AI Consultation guides
Guides for founders and managers deciding where AI fits in their business. Each one starts with a short answer, then gives you the method: how to find the right first process, score it, cost it, sequence it and manage the risks. Every guide includes a worked example you can map onto your own week.
How do you build an AI roadmap?
How to build an AI roadmap: audit processes and data, score use cases by return and effort, sequence them into phases with owners, and review as you go.
Read →How do you choose an AI consultant?
How to choose an AI consultant: what proof to ask for, questions for the first call, red flags, and how to compare proposals before you commit.
Read →Is AI worth it for a small business?
Is AI worth it for a small business? Yes, when it targets a specific, repeated bottleneck. How to test the case, what it costs to run and when to say no.
Read →What are the risks of adopting AI in business?
The real risks of adopting AI in business: data exposure, wrong outputs, over-permissioned agents, compliance gaps and dependency, and how to manage each.
Read →What can AI actually do for a small business?
What AI does for a small business day to day: real workflows by department, what it should not do, where money gets wasted, and how to pick the first job.
Read →What is an AI audit?
An AI audit maps your workflows, data and tools to find where AI and automation save time or cost, ranked by return. What it covers and what you get.
Read →Which tasks should you automate first?
Which tasks to automate first: frequent, rule-based work on reachable data with a clear trigger. A scoring method, examples and what to automate second.
Read →Where should a business start with AI?
Where to start with AI: find one repeated, rule-based task, define success, run a narrow pilot with a named owner, then scale what works. A framework.
Read →Where should you start?
Just getting started? Read where to start with AI, then what AI can do for a small business.
Building the case internally? Read whether AI is worth it, then the risks of adopting it.
Ready to plan? Read what an AI audit is, how to build a roadmap and which tasks to automate first.
Choosing a partner? Read how to choose an AI consultant.
All AI consultation guides
Where should a business start with AI?
Start with one process, not a platform. Find a task your team repeats every day or week that follows clear rules and lives in tools you can connect…
Read →What can AI actually do for a small business?
AI is most useful as quiet infrastructure inside your existing processes: reading and sorting messages, drafting replies, pulling data out of documents…
Read →Is AI worth it for a small business?
Yes, when it is pointed at a specific, repeated bottleneck and measured against a baseline. The test: can you name the process and put a number on it…
Read →What is an AI audit?
An AI audit is a structured review of your workflows, data and tools to find where AI and automation would save time or cost, ranked by return against effort…
Read →How do you build an AI roadmap?
Audit how the business runs, score each use case on return and effort, and sequence the winners into short phases with an owner and a success measure…
Read →Which tasks should you automate first?
The tasks that run daily or weekly, follow the same rules every time, start from a clear trigger and use data a system can reach…
Read →What are the risks of adopting AI in business?
Data going where it should not, wrong outputs nobody checks, over-permissioned agents, compliance gaps and dependency. Each has a practical control…
Read →How do you choose an AI consultant?
Choose one who can show shipped systems with a clear before and after, whose first call is about your processes, and who hands over ownership…
Read →What does the end result look like?
A roadmap is only worth what gets built from it. The case studies show finished systems built for a digital publishing business, including an AI email sales agent that replaced $9,000 to $9,500 a month in staff cost at around $105 a month to run.
Want the plan for your business?
We will map your workflows, put an hours figure on each and hand you a roadmap ranked by return.