For companies in Detroit, Lansing, Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor, Traverse City and everywhere in between: the same consulting we do in Grand Rapids, delivered over video, at the same fixed prices, with the same willingness to say "don't build that".
We are in Grand Rapids, and the Grand Rapids AI consulting page describes the service in full. This page is for the rest of Michigan. The work is done remotely for anyone in the United States, so the useful question is not whether remote consulting works but what changes when the consultant is not in your building. Here is what changes, what does not, and how to start.
$250 an hour for an advisory call, $3,500 fixed for a two-week opportunity assessment, team training from $2,500, an advisory retainer from $1,500 a month. A fixed quote before any work begins, wherever you are.
A decision you can act on, in writing, not a slide deck. The assessment's plan is yours whether or not we build any of it.
You talk to Matthew, the person who ships the products, not an account manager relaying notes. There is nobody to hand you to after the first call.
We have no software to upsell. If a $30-a-month tool solves it, or if AI is the wrong answer and something simpler would work, you hear that.
The advisory call, the assessment and the training are video calls with your screen shared. That is not a compromise; it is where the decision lives. Whether a tool is worth using, whether a workflow can be automated, whether a vendor's demo matches what the product does — those are all things on a screen, and a shared screen in Lansing looks exactly like a shared screen in Grand Rapids. Written recommendations follow every session, so nothing depends on memory.
The opportunity assessment is a look at your operations — where time and leads leak out, what is worth automating and in what order. In person, some of that comes from watching. Remotely, it comes from you: a walk-through of the systems you use, the steps people take, and where work waits. Plan for the two weeks to include some of your team's time. The assessment is only as good as what we get to see, and we will say early if we are not seeing enough.
The team training workshop is a hands-on session on your team's real work and your own tools, not generic prompt tricks. It can be run in person or remotely; remotely, the session is recorded for the people who miss it, and your team keeps a written playbook either way. Whether an in-person day makes sense for a business in Detroit or Traverse City, and what it costs, is agreed in writing per project rather than guessed at here.
The fixed quote, the written scope, and the fact that the plan and the playbook are yours to keep do not depend on geography. Neither does the follow-through: if the plan says build, the building is also done remotely, and AI automation and custom web tools are priced on their own pages.
The question is about operations, not geography. A plumber in Kalamazoo misses the same calls a plumber in Grand Rapids misses; a dental practice in Ann Arbor has the same review problem as one in Kentwood. The automations that make small businesses the most money are usually the boring ones: texting back every missed call, asking every customer for a review, getting a new lead to the right phone in seconds instead of hours, giving an instant quote while the person is still interested, and pulling the numbers into one screen. Most businesses do not need an AI strategy; they need two or three specific things automated and someone honest about which ones.
The assessment sorts your list. It reviews your operations and tooling, hands back a prioritised plan of what to automate, what to buy off the shelf, and what to ignore, with build-versus-buy recommendations and the return on each. It also covers the data question — what is safe to send to a cloud model and what should stay local — which comes up in every Michigan conversation and has a sane answer once you know what the data is.
If the thing you are considering is advertising rather than automation, the $3.82 cost-per-lead case study and what actually moves cost per lead show how we read a campaign, and ads management is a separate, flat-fee service.
The AI consulting field filled up with people whose whole experience is using chatbots. Ours comes from shipping software.
A notarized macOS AI app with a paying customer, a live B2B SaaS, and 3 provisional U.S. patents filed on the underlying methods. When we say something will work, it is because we have shipped it.
Big-firm AI engagements start in the tens of thousands and are built for enterprises. The full assessment here is $3,500 fixed, scoped for a business with a few people and a real budget.
No partner incentives, no stack of our own to sell. Tool selection is on your budget, your privacy needs and your team, not on a commission.
Most consultants hand you a roadmap and leave. If the plan is worth doing, we can build it, usually in weeks, and remotely.
What is safe to send to a cloud model, what should stay local, and what your real exposure is — without vendor spin.
Hands-on sessions using your team's actual work, recorded, with a written playbook to keep.
The same four engagements as the Grand Rapids page, at the same prices. Prices are starting points and depend on scope; you always get a fixed quote before any work begins.
One-off, no commitment. Bring a specific question — a tool decision, a vendor quote, a build idea — and get a straight answer in a focused working session, with written recommendations after.
Two weeks. An operations and tooling review, a prioritised AI roadmap with the return on each item, and build-versus-buy recommendations. The plan is yours whether or not we build any of it, and there is no obligation to build with us.
A live workshop, in person or remote, on your own tools and your team's real workflows, with a written playbook to keep.
A technical advisor on call as you roll AI out: monthly strategy sessions, on-call decision support, and vendor and build reviews. Cancel any month.
If what you actually need is a tool built rather than advice about one, the AI automation page prices a single automation from $3,500, and studio engagements cover product builds. If you are a business in West Michigan that also needs a website, the West Michigan web design page is the one to read.
No visit required. Three steps, and the first one is an email or a booked time.
Email or book a time from the home page. Tell us what you are considering: a tool, a vendor quote, an idea, or just "we keep hearing about this".
A video call looking at the actual systems and the actual work. If a single advisory hour answers it, that is the engagement.
If it needs the assessment, training or a retainer, you get the scope, price and dates before committing.
Written recommendations after every session. The assessment plan and the training playbook stay with you.
Yes, and anywhere else in Michigan. The consulting is delivered remotely, over video, and the work is done remotely for anyone in the United States. The city changes nothing about the price, the deliverable or who you talk to.
The team training workshop can be run in person or remotely; the advisory call, the assessment and the retainer are remote by default. Whether an in-person session makes sense for your project, and what it costs, is agreed in writing before anything starts.
For this work, rarely. The tools you are deciding about are on screens, and a video call with your screen shared looks at exactly the same thing a visit would. What a visit adds is watching the physical work happen, and where that matters we ask you to walk us through it on camera.
It is the same service at the same prices. This page exists to say plainly what changes when the consultant is not in your building, what does not, and how a Michigan business outside Grand Rapids actually starts.
If it is worth building, yes: single automations from $3,500 and web-based tools alongside a site from $4,999, remotely for Michigan businesses too. But the plan from an assessment is yours whether or not we build it, and we have no software to upsell, so "do not build it" is an answer you will actually hear.
Tell me what you are considering and which city you are in. I'll give you a straight answer over a call, including if the answer is "don't", and you will never be asked to drive to Grand Rapids for it.