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AI Value Shift

How AI Will Define Your Business Value

As AI adoption accelerates, your competitive position is easier to copy and harder to defend. Features that once took years to build now show up in weeks, workflows are getting bypassed, and pricing is already feeling the pressure.

You may be more exposed than you realize, or in better shape than you think. Which side are you on? Take the five-question AI Stress Test for a quick view of where your business stands.

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AI Value Shift

How AI Will Define Your Business Value

As AI adoption accelerates, your competitive position is easier to copy and harder to defend. Features that once took years to build now show up in weeks, workflows are getting bypassed, and pricing is already feeling the pressure.

You may be more exposed than you realize, or in better shape than you think. Which side are you on? Take the five-question AI Stress Test for a quick view of where your business stands.

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How it works

What the stress test considers

The full Altman Solon AI Resilience Diagnostic examines three layers of resilience. This five-question stress test offers a simplified view of selected signals within that framework.

The AI Stress Test is based on Altman Solon's AI Resilience Diagnostic, a proprietary framework applied across software, cybersecurity, IT services, and adjacent tech categories.

How it works

What the stress test considers 

The full Altman Solon AI Resilience Diagnostic examines three layers of resilience. This five-question stress test offers a simplified view of selected signals within that framework.

The AI Stress Test is based on Altman Solon's AI Resilience Diagnostic, a proprietary framework applied across software, cybersecurity, IT services, and adjacent tech categories.

The AI Stress Test

Get a quick read on AI resilience

Stress test your position before the market does. Answer five questions about your business model, sources of differentiation, pricing, and use of AI - get a directional result, plus what to examine more closely.

 

 

The AI Stress Test

Get a quick read on AI resilience

Stress test your position before the market does. Answer five questions about your business model, sources of differentiation, pricing, and use of AI - get a directional result, plus what to examine more closely.

 

 

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How AI is changing value across tech markets

AI is not affecting every market, business model, or source of differentiation in the same way. We examine where pressure is building and which advantages may be more durable across software, cybersecurity, and IT services.

Where differentiation is harder to sustain

AI makes software features and interfaces easier to reproduce and creates alternatives to traditional seat-based models. Advantages are likely to come from proprietary data, integrations, embedded workflows, and trusted customer relationships.

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Where automation ends and trust still matters

AI can automate activities such as scanning, triage, and rule generation. Proprietary telemetry, regulated workflows, organizational context, deep integration, and accountability remain harder to replace.

<div style="text-align: center;">Explore cybersecurity &amp; AI resilience</div>

How delivery and pricing models are evolving

AI is automating repeatable delivery work and challenging time-based business models. Providers can create value by productizing delivery, pricing around outcomes, and combining automation with the judgment and accountability clients still need.

<div style="text-align: center;">Explore IT services &amp; AI resilience</div>
Explore by sector

How AI is changing value across tech markets

AI is not affecting every market, business model, or source of differentiation in the same way. We examine where pressure is building and which advantages may be more durable across software, cybersecurity, and IT services.

Where differentiation is harder to sustain

AI makes software features and interfaces easier to reproduce and creates alternatives to traditional seat-based models. Advantages are likely to come from proprietary data, integrations, embedded workflows, and trusted customer relationships.

<div style="text-align: center;">Explore software &amp; AI resilience</div>

Where automation ends and trust still matters

AI can automate activities such as scanning, triage, and rule generation. Proprietary telemetry, regulated workflows, organizational context, deep integration, and accountability remain harder to replace.

<div style="text-align: center;">Explore cybersecurity &amp; AI resilience</div>

How delivery and pricing models are evolving

AI is automating repeatable delivery work and challenging time-based business models. Providers can create value by productizing delivery, pricing around outcomes, and combining automation with the judgment and accountability clients still need.

<div style="text-align: center;">Explore IT services &amp; AI resilience</div>

Go deeper

Explore what AI resilience means for your business

We help clients assess where AI may add value, where advantages are more durable, and which product, pricing, growth, or investment choices matter going forward.
Go deeper

Explore what AI resilience means for your business

We help clients assess where AI may add value, where advantages are more durable, and which product, pricing, growth, or investment choices matter going forward.
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Developed by Altman Solon's tech team

The AI Stress Test is delivered by the partners advising investors and operators through the AI shift across software, cybersecurity, and IT services.

Ben Matthews

Ben Matthews

Partner

Patrick Marshall

Patrick Marshall

Partner

Abhishek Mitra

Abhishek Mitra

Associate Partner

Alexander Jinivizian

Alexander Jinivizian

Associate Partner

Grace Ogilby

Grace Ogilby

Associate Partner

Ruchir Kalra

Ruchir Kalra

Associate Partner

Sean Korb

Sean Korb

Associate Partner

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Developed by Altman Solon's tech team

The AI Stress Test is delivered by the partners advising investors and operators through the AI shift across software, cybersecurity, and IT services.

Ben Matthews

Ben Matthews

Partner

Patrick Marshall

Patrick Marshall

Partner

Abhishek Mitra

Abhishek Mitra

Associate Partner

Alexander Jinivizian

Alexander Jinivizian

Associate Partner

Grace Ogilby

Grace Ogilby

Associate Partner

Ruchir Kalra

Ruchir Kalra

Associate Partner

Sean Korb

Sean Korb

Associate Partner

Understand where your category is headed.

Whether you are evaluating a deal, pressure-testing a product strategy, or assessing where your category is headed, the AI Stress Test is where to start.