AI Consulting for Small Businesses
Fixed-scope AI strategy, automation, and custom AI agents with published pricing. Based in Tucson, Arizona. Serving small and medium businesses nationwide, remotely.
What We Do for Small Businesses
YourBusinessConsultant.ai provides AI consulting for small businesses: AI strategy, process automation, custom AI agents, application development, AI process mapping, and business intelligence automation. Engagements are fixed-scope with published pricing from $2,000 to $75,000, delivered remotely nationwide from Tucson, Arizona. Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute consultation.
We are not an enterprise consulting firm that scales down to SMBs. The practice is built specifically for small and medium businesses, with pricing, scope, and delivery tuned to that market. That means no discovery phases that cost more than the build, no junior analysts learning on your dime, and no recommendations that assume you have a data team. You work directly with the founder, on the systems you already run.
Who This Is For
Our clients are small and medium businesses, typically 10 to 500 employees, across professional services, healthcare, real estate and property management, manufacturing, distribution, hospitality, financial advisory, technology, and retail. The common profile:
- No in-house data team. Your systems produce data, but nobody has time to turn it into automation or insight.
- A specific process is draining time. Intake, quoting, scheduling, invoicing, reporting, or customer follow-up eats hours every week.
- You want results, not a report. The deliverable is working automation in production, with your team trained to own it.
- You need a realistic budget. Most SMB engagements land between $10,000 and $45,000, not enterprise six figures.
If you are earlier than that, and cannot yet name the process to fix first, start with the free AI readiness assessment guide. It will tell you whether you are ready before you spend anything.
Six Services, One Practice
Every service is scoped for small and medium businesses and delivered by the same team, so strategy, build, and support never hand off between departments.
AI Strategy & Consulting
We assess where you are, map where AI can take you, and build a practical roadmap tied to your business goals.
Process Automation
We find repetitive, time-consuming workflows and automate them so your people focus on work that matters.
AI Agent Development
Custom AI agents built for your specific needs - customer inquiries, internal operations, or complex decision-making.
Application Development
From custom scripts to lightweight dashboards, we build the tools your business needs to run smarter.
AI Process Mapping
We deep-dive into how your business operates, map every step, and identify where AI automation has the biggest impact.
Business Intelligence Automation
Turn your operations data into actionable intelligence with automated monitoring, analysis, and insight delivery.
Transparent Pricing
Fixed scope, published ranges, no hourly meters. You know the total before any paid work starts.
Strategy + Roadmap
$5,000 to $15,000
2 to 4 weeks. Current-state assessment, prioritized AI use cases scored by ROI, and a written roadmap with timelines, budget envelopes, and success metrics.
Implementation
$10,000 to $75,000
4 to 12 weeks. Automation builds, AI agents, custom applications, or BI systems, including integration, testing, training, documentation, and post-launch support.
Ongoing Advisory Retainer
$2,000 to $5,000 / month
Continuous monitoring, extensions, and strategic guidance after your first projects are live, sized for SMB budgets.
The initial consultation is free: 30 minutes, no obligation. For the full breakdown of what these numbers include, read our AI consulting pricing guide.
How an Engagement Runs
The same four-step process behind every service, from a single automation to a full roadmap.
Discovery & Assessment
Stakeholder interviews, process audits, and technology assessments to find the highest-impact opportunities.
Strategy & Planning
A tailored roadmap with clear milestones, deliverables, success metrics, and expected ROI.
Implementation & Build
Agile build with regular check-ins, demos, and feedback loops, designed for reliability and easy maintenance.
Optimization & Support
Results measured against the success criteria, plus ongoing monitoring and tuning as your business grows.
SMB Specialist vs. Big-Firm Consulting
Big firms give you a junior analyst and a 200-page PDF. We give you direct access to senior expertise, hands-on implementation, and solutions built for your actual business, not a template. The practical differences:
Fixed scope vs. hourly meters
Our pricing is published and fixed per project. A credible proposal names the workflows, the price, the timeline, and how success is measured before any paid work starts.
Working software vs. slide decks
The deliverable is automation running in production, integrated with your existing systems, with your team trained and documentation in hand.
SMB-sized tooling
We match the tool to your data sensitivity, integrations, and team, across Zapier, Make, n8n, Power Automate, Azure, and custom code, rather than reselling one enterprise platform.
Founder-led accountability
Founder Ryan Gyure brings 15+ years of technology and program management experience and personally owns every engagement. Read more about Ryan.
Remote Nationwide, Rooted in Arizona
We are based in Tucson, Arizona and work onsite across the state, from Tucson and Phoenix to Flagstaff and Yuma. For small businesses everywhere else in the United States, engagements run fully remote over video, collaborative documentation, and shared project tools. The build work is identical regardless of location, and most clients outside Arizona never feel a difference.
Arizona businesses can explore our local service areas, including dedicated coverage for Phoenix and Tucson and Pima County.
AI Consulting for Small Businesses: FAQs
What does an AI consultant for a small business do?
A small business AI consultant identifies where AI will actually pay off in your operation, then builds it: mapping your workflows, prioritizing use cases by ROI, implementing automation and AI agents on the systems you already run, and training your team to own the result. Engagements are fixed-scope, so you know the price and deliverables before work starts.
How much does AI consulting cost for a small business?
Our pricing is published: Strategy + Roadmap runs $5,000 to $15,000 (2 to 4 weeks), Implementation runs $10,000 to $75,000 (4 to 12 weeks), and an Ongoing Advisory Retainer runs $2,000 to $5,000 per month. Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute consultation.
Is AI consulting worth it for a business with fewer than 50 employees?
Usually yes, if a specific process is draining time. Most automated workflows recover 30 to 60 percent of the manual time spent within 90 days of deployment, and typically pay back within 3 to 6 months. If you cannot yet name the process to fix, start with the free AI readiness assessment instead of a paid engagement.
Do you work with small businesses outside Arizona?
Yes. We are based in Tucson, Arizona and serve clients nationwide. Remote engagements run over video, collaborative documentation, and shared project tools; the build work is identical regardless of location.
How long does a small business AI project take?
Median timelines from our SMB engagements: process automation 4 to 8 weeks, AI agent development 8 to 16 weeks, custom applications 4 to 16 weeks, and business intelligence automation 6 to 10 weeks. Strategy engagements run 2 to 4 weeks. Our implementation timeline guide breaks each one down week by week.
How do we get started?
Take the free 10-minute AI readiness assessment, or book a free 30-minute strategy call. If there is a fit, you get a written, fixed-scope proposal. If there is not, you will know within the first call.
Find out where AI pays off in your business
Start with the free 10-question AI readiness assessment. Ten minutes, no sales call, and a personalized 90-day action plan.