AI consulting for operators
For owners and operations leads who want a straight answer on where AI fits in their business, we start with your actual work. You get a free one-hour AI Checkup, a written scope if a project makes sense, and ongoing support from USD $500 per month if you want it.
Free, about an hour, one process, no account access.
Deliverable, price, timeline, access, ownership and support.
AI retainer from USD $500 per month with a monthly review.
We reply within one business day. No account access is needed for a first conversation.
What we do
An AI consultant should be able to look at one slow process, say whether software or AI can take it over, and then build it. That is how we work.
We start with the routine work that eats staff time: sorting email, moving details from forms into a system, chasing follow-ups, assembling reports. We walk through how it happens today, who touches it, and what a good result looks like. Some of it suits AI, some of it is ordinary software, and some of it should stay with a person.
AI is useful for reading and sorting email, drafting replies that wait for approval, pulling details out of documents and forms, summarising, and turning calendar and system data into a readable brief. It does not make final decisions, sign anything off, or touch work you have told us should stay manual.
We are builders as well as advisers. When a change makes sense, we write the scope, build a working version, test it on the workflows we agreed, and measure the outcomes chosen with you. Not everything we build uses AI. Sometimes the right answer is a booking system or a dashboard with no AI in it.
The first conversation
The AI Checkup is a roughly one-hour review of one process. It is free, and you do not need to hand over account access or client files for the first conversation.
Pick one process that costs time or causes mistakes. Common choices are a shared inbox, client intake, appointment scheduling, or a weekly report someone assembles by hand. Bring the person who does it. We ask who is involved, which tools are in use and what a useful result would be.
A clear view of whether the process is worth automating, what part a person should keep, and roughly what a build would involve. If a project makes sense, we follow up with a written proposal. If it does not, we say so, and you have spent an hour. There is no obligation either way.
Scope and support
The first conversation is free. If you want us involved after it, that runs monthly. Build pricing sits on our custom software page, because it depends entirely on what gets built.
The AI Checkup is free and you can stop there. The notes are yours, and plenty of owners take them away and fix the process with the tools they already pay for. Nothing is invoiced for a first conversation and nobody chases you afterwards.
If you want us to stay involved, the AI retainer starts at USD $500 per month and covers broader automation and AI assistant setup, upkeep and improvements. You get a point of contact and a monthly review where we look at what ran, what broke and what to change next.
A one-off build is scoped and priced on its own, and our custom software page explains how that quote is put together and what it has to cover. If email is the process in question, the Managed Inbox pilot has a page of its own as well.
How we judge it
Most of the answer comes from one question: what happens when the output is wrong, and who notices?
Reading, sorting, drafting, extracting and summarising are safe to hand over, because a person still reads the result before it counts for anything. Volume is what makes them worth automating at all. At ten enquiries a week nobody needs help, but at a hundred the sorting is where the day goes.
A good share of what gets called an AI problem is a scheduling rule, a form that writes into the right record, or a reminder that fires on a date. Those cost less to build, less to run, and anyone on your team can check them. We say so when that is the answer, even when the AI version would have been the larger project for us.
Before anything is built, the scope names the deliverable, the timeline, the access we need, who owns the result, how any AI output is checked, and what support looks like afterwards. Reading that document is the last cheap moment to change your mind.
Common questions
Often it is better software. A booking tool that matches how people work, a form that writes into the right record, or a report that assembles itself will fix more Monday mornings than a model will. AI earns a place when the work involves reading, sorting, drafting or summarising at a volume a person cannot keep up with, and the checkup is where we tell you which one you have.
We ask what happens when the output is wrong. Reading, sorting and drafting are low risk because a person still checks the result. Final decisions, anything that needs a signature, and anything you have told us must stay manual are left with people. Draft emails wait for approval unless you decide otherwise.
Both, and stopping at the advice is a normal outcome. If you do ask us to build, ownership is settled in writing before anything starts, so the proposal says what you hold at the end, what we host, and what happens if you move on. Our custom software page covers how those builds are scoped and quoted.
Yes. Our base is Vancouver, Canada, and the work runs over video calls and shared screens rather than in person. Use the form on this page and we reply within one business day.
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