Senior AI consulting & strategy talent and rates in Dental & Veterinary
Senior AI consulting & strategy engineers serving dental & veterinary run roughly $180–$280/hr. Stack realities for this combination: Dentrix/Eaglesoft + Carestream imaging + Stripe — common integrations: Dentrix + Eaglesoft + Open Dental, AVImark + ezyVet vet software, Carestream + Patterson imaging. Imaging-AI for caries/perio detection; voice-charting
What AI consulting & strategy actually requires in 2026
Consulting outputs are deliverables, not code: AI maturity assessments, use-case prioritization matrices, build-vs-buy analyses, vendor selections (OpenAI vs Anthropic vs self-hosted), roadmaps with cost models. 2026 consultants ship using Notion, Miro, Excel, and Loom — not Figma or Jira. Senior AI consultants combine technical depth (can debug an embedding mismatch) with executive communication (can present to a board). Pure-academic ML PhDs without business framing fail; pure-business consultants without technical depth produce slop deliverables.