Our service delivery is now ten times faster because of AI, which is destroying our revenue under our current hourly billing model. How do we update our revenue model and target market on our V/TO® to charge for outcomes instead of hours?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

If you bill by the hour, AI-driven efficiency is a direct threat to your top line. Delivering a project in two hours instead of twenty means your revenue drops by ninety percent, even though you provided the exact same value. You must shift from hourly billing to value-based pricing.

To make this shift, start by updating your V/TO®. Review your Target Market, or lists of ideal clients. Your new target market must be organizations that value speed, certainty, and outcomes over resource logs and timesheets.

Next, redefine your pricing strategy. Instead of charging for the inputs, charge for the outputs and the business impact. For example, if your service saves a client fifty thousand dollars or cuts their launch time in half, price your service as a percentage of that captured value.

Use your Level 10 Meeting™ to identify clients who are resistant to this change. Bring these accounts to your Issues List and use IDS® to transition them to value-based contracts or gracefully phase them out.

Transitioning to value-based pricing dramatically increases your gross margins and enterprise value. Strategic buyers despise hourly models because they are hard to scale and cap your growth. A value-based model, powered by efficient AI operations, shows buyers that you have built a highly scalable, high-margin engine.