> the CEO is going to investors pitching the fact that we've built/are building some deep learning engine that can be applied to all problems.

> there is no 'engine'; we're a consulting company.

This is pretty close to fraud. There's a huge difference in return to investors between skilled data scientists doing one-offs, and an engine that does the work on its own. If they're not even trying to build a generic AI engine, it's over the line.

> Unless he is blatantly lying I'd say what you are experiencing is pretty standard.

I would say that he is lying, if the description of the situation is accurate, and that "what you are experiencing is pretty standard" isn't _really_ true. But it's not far wrong either. And that's unfortunate.