{"id":1031198,"date":"2026-08-26T08:22:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031198"},"modified":"2026-08-26T09:51:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:21:43","slug":"a-smaller-team-augmented-by-ai-tooling-can-now-credibly-bid-against-a-workforce-many-times-its-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/26\/a-smaller-team-augmented-by-ai-tooling-can-now-credibly-bid-against-a-workforce-many-times-its-size\/","title":{"rendered":"A smaller team augmented by AI tooling can now credibly bid against a workforce many times its size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reported this week that TCS Chief Executive K Krithivasan told the news agency that roughly 80% of the company\u2019s contracts within its finance, human resources, and other business services segment are now based on outcome performance measures, a proportion that has reportedly doubled since AI went fully mainstream in late 2023. <\/p>\n<p>Cognizant put it plainly: with AI, the fundamentals are shifting, and clients now expect measurable outcomes rather than hours logged. Infosys faces the same pressure. This is not a rounding adjustment to a familiar business model. It is the business model changing underneath the industry that built modern Bengaluru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reported this week that TCS Chief Executive K Krithivasan told the news agency that roughly 80% of the company\u2019s contracts within its finance, human resources, and other business services segment are now based on outcome performance measures, a proportion that has reportedly doubled since AI went fully mainstream in late 2023. Cognizant put it plainly: with AI, the fundamentals are shifting, and clients now expect measurable outcomes rather than hours logged. Infosys faces the same pressure. This is not a rounding adjustment to a familiar business model. It is the business model changing underneath the industry that built modern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031225,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031198\/revisions\/1031225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}