Talk for 45 minutes
A recorded call about how your week actually runs. What you do on Monday morning. What waits on you. What you are still doing personally that you shouldn't be. We pitch nothing — there is nothing to pitch yet.
Diagnosis first
Win back your time, or you don't pay.
Every other AI consultant gives you a free “discovery call”. They also get paid to build things, so guess what they discover. We charge for the diagnosis instead — and if the report is not worth more than you paid for it, you pay nothing.
The problem
You know what needs fixing. You just haven't had a spare hour to look at it.
You are working fifty hours a week, and somewhere in those fifty hours is a stack of things a machine should be doing. You know that. Everyone knows that.
So you asked around. And the answers came back as a list of forty tools, a LinkedIn post about transformation, and an $18,000 quote from someone who spent twenty minutes on a call with you.
That is the actual problem. Not the tools. Nobody has looked closely at how work moves through your business, and until somebody does, every recommendation you get is a guess in a nice font.
What we sell
A diagnosis you paid for is a diagnosis you can trust.
Here is the thing nobody in this industry says out loud. Every consultant qualified to examine your operation earns their living building things. So the free audit concludes you need a build. It was always going to.
We sell the diagnosis itself. From $999, and it is finished when you have the report — no second phase you have to buy for it to mean anything.
If the report is not worth more than you paid for it, you pay nothing. Not a discount. The full amount, back on your card.
Worth more is not a feeling. The report prices every recommendation in hours returned against your own hourly cost, so the comparison is arithmetic you can check before you decide.
That guarantee is doing real work. It means a lazy assessment costs us the fee, so we look properly. And when we do tell you to build something, you already know we would have been paid either way.
How it works
Seventy-five minutes of your time
We go away and do the work
We pull the hours out of that transcript and research what currently exists to fix each one. This is the part that is genuinely hard to do yourself, because the tool market turns over every month and page one of Google is affiliate links.
Get the report, keep the report
A 30-minute call walking through it, then it is yours by email. Three to seven named tools. What each costs, how long it takes to set up, how many hours it gives back. Plus a four-day plan so you know what to do first.
The deliverable
What's in the report
Where the hours go
Your workflows ranked by time lost, from your interview — not a template.
Effort against impact
Everything plotted, so the cheap fixes separate visibly from the projects.
The prescription
Three to seven named tools. Cost, setup time, hours returned, and the job each one does.
Your first four days
Day one, day two, day three, day four. In order, so you don't freeze.
What comes after
The bigger problems no off-the-shelf tool solves. Sized, and left with you.
The arithmetic
Hours returned times your hourly cost, minus what the tools cost. One number.
Comparison
Why not the alternatives
| Question | Free discovery call | Automation shop | Doing it yourself | Us |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you pay for the diagnosis | Nothing | Nothing | Your own hours | From $999, refundable |
| Can the answer be "do nothing"? | No — they earn on the build | No — they earn per automation | Yes | Yes |
| Do they question the process? | Sometimes | Rarely, they build what you ask for | You'd have to be very objective | Always, it's the first question |
| What you own at the end | A proposal | A running automation | Whatever you figured out | A written report, yours regardless |
Doing it yourself is a real option and we will not pretend otherwise. Some owners run this well.
After the assessment
If you do want help, here is what it costs
Plenty of people will act on the report themselves and never speak to us again. That is a fine outcome and the pricing assumes it. What you paid for the assessment comes off the first project.
Fix the process first — From $3,000
We map how a process runs today and hand you back the version with half the steps gone. No tools, no automation.
Automate one workflow — From $1,500
One trigger, one action, built once and left running — documented in plain language and running in your account, not ours.
Build a knowledge system — Quoted per system
An assistant trained on your own material, so you send a link instead of writing the same email for the fortieth time.
Encode how you do it — From $3,000
Your onboarding, your quoting, the handover that only works when one person does it — turned into Claude skills and reference files your team can run.
All of it — From $8,000
A process redesign, a skills build and the automations underneath, as one engagement.
The retainer
Two calls a month. You drive. Six clients, ever.
Two 45-minute sessions a month where you share your screen and we build alongside you — one workflow at a time, starting with whichever is costing you most. At the end you can do it without us.
Start smaller
Fifteen minutes. One recommendation. No charge.
Tell us the thing that annoys you most about how your week runs. We will name one tool that helps. No report, no follow-up sequence, no obligation. Worst case you learn about a tool.
Frequently asked questions
How much does an AI consultant cost for a small business?
Our assessment starts at $999 for owner-run businesses and is priced on scope above that. It is refunded in full if the report is not worth more than the fee. Implementation runs $1,500 for a single automation up to $8,000 for a bundle. The monthly retainer is $1,200 to $2,000. No hourly billing, no open-ended contracts.
What do I actually get?
A recorded 45-minute interview, our research against the current tool market, and a written report naming three to seven tools with costs, setup times and hours returned. Then a 30-minute review call. About two weeks start to finish. The report is yours whatever happens next.
Do I have to replace the software we already use?
Usually not. Most of what we recommend sits alongside what you run today. Where we do suggest a switch, the report shows both costs and what moving involves, and you decide.
What if my team won't use it?
This is the common failure, and it is a process problem rather than a tool problem. The four-day plan exists because adoption dies when people are handed six new things at once. One tool, one workflow, one week.
Can't I just do this myself with ChatGPT?
You can, and some owners should. You need to know the tool market well enough to filter it and be genuinely objective about your own processes.
How fast does it pay back?
The report calculates it: hours returned times your hourly cost, minus monthly tool spend.
Get started
Fifteen minutes to find out whether this is worth paying for.
You don't have to make a decision about AI this quarter. You do have to stop guessing about it. Money back if the report is not worth more than the fee.