Pricing
What AI consulting costs.
Every price here is fixed and agreed in writing before work starts. Most small businesses begin with the free audit, and many never need more than a quick fix or a training session.
- Fixed pricesYou know the total before you say yes. Anything new later gets its own quote.
- Your accounts, your billTools run in accounts in your name. Software subscriptions are paid directly by you, usually $20 to $100 a month for a build.
- Pass/fail in writingBuilds come with written tests agreed up front. The job is done when the tests pass.
Start here
Free AI audit
A 25-minute call about where your team's time goes. Within two business days you get a one-page plan naming the one or two jobs worth handing to AI (or telling you none are), what each would take, one tip you can try yourself, and the options with prices.
Quick fixes and training
For when the answer is a tool you already have, or a team that needs rules and practice more than new software.
Quick Win Setup
For a fix that needs no custom code: an email sorter, a shared ChatGPT or Claude workspace, one automation between two apps, or AI features already in Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace.
- Setup for up to two tools
- A 30-minute how-to session and a one-page "how this works" sheet
- A check-in two weeks later. If it isn't working then, I fix it at no charge.
AI Ground Rules
For a team already pasting things into ChatGPT with no rules.
- A short staff survey on how people use AI today
- A two-page AI-use policy in plain English, which you approve and own
- An approved-tools list with the right privacy settings
- A one-page "safe to paste / never paste" card
- A 60-minute rollout session, recorded
Team workshop
Hands-on with your team's real tasks, collected in a five-minute questionnaire beforehand. Everyone leaves with prompts for their own work, and there's a 45-minute follow-up call three weeks later.
Team Starter bundle
AI Ground Rules plus a half-day workshop, with a month of email Q&A included.
AI Champion coaching
Four weekly sessions with the one person who'll keep AI going on your team, plus email Q&A and a prompt library built together.
Custom builds
Every build starts with a Scoping Sprint, so the price comes from your real data instead of a guess.
Scoping Sprint
A session with you, time watching the people who actually do the job, and a review of your data and 20 to 50 real examples. You get a findings doc, a fixed-price proposal with pass/fail tests, and a readout call. If the honest answer is "don't build it," the findings say so and there's no proposal.
Starter Build
One workflow handed to AI, built on tools you own. Includes a demo in week one, tests that catch the AI when it's wrong, a short runbook, a handoff session for your team, and a 30-day window where anything that stops passing the tests gets fixed at no charge.
| Typical job | Price |
|---|---|
| Weekly busywork automated: inbox sorting, a report rebuilt by hand, copy-paste between two systems | $6,500 |
| Paperwork into clean data: invoices, receipts, or forms, with shaky results flagged | $7,500 |
| Answers from your own files, with the source attached | $8,000 |
| An assistant that knows your business, with handoff to a person | $8,500 |
| A complex version of any of these | $9,500 |
Production Build
For a business with its own app or portal: Claude or ChatGPT built in, or a connector so your app works inside those assistants. Search over your real data, sign-in and permissions, monitoring, and a full test suite.
Care Plan
Monitoring, a monthly re-run of the tests with a short report, updates when the AI vendor changes a model, small fixes, and a check-in. Care Plus adds small improvements and a quarterly team session.
Common questions
Why fixed prices instead of hourly?
So you can decide with the full number in front of you. The risk of a job running long sits with me, not with you. Hourly billing is only for second opinions and small extra work you've approved first.
What isn't included?
Software subscriptions and AI usage fees, which you pay directly in your own accounts, and new features after a build is accepted. Extras like additional workshop seats or a second integration are priced in the written scope before you sign.
What if the AI turns out not to be worth it?
The free audit and the Scoping Sprint both exist to find that out before you spend real money. If either one shows a job isn't worth handing to AI, I'll tell you, and the plan or findings are yours to keep.
Do you offer discounts?
No. Bundles and early clients get extras, like an additional session or a free first month of care, rather than a lower price.
Who owns what you build?
You do. The code, the logins, and the data live in accounts in your name. If we stop working together, you keep all of it.
Start with the free audit.
A 25-minute call, then a one-page plan. I'll reply within one business day.