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$900/Hour AI Consultants? The Gold Rush Is On
Will this be how you cash in?
Midas AI
September 15, 2025
Welcome back to The Midas Report.
Your shortcut to AI clarity in a world full of noise.
And when the stakes are this high, the value of human expertise skyrockets.
$900/hr AI consultants? Welcome to the gold rush
Turns out that AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t compute, creativity, or even data, it’s people.
Top AI engineers are now pulling down up to $900/hour as consultants, and companies across finance, retail, and healthcare are happily footing the bill.
That number should make your eyebrows hit the ceiling.
Not because it’s surprising but because it confirms something important, most organizations still have no idea how to ship real, working AI.
After throwing millions at hackathons, pilots, and GPT playgrounds in 2022 and 2023, enterprises are now waking up to a tough reality.
It’s one thing to experiment with AI. It's another to integrate it in a way that actually changes how a business runs. That's why hiring talent has turned into panic buying expertise by the hour.
Companies aren’t paying $900/hour for code, they’re paying for clarity.
They want someone who can walk in, cut through the hype, and say “Here’s where AI makes sense. Here’s your workflow change. Let’s ship this."
In the short term, this dynamic massively inflates agency and consulting revenue. But under the surface, it’s a signal flare for a much bigger shift.
The real prize is product, prebuilt AI workflows that don’t require a genius behind the keyboard.
Tooling that isn’t just powerful, but plug and play. In other words, today’s consulting dollars are tomorrow’s SaaS revenue, for anyone who can turn repeatable expertise into a product.
If you're an agency, dev shop, or solo builder, take note, the market is already behaving like AI delivery is a premium service. So stop selling it like a side project. Price it like surgery.
And if you're an investor, here’s your cheat code, look for teams turning high repetition enterprise pain points into push button experiences.
The age of AI architects for hire is a gold rush but the real wealth will come to those selling the infrastructure.
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That’s your daily AI edge for September 15th 2025.
See you tomorrow!
Midas AI