AI consulting for small & medium businesses
Boutique AI strategy. Without the big-firm overhead.
For 30–300 person businesses already paying for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce or Azure — and tired of either DIY YouTube tutorials or six-figure Big-Four discovery decks.
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The reality
Why most SMBs stall on AI
Not because the tech isn't ready. Because the gap between an enterprise AI playbook and a 50-person company's reality is wider than anyone admits.
Every competitor announces an AI strategy. Yours feels stuck.
You've seen the headlines. You've heard the board questions. But translating "we're using AI" into something specific, measurable, and safe for a 30-300 person business is a different problem than the Fortune-500 case studies make it look.
You don't have a year to spend on discovery.
A big-four discovery phase costs more than your whole annual tech budget — and still leaves you with PowerPoint, not running software. Most SMBs need a usable answer in weeks, not quarters.
You can't afford a wrong-direction bet.
Picking the wrong AI tool, training the wrong team, or buying licences you never activate can cost six figures and a year of momentum. The blast radius of a bad decision is bigger for SMBs than for enterprises.
Capabilities
What our AI consulting actually delivers
Four engagement modes, one philosophy: working software and adopted habits, not slideware.
Strategy
AI readiness assessment + opportunity map
A scored diagnostic across your tech stack, processes and people. Output: a ranked list of AI opportunities, each tagged with effort, ROI, and the specific Microsoft / Google / AWS tools that already sit inside your existing licences.
Activation
Copilot + Power Platform rollouts
Most SMBs already own Microsoft 365 Copilot, Power Automate, or Azure AI Studio without realising. We turn the licences you're paying for into agents, copilots and automated workflows your team actually uses every day.
Build
Custom AI agents + integrations
When the off-the-shelf option isn't enough — a knowledge agent over your SharePoint, a triage bot for your inbox, a retrieval pipeline against your CRM — we build production-grade systems on top of the cloud you already use.
Enablement
Practical training for non-technical teams
Workshops designed for operators, not developers. If your finance lead, ops manager, or sales rep can't use the tool on day one, we've done it wrong. We measure adoption, not slide count.
The difference
Why a boutique practice beats the Big Four for SMBs
Different economics, different incentives, different outcomes.
- The person on the discovery call is the person doing the work — no senior-partner-sells, junior-team-delivers model.
- Fixed-scope engagements wherever possible. You always know what you're getting and what it costs.
- We map what you already own before recommending anything new. Most quick wins are in licences you're already paying for.
- No long discovery phases. You'll see tangible progress in week one of any engagement.
- We take on a small number of clients at a time deliberately — your project doesn't get warehoused behind a Fortune-500 one.
- Tech-agnostic when it matters. Microsoft-deep, but we work with Salesforce, Google Workspace, AWS, or hybrid stacks.
How to work with us
Four ways to start
From free self-serve to a sit-on-your-leadership-team retainer.
Free 4-minute AI Assessment
Self-serve. Scored readiness report, top opportunities ranked by ROI, 18-month roadmap. No call required.
Start assessment2-week AI Strategy Sprint
Fixed-scope deep dive. Stack audit, prioritised opportunity backlog, executive-ready roadmap, board pack.
Request a sprint4-8 week AI Activation
Pick one high-ROI opportunity from your roadmap. We ship it end-to-end — design, build, train, measure.
Discuss an activationFractional AI Advisory
Monthly retainer. We sit alongside your leadership team, run the AI roadmap, vet vendors, unblock projects.
Enquire about advisoryWho we work with
The right fit (and the wrong one)
Great fit
- • 30–300 employees, $5M–$200M revenue
- • Already using Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce or Azure
- • An operator or owner who can make decisions in a single meeting
- • Willingness to ship something small and real before signing a big program
- • Looking for an outcome, not a vendor relationship to manage
Probably not us
- • Pure research or pre-seed startups looking for an AI co-founder
- • Organizations that need 50+ consultants on site
- • Anyone wanting a 12-month discovery phase before a single decision
- • Teams that need a long procurement cycle before any work can start
How a typical engagement runs
Every engagement starts with a 30-minute conversation, almost always followed by the free AI readiness assessment so we're working from the same picture of your stack and goals.
From there, the most common path is a 2-week Strategy Sprint: we interview 3-6 people in your organisation, audit your existing Microsoft / Google / Salesforce footprint, run a workshop with leadership to align on horizons, and deliver a board-ready AI roadmap with opportunities sequenced by ROI and effort.
If the roadmap reveals a clear quick win — say, a knowledge agent over your SharePoint, an automated proposal builder in Word, or a Power-Automate-driven invoice triage — we transition into a 4-8 week AI Activation to ship it. Same team, fixed scope, weekly demos.
Past the first activation, most clients move into a fractional AI advisory retainer: a fixed monthly fee that gives them a senior AI partner inside their leadership cadence — vetting tools, prioritising the roadmap, spotting things their team would otherwise miss.
See your AI opportunities in the next 4 minutes
Scored readiness report, top 5 opportunities ranked by ROI, 18-month roadmap. Free, instant, and personalised to your stack.
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