AI consulting services
Artificial intelligence is changing the world. How can AI consulting transform your organization?
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing key operational processes, with benefits including increased efficiency, deeper business insight and stronger connections with customers. The transformative potential of AI is undeniable, but without effective advice, governance and support, AI initiatives may not ultimately align with business objectives or meet projected goals.
AI consulting services help your organization move beyond experimentation to successfully navigate the complex AI landscape and achieve measurable outcomes aligned with your business priorities. With effective AI consulting, you gain access to deep AI experience and insight, bespoke strategies for your industry and specific use cases, and rapid and responsible innovation that accelerates your competitive advantage. Ultimately, leveraging the right AI consulting approach delivers several critical benefits, enabling your organization to operate smarter, grow faster and reduce risk.
Whether you're evaluating initial AI use cases or scaling adoption across the enterprise, lasting success requires more than technical knowledge. It demands a deep understanding of your business, your industry and your specific challenges.
At RSM, our AI consulting services bring together experienced industry and AI professionals to align strategic goals with practical solutions. This powerful combination of domain insight and technological innovation allows us to uncover high-impact opportunities and deliver tailored and scalable AI solutions built to solve real business problems. We combine practical strategy, tailored implementation and long-term support to create AI solutions that aren’t just adopted but truly deliver impact.
Our AI consulting services methodology:
We help you identify the right AI opportunities by understanding your business model, pain points and data landscape.
Implementation
We build and deploy AI solutions tailored to your environment—these can include predictive models, copilots, automation tools or enterprise data platforms.
Managed services
We provide ongoing monitoring, enhancement and support to drive ongoing results from AI solutions.
Advisory services
RSM’s AI tech stack analysis reveals AI gaps and untapped capabilities. Gain a stronger perspective on gaps and opportunities within your AI strategy.
AI agent consulting services and solutions to enhance development and governance. To get started with agentic AI, schedule a complimentary agentic AI consultation with our AI advisory team.
Transition from being a reactive organization to a powerhouse market leader with proactive decision making. Our experienced advisors can implement advanced machine learning and AI tools and applications to address your most pressing business objectives.
Accelerate your AI strategy with RSM's AI readiness assessment. Begin with a customized AI roadmap built for results.
For organizations ready to begin their AI journey, or companies that want to enhance their AI maturity, RSM’s AI digital strategy and center of excellence (COE) design services can serve as a catalyst for aligning vision and goals, creating customized AI roadmaps and developing organizational governance.
Unlocking AI’s full potential can be daunting. From finding the right use cases to justifying ROI and driving adoption, RSM’s AI advisors simplify the journey with a two-pronged approach to guide you every step of the way.
RSM’s AI selection process identifies solutions tailored to your business challenges, opportunities and IT strategy grounded by a deep understanding of your operations and goals to maximize value.
Proper governance is a critical element of an effective AI strategy, providing necessary guidance and reducing potential risks. Our team provides several critical solutions including AI policy and governance assessments, AI policy and framework testing, responsible AI framework design and AI governance audits.
Choose between a one-hour and two-hour AI workshop tailored for executives and information technology leaders, available virtually or in person, with actionable insights and strategies for successful and responsible AI implementation.
Accelerate AI adoption with strategic copilot advisory. As a key element of modern AI strategy, copilots enhance productivity across business applications and devices. RSM advises on how to effectively deploy and integrate copilots to streamline workflows, automate tasks, support decision making and personalize user experiences.
Our AI policy management services are designed to align your organization’s AI practices with industry-leading standards. We offer AI policy development and AI policy review services to enhance data integrity and promote ethical AI deployment.
Implementation
Bridge the gap between innovation and execution by embedding AI into your enterprise platforms. RSM delivers tailored integration strategies that accelerate time to value, improve system performance and support scalable transformation.
Realize the full potential of AI with RSM’s copilot implementation services. Our team configures and integrates copilot tools within your business ecosystem to align with your workflows, enhance user productivity and deliver measurable impact.
With extensive application experience and industry-specific insights, RSM advisors create a tailored approach leveraging a wide spectrum of services ranging from data analytics, advanced analytics and AI and application development to transform your business and create a truly competitive edge.
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Move your organization from experimentation to deployment with foundational infrastructure and processes needed to support scalable, reliable and efficient AI and analytics services.
