AI Consulting
Part of What We Do
Most of what you hear about AI is noise.
What is AI consulting?
AI consulting is a short, honest engagement to work out where AI is worth your time and where it isn’t. Instead of a long strategy document, it’s a working session or two on how your business actually runs, and it turns the noise around AI into a specific, ordered plan. We tell you which ideas would help, which are a distraction, and roughly what each would cost. It isn’t a sales call in disguise or a generic report. You get a clear decision quickly, from people who also build what they recommend, so the advice rests on what can be built today rather than what sounds good.
Why get AI consulting first?
The quickest way to waste money on AI is to start building before you’ve worked out what’s worth building. The pressure to “do something with AI” pushes businesses into projects that sound impressive and change nothing: a chatbot nobody uses, an automation for a process that happens twice a year. A short consulting pass up front is the cheap way to learn what you actually needed.
It also covers the opposite risk. The space is loud, every vendor claims everything, and it’s easy to do nothing while the practical wins sit there unclaimed. Consulting swaps both the hype and the paralysis for a plain list: what would help, what it costs, and the order to do it in. If you’d like to size that up yourself first, our AI readiness checklist runs through the same questions as a self-serve first pass.
You leave with a decision, not another opinion. We build as well as advise, and that’s what keeps the plan out of the theoretical: every recommendation carries a real effort and cost, not a boardroom guess.
What you actually get
The deliverable is deliberately small. It’s a written summary you’ll actually read, usually three to five pages, not a bound deck that sits in a drawer. Inside is an ordered list of opportunities, and each one gets the same four lines. The process it touches, what AI would really do to it, a rough cost and effort band, and a plain call: build it, buy something off the shelf, or leave it for now.
Where a recommendation is a build, we note roughly what it would take and cost, because the person writing it also quotes and ships that work. Where the honest answer is a $40-a-month tool you can set up yourself, it says so. The document should be useful the morning after, with or without us.
You can hand it to another developer and they’ll have enough to scope from. You can pick off the cheap wins in-house that afternoon. Or you can brief us on the one or two things worth building and we’ll start there. You won’t get a vision statement, a maturity matrix, or a list of “AI use cases” copied from someone else’s business. It’s specific to what we saw in yours, and short enough that everyone who needs to read it will.
From advice to done
Consulting is the front door to everything else we do. Once we’ve worked out what’s worth building, we can build it, whether that’s operations automation, marketing automation agency, crm, or ai training, or, just as often, train your team to run the tools themselves. You’re never obliged to take the build, and plenty of clients act on the plan in-house. If you’d rather the person who scoped it also shipped it, that’s the reason we do both under one roof.
What does success look like?
Six weeks after we finish, you’re doing something, or deliberately not, instead of wondering. You’ve got an ordered plan and a real sense of what each piece costs. You build the first thing, hand the list to your team, or sit tight because you now know waiting is the right call. The noise has gone, and what’s left is a decision you can defend to anyone who asks.
It isn’t a deck.
Said plainly, because it’s the first thing people expect. What comes out of this is a short, specific list: what to build, what to buy, what to leave alone, and roughly what each one costs. No maturity model. If the honest version of that list is one line long, you get one line and a small invoice.
AI consulting FAQs
A short engagement to work out where AI is worth your time and where it isn’t. We look at how your business actually runs, say which of the loud AI ideas would help and which are a distraction, and give you a plan. No jargon, and no upsell built into the advice. You can act on it with us, take it to someone else, or shelve it.
It can be. That’s why we price it as its own thing and give you advice you could act on without us. Sometimes the honest recommendation is a $50-a-month tool, or doing nothing yet. We’d rather tell you that, and be the people you call when there’s something real to build, than sell you a project you didn’t need.
Those tend to produce a deck. We give you a short, specific answer from someone who also builds the thing, so the plan rests on what’s buildable and what it costs, not on what sounds good in a boardroom. You deal with Aidan directly, not a team of analysts.
A clear read on which processes or ideas are worth pursuing, a rough effort and cost for each, and a recommended order. Where it helps, a short written summary you can share with your team. Enough to make a decision on. Not a 60-page report nobody reads.
Usually a session or two plus a short write-up. Days, not months. A long engagement mostly produces a longer document, and the useful part was always the decision. We aim to get you to it quickly and cheaply, then get out of the way or start building.
Often. Plenty of businesses already have people using AI tools informally and want a sober read on what to standardise, what to stop and where to put money next. That’s a good use of a consulting session: turning scattered experiments into a plan.
We scope and quote it up front like everything else we do, and we keep it deliberately light. Enough to get you a real answer without it turning into a project of its own. You’ll know the price, and what you get for it, before you commit.
Not sure what's worth doing with AI?
A couple of lines is enough. It goes straight to Aidan, not a sales team, and if it isn’t worth building he’ll tell you.
- You deal with Aidan directly, not a sales team.
- A straight answer on whether it's worth building, and what it'd cost.
- You own everything we build. No lock-in and no per-seat fees.
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