AI services for small businesses
A few of the areas where AI takes real work off your plate. It’s not a fixed menu; what’s right depends on your business, but these are the problems I solve most. Every engagement starts by finding the parts worth automating, then building them.
If you’re not sure your business is ready, the AI readiness checklist shows what to sort out first.
Strategy
Not sure where AI fits? Start here.
AI strategy and roadmapping →Sales
Win more of the right customers, with less chasing.
AI sales automation →Marketing
Show up everywhere, without living in your feeds.
AI marketing and content automation →Customer service
Answer every customer fast, without burning out.
AI customer service →Operations & paperwork
Kill the repetitive work that eats your week.
Operations and paperwork automation →Finance & admin
Close the books faster, with fewer errors.
Finance and admin automation →Custom tools
When off-the-shelf can’t do it, I build it.
Custom AI tools and software →Your team
Get everyone working faster with AI.
Team AI training and enablement →What it costs
A free intro call, a $500 assessment, a fixed-price first project, then ongoing work or a care plan if you want more.
- 1
Intro call
Free
45 minutes
A 45-minute call where I learn how your business runs and where to start. The next step is usually the assessment.
- 2
AI assessment
$500
Fixed price
I spend up to half a day watching how the work runs, on site or over video. Within a week you get a written map of the workflows worth automating, ranked, with what each would take. The map becomes the proposal for your first project.
The $500 is credited in full toward a first project signed within 30 days.
- 3
First project
From $10,000
Fixed price
One workflow, a named result and a finish date.
You already know what you need
There’s a specific bottleneck you’ve put your finger on: a manual process, a tool that doesn’t exist, hours going somewhere they shouldn’t. I build the solution and get it running in your business. In that case you can skip the assessment and go straight to a proposal.
You know AI could help, but not where
You can tell technology should be doing more, but the exact opportunity isn’t clear yet. The assessment maps what’s worth automating, and the first project builds the first piece.
- 4
Ongoing work
From $5,000
Per month
I work as your embedded AI lead: one three-hour session at your office each week, and remote building the rest of the week. I take on one workstream at a time and finish as many each month as the pace allows.
Two workstreams in parallel is $10,000 a month. The first term is two months, then it runs month to month.
orCare plan
$500
Per month
After a first project, if all you need is upkeep, the care plan covers health checks on the tools I built, fixes when one breaks, updates when a vendor API or AI model changes, a 30-minute check-in each month and a reply the next business day.
New work and changes to what a tool does are ongoing work. The care plan doesn’t cover systems I didn’t build or same-day response, and you pay AI usage and subscriptions directly. The first term is three months, then it runs month to month.
A half day at your office, about 3.5 to 4 hours, where your team practices on its own tasks with the AI tools you already have. $2,500 for up to 15 staff at one site, or $3,500 for 16 to 30.
$500 of the fee is credited toward a first project booked within 30 days.
For nonprofits and public offices I do fixed-fee projects in place of ongoing monthly work, sized to fit a board or council budget.
What moves the price of a first project is in what an AI consultant costs, and the questions I’d want you to ask me, or anyone else, are in how to hire an AI consultant.