Scalable, AI-powered software solutions are designed to solve complex problems or automate processes within large organizations. These applications, typically integrated with enterprise systems (e.g., ERP, CRM) are aligned with strategic business goals to deliver high-impact outcomes.
Harness the transformative power of generative AI with RSM. Our team brings deep experience across the full spectrum of tools and applications, helping you identify and implement solutions that drive innovation, boost productivity and align with your strategic priorities.
The RSM AI services team has extensive experience with many Microsoft tools and applications that can deliver a new era of collaboration and creativity for your business. Explore how RSM helps you leverage the Microsoft ecosystem to bring AI to life across these six solution areas:
Infrastructure (Azure): Microsoft Azure provides a scalable and secure cloud infrastructure foundation for modern enterprises. It supports advanced AI workloads with high-performance computing, storage and networking capabilities to run machine learning models, AI-driven applications and analytics platforms. RSM enhances Azure infrastructure deployments by aligning cloud architectures to your business needs, ensuring optimal performance, security and compliance. Our certified Azure experts design and manage intelligent infrastructure that supports AI scalability, enabling faster time to insights and innovation.
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Data and AI: Microsoft’s data and AI platform includes Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Machine Learning, Cognitive Services and Power BI — all designed to help organizations collect, store, process and gain insights from their data using AI and ML models. RSM brings deep experience in designing modern data estates and applying AI for real business impact. From implementing AI-ready data architectures to building and deploying models, we help organizations harness Microsoft’s AI tools to drive predictive analytics, automation and intelligent decision making.
Digital and app innovation: Microsoft Azure offers services like Azure App Services, GitHub Copilot and AI-infused DevOps tools that accelerate application development and modernization. These tools help developers build smarter, cloud-native apps with built-in AI capabilities and agile delivery models. RSM supports digital transformation by helping organizations ideate, develop and modernize applications using Microsoft technologies. We integrate AI features—like intelligent recommendations, chatbots or document analysis—into custom apps to enhance user experiences and business outcomes.
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Business applications: Dynamics 365 offers a suite of intelligent business applications that leverage AI to unify customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions. Features include AI for sales forecasting, customer insights, fraud protection and process automation across finance, operations, marketing and more. As a long-standing Microsoft solutions provider, RSM provides tailored Dynamics 365 solutions enhanced with AI. Our consultants align the platform with your business goals, helping you unlock actionable insights, automate workflows and deliver better customer experiences through intelligent applications.
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Modern work: Microsoft 365, including Teams, SharePoint and the new Copilot AI features, delivers a modern workplace experience with intelligent productivity tools. It enables knowledge discovery, content generation and seamless collaboration powered by Microsoft Graph and AI. RSM helps you adopt and optimize Microsoft 365 and Copilot to transform the way your teams work. Our approach emphasizes change management, governance and AI adoption strategies to boost productivity, streamline communication and unlock the full potential of your content.
Security: Microsoft offers a unified security platform including Microsoft Sentinel, Defender for Cloud, Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) and Purview. These tools apply AI and automation to identify threats, secure identities and ensure data compliance. RSM brings industry-specific experience and advanced capabilities to help secure your Microsoft environment. Our proactive security and compliance services integrate AI-driven threat detection, identity governance and regulatory alignment to help protect your organization across hybrid and cloud environments.
Use tailored AI solutions built to address your organization’s specific industry demands and operational challenges. These purpose-built applications go beyond general-purpose tools to support specialized use cases, adhering to regulatory requirements and enhancing performance across complex workflows.
Effective AI isn't a one-size-fits-all situation. It's designed around your data, your processes and your goals. RSM delivers tailored AI solutions to accelerate progress while staying aligned with your broader business vision. We help you unlock the full potential of AI through purpose-built models and scalable foundations tailored to your business.
Managed services
Optimizing model performance for enhanced accuracy and efficiency to drive measurable business outcomes. Whether you’re deploying a pre-trained model or building a solution from scratch, tuning helps tailor the AI model to your specific data, objectives and operational context.
Transition from being a reactive organization to a powerhouse market leader with proactive decision making. Our experienced AI architects, data scientists and data engineers can implement advanced methods such as machine learning, artificial intelligence and prescriptive and predictive analytics to address your most pressing business objectives.
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End-to-end AI implementations and maintenance services so AI doesn’t just get deployed—it delivers.
