Augment Analytics has turned five years old.
In five years, we have supported roughly 60 clients with support from over 70 consultants. In these 5 years and over two hundred engagements, only twice has a client ended a new engagement before the originally contracted period. That is an amazing accomplishment, especially in the staff augmentation space. Our clients are not obligated to continue for a full engagement, yet they do. For most of this industry, there is regular turnover of staffing because the consultant doesn’t meet the expectations of their client. This group is special; and that is why I am really excited about what the next 5 years holds for us.
Augment at a Glance
In the past 3 months, we have signed 2 new clients and created new engagements for 6 consultants at existing clients. Six team members were also extended across three clients! We had 3 consultant engagements end this quarter; 2 of them related to budget cuts at the client and the third because our consultant’s work drove a major strategy change at the client that concluded the engagement. Finally, we have added 9 net new consultants to the platform; and, today the platform of available consultants stands at 131.
New, Existing, and Prospective Clients
We have signed an early-stage fintech to provide marketing analytics support for one of their analysts who will be on leave for several months.
We have also signed a growth-stage fintech for whom we will provide recruiting support across almost a dozen roles as they experience substantial growth!
Importantly, our existing clients continue to rely on the team and seek additional support. This incremental support includes capital markets experience to facilitate the sale of an asset-backed loan portfolio, pipeline management talent sourcing for analytics roles, marketing strategy support for a marketing agency, and lifecycle recruiting for half a dozen roles at an InsurTech client that just raised capital.
In-Demand Job Families
Regarding our highest priority resource needs, the primary areas of interest from clients over the past several months are noted below. I continue to appreciate your referrals:
- Marketing analytics
- Recruiting
- Credit risk analytics
Note: As I mentioned in my last update, we are placing added emphasis on other job families, including compliance and technical program management in our business development efforts.
Trends in the Industry
I want to return to the topic that I discussed back in March with an important message to you. I believe that every professional job will be transformed by AI tools. Your number one personal development priority should be learning tools like Claude CoWork/Code, Codex, and Gemini. As new models become smarter and enterprises build the pipes and policies to enable agent actions within their organization, everything we do today will change dramatically.
Within Augment Analytics, we have automated 50% of our invoicing process, including mathematical QC on 100% of consultant timesheets, we’ve automated the maintenance of our website, and we’ve automated the month-end budget reconciliation process. And, we are just getting started. In Q3, we intend to enhance SEO on our website through AI, integrate QC of invoicing and payroll allowing us to retroactively verify 100% of past billing and payroll, and begin the process of deploying agents to automatically monitor email to confirm invoices have been paid and prepare vendor payments.
The bottom line is that, by the end of 2026, I believe that almost every role we get an opportunity to support at a client will have some level of expectation about AI-acumen. And, you will need to be able to demonstrate that knowledge and proficiency to clients from the start. The world is changing and we want to be on the front of that curve.
