AI consulting for a small business means finding the specific work in your company that software should be doing, building the tools to do it, and training your people to run them. Good AI consulting ends with working systems your team operates — not a strategy document you now have to find someone to implement.
Ignore the hype cycle for a moment. Across dozens of builds, the same four patterns account for nearly every genuine win in a small or mid-sized business — and each one is measurable.
Someone capable spends hours moving information between systems, running the same calculation, and formatting the same report. It's the most reliable AI win there is, because the work is well-defined and the time cost is already measurable.
Your numbers live in five or six systems that don't talk. Leadership can't see the whole picture without someone assembling it by hand, and you're paying for every seat in every system.
How things actually get done lives with two or three long-tenured people. Onboarding is slow, quality is inconsistent, and a resignation is a genuine operational risk.
Your attorneys, CPAs, or engineers bill premium hours to assemble information rather than apply judgment to it. Every hour of that is a direct, avoidable cost.
We are not in the business of replacing your people.
It's the first question most owners actually want to ask, so here is the direct answer: every engagement we have run ended with the same team doing more — not a smaller team doing the same.
That isn't a values statement, it's arithmetic. In a company your size, your people are not the bottleneck. The twenty minutes per record is the bottleneck. The ten hours a week of re-keying data is the bottleneck. Remove those and the capable people you already trust get their week back for work that genuinely needs a human.
The same team handles more volume without more hours, because the mechanical part of the job stops being their job.
Process knowledge moves out of a few heads and into systems your whole team can use — and new hires get productive sooner.
Taking on more work stops automatically requiring more headcount, which is what makes a small business genuinely scalable.
Enterprise consultancies are genuinely good at some things. For a business your size, here is where each one wins — including the cases where you should call them instead of us.
| Boutique (us) | Big 4 / enterprise | |
|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | The senior people who scoped it | Partners sell, associates deliver |
| Typical cost | 40–60% less for comparable scope | Enterprise rate cards |
| Speed to first result | Weeks | Quarters |
| Deliverable | Working software your team runs | Strategy, frameworks, roadmaps |
| Global footprint | US & Canada | Offices in 100+ countries |
| Very large programs | Not our model | Hundreds of consultants on call |
| Best fit | 5–500 people, needs it built | Enterprise transformation programs |
You don't have to commit to a partnership to work with us, and you don't have to talk to us at all to get value. In order of commitment:
Generate an AI use policy or a sales playbook in minutes. Yours to keep, no call required.
Tell us what's slow. We'll tell you honestly whether AI is the answer — sometimes it isn't.
A strategic intensive with your leadership that ends in a concrete plan you can run yourself.
The full relationship: senior team, builds, training, advisory, and portal in one fee.
What small-business owners ask us most, without the hedging.
Across the market, small-business AI consulting runs from roughly $2,000 for a readiness assessment to $50,000 or more for a full implementation, with fractional Chief AI Officer retainers commonly $2,000–$8,000 per month.
We scope to your goals rather than publish a rate card, and we'll size it on the first call. Full detail on the investment & terms page.
If you have at least five employees, real operational complexity, and repetitive work eating meaningful hours, you're big enough to see measurable return. Below that, the free tools and self-directed training will do more for you than an engagement will — which is exactly why we publish them.
It's a good start and a real fraction of the value. What it doesn't do is connect to your systems, follow your process, or produce the same result when a different person runs it.
The step change comes from tools built around your actual workflow — which is the difference between a smart assistant and a system your business depends on.
Not in our engagements. Every project we've delivered ended with the same team doing more. We target the repetitive work consuming your people's hours, not the people.
That's the normal case, and it's most of the value we add early. We look at how work actually moves through your business and find where the hours are going — usually the answer isn't the thing an owner expected.
The same senior bench every time: an operational expert who runs process and trains your team, a technical engineer who ships and hardens the build, and an integrator who holds timeline and budget — with founder John Constantine, a former publicly traded CEO, in every engagement. More on the team.
No pitch deck, no commitment. We'll tell you where AI would actually pay off in your business — and where it wouldn't.