# Ode Considers Outcome-Based Fees as Fewer Than 10% of Clients Use Them By John Kim Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/business/55767 Published: 2026-11-12T18:36:11.000Z Updated: 2026-11-12T18:36:11.000Z Section: Business > The consultancy, formed by Blackstone and Anthropic, aims to expand contracts that tie fees to financial results from its AI tools. Ode is weighing fees linked to financial results from its AI work, while fewer than 10% of its clients currently have performance-based contracts as the consultancy looks to expand the arrangement. The AI consultancy was formed by Blackstone and Anthropic and uses Anthropic’s Claude models. Blackstone President Jon Gray previously said Ode could not keep pace with customer demand, a point covered in [earlier coverage of Ode’s customer demand](). ## Links in this article - [earlier coverage of Ode’s customer demand](https://www.tokenpost.com/news/business/38702)