Qtonic Quantum vs Big 4 Consulting

When a Big 4 firm takes on a PQC engagement, the pattern is predictable: a partner sells the deal, a manager scopes it, and a team of junior consultants executes it. The assessment relies on interviews with your engineering teams, manual documentation review, and spreadsheets that catalog what your staff tells them you have deployed.

This approach has three fundamental problems. First, it depends on institutional knowledge that is often incomplete — your teams may not know every cryptographic asset across every system. Second, it cannot provide provider-aligned forward-threat validation because Big 4 firms do not operate governed validation workflows. Third, the output is a static report that ages immediately, not a continuously updated remediation roadmap.

The result is an expensive engagement that tells you what you already suspected — you have quantum risk — without mapping the specific assets, prioritizing the remediation, or proving the findings with reviewable validation evidence.

Big 4 PQC engagements typically start at $500K or more with 12–18 month timelines. The first deliverable — usually a risk assessment report — arrives 8–12 weeks in. Remediation execution costs extra, often doubling or tripling the initial scope.

Qtonic Quantum starts with QScout Free QScout scan that delivers first findings in 72 hours. The enterprise assessment is available on Azure Marketplace for a 7-day engagement. QStrike provides 90–120 days of continuous adversary demonstration. QSolve executes the full migration with transparent, milestone-based engagement terms.

Every step produces measurable output. No months of silence before the first deliverable. No surprise scope expansions. No generic consulting cycles standing in for governed execution.