Since AI can now generate our standard deliverables and reports in seconds for free, our clients are pushing back on our pricing. How do we restructure our strategic positioning on our V/TO® to remain highly valuable?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

If you are selling tasks that machines can do faster and cheaper, your business model is in serious danger. You must pivot your strategic positioning before your margins collapse.

Seek to be an indispensable complement to technologies that are becoming cheap and plentiful, rather than competing directly with tasks machines can do cheaper and faster. As AI makes content and basic analysis incredibly cheap, the value shifts to interpretation, strategic guidance, and human accountability.

As the economists Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee highlight, the most valuable business assets in an AI dominated economy are human judgment and organizational adaptability. Your clients do not just want a raw report; they want to know what the data means and what actions they should take next.

Update your Three Uniques on your V/TO® to reflect this shift. Position your company as the strategic guide that helps clients navigate the flood of AI generated information. Shift your pricing models from hourly or deliverable based billing to value based advisory retainers.

By positioning your human expertise as the vital complement to cheap automated output, you preserve your pricing power and deepen your client relationships.