same chance of failing: a free application never means a guaranteed badge. Re-vetting after 12 months is at the normal price. The offer counts consultants, not practices.

What happens next

  1. Now: we publish advice for buyers, list our own practice with the interest declared, and talk to consultants.
  2. Next: consultant sign-up, profiles, verification and billing.
  3. Then: the directory opens to buyers, once enough approved consultants are listed in each of our core service categories.
  4. Later: buyers can post a project brief and receive proposals.

Get in touch

To ask a question, or to hear when sign-up opens, email us at [email protected]. Our privacy notice explains what we do with your email.

How search ranks results

  1. Search turns what you type into words, ignoring case, punctuation, plurals and common words such as "for", "my" and "AI" (every practice here works on AI, so it does not tell them apart).
  2. Each service, sector and skill in our taxonomy scores 10 points if its name, or one of the other names we list for it, appears in your words as a whole phrase. Otherwise it scores 3 points for each of your words in those names, and 1 point for each other word in its description.
  3. A practice scores the points of the services it offers in full, 0.8 times the points of its skills and 0.5 times the points of its sectors, plus 1 point for each of your words in its name or description. A practice that scores nothing is not shown.
  4. Results are ordered by that score, highest first. Equal scores are ordered by distance from the postcode district you give, or from your location if you choose to share it, nearest first. Equal again, they are ordered by name, A to Z.
  5. You can sort by distance or by name instead, and filters only remove practices: they never change the order of the rest.
  6. Nothing a practice pays for, and nothing it can set in its listing, changes its position. The only inputs are your words, the practice's services, sectors, skills and description, and its postcode district.

The code that does this is the same code that writes this section, so the two cannot disagree. If we ever change the formula, this page changes with it and says when.