AI consulting that ends in production.

An AI consultant identifies where artificial intelligence creates measurable value in a business, decides what to build or buy, and makes sure the result works in production. In practice that means auditing what you already run, assessing whether your data and systems can support the ambition, ranking use cases by value and feasibility, building the business case, choosing the architecture and vendors, and setting the governance around it. I also lead the delivery, which is the part most consulting engagements hand back to the client.

In the US market, independent AI consultants typically charge $200 to $500 an hour, boutique firms quote $25,000 to $150,000 for a defined project, and the large consultancies routinely price AI strategy work into six or seven figures. My own pricing is published and fixed: a diagnostic from $20,000, advisory at $10,000 a month, the fractional Chief AI Officer seat at $18,000 a month, and interim coverage at $30,000 a month. All prices are USD.

Write down the business outcome you want before you talk to anyone, then ask every candidate the same three things: what they would need to see in your data before committing to that outcome, what the system will cost to run per month at your volume, and who owns it after they leave. Ask for one engagement they would not take. Consultants who only sell upward will struggle with that question. Then start with a small fixed-scope piece of work rather than a retainer.

I keep offices in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Montreal, Quebec, and I work with companies across the United States and Canada. Both offices run on Eastern Time, which covers the whole continent inside one working day. Searches like AI consulting near me, AI consulting firms near me and AI business consultant near me tend to assume this work is local, and for the most part it no longer is: the practice is remote-first, with travel for kickoffs, executive workshops and the sessions that genuinely go better in a room. If proximity matters to you for a specific reason, say so and I will tell you honestly whether it changes anything.

A firm gives you scale, a bench of specialists and a brand your board recognizes, and you usually pay for a partner who sells and a delivery team you meet later. An independent gives you one senior person, directly, at a fraction of the cost, with limited surge capacity. For a mid-market company running its first serious AI work, the constraint is almost never delivery hours. It's judgment, and judgment does not come from the bench.

Both, and I prefer not to split them. I write the strategy as the person who will build it, which changes what gets written: every recommendation has to carry an architecture, a run cost and an owner. Engagements that continue into delivery usually run six to eighteen months and end with your team, or a hire I helped you make, running the systems.

I do AI consulting for mid-market companies, mostly between $10M and $50M in revenue, plus private-equity portfolio companies of a similar size. That's the band where AI decisions are big enough to matter to the P&L and the company is small enough that one accountable executive can actually change how it operates.

Almost none of this work requires anyone to be in the building. Searches for AI consulting services near me, an AI consulting agency near me or an AI implementation consultant near me usually reflect a preference for accountability rather than for geography, and that is better solved by a published price and a fixed scope than by a postcode. I run engagements remotely from Eastern Time with offices in Fort Lauderdale and Montreal, and I travel for kickoffs and executive sessions. Where a genuinely local presence matters, for a plant walkthrough or an on-site workshop, that gets scheduled into the engagement.