For management consultanciesAn independent measure your clients can trust
When you advise clients on their software and their AI transformation, the evidence has to be independent and it has to come from the work itself. Arrio gives you a code-level read you can put in front of a client, and the direction to act on it.
The problem
Advice the client cannot verify
Clients ask you to assess and transform software you did not build, and the usual inputs are interviews, workshops and the client team's own account. It is slow, it is subjective, and a review delivered by the firm that also sells the remediation is hard for a client to take as independent.
The visibility gap is real on their side too: 49% of CIOs name the assessment of technology ROI as a point of contention with their CFO (KPMG, 2025), and an estimated $90 billion is wasted each year on engineering work that delivers little (Stanford, 2024). Clients increasingly want evidence, not opinion.
An independent, code-level read changes the conversation. It gives you a measure of the client's software that comes from the work itself, arrives in days, and is kept separate from whoever delivers the change that follows.
- Of CIOs name the assessment of technology ROI as a point of contention with their CFO. (KPMG, 2025)
- 49%
- Of CIOs name the assessment of technology ROI as a point of contention with their CFO. · KPMG, 2025
- Estimated annual waste from engineering work that delivers little. (Stanford, 2024)
- $90bn
- Estimated annual waste from engineering work that delivers little. · Stanford, 2024
- Of enterprise AI pilots fail to deliver measurable return. (MIT, 2025)
- 95%
- Of enterprise AI pilots fail to deliver measurable return. · MIT, 2025
How consultancies work with Arrio
Independent evidence for engagements
A code-level read of the client's software you can put on the table, produced by a party with no stake in the answer.
Faster than interview-led reviews
A first reading in days, with history included, instead of weeks of workshops and self-reported inputs.
Measurement kept separate from delivery
The read is independent of whoever acts on it, which is exactly what makes clients trust it, and you can be the one who delivers the change.
A clearer path to value
Findings that point to the work worth doing, so the engagement starts from evidence rather than discovery.
How a partner uses it
Your clients increasingly want evidence rather than a view. This is how you bring it without becoming the party that grades its own work.
01Open with evidence instead of a proposal
Arrive at the first conversation with an independent read of the client's software estate rather than a methodology deck. It changes what the meeting is about.
02Replace weeks of interviews with days of reading
The assessment phase stops being the slowest and most expensive part of the engagement. The work reads the code rather than the diaries of the people who wrote it.
03Keep measurement separate from delivery
The most valuable thing you can offer a sceptical client is that whoever measures the outcome is not whoever is paid to deliver it. Arrio measures; you deliver the change.
04Size the opportunity in numbers the client accepts
The distance between where the client is and what best-in-class looks like, quantified, becomes the business case for the work that follows.
05Prove the engagement worked
The same measure, taken again at the end. Value delivered, demonstrated independently, which is the hardest thing in advisory work to show.
Questions
The questions worth asking
How does a partnership with Arrio work?
Arrio provides the independent measurement and direction; you help clients act on it. From the first engagement, a partner can be brought in and trained on the specifics, so the people delivering the change understand the findings as deeply as we do. How partnership works in detail is on our partners page.
Who owns the insight, us or the client?
The client owns the engagement and the outcome. Arrio provides the independent read, and you deliver the change on top of it. The independence of the measure is what gives your advice its authority.
How is client code kept secure?
Access is read-only, sandboxed and audit-trailed, with the option to run inside the client's own cloud so nothing leaves their environment, and source code is not stored.
Sources
- KPMG, 2025 49% of CIOs (against 39% of CFOs) name the assessment of technology ROI as a point of contention.
- Stanford, 2024 An estimated $90 billion wasted annually on engineering work that delivers little (Yegor Denisov-Blanch).
- MIT, 2025 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail to deliver measurable ROI.
Bring your clients evidence from the work itself.