The hourless consultancy. · An Unnamed Roads venture
Consulting work, without the hours.
We do what you hire consultants for, with right-sized AI and process automation. You see the ROI case before we start, and the measured result every month after.
Fixed price · No timesheets · You own everything
Billable hours
0 SEK
Ticking…
No case, no project. We only start when the numbers work, and we show you the numbers.
- ROI case before every project
- ROI tracked monthly
- ROI Floor Guarantee
- 0 vendor commissions
The hour is the problem.
When AI can do the work in minutes, paying for hours is paying for slowness.
| Hourly consultancy | The Outcome Layer |
|---|---|
| Paid for time | Paid against your return |
| Estimate first, invoice later | ROI case first, fixed price |
| May use AI internally, still bills by the hour | Uses the cheapest model that does the job, at cost |
| Delivers a report | Delivers a process that keeps running |
| Leaves when the hours run out | Measures the result every month |
| Often partnered with software vendors | Independent. No commissions, ever |
Even the largest consulting firms are moving away from the hour. We started without it.
Three steps. One number that matters.
1. Prove
We measure what the work costs you today and build the ROI case. No case, no project.
2. Build
We automate step by step, using the cheapest AI that clears your quality bar, inside the tools you already use.
3. Run
We operate it, a human signs off what matters, and you get an ROI report every month.
The OUTCOME Method
Seven steps from consultant invoice to measured return.
Prove
O — Observe
Invoices, hours, lead times, errors.
U — Underwrite
ROI case and agreed floor. If payback is not there, we stop.
Build
T — Triage
Every step on the Right-Size Ladder: rule, small, mid, frontier, or human.
C — Construct
Built in your tools, with logs, permissions, and approvals.
Run
O — Operate
A named human reviews anything that leaves the building.
M — Measure
ROI dashboard live from day one. Monthly report.
E — Exit or expand
Take it over, fully documented, or pick the next workflow.
The Right-Size Ladder
We do not use the biggest model. We use the cheapest one that does the job, and a human where judgement matters.
What we take off your consultant bill
Pick a function to see the work we replace and how we measure it.
Finance
Replaces: Interim controllers, close support
First automation: Invoice capture and matching
We measure: Days to close, cost per invoice
Management reporting
Replaces: Reporting and BI consultants
First automation: Automated monthly pack and commentary
We measure: Hours per report
Customer service
Replaces: Outsourced first line
First automation: Triage and drafted answers
We measure: Cost per ticket, CSAT
Sales
Replaces: Sales-ops and bid consultants
First automation: RFP and tender drafting
We measure: Hours per bid
Marketing
Replaces: Agency hours
First automation: Content and reporting pipeline
We measure: Agency hours per month
Procurement
Replaces: Spend-analysis consultants
First automation: Spend categorisation and contract alerts
We measure: Categorised spend, missed renewals
HR
Replaces: HR and policy consultants
First automation: Policy Q&A and onboarding flow
We measure: HR hours per hire
IT
Replaces: Maintenance consultants
First automation: Ticket triage and self-service
We measure: Tickets solved without a human
Legal and compliance
Replaces: Lawyer hours on standard work
First automation: Contract first-pass review
We measure: Lawyer hours per contract
Operations
Replaces: Process and lean consultants
First automation: Process mining and exception handling
We measure: Lead time, manual exceptions
What are your consultants really costing you?
Three numbers. Thirty seconds. An honest estimate.
Your recurring consultant spend: 864 000 SEK / year
Typically addressable with automation: 302 400 SEK – 561 600 SEK / year
Estimated payback (illustrative): 3–3 months
This is an estimate based on your inputs, not a promise. Assumes 35–65% of recurring work may be automatable and run costs of 8–15% of addressable spend. Your real ROI case uses your actual invoices and hours.
Got a consultant quote on your desk?
Within two working days we show you, line by line, what AI and automation could do instead, for what fixed price, and what it would return. Free. Confidential.
We do not sell software. So we can tell you the truth about it.
- No resold licences. No referral fees. No kickbacks. Ever.
- Model-agnostic: open-source, small or frontier, chosen per task and swappable.
- Often the best answer is the tools you already pay for.
- Every model and API cost is in your ROI report, at cost.
- You own the code, prompts, workflows, and data.
Priced against your return, not our time.
TODO: Confirm from-prices with Emil before publishing (hypothesis: ROI Case 25–45 tkr, Outcome Sprint 90–250 tkr, Outcome Operations 15–60 tkr/mo).
Quote Teardown
Free
Send a consultant quote. We return what we'd automate, a fixed price indication, and a preliminary ROI. Two working days.
ROI Case
Fixed fee · credited to first sprint
Baseline, task-by-task ROI, roadmap, go/no-go. 1–2 weeks. No case, no fee.
Outcome Sprint
Fixed price · tied to your ROI case
One workflow live in production, measured from day one. 2–4 weeks. ROI Floor Guarantee.
Replacement Program
Fixed price per phase · ROI-gated
Replace a defined consulting engagement with 3–6 sprints over 2–4 months. Next phase starts only if the previous hits its target.
Outcome Operations
Monthly · cancel with 30 days' notice
We run, monitor, and improve it, and report ROI every month.
The ROI Floor Guarantee
Every sprint has an ROI floor written into the contract, based on your own numbers. If the measured return 90 days after go-live is below it, we keep working at no fee until it is not. If we cannot get there, we refund the sprint fee.
Terms in plain language →FAQ
- Can AI really replace consultants?
- For recurring, well-defined work like reporting, analysis, document drafting, ticket handling, and data work: often, yes. For work that needs executive presence, negotiation, or regulated sign-off: no. Every project starts with an ROI case that tells you which is which.
- What if the AI makes a mistake?
- Anything that leaves your company is reviewed and signed off by a named human. Every output links back to its source, and every step is logged.
- How is this different from an AI agency?
- Most agencies sell agents. We sell a measured return. We start with your costs, not a model, we're paid against the ROI case, and we guarantee a floor.
- How is this different from Copilot or ChatGPT?
- Those are tools your people use. We build processes that run on their own, in your systems, with approvals, and we measure what they return.
- Is our data safe?
- Your data stays in your environment or in EU-hosted infrastructure. No model provider trains on it. We sign your DPA and choose models per task based on data sensitivity.
- Do you resell software or take vendor commissions?
- No. Never. That is what lets us recommend the cheapest option, including "use what you already have".
- What happens if we want to stop working with you?
- You own everything: code, prompts, workflows, data, and documentation. Exit is a planned step in our method.
- How do you calculate ROI?
- Your baseline (consultant invoices plus internal hours at loaded cost) minus the new cost (run costs, our fee, and remaining human time). The full formula is public on our ROI page.
- Will this replace our employees?
- We replace consultant hours and repetitive work. Your team keeps the judgement and approves what matters.
- What does it cost?
- The Quote Teardown is free. Everything else is a fixed price set against your ROI case, with no hourly rates.
Stop paying for hours.
Start with one number: what your consultants really cost.