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The AI productivity surplus is up for grabs, and your fee model decides who gets it
Professional services firms are quietly capturing a 20 to 40 percent productivity uplift from AI. Clients have started noticing. Whoever moves their commercial model first keeps the surplus. Whoever moves last watches it flow to the buyer.
27 Sept 2026
Build plus subscribe: how mid-market firms should buy AI capability
The traditional project-fee shape doesn't work for AI. Pure SaaS doesn't work either. There is a specific hybrid that does, and it is quietly becoming how the good AI engagements are commercially structured. Here's what it looks like and why it holds up.
9 Sept 2026