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AI Consulting

Get your week back. I find the workflow eating the most hours, build the system that runs it, and train your team to own it. Leads answered in minutes. Follow-up that never slips. Paperwork that files itself. Live in 14 days, in accounts you own, and if it is not working, you do not pay.

Sound familiar?

Where the week actually goes

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Leads answered too late

A lead comes in, everyone is busy, and by the time someone replies they have already called the next place on Google.

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The same info, typed three times

Intake gets retyped into the CRM, the spreadsheet, and the email thread. Your best people spend hours being a copy machine.

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Follow-up lives in someone's head

Quotes, renewals, callbacks. All memory, no system. When that person is out, it simply does not happen.

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You are the bottleneck

Nothing moves unless the owner pushes it. Your business runs on your attention instead of a process.

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Software nobody set up

You already pay for tools with the exact feature you need, turned off, because nobody ever had two clear days to wire it up.

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You find out too late

The only report is the bad news: the quote that died silent, the client who left, the lead nobody touched.

Fix one of these first

What you get

Your week, after one build

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Leads answered in minutes

Every inquiry gets a fast, personal-sounding response, even after hours, even when everyone is on the phone.

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Follow-up that never slips

Quotes get chased, renewals get worked, callbacks happen on schedule. Nobody has to remember anything.

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Paperwork that files itself

What hits the inbox gets read, matched, and turned into a ready entry. Your team approves instead of retypes.

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You see everything

What ran, what closed, what slipped. On one screen, without asking anyone for a status update.

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Your team runs it

Built in your accounts, documented in plain English, and your people are trained before I leave.

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You own all of it

Fire me the day after it goes live and you keep everything: the accounts, the workflows, the documentation.

What would your team do with the hours back? The first system is live in 14 days.

The work

What I work on

I have worked in and built automations across nonprofits, legal, marketing, sales, insurance, real estate, and e-commerce. The work changes by industry, but the useful systems usually sit around follow-up, intake, handoffs, reporting, documents, and revenue operations.

One person

How I'm different from an AI consulting firm

I am one person. That's the pitch.

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No pyramid

The person you meet on the call is the person who thinks about your problem, writes the code, and replies to your late-night "wait, what about this edge case" Slack message.

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No retainer for retainer's sake

If the right answer is "don't build this," I will tell you and hand you back the money for the rest of the engagement.

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No vendor allegiance

I like Claude. I use GPT and Gemini. I recommend open source when it's right. I have no partnership checks to chase.

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Shipped beats theorized

Every opinion I have is one I formed by doing it in production: agents on a schedule, MCP servers on real systems, retrieval pipelines serving real users.

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Free by default

My framework and expertise library are public and free. Consulting is what happens when a team needs your specific problem solved, not a general read.

Proof

Clients say it better

"What if I don't trust AI?"

"I was as skeptical as could be. I didn't trust AI and didn't think it would work, but Sam convinced me to give it a try and I'm so glad I did. He's built workflows that save me time every day." Ashel Troncoso, Owner, ATI Insurance Group

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The process

How engagements work

  1. Intro call (30 min, free). You describe the problem. I tell you honestly whether AI consulting is the right answer, whether I'm the right person, and what a sensible next step looks like.
  2. Scoping. If we move forward, I write a one-page proposal with deliverables, timeline, and a fixed fee. No open-ended billing.
  3. Engagement. Strategy engagements produce a decision document plus a reference architecture. Build engagements produce working code in your repo with tests and a runbook.
  4. Handoff. Your team walks away with something they can maintain. That's the whole job.
Deliverables

What you walk away with

Depending on scope, a typical engagement delivers some combination of:

  • A written strategy doc naming which workflows to automate, in what order, with which technology.
  • A working proof-of-concept agent or MCP server in your repo, committed, tested, deployed.
  • A production evaluation suite so you know whether your AI system is getting better or worse.
  • A playbook for your team covering prompts, guardrails, monitoring, cost controls, and incident response.
  • A direct line for the next 30-90 days so your team is not alone when something breaks at 2 AM.
Consultant vs hire

AI consulting vs. hiring a full-time AI engineer

Different tools for different jobs:

Situation Right move
You have one hard problem, no AI team, want it solved in weeks. AI consultant
AI is core to the product, you will ship features monthly for years. Full-time hire
You have an AI team but nobody senior; direction is drifting. Advisory consultant
You want a discovery pass before committing to a hire or vendor. Consultant, short engagement
You need 40 hours a week of AI engineering for 12+ months. Hire. Do not retain a consultant.
Pricing

What it costs

Flat pricing, no hourly billing, ever. You know the number before we start, and it does not move.

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The 14-Day Build

One working system, built in your accounts, live in 14 days. $1,000 flat, my founding rate for the first five clients, then $2,500.

If it is not working in 14 days, you do not pay.

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The Build Sprint

Three or four systems built alongside your team, $6,000 to $10,000 flat. Quoted only after a first build, from inside your setup, never from guesses on a call.

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Ongoing care

Optional, never forced. Everything kept running, tuned, and reported on, flat monthly from $297. You own the system either way.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is AI consulting?

AI consulting is advisory and implementation work that helps a team figure out where AI fits in their business, what to build, how to build it, and how to keep it running. Good AI consulting produces working systems, not slide decks.

How much does AI consulting cost?

Flat pricing, no hourly billing, ever. Most clients start with one working system built in 14 days for $1,000 flat (my founding-client rate; it rises to $2,500 after the first five). Larger engagements of three to four systems run $6,000 to $10,000, and I only quote those after a first build, from inside your setup. Ongoing help is flat monthly, starting at $297.

Do you build agents or just advise?

Both. Advisory work is short and outputs direction. Build engagements produce working agents, MCP servers, Claude Code harnesses, or retrieval pipelines running in your environment.

What tech stack do you work with?

Claude and the Anthropic API, Claude Code, MCP servers, agent frameworks (LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK, CrewAI), vector stores, evaluation tooling, and whatever glue the specific problem needs.

Who is this for?

Founders, operators, and engineering leaders at seed-to-series-B companies shipping AI features, plus established businesses exploring where generative AI fits without burning a year of budget learning in public.

Will you sign an NDA?

Yes, happy to. Most engagements start with one.

Do you work on-site?

Remote by default. On-site for a kickoff or a stuck-point intensive, case-by-case.

How do I know if AI is even the right answer?

That's literally question one of the intro call. If the honest answer is "automation with no AI would be faster and cheaper," I will tell you that. It's saved clients more than AI ever has.

Next step

Want to talk?

Start with one workflow.

Send the process, what breaks today, and what a win would look like. If AI is not the right answer, I will say that too.

Start with one workflow

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