Owner-led · 2–50 people
AI Consulting for Small Businesses,priced like one.
Most AI consulting for small businesses is an enterprise program with the number filed down. You do not need a steering committee — you need two or three workflows running and your people able to keep them running.
- Written scope in two days
- Two or three workflows
- Owner still in the work
You are the bottleneck, and you know it.
The proposals go out when you write them. The follow-up happens when you remember. The tricky client email waits until you have a clear hour, which is Thursday.
- Nothing is broken exactly. It just all runs through one person, and that person is out of hours to give it.
- Every AI pitch you get is written for a company with a head of operations. Discovery phases, change-management workstreams, a pilot cohort. You have eleven people and a shared inbox.
- So we do the small version properly. Find the two or three jobs that eat your week, build those, and train whoever will run them. One working thing beats a roadmap.
In the inbox, the pipeline, the back office
What AI for small business actually looks like
Not a chatbot on your website. The five jobs that quietly consume the owner's week.
01 · The owner
The Inbox That Eats Your Morning
Quotes, inquiries, and client questions that all need a considered reply, and all land on the owner. AI drafts the response in your voice from your past replies. You read and send instead of writing from scratch.
02 · Sales
Proposals and Client Deliverables
The same document, rebuilt for every client with the details swapped. AI assembles the draft from your template and the intake notes, so a proposal takes twenty minutes instead of an afternoon.
03 · Pipeline
Follow-Up That Actually Happens
Small businesses lose more revenue to forgotten follow-up than to lost pitches. A simple agent watches who went quiet and drafts the nudge, so nothing sits unanswered because it was a busy week.
04 · Operations
Onboarding a New Client or Hire
The steps live in your head and get half-remembered each time. We turn the sequence into something that runs itself and prompts the human only where judgment is needed.
05 · Back office
The Admin Nobody Owns
Invoices retyped, receipts categorized, notes rewritten into the CRM. At your size there is no back office to absorb it, so it lands on whoever has a free hour. AI does the retyping.
Three ways in
Start where you actually are
01 · Before you spend anything
You want a straight answer first
Start with the free readiness assessment. Ten questions, a score across seven dimensions, and a roadmap. No call required.
02 · Ready to act
You want your team using AI properly
Training built on your real client work — your quotes, your emails, your documents. Not a demo dataset and not a webinar.
03 · You want it built for you
You would rather not learn the tooling
We build the workflow, hand you the keys, and train whoever runs it. You end up owning it rather than renting us.
Fit check
We'd rather tell you no on the first call
Right fit if
- You are an owner-led business of roughly 2 to 50 people — professional services, agency, clinic, local operator, or small B2B.
- You are still personally in the workflow, and your own hours are what caps the business.
- Someone on the team already uses ChatGPT, but it has stayed personal and nothing has changed at the business level.
- Every AI consultant who has quoted you priced a program built for a company ten times your size.
- You want two or three things working and your people able to run them, not a transformation roadmap.
Not the right fit if
- You want a full enterprise program with a steering committee and a discovery phase — that is what the AI Adoption OS is for.
- You are looking for the cheapest possible freelancer to run prompts for you. This is scoped work with a written scope and a fixed number.
- You want AI adopted without anyone on your team changing how they work. Someone has to own the new workflow.
Thirty minutes. Then a written scope.
Tell us what you still do by hand. You get a written scope in two business days. If AI is not going to pay for itself at your size yet, we will tell you that on the call.
AI Consulting for Small Businesses FAQs
Cost, company size, what gets built, and what the first call looks like.
It is scoped on the call, in writing, before any work starts. The number depends on how many people need to be trained, how many workflows you want built, and whether you need someone to stay involved after launch. You get a fixed written scope with a fixed number — no hourly meter, no surprise phase two. Small-business engagements are deliberately smaller and shorter than the enterprise programs on this site, because a 12-person company does not need a steering committee.
No — and that is the reason this page exists. Most AI consulting is priced and structured for companies with hundreds of employees. If you are under 50 people, you usually get quoted a program you do not need. A small business needs two or three workflows working and the owner confident enough to run them. That is a different, smaller engagement, and it is the one we scope here.
No. Everything we build runs on tools you already have or can adopt in an afternoon, and we train the person who will actually use it — usually the owner or an operations lead. If nobody on your team writes code, that is the normal case, not a blocker.
Most small businesses already have someone experimenting with ChatGPT. The gap is that it stays personal and ad hoc — one person gets faster, nothing changes at the business level. The work here is turning that into something repeatable: a workflow that runs the same way every time, that survives the person who set it up leaving, and that your team can actually use without being prompted experts.
Owner-led companies roughly 2 to 50 people — professional services firms, agencies, clinics, local service operators, and small B2B companies. The common thread is not the industry. It is that the owner is still personally in the workflow, and the constraint on growth is their own hours.
The first working workflow usually lands in the first two to three weeks, because we deliberately pick a narrow one first. We would rather prove one thing quickly than map your entire operation for a quarter before anything ships. If the first one does not pay for itself, you have learned that cheaply.
Yes. Training-only is a common shape for small businesses, and often the right one — you keep the capability in-house instead of renting it. We also do the reverse (we build it, you run it) and a mix of both. Which one fits gets decided on the scoping call, not in advance.
Thirty minutes on how work actually moves through your business — what you personally still do by hand, where things get dropped, and what you would stop doing tomorrow if you could. You get a written scope within two business days. If AI is not going to pay for itself at your size yet, we say so on that call rather than selling you something.