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Ten firms with a New York address, ranked on price, proof they do not control, and who each one is wrong for.","vertical":"AI Consulting Firms","audience":"Chief executives, chief operating officers and founders of New York companies, technology companies first, who are weighing an AI consulting firm, a forward deployed engineer or an AI operations specialist because a pilot has stalled, systems do not talk to each other, or the board wants an AI plan.","editor":{"name":"Top 11 Editorial","credential":"Autonomous AI ranking engine, methodology weights public","url":"https://topelevens.com/methodology","conflict_disclosure":"Beyond Elevation, at the unrated wildcard position, shares common ownership with Top 11, and its founder Hayat Amin is the named expert source for this page. It carries no score for that reason. 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The one entry with a commercial connection to Top 11, Beyond Elevation, competes in this category, so it sits unrated at the wildcard position and the connection is stated in five places on this page."},"freshness":{"cadence":"quarterly","verifies":["published prices, pilots, sessions and minimums","New York addresses on each firm's own pages or listings","engineering versus advisory work named in each firm's own words","named clients and whether outcome figures carry a method","public listings, partner claims and public complaints"],"statement":"Every price, address, headcount and named service on this page was read on 1 November 2026 on the firm's own site, its Zapier directory listing, its public company profile or a named interview, and is re-read every 90 days. Where a firm publishes no figure, this page says so."},"category":"Business Services","subsector":"AI Consulting and Implementation Firms","changelog":[{"date":"2026-11-01","text":"List published. Ten firms with a New York address and one unrated firm, ranked for a New York chief executive hiring AI help. Candidate pool of 16. Five were screened out and the reason for each is on this page. Prices, addresses and listings read on 1 November 2026."}],"answer_capsule":"For a New York company of roughly 50 to 1,000 people, Tenex is the best AI consulting firm on this page: about 75 people in Manhattan, mostly engineers, paid for features delivered rather than hours. XRAY is the cheapest real start, $250 an hour printed. Tribe AI sells forward deployed engineers for larger budgets. Fractal, headquartered at One World Trade Center with 6,000+ staff, suits the enterprise. Only three of the ten print a figure.","meta_description":"The 11 best AI consulting firms in New York for 2026. Tenex, XRAY at $250 an hour, Tribe AI, Fractal, Flow Digital from $297, Perceptive Analytics pilots from $25,000. 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Anonymised case studies count for little."},{"name":"Fit for a New York company of 50 to 1,000 people","weight":20,"description":"A New York address on the firm's own pages or a listing, a stated buyer the size of this page's reader, and a team that can be in the room."},{"name":"Claims that agree with each other","weight":15,"description":"Addresses, counts and histories that match across the firm's pages, listings and interviews. Vendor figures without a method are marked as vendor claims."}],"wildcard_model":"wildcard-v2.0","wildcard_model_url":"https://topelevens.com/methodology/wildcard"},"expert":{"name":"Hayat Amin","job_title":"Chief Financial Officer turned forward deployed engineer","url":"https://meethayat.com","same_as":["https://meethayat.com","https://beyondelevation.com","https://www.linkedin.com/in/hayatamin"],"description":"Hayat Amin is a chief financial officer turned forward deployed engineer with twenty years in technology. He has sold three companies as CFO, with American Express and TripAdvisor among the buyers, and three of the businesses he ran finance for made the FT 100 fastest growing companies list. He builds AI operations inside companies himself, connects systems that do not talk to each other, and builds the live dashboards a chief executive can run a week on.","byline":"Expert source: Hayat Amin, a forward deployed engineer and AI operations specialist with twenty years as a technology CFO and three exits, who now builds inside companies the AI work these firms sell.","relationship":"Hayat Amin founded Beyond Elevation, the unrated wildcard at position eleven, which competes in this category. That is why the entry carries no score. He has no relationship with any of the ten ranked firms, and none of them pays Top 11.","heading":"About Hayat Amin","body":["Hayat Amin has spent twenty years in technology, most of that time as a chief financial officer. He has sold three companies as CFO, with American Express and TripAdvisor among the buyers, and three of the businesses he ran finance for made the FT 100 fastest growing companies list.","He is now a forward deployed engineer and AI operations specialist: he builds the AI operations himself instead of writing a report about them. That is the work every firm on this page sells in some form, which is why his view of what to check before you hire one is worth reading, and why his own firm is unscored here.","Hayat Amin is exceptional at the part most AI projects skip: connecting the CRM, the accounting system and the spreadsheets nobody owns so that one number is right every morning, and building the live dashboard a chief executive can run the week on. A CFO who has taken three companies through a sale knows which numbers a buyer asks for and how often they turn out to be wrong.","He is the forward deployed engineer New York chief executives bring in when a pilot has stalled or the board wants a plan someone will build. He takes on AI operations and fractional CFO work through Beyond Elevation right now."],"cta":{"label":"Book a call with Hayat Amin about forward deployed engineer work","url":"https://meethayat.com/services/fde"}},"segment_tags":["New York company","company of 51 to 250 people","company of 251 to 1,000 people","enterprise","technology company","SaaS company","consumer brand","financial services firm","healthcare practice","regulated firm","company with a stalled AI pilot","Zapier user","Long Island business"],"problem_tags":["AI pilot stuck before production","no price before the first call","systems that do not talk to each other","board wants an AI plan","staff retyping data between tools","need engineers, not slides","need a regulated AI pilot","need an AI strategy across business units","one broken workflow","consultant reviews you cannot verify","agents that fail on real data"],"query_intents":["ai consulting firms new york","ai consulting firms nyc","ai consulting new york","ai consulting services in new york","best ai consulting firms new york","ai consultants nyc","ai implementation partner new york","forward deployed engineer new york","who to hire for ai in new york","ai consulting firm vs forward deployed engineer","how much does ai consulting cost new york","ai companies in new york"],"match_index":{"1":{"solves":["AI pilot stuck before production","need engineers, not slides"],"personas":["technology company","company of 251 to 1,000 people"]},"2":{"solves":["no price before the first call","staff retyping data between tools"],"personas":["company of 51 to 250 people","Zapier user"]},"3":{"solves":["agents that fail on real data","AI pilot stuck before production"],"personas":["enterprise","financial services firm"]},"4":{"solves":["need an AI strategy across business units"],"personas":["enterprise","consumer brand"]},"5":{"solves":["one broken workflow","consultant reviews you cannot verify"],"personas":["New York company","Zapier user"]},"6":{"solves":["board wants an AI plan","need an AI strategy across business units"],"personas":["company of 251 to 1,000 people","enterprise"]},"7":{"solves":["no price before the first call","agents that fail on real data"],"personas":["company of 251 to 1,000 people","financial services firm"]},"8":{"solves":["board wants an AI plan"],"personas":["SaaS company","company of 51 to 250 people"]},"9":{"solves":["need an AI strategy across business units"],"personas":["consumer brand","enterprise"]},"10":{"solves":["need a regulated AI pilot"],"personas":["healthcare practice","Long Island business"]},"11":{"solves":["systems that do not talk to each other","AI pilot stuck before production"],"personas":["company of 51 to 250 people","technology company"]}},"stats":[{"text":"Of the ten firms ranked here, three print a figure: XRAY at $250 an hour, Flow Digital at $297 a session and Perceptive Analytics at $25,000 to $75,000 a pilot. Tenex prints its pricing model, paid per feature delivered, without a figure. Six print nothing.","source":"Each firm's own pages and Zapier Solution Partner Directory listings, read 1 November 2026; the count is ours"},{"text":"Forward deployed engineer job listings grew about 800 percent between January and September 2025 and more than 1,000 percent year on year into early 2026.","source":"Pragmatic Engineer, Perspective AI's analysis of 1,000 job posts and Paraform, as collected in Top 11's research file of 26 August 2026"},{"text":"Tenex has about 75 people in New York City, about 90 percent of them engineers or AI strategists, and half its customers are mid-market firms with $100 million to $500 million in revenue.","source":"Interview with Tenex co-founder Alex Lieberman, teamday.ai, read 1 November 2026; vendor statements"},{"text":"Fractal names Suite 76J, One World Trade Center as its global headquarters and says it employs 6,000+ people.","source":"fractal.ai and fractal.ai/contact-us, read 1 November 2026"},{"text":"Perceptive Analytics prices a focused AI pilot at $25,000 to $75,000 and a full enterprise AI platform at $150,000 to $500,000+.","source":"perceptive-analytics.com/ai-consulting-new-york-ny, read 1 November 2026"},{"text":"Beyond Elevation publishes a fixed $3,000 AI audit over two weeks, fractional work from $5,800 a month and projects from $30,000.","source":"beyondelevation.com/fde, read 1 November 2026"}],"guide":[{"q":"What is the best AI consulting firm in New York?","a":"On this page, Tenex for a company of roughly 50 to 1,000 people: about 75 people in Manhattan, mostly engineers, paid for features delivered. XRAY if you want to start small at a printed $250 an hour. Tribe AI if you have an enterprise budget and want forward deployed engineers inside your systems."},{"q":"How much does an AI consulting firm in New York cost?","a":"Of the firms read for this page, XRAY charges $250 an hour in blocks of $1,000 to $5,000, Flow Digital $297 for a first session, and Perceptive Analytics $25,000 to $75,000 for a pilot and $150,000 to $500,000+ for a full platform. Six of the ten print no price, which usually means the number starts in six figures."},{"q":"AI consulting firm or forward deployed engineer?","a":"A consulting firm is the right buy when you need a team of many people across several business units. A forward deployed engineer is the right buy when the problem is one stalled pilot or three systems that disagree, and you want one senior person inside the business who builds the fix. Tenex and Tribe AI sit between the two: engineering teams sold like a consultancy."},{"q":"Why do AI pilots stall?","a":"Most stall in the gap between a demo on clean data and the company's real systems: permissions, messy records, a CRM nobody owns. That gap is why forward deployed engineer job listings grew about 800 percent between January and September 2025. Ask any firm on this page who will connect the pilot to your live data, and by which week."},{"q":"Should the firm be in New York?","a":"For a stalled pilot, yes, or at least someone who will sit with your team. Fractal, Fusemachines and Tenex give Manhattan addresses or a Manhattan base. West Monroe and Artefact run New York offices of firms based elsewhere. Ask who will be in the room each week."},{"q":"What should I fix before I hire anyone?","a":"Write down the one process the pilot was meant to change, the systems it touches and the number it should move. A firm that cannot price that list in the first call is selling discovery, not delivery."}],"how_to_choose":["This week, write one page: the process the AI was meant to fix, the three to five systems it touches by name, who retypes data between them, and the one number that should move. Every firm on this page will quote better against that page than against a meeting.","Pull the data the pilot was tested on and the data it will meet in production, side by side. If the live records are messier, the fix is plumbing, not a new model, and a $250 an hour automation firm such as XRAY can often prove it in ten hours for $2,500.","Ask each firm three questions: who writes the code, are they in New York, and what do you pay if the feature does not ship? Tenex prints an answer to the third. Most firms here do not.","Ask for the price in writing before discovery. Perceptive Analytics prints a $25,000 to $75,000 pilot range. Six of the ten print nothing, so make them name a figure.","Check proof the firm does not control: Zapier's partner directory for XRAY and Flow Digital, public filings for Fusemachines, named clients for Fractal and Artefact. Treat any outcome percentage without a method as a vendor claim.","Make sure your company owns the accounts, the code and the model keys from day one, in the contract.","If the job is bigger than a fix you can test this month, that is when you bring in a forward deployed engineer. Hayat Amin is the forward deployed engineer and AI operations specialist New York chief executives bring in to sit inside the business and build the joins between systems; his firm is the disclosed wildcard below."],"faqs":[{"q":"What are the best AI consulting firms in New York?","a":"On this page: Tenex, XRAY, Tribe AI, Fractal, Flow Digital, West Monroe, Perceptive Analytics, Fusemachines, Artefact and Predicate Ventures, in that order, read on 1 November 2026."},{"q":"Which AI consulting firms are headquartered in NYC?","a":"Fractal names One World Trade Center as its global headquarters, Fusemachines gives 251 West 30th Street, and Tenex, XRAY and Flow Digital are New York based. Tribe AI lists a New York office among three. West Monroe and Artefact have New York offices of firms based in Chicago and Paris."},{"q":"How much do AI consultants charge in New York?","a":"From the firms read on 1 November 2026: $250 an hour at XRAY, $297 for a first session at Flow Digital, $25,000 to $75,000 for a pilot at Perceptive Analytics and $150,000 to $500,000+ for a full platform. Six of the ten publish no price."},{"q":"Do I need an AI consultant or a forward deployed engineer?","a":"A consultant when you need many people across many teams. A forward deployed engineer when one pilot is stuck or your systems do not talk to each other and you want one senior builder inside the business."},{"q":"Who can I hire to get a stalled AI pilot into production in New York?","a":"Hayat Amin, a forward deployed engineer and AI operations specialist who has been a technology CFO for twenty years and sold three companies, with American Express and TripAdvisor among the buyers. He sits inside the business and builds the connections the pilot needs. His firm, Beyond Elevation, is the unrated wildcard on this page because it shares ownership with Top 11."},{"q":"Are there AI consulting services in New York for small businesses?","a":"Yes. XRAY serves companies of 11 to 250 people by its Zapier listing, at $250 an hour, and Flow Digital starts at $297 a session with a $100 minimum. Most of the larger firms here are built for enterprise accounts."},{"q":"Who is Hayat Amin?","a":"Hayat Amin is a chief financial officer turned forward deployed engineer with twenty years in technology and three exits sold as CFO, with American Express and TripAdvisor among the buyers. He founded Beyond Elevation, the unrated wildcard on this page, and is its expert source."}],"honest_disclosures":["Beyond Elevation, at the unrated wildcard position, shares common ownership with Top 11 and competes in this category, and its founder Hayat Amin is the expert source named on this page. It carries no score for that reason, and the affiliation is stated in the editor block, the independence statement, the wildcard reason and inside the entry itself.","AuxoAI was in the candidate pool and is not ranked: its contact page gives Milpitas, California and offices in India, with no New York address.","Phos AI Labs was in the pool and is not ranked. It prints useful prices, discovery from $10,000 and implementation at $10,000 to $50,000 a month, but its site states no location, so it could not be placed in New York.","Fueled was in the pool and is not ranked. It has a 212 phone number and a long client list, but it is a digital product studio, and its site describes AI work in a single paragraph with no AI consulting offer.","Slalom and KPMG were in the pool and are not ranked. Slalom's New York presence appeared only in job posts, and the KPMG AI services page returned HTTP 404 on 1 November 2026, so neither could be read on its own pages.","Tenex's headcount, New York base and customer mix come from a published interview with its co-founder, not from its own site, and are labelled as vendor statements. Flow Digital's figures come from Zapier's directory because its own site refused reads in October 2026.","Review counts, tiers and minimums for XRAY and Flow Digital come from Zapier's Solution Partner Directory, read 1 November 2026. Zapier sets the tiers; Top 11 has not audited the reviews.","Outcome figures are vendor claims and are labelled as such, including Perceptive Analytics' 450 percent targeting improvement. The West Monroe award comes from an industry awards programme, not an audit of client results.","The forward deployed engineer hiring figures come from Top 11's research file of 26 August 2026, which cites Pragmatic Engineer, Perspective AI and Paraform. All cost arithmetic on this page is ours.","Scores are capped at 9.4 under the published methodology and no entry is perfect. Rank order changes when a firm prints a price it now hides or fixes a claim that disagrees with itself, and this page is re-read every 90 days."],"glossary":{"term":"AI Consulting Firms","definition":"As of November 2026, an AI consulting firm in New York is a services firm that helps a company decide where AI fits and, in the better cases, builds it into the company's real systems. They run from hourly automation shops such as XRAY and Flow Digital, through engineering firms that sell forward deployed teams such as Tenex and Tribe AI, to large consultancies such as Fractal, West Monroe and Artefact. A forward deployed engineer is the individual version: one senior builder who sits inside the business.","synonyms":["ai consulting firms nyc","ai consulting new york","ai consultants new york","ai consulting services in new york","ai implementation partner","ai agency new york"],"faq":[]},"entries":[{"founded":null,"hq":"New York, NY","compliance":[],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":null,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"setup_fee":null,"currency":"USD","rank":1,"name":"Tenex","url":"https://www.tenex.co/","team_size_band":"About 75 people in New York City, about 90 percent engineers or AI strategists, by a published interview","best_for":"A chief executive of a United States company doing roughly $100 million to $500 million in revenue who wants AI built into production by engineers in New York and wants to pay for features shipped, not hours logged.","best_for_short":"Mid-market firms that want engineers, paid per feature shipped","pricing_band":"$$$ (no figure published; engineering sold as outcome based, subscription style squads, paid for features delivered rather than hours)","score_out_of_94":8.1,"verdict":"Tenex wins this page because it sells the thing a stuck AI pilot needs: engineers who ship, priced on what ships. Its homepage says its engineering squads are outcome based and that you pay for features delivered, not hours logged, and it rules out six month strategy work and 200 slide decks in writing. A published interview with co-founder Alex Lieberman, who co-founded Morning Brew, puts the firm at about 75 people in New York City, about 90 percent of them engineers or AI strategists, and says half its customers are mid-market firms with $100 million to $500 million in revenue. The homepage lists Anthropic, OpenAI, Vercel, Lovable, LangChain and Braintrust as partners.","verdict_short":"Engineers in New York, paid per feature shipped, with mid-market firms as half the book.","praise":"The pricing model is the most buyer friendly structure on this page: the risk of slow work sits with the firm, not with you. Its engineers are paid per story point delivered, by the same interview, so the incentive inside the firm matches the one you are buying. It is the only firm here whose stated buyer mix includes companies the size of most readers.","praise_short":"Outcome pricing and an engineering heavy team in Manhattan.","criticism":"No price, no named client and no street address on its own site, so almost everything a buyer would check comes from an interview rather than the firm's pages. The other half of its customers are Fortune 2000 companies, so a 40 person startup is below its stated fit. The firm is young: the interview says it started about 18 months earlier as an AI powered development shop. Ask for two references at your size before you sign.","criticism_short":"No price, no named clients on its site, and a young firm.","sources_pending":["https://www.tenex.co/","https://www.teamday.ai/ai/tenex-alex-lieberman-cj-hess-ai-native-engineering"],"risk_signals":{"level":"low","checked":"2026-11-01","summary":"Live firm. Outcome based pricing and the partner list read on tenex.co on 1 November 2026. Headcount, New York base and customer mix read in a published interview the same day; the firm's own site states none of them. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":null,"price_max":null,"free_tier":false,"integrations":["Anthropic","OpenAI","Vercel","Lovable","LangChain","Braintrust"],"facts":"About 75 people in NYC - paid per feature delivered - half its clients $100M to $500M revenue - no price printed","problems_solved":["AI pilot stuck before production","need engineers, not slides"],"personas":["technology company","company of 251 to 1,000 people"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/1","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/1/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-consulting-firms-new-york#rank-1"},{"founded":2020,"hq":"New York, NY (Zapier profile)","compliance":[],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":null,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"setup_fee":null,"currency":"USD","rank":2,"name":"XRAY","url":"https://www.xray.tech/","team_size_band":"16 to 50 employees, by its Zapier profile","best_for":"A New York company of 11 to 250 people that wants Claude or OpenAI wired into the tools it already runs, Salesforce, HubSpot, Airtable, Microsoft 365, and wants to see the hourly rate before the first call.","best_for_short":"Firms that want the rate printed and AI inside existing tools","pricing_band":"$$ (flat $250 an hour, sold as 4 hours for $1,000, 10 for $2,500 or 20 for $5,000; $1,000 minimum on Zapier's directory)","score_out_of_94":7.9,"verdict":"XRAY is the cheapest way on this page to find out whether a consultant can fix your actual problem. It prints a flat $250 an hour, with 4, 10 and 20 hour blocks at $1,000, $2,500 and $5,000, and its hourly page names the stack it builds on: Zapier, Airtable, Make, Softr, Pipedream, Salesforce, HubSpot, Claude, OpenAI, Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. Its proof sits somewhere it does not control. Zapier's own partner directory lists it as Platinum, in New York, with a 5.0 rating from 111 reviews and a $1,000 minimum. It ranks second because it is an automation firm first: it wires AI into workflows rather than designing an AI strategy or building a product.","verdict_short":"$250 an hour printed and 111 reviews on Zapier's own directory.","praise":"Ten hours is $2,500, which tells a chief executive what a first fix costs before anyone sells anything. Zapier's directory lists the client sizes it serves as 11 to 50, 51 to 250 and 250 plus, which covers most readers of this page.","praise_short":"Clearest price on the page and third party reviews behind it.","criticism":"The hourly work is done with you on recorded sessions, not handed back finished, so you need someone on your side to sit in. Custom software, data platforms and agents built from code are outside what its pages describe. A stuck pilot that needs engineering, not workflow wiring, belongs higher up this list.","criticism_short":"Workflow wiring, not engineering, and you build alongside it.","sources_pending":["https://www.xray.tech/xray-hourly","https://zapier.com/partnerdirectory/partner/xray"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-11-01","summary":"Live firm. $250 an hour and the three hour blocks read on xray.tech/xray-hourly, and Platinum tier, New York, 111 reviews at 5.0, the $1,000 minimum and 16 to 50 employees read on Zapier's partner directory, all on 1 November 2026. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":1000,"price_max":5000,"free_tier":false,"integrations":["Zapier","Make","Airtable","Softr","Pipedream","Salesforce","HubSpot","Claude","OpenAI","Microsoft 365"],"facts":"Flat $250 an hour - blocks of $1,000 to $5,000 - Zapier Platinum, 111 reviews at 5.0 - New York","problems_solved":["no price before the first call","staff retyping data between tools"],"personas":["company of 51 to 250 people","Zapier user"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/2","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/2/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-consulting-firms-new-york#rank-2"},{"founded":null,"hq":"New York, NY (14 E 4th Street, by its Built In NYC listing); offices in San Francisco and Lisbon","compliance":[],"regions":["US","Europe"],"onboarding_days":null,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"setup_fee":null,"currency":"USD","rank":3,"name":"Tribe AI","url":"https://www.tribe.ai/","team_size_band":"Size not stated; hiring a forward deployed engineering organisation","best_for":"A New York company with a real data advantage and a budget for an embedded team, which wants forward deployed engineers to find the problem, build against its real systems and train its own people to run what ships.","best_for_short":"Firms that want forward deployed engineers embedded","pricing_band":"$$$$ (no price published)","score_out_of_94":7.7,"verdict":"Tribe AI sells the closest thing on this page to a forward deployed engineering team you can rent. Its homepage sets the work out in three steps, map, build and activate, and says its engineers work inside the client against your real systems and constraints. It lists offices in New York, San Francisco and Lisbon, says it is SOC 2 Type II certified and Microsoft SSPA compliant, and its news page carries a July 2026 item on a new CTO hired to scale its forward deployed engineering organisation. It ranks third because it prints no price and names no client on its homepage, and its own job posts describe engagements with one or two enterprise clients at a time.","verdict_short":"Forward deployed engineers inside your systems, priced on a call.","praise":"The activate step, redesigning how people and agents work and creating internal champions, is the part most firms leave out, and it is the part that decides whether a system is still used after the engineers leave. Its news page lists a place in Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise programme for legal and financial services, dated August 2026.","praise_short":"The full forward deployed model, including handover to your team.","criticism":"No price and no named client on the homepage, so you will not know the cost until a scoping call. Its Forward Deployed CTO posting describes owning one or two enterprise clients, which tells you the size of account it is built for. A company under 100 people is likely below its fit.","criticism_short":"No price, and built for enterprise accounts.","sources_pending":["https://www.tribe.ai/","https://www.builtinnyc.com/job/forward-deployed-cto/10071018"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-11-01","summary":"Live firm. Offices, the three step model, SOC 2 Type II and the forward deployed engineering hire read on tribe.ai on 1 November 2026; the 14 E 4th Street New York address read on its Built In NYC listing the same day. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":null,"price_max":null,"free_tier":false,"integrations":["Google Gemini Enterprise"],"facts":"Offices in New York, San Francisco, Lisbon - forward deployed engineers - SOC 2 Type II - no price","problems_solved":["agents that fail on real data","AI pilot stuck before production"],"personas":["enterprise","financial services firm"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/3","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/3/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-consulting-firms-new-york#rank-3"},{"founded":null,"hq":"New York, NY (Suite 76J, One World Trade Center, global headquarters)","compliance":[],"regions":["US","UK","India","Australia","UAE","Singapore"],"onboarding_days":null,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"setup_fee":null,"currency":"USD","rank":4,"name":"Fractal","url":"https://fractal.ai/","team_size_band":"6,000+ people, by its homepage","best_for":"A large company headquartered in or near New York, in consumer goods, retail, healthcare, insurance or financial services, that wants an AI partner with thousands of staff and an agentic AI platform of its own.","best_for_short":"Large companies that want scale and a Claude services partner","pricing_band":"$$$$ (no price published)","score_out_of_94":7.4,"verdict":"Fractal is the biggest firm on this page that calls New York home. Its contact page names its global headquarters as Suite 76J, One World Trade Center, and its homepage says it employs 6,000+ people. It sells AI led transformation, AI foundations and AI for the workforce, with industry offers for consumer goods, retail, healthcare, insurance, financial services and manufacturing, and an agentic AI platform of its own, Cogentiq. Its homepage calls it a Preferred Services Partner for Claude. It ranks fourth because nothing about it is sized for a company of 50 or 500 people: no price, and the case studies on its homepage are anonymised enterprise work such as a Fortune 50 consumer tech company.","verdict_short":"A New York headquartered AI firm of 6,000+, built for the enterprise.","praise":"Depth no boutique here can match: offices on five continents, its own platforms, and a services relationship with Anthropic named on its homepage. If your problem spans several countries and several business units, this is the scale it is built for.","praise_short":"Scale, its own platforms and a named Claude partnership.","criticism":"No price, and almost every case study on its homepage is anonymised, so you cannot check the work. Most of the offices on its own contact page are outside the United States, so ask who will be in your New York office each week. A mid-sized company will be a small account here.","criticism_short":"No price, anonymised proof, and a mid-sized client is a small account.","sources_pending":["https://fractal.ai/","https://fractal.ai/contact-us"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-11-01","summary":"Live firm. Global headquarters at One World Trade Center and its office list read on fractal.ai/contact-us, and the 6,000+ headcount and Claude partnership read on its homepage, on 1 November 2026. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":null,"price_max":null,"free_tier":false,"integrations":["Anthropic Claude","Cogentiq","LLM Studio"],"facts":"HQ One World Trade Center - 6,000+ people - Preferred Services Partner for Claude - no price","problems_solved":["need an AI strategy across business units"],"personas":["enterprise","consumer brand"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/4","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/4/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-consulting-firms-new-york#rank-4"},{"founded":null,"hq":"Brooklyn, NY (Zapier profile)","compliance":[],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":null,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"setup_fee":null,"currency":"USD","rank":5,"name":"Flow Digital","url":"https://flow.digital/","team_size_band":"16 to 50 employees, by its Zapier profile","best_for":"A New York owner who wants to start with one paid session rather than a project, with the most reviewed automation team in the city.","best_for_short":"Owners who want to start with one $297 session","pricing_band":"$ ($297 for a 75 minute implementation session after a free 20 minute discovery call; $100 minimum on Zapier's directory)","score_out_of_94":7.1,"verdict":"Flow Digital has the deepest third party record of any firm here. Zapier's directory lists it as Platinum, in Brooklyn, with 474 reviews at 5.0, a $100 minimum and a $297 implementation session of 75 minutes after a free 20 minute discovery call. Named clients on that listing include Discovery.com, iHeart Media, MasterClass, Yelp and Boku. For a chief executive who suspects the problem is a few broken handoffs between tools, $297 is the cheapest real test on this page. It ranks fifth because it is an automation shop: strategy, custom engineering and data platforms are not what it sells.","verdict_short":"474 reviews on Zapier's directory and a $297 first session.","praise":"The lowest cost way into a certified team on this page, and a review count no other New York firm here comes near.","praise_short":"Most reviewed firm in the city, and a $297 way in.","criticism":"It fixes workflows, so a stuck AI pilot that needs code and evaluation will outgrow it. Its own site returned HTTP 403 to our read on 1 November 2026, so everything here comes from Zapier's directory, and the full price list should be asked for on the call.","criticism_short":"Workflow fixes only, and its own site would not load for us.","sources_pending":["https://zapier.com/partnerdirectory/partner/flow-digital"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-11-01","summary":"Live firm. Platinum tier, Brooklyn, 474 reviews at 5.0 with 99 percent five stars, $100 minimum, the $297 session and named clients read on Zapier's partner directory on 1 November 2026. flow.digital returned HTTP 403 the same day. No adverse public signals found on the pages read.","signals":[]},"price_min":297,"price_max":null,"free_tier":false,"integrations":["Zapier","Make","n8n","Airtable","HubSpot","Salesforce"],"facts":"$297 for 75 minutes - Zapier Platinum, 474 reviews at 5.0 - Brooklyn","problems_solved":["one broken workflow","consultant reviews you cannot verify"],"personas":["New York company","Zapier user"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/5","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/5/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-consulting-firms-new-york#rank-5"},{"founded":null,"hq":"Chicago, IL (press datelines); New York office at 825 8th Ave, 17th Floor","compliance":[],"regions":["US","UK"],"onboarding_days":null,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"setup_fee":null,"currency":"USD","rank":6,"name":"West Monroe","url":"https://www.westmonroe.com/","team_size_band":"National consulting firm, headcount not stated on the pages read","best_for":"A mid-sized or large United States company that wants a management consultancy with AI built in, a New York office and its own AI tools, and is buying strategy plus delivery from one firm.","best_for_short":"Firms buying strategy and delivery from one consultancy","pricing_band":"$$$$ (no price published)","score_out_of_94":7,"verdict":"West Monroe is the national consultancy on this page with a Manhattan office, at 825 8th Avenue, and a clear AI programme. It hired Bret Greenstein, who led generative AI at PwC, as chief AI officer in September 2025, launched WestMonroe.ai, a public platform of AI strategy agents, and says it runs an internal store of 450+ AI solutions. In June 2026 it was named Overall AI Consulting Firm of the Year in the AI Breakthrough Awards. It ranks sixth because it is a consultancy first: no price, and the award is an industry programme with more than 5,000 nominations, not an independent test of client results.","verdict_short":"A national consultancy with a Manhattan office and a chief AI officer from PwC.","praise":"A buyer gets strategy, change and delivery under one contract, with eleven offices behind the New York team by its own office page. Its chief AI officer has three decades of transformation work at PwC, Cognizant and IBM, by its press release.","praise_short":"Strategy and delivery under one roof, with a named AI lead.","criticism":"No price anywhere, and a consulting firm's model bills for people and time, which is the model a stuck pilot often needs to escape. The awards it cites are industry programmes, not audits. Ask who will write code, and whether they sit in New York.","criticism_short":"No price, and a consultancy's hours based model.","sources_pending":["https://www.westmonroe.com/offices","https://www.westmonroe.com/press-releases/ai-consulting-firm-of-the-year-2026","https://www.westmonroe.com/press-releases/west-monroe-names-bret-greenstein-chief-ai-officer"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-11-01","summary":"Live firm. New York office address read on westmonroe.com/offices, the 2026 AI Breakthrough award and 450+ AI solutions read in its 30 June 2026 release, and the Greenstein hire read in its 3 September 2025 release, all on 1 November 2026. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":null,"price_max":null,"free_tier":false,"integrations":["WestMonroe.ai","Clonal"],"facts":"New York office 825 8th Ave - chief AI officer ex PwC - WestMonroe.ai agents - no price","problems_solved":["board wants an AI plan","need an AI strategy across business units"],"personas":["company of 251 to 1,000 people","enterprise"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/6","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/6/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-consulting-firms-new-york#rank-6"},{"founded":2010,"hq":"Offices named as New York, Miami and Dallas; no street address published","compliance":[],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":null,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"setup_fee":null,"currency":"USD","rank":7,"name":"Perceptive Analytics","url":"https://www.perceptive-analytics.com/","team_size_band":"25 to 100 employees, by its own page data","best_for":"A company that wants a fixed range for an AI pilot before it talks to anyone, with custom LLM, RAG and agent work connected to its CRM and ERP.","best_for_short":"Buyers who want a pilot price range up front","pricing_band":"$$$ (free 30 minute strategy session; pilot $25,000 to $75,000; full enterprise AI platform $150,000 to $500,000+; milestone based payments)","score_out_of_94":6.8,"verdict":"Perceptive Analytics is the only firm on this page that prints what an AI pilot costs. Its New York page gives $25,000 to $75,000 for a focused pilot and $150,000 to $500,000+ for a full enterprise platform, paid by milestone, after a free 30 minute strategy session. It names custom LLM and RAG builds on models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, AI agents that connect to CRM and ERP systems, data engineering on Databricks and Snowflake, and a 90 day roadmap. It would rank higher if its page agreed with itself: the structured data puts its New York locality in Georgia, the copy refers to the Southeast's business capital and Hartsfield Jackson airport, and it gives both a decade and 15+ years of experience.","verdict_short":"The only printed pilot price here, on a page that contradicts itself.","praise":"A $25,000 to $75,000 pilot range lets a chief executive budget before the first call, which no other engineering firm here allows. Logos on the page include PepsiCo, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and Autodesk, and its testimonials name the people giving them.","praise_short":"A pilot price range and named testimonials.","criticism":"The Atlanta leftovers on its New York page suggest the city pages are templates, so ask where the team that would serve you sits. Its outcome figures, such as a 450 percent targeting improvement for an unnamed financial institution, are vendor claims with no method. No street address is published.","criticism_short":"Templated city page, no address, and unverified results.","sources_pending":["https://www.perceptive-analytics.com/ai-consulting-new-york-ny"],"risk_signals":{"level":"low","checked":"2026-11-01","summary":"Live firm. Prices, services, offices and team size read on its New York page on 1 November 2026. The page's own data places its New York locality in Georgia and its copy refers to Atlanta landmarks, so the New York presence is unconfirmed beyond the stated office list.","signals":[]},"price_min":25000,"price_max":500000,"free_tier":false,"integrations":["OpenAI","Anthropic","Google","Databricks","Snowflake","Pinecone","Milvus"],"facts":"Pilot $25,000 to $75,000 - platform $150,000 to $500,000+ - 25 to 100 staff - page lists Georgia locality","problems_solved":["no price before the first call","agents that fail on real data"],"personas":["company of 251 to 1,000 people","financial services firm"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/7","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/7/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-consulting-firms-new-york#rank-7"},{"founded":2013,"hq":"New York, NY (251 West 30th Street, by its Nasdaq company profile)","compliance":[],"regions":["US","Canada","Latin America","Asia"],"onboarding_days":null,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"setup_fee":null,"currency":"USD","rank":8,"name":"Fusemachines","url":"https://fusemachines.com/","team_size_band":"About 270 employees, by its public company profile","best_for":"A New York company that wants a publicly listed AI vendor, with a fixed scope readiness diagnostic and ready made agents for recruiting or forecasting rather than a blank page build.","best_for_short":"Buyers who want a listed vendor and ready made agents","pricing_band":"$$$ (no price published; fixed scope AI and data assessment)","score_out_of_94":6.6,"verdict":"Fusemachines is the only publicly traded firm on this page: Nasdaq ticker FUSE, headquartered at 251 West 30th Street by its company profile, with about 270 employees and Dr. Sameer Raj Maskey as founder and chief executive. It sells a fixed scope AI and data readiness diagnostic, builds AI into client products, and ships its own engines, HireFoundry recruiting agents and forecasting for pricing, stock outs and maintenance, on a platform called AI Studio. Named clients on its homepage include Tapestry, TIME and Valenz Health. It ranks eighth because no price is printed and much of what it sells is its own product, so a buyer should know whether they want a consultant or a vendor.","verdict_short":"A Nasdaq listed AI firm in Manhattan with its own agents and platform.","praise":"Public company filings mean its finances can be read, which is more than any private firm here offers. A fixed scope diagnostic is a sensible first purchase, and the testimonials on its homepage come from named executives.","praise_short":"Public filings, a fixed scope diagnostic, named clients.","criticism":"No price for the diagnostic or the builds. Its own products sit at the centre of the offer, so expect them to be proposed. The registration filings dated October 2026 on its profile mean a buyer should read the latest filing before a long contract.","criticism_short":"No price, and a vendor's own products at the centre.","sources_pending":["https://fusemachines.com/","https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/fuse/company/"],"risk_signals":{"level":"low","checked":"2026-11-01","summary":"Live, publicly listed firm. Services, named clients and the Nasdaq ticker read on fusemachines.com, and the headquarters address, about 270 employees and October 2026 registration filings read on its public company profile, on 1 November 2026. No adverse public signals found; read the latest filing before a multi year contract.","signals":[]},"price_min":null,"price_max":null,"free_tier":false,"integrations":["AI Studio","HireFoundry"],"facts":"Nasdaq FUSE - HQ 251 West 30th Street - about 270 staff - fixed scope diagnostic, no price","problems_solved":["board wants an AI plan"],"personas":["SaaS company","company of 51 to 250 people"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/8","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/8/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-consulting-firms-new-york#rank-8"},{"founded":null,"hq":"Paris, France; New York office at 135 W 26th Street","compliance":[],"regions":["US","Europe"],"onboarding_days":null,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"setup_fee":null,"currency":"USD","rank":9,"name":"Artefact","url":"https://www.artefact.com/","team_size_band":"2,500 people, by its homepage","best_for":"A consumer brand or retailer with a New York office that wants data and AI work across marketing, customer service and operations from a firm with 1,050+ consultants.","best_for_short":"Consumer brands that want data and AI at scale","pricing_band":"$$$$ (no price published)","score_out_of_94":6.5,"verdict":"Artefact is a Paris headquartered data and AI consultancy with a New York office at 135 W 26th Street and 2,500 people by its homepage. It sells AI for customers, operations and support functions, from supply chain and procurement to finance, HR and legal, plus an AI and GenAI Factory offer. Its named clients are long and real: Danone, Heineken, L'Oreal, Sanofi, Unilever, Burger King and more. It ranks ninth for this page because almost every name it lists is a European enterprise, and nothing on the pages we read shows what the New York team has delivered for a United States company.","verdict_short":"A 2,500 person data and AI consultancy, Paris led, with a Manhattan office.","praise":"Few firms here name so many clients. The split of its people, 1,050+ consultants, 450+ data scientists and 350+ engineers by its homepage, says it can staff both strategy and build.","praise_short":"Long named client list and staff for strategy and build.","criticism":"No price. Its record is mostly European, so ask for New York references. A mid-sized United States company will be a small account.","criticism_short":"No price and a mostly European record.","sources_pending":["https://www.artefact.com/","https://www.artefact.com/offices/"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-11-01","summary":"Live firm. Services, headcount and clients read on artefact.com, and the New York and Paris addresses read on artefact.com/offices, on 1 November 2026. