With the market flooded with potential AI consultant options, how can you distinguish genuine expertise from hot gas? Here are three factors to consider when selecting an AI consultant:

1. Clear Communication of Complex Concepts

A skilled AI consultant should be able to break down complex ideas into simple, understandable language. Be wary of those who rely heavily on jargon or make you feel inadequate for not understanding. True experts can explain complex concepts in simple terms, if they are using complex language -- they don't understand it well enough.

2. Emphasis on Testing and Evaluation

In the AI field, rigorous testing and evaluation are critical. Why? As you know, things can hallucinate and weird things can happen. Your consultant should have a strong grasp of these concepts and be able to explain how they apply to your specific project. They should understand what tools in the market can be used to provide real-time visibility and monitoring of LLM applications.

3. Focus on Business Value and ROI

Having worked with many customers, the truth is most projects and deliverables are garbage. A great AI consultant should always keep sight of the bigger picture: delivering tangible business value. They should be able to:

- Clearly articulate how AI solutions will contribute to your bottom line
- Provide realistic expectations about potential returns on investment (ROI)
- Be honest about challenges and limitations, even if it means delivering difficult news

At GiraffeGuru, we pride ourselves on delivering AI projects with a strong focus on ROI. We help customers identify real gaps in the process - be that automatically extracting usable datafrom your corpus of PDFs and images, helping you build a customer-facing chatbot you can improve over time or just giving you guidance on what tools on the market you can use for free. Our approach ensures that every solution we develop is tied to key metrics - we must create measurable value for your business.

Feel free to email me at wayne@giraffeguru.com for a free 30 minute chat about AI and how we can help!