Most companies talk about AI.
We ship it — in 21 days.
Pro Consulting Firm is a productized AI advisory practice for SMBs and mid-market operators. We diagnose where AI actually pays back in your business, build the roadmap, and stand up the first system — all inside three weeks.
Your competitors aren't actually using AI either. They're using slides about it.
You've sat through the keynote. You've forwarded the McKinsey PDF. You've maybe even paid for a few ChatGPT licenses. But if you're like most mid-market leaders, you can't point to a single workflow in your business that runs measurably better today than it did 18 months ago.
The gap isn't curiosity, budget, or ambition. It's a translation problem. Generalist consultants pitch transformation. AI vendors pitch features. Neither one tells you which three workflows to automate first, which model to use, what it'll cost, and when you'll see payback.
We do that — and only that. One niche. One method. Fixed fee.
The 21-Day AI Audit & Roadmap Sprint.
A fixed-scope, fixed-fee diagnostic that ends with a concrete deployment plan and one working pilot — not another deck. Designