The Honest Comparison
The Big Four are excellent. They're just not for you.
If you're an ASX100 company with a nine-figure technology budget, engage a Big Four firm; that is what they are built for, and they are genuinely good at it. If you're a $20M-$150M Australian business, a $500K assessment over six months is the wrong tool: disproportionate cost, enterprise assumptions, and a delivery team meeting your file for the first time.
Our principals took the same review discipline (governance, benchmarking, quantified risk, board-grade reporting) and rebuilt it for mid-market economics: four weeks, fixed fee, delivered by the people whose names are on the firm, with the fee at risk instead of yours.
| Dimension | Big Four | Agility Next |
|---|---|---|
| Typical engagement fee | $300K-$1M+ | $8K-$15K, published |
| Timeline | 3-9 months | 4 weeks |
| Built for | ASX100 / large enterprise | Australian mid-market (50-250 seats) |
| Deliverable | Comprehensive strategy volumes | Board-ready findings you can action Monday |
| Delivered by | Partner sells, team delivers | The principals you meet do the work |
| Money-back guarantee | No | 2x value or refund, in writing |
| Independence | Yes (with implementation arms) | Yes (nothing to implement, ever) |
Engage the Big Four when
- Your technology budget runs to nine figures
- The engagement must satisfy global-institution procurement
- You need a multinational bench across a dozen countries
- The brand on the cover is itself the requirement
Engage us when
- You need the answer this quarter, not next financial year
- The fee has to be proportionate to a mid-market budget
- You want the principals doing the work, not supervising it
- You want the fee at risk if the value isn't there
2x value identified, or you don't pay.
The 4-Week Commercial IT Health Check is fixed fee, non-disruptive, and guaranteed in writing: if we don't identify value worth at least twice our fee, we refund it.