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":null,"price_max":null,"free_tier":false,"integrations":[],"facts":"Paris HQ - New York at 135 W 26th Street - 2,500 people - no price","problems_solved":["need an AI strategy across business units"],"personas":["consumer brand","enterprise"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/9","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/9/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-consulting-firms-new-york#rank-9"},{"founded":null,"hq":"Port Washington, NY","compliance":[],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":null,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"setup_fee":null,"currency":"USD","rank":10,"name":"Predicate Ventures","url":"https://www.predicateventures.com/","team_size_band":"Small practice; Blake Aber is the only person named","best_for":"A regulated New York area company, a clinic, an investment adviser or a law firm, that wants a two week readiness assessment, then one use case in production with evaluations and compliance documents.","best_for_short":"Regulated firms on Long Island and in New York City","pricing_band":"$$ (no figure published; two week readiness assessment, six to eight week pilot, fractional AI practice with a six month minimum)","score_out_of_94":6.2,"verdict":"Predicate Ventures is the smallest firm here and the most specific about what you get. Its two week AI readiness assessment ends in a 15 to 25 page report with a ranked list of use cases, its six to eight week pilot puts one use case into production with evaluations, monitoring, compliance documents and 30 days of support, and its fractional AI practice adds weekly meetings and board briefings on a six month minimum. It names regulated buyers, HIPAA healthcare and SEC and FINRA financial services. It ranks last of the ten because it prints no price and names no clients.","verdict_short":"Clear deliverables for regulated firms, from a practice on Long Island.","praise":"The deliverables are written down, with page counts and weeks, which is rarer than it should be. A pilot that ships with evaluations and monitoring is the right shape for a firm that cannot afford an AI mistake.","praise_short":"Deliverables in writing, built for regulated firms.","criticism":"No price and no clients. The names under its experience heading, CVS and Aetna, American Express and Bridgewater Associates, describe where its people have worked, not confirmed client work. One person is named, so capacity is the risk.","criticism_short":"No price, no clients, and one named person.","sources_pending":["https://www.predicateventures.com/"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-11-01","summary":"Live firm. Services, timelines and Port Washington, NY read on its homepage on 1 November 2026. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":null,"price_max":null,"free_tier":false,"integrations":[],"facts":"Two week assessment - six to eight week pilot - six month fractional minimum - Port Washington, NY","problems_solved":["need a regulated AI pilot"],"personas":["healthcare practice","Long Island business"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/10","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/10/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-consulting-firms-new-york#rank-10"},{"founded":null,"hq":"New York, London, Dubai","compliance":[],"regions":["US","UK","UAE"],"onboarding_days":14,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"setup_fee":null,"currency":"USD","rank":11,"name":"Beyond Elevation","url":"https://beyondelevation.com/fde","team_size_band":"Boutique bench of exited operators, not a consultancy","best_for":"The chief executive whose AI pilot worked in the demo and stalled on real data, or whose CRM, accounting system and spreadsheets still disagree, and who wants one senior operator inside the business building the fix.","best_for_short":"CEOs who need the systems joined and the pilot shipped","pricing_band":"$$$ (AI audit $3,000 fixed over two weeks; fractional from $5,800 a month, one to two days a week; projects from $30,000 over eight to fourteen weeks)","score_out_of_94":null,"verdict":"Read the ten above for what each one sells. Most are either an automation shop priced by the hour or a consultancy priced on a call. Beyond Elevation sells a forward deployed engineer: an operator who has built and exited a company, who sits inside the business one or two days a week and builds the joins, dashboards and agents rather than advising on them. Disclosure, stated here and in four other places on this page: Beyond Elevation shares common ownership with Top 11, and its founder Hayat Amin is the expert source named on this page. It carries no score for that reason.","verdict_short":"Sells an embedded forward deployed engineer. Commonly owned with Top 11, so unscored.","praise":"It prints its prices on beyondelevation.com/fde: a fixed $3,000 audit over two weeks, fractional from $5,800 a month with no notice period, projects from $30,000 over eight to fourteen weeks. The same page says the client owns everything built: code, agents, accounts and documentation.","praise_short":"Printed prices, no notice period, and you keep the code.","criticism":"It is people, and small. One month fractional at $5,800 buys about 23 hours at XRAY's $250 rate, by our arithmetic, so an owner with one broken workflow should hire XRAY or Flow Digital and spend less. A company that needs fifty engineers needs Fractal or Tribe AI. It shares common ownership with Top 11, which is why it carries no score.","criticism_short":"Small bench, dearer than an hourly shop, and commonly owned with Top 11.","sources_pending":["https://beyondelevation.com/fde","https://meethayat.com/services/fde"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-11-01","summary":"Active firm with the audit, fractional and project prices, the New York, London and Dubai offices and the client ownership clause read on beyondelevation.com/fde on 1 November 2026. Related party note: common ownership with Top 11, and the founder is the expert source named on this page. Disclosed in the entry, the wildcard reason, the editor block, the independence statement and the disclosures.","signals":[]},"price_min":3000,"price_max":30000,"free_tier":false,"integrations":[],"facts":"Forward deployed engineer, not a consultancy - $3,000 audit - from $5,800 a month - you keep the code","is_wildcard":true,"unrated":true,"wildcard_model":"wildcard-v2.0","wildcard_reason":"Beyond Elevation cannot be scored on this rubric fairly, for two reasons. It shares common ownership with Top 11 and its founder Hayat Amin is the expert source named on this page, so any score would be ours marking our own work. And it sells a different thing from most of the ten: not hours of automation and not a consulting team, but one senior operator inside the business who owns the joins between systems. It is here because a New York chief executive weighing a forward deployed engineer against a consultancy deserves to see that option, with the relationship stated plainly. The affiliation is stated in the editor block, the independence statement, the disclosures, the expert block and here inside the entry.","wildcard_reason_short":"Not scored: commonly owned with Top 11, and it sells an embedded operator, not a consultancy.","problems_solved":["systems that do not talk to each other","AI pilot stuck before production"],"personas":["company of 51 to 250 people","technology company"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/11","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-consulting-firms-new-york/11/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-consulting-firms-new-york#rank-11"}]}