AI puts hourly billing model at risk

The Express Tribune • Nov 3, 2026

AI puts hourly billing model at risk

Pakistan's information technology (IT) exporters must shift from low-margin, hourly outsourcing to high-value, outcome-based work as artificial intelligence (AI) commoditises conventional coding and manual quality assurance, industry experts said, with software exports and consultancy accounting for 41% of the country's IT exports and generating a combined $521 million in foreign exchange during the first quarter of...