Unlock the full potential of your data with predictive and prescriptive analytics. Our advanced analytics professionals use techniques like machine learning, AI, forecasting and customer segmentation to help you anticipate trends, identify opportunities and gain a competitive edge.
RSM’s data engineering services help organizations design, build and optimize modern data architectures that support scalable analytics and AI initiatives. Our team transforms raw data into reliable, high-quality assets by integrating, cleansing and orchestrating data across platforms to enable real-time insights and smarter decision making.
As technology becomes more complex and innovations rapidly evolve, understanding what solutions best align with your business operations—and how to optimize them—can pose a challenge. In addition, attracting qualified, in-house IT talent can be difficult and costly, and even more problematic to retain.
Begin with an all-inclusive approach to fully managed IT services
Our managed application services can accelerate your progress with AI tools and applications, enabling you to achieve your vision and get the most out of your investments. Whether you are just starting to develop your AI strategy or looking to achieve your next milestone, our managed services team can provide insight, advice and deep experience to reach your goals and uncover new opportunities.
Monitor, measure and evaluate AI deployment performance to adjust and enhance as needed to deliver intended goals.
It is no longer optional for CEOs and boards to just think about adopting AI solutions. They have a responsibility to remain competitive and determine where AI can grow revenue, reduce costs and mitigate risks. By developing AI strategies that align with industry demands and business goals, CEOs and board members can significantly elevate overall operations.
Chief information officers and chief technology officers have a significant responsibility to guide technology transformation initiatives, with AI deployment joining an ever-growing portfolio of capabilities for the role. With an effective AI approach, technology leaders can create opportunities for enhanced process automation, more efficient data analysis and better business outcomes.
AI is an indispensable tool for finance and accounting leaders as it reshapes the financial landscape, driving increased efficiency and inspiring growth. CFOs can utilize AI to develop more comprehensive and efficient financial modeling, forecasting and analysis, taking organizational decision-making capabilities to a new level.
Amid significant operational challenges and demand shifts, chief procurement officers (CPOs) and supply chain officers can optimize the supply chain and deliver more meaningful value with effective AI strategies. A successful AI approach can increase efficiency, agility and visibility across global networks.
AI is transforming HR, and chief human resource officers (CHROs) are essential in ensuring its ethical and strategic adoption in alignment with business goals. By effectively leveraging AI, HR can optimize hiring, improve workforce operations and enhance employee experiences.
Chief operating officers are uniquely positioned to unlock AI’s potential, rapidly driving efficiency, reducing costs and optimizing operations at scale. With the right strategy, AI can be a game changer, enabling operational leaders to achieve immediate impact and long-term business value.
AI transforms the business landscape, chief risk officers play a critical role in managing regulatory compliance, data privacy and security risks. By establishing a strong AI governance foundation, CROs can successfully navigate organizational AI adoption while mitigating model bias and enabling responsible implementation.
AI is rapidly transforming marketing, enabling CMOs to accelerate creativity, scale personalization, optimize spend, and connect campaigns directly to business outcomes. While adoption is high, many middle market organizations face challenges with data quality, integration, and readiness—requiring a phased roadmap and strong governance to unlock AI’s full potential. By leveraging AI for strategy, creative execution, and predictive insights, CMOs can strengthen customer engagement, enhance ROI, and position their organizations for long-term growth.
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Case study
Making a connection: City of Cornwall leverages AI in local government
"RSM is focused on helping modernize the operations of public sector and government services clients, and over the last several years, we have collaborated with the City of Cornwall to support their evolving technological needs. This initiative is the perfect example of how AI can support modernization efforts in public sector operations."
- Rhett Nussey, RSM Management Consulting Government Services Leader
Microsoft case study
AI and automation elevate productivity and service delivery for City of Kelowna
"Without a strategic plan and a governance framework that operationalizes that plan, you can never be sure you are making the right investment decisions and maximizing the value of every dollar spent"
- Sawan Dhaliwal, Director, RSM Canada
Generating value from data analytics and artificial intelligence
"It is all about aligning, building and deploying training models in a protected and safe manner and making sure we are adding value to the organization."
- Robbie Beyer, Director, RSM US LLP
"We chose RSM because of their dairy industry knowledge and tools that focused on the dairy industry"
- Travis Pierce, The co-op’s director of information technology
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