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AI Consultant for Small Business

You don't need a lab, a data-science team, or a six-month roadmap. You need the AI consultant for small business owners who actually ships things — a chatbot that answers real questions, a quote tool that closes leads faster, follow-up that doesn't drop the ball. One senior consultant, plain-English scoping, fixed pricing before anything starts.

Who this is for: owner-led small businesses that want AI to do specific, measurable work — not a strategy deck. What you get: a scoped build (chatbot, quoting tool, follow-up automation, or AI inside your Dynamics 365 CRM), priced fixed, explained in plain English. Based in Queen Creek, AZ — serving the Phoenix East Valley in person, and clients anywhere remotely.

AI consulting for small businesses, not enterprise AI theater

Most "AI consulting" sold to small businesses is a workshop about the future of AI. This is the alternative: specific tools, wired into the systems you already run, that do a job you can point to.

Website chatbots

An assistant trained on your actual services and service area, embedded on your site, that answers real questions instead of routing everyone to a contact form.

Instant quoting & estimates

A tool on your website that turns a visitor's answers into a real price range in seconds — the difference between a lead who calls and one who leaves.

Lead capture & follow-up

Automated first responses and follow-up sequences so a lead who fills out a form at 9 p.m. isn't waiting until Monday to hear back.

Review generation

A simple, automated ask at the right moment in the customer relationship — the point where reviews actually accumulate instead of getting forgotten.

AI inside Dynamics 365 CRM

Lead scoring, case summarization, and Copilot Studio assistants built into the CRM you already run — see Dynamics 365 CE consulting for the full picture.

AI-assisted content & SEO

Systems that help a small business publish and maintain useful content at a pace a solo owner or lean team could never sustain by hand.

See it shipped, not just described: real client and product work, including chatbots and instant-quote tools running live on client websites today.

Three steps, no discovery-phase runaround

The same approach used for every website build and CRM engagement — scoped fast, delivered as agreed, no surprises on the invoice.

1

Tell me the problem

A short conversation about what's actually costing you time or leads — slow follow-up, missed quotes, a website that doesn't answer questions. No AI buzzwords required on your end.

2

Fixed scope, fixed price

You get a specific description of what's being built, what it will and won't do, and a fixed price — before any work starts. No hourly billing, no scope creep.

3

Built, explained, handed off

You get a working tool and a plain-English explanation of how it works — not a black box you have to take on faith. If it needs upkeep, that's a separate, optional conversation.

Fixed-scope pricing, no retainer required

There's no standard day rate for AI consulting, and anyone quoting one before understanding your business is guessing. Here's how it actually works.

Every Project

Priced to the scope, not the hour

A chatbot or a quoting tool gets a fixed number before it starts. A broader automation or CRM engagement gets scoped the same way once the shape of the work is clear. You're never billed by the hour for AI work, and you're never asked to sign a retainer to get started.

Worth Knowing

It's cheaper attached to a build

AI tools are usually most efficient to add during a new website build — website projects already start at $650 — but they're just as available as a standalone addition to a site or CRM you already have.

When you don't need an AI consultant

If it's good advice, it should hold even when it costs a sale.

Skip it for now if:

  • Your website doesn't get enough traffic yet for a chatbot or quote tool to have anyone to talk to — fix visibility first
  • Your team can't currently keep up with the leads you already have — automation speeds up a broken process, it doesn't fix one
  • You're looking for a general "AI strategy" rather than a specific tool solving a specific problem — that's a workshop, not an engagement
  • You just need faster manual replies to a handful of messages a week — that's a process fix, not an AI build

If that's where you are, say so in the first conversation — the honest answer is sometimes "not yet," and you'll hear it.

AI consulting questions, answered straight

How much does AI consulting for a small business cost? +
It depends entirely on scope. A single chatbot or instant-quote tool added to an existing website is a small, fixed-fee build. A broader engagement — automation across lead capture, follow-up, and your CRM — is scoped and quoted before any work starts. There's no standard day rate and no retainer requirement; you get a fixed number for the thing you actually need.
How long does an AI consulting engagement take? +
A single tool — a chatbot, an instant-quote widget, a review-request automation — typically ships in 1-3 weeks. Engagements that touch your CRM or multiple systems take longer and get a specific timeline once the scope is clear. Either way, you get a date, not a vague estimate.
What AI tools do you actually build? +
Website chatbots that answer real questions instead of a generic FAQ bot, instant-quote and estimate tools, automated lead follow-up, review-generation funnels, and AI features built directly into Dynamics 365 CE — lead scoring, case summarization, and Copilot Studio assistants. If it doesn't move a real business metric, it doesn't make the list.
Do I need custom AI, or is there something off the shelf? +
Most small businesses don't need custom-trained models — they need an existing AI capability wired correctly into their website or CRM, with the right guardrails and a fallback for when it doesn't know the answer. Part of the first conversation is telling you honestly which one your situation actually needs.
Do you work with businesses outside Arizona? +
Yes. Based in Queen Creek, AZ, serving the Phoenix East Valley in person or remote, and working remotely with clients across the U.S. AI and CRM work is delivered the same way either way — the tools don't care where your office is.
Is this a retainer, or can I hire an AI consultant for one project? +
One project. Every engagement is scoped as a fixed, defined piece of work first — a chatbot, a quoting tool, an automation. If it turns into ongoing work afterward, that's a separate conversation, not a condition of getting started.

Tell me what you want AI to do for your business.

One senior consultant reads this — not a sales queue. Describe the problem and you'll get a straight answer about whether AI is actually the fix.

Describe what you want automated.

A chatbot, a quote tool, follow-up that doesn't drop leads — tell us the problem and we'll tell you honestly what it takes.

Reply within one business day. No sequence, no pitch.