Hi, I'm a Software Engineer focused for about four years on Artificial Intelligence products. I'm now trying to start my own company, the main focusis to build and sell AI related products but I would consider doing consulting projects in order to get to know problems in the industry.<p>An old coworker started a software consultancy doing general software project for different companies and I'm going to meet him and talk about how can we collaborate.<p>I've been thinking about different alternatives and I'd like to discuss with you.<p>A) Ask him for potential clients, offering him a percentage of the deal.<p>B) Suggest him to build an "AI department" inside his company where I would act as the department lead and get a big percentage of the revenues of this department and a low percentage of the revenues of the whole company.<p>C) Offer him my services as an "AI consultant" so he could get contracts for AI products and I can help/educate his team to build projects.<p>D,E,F...Z) Your great suggestions, clearly better than mine.<p>What do you think? What would you do? Do you have similar experiences to share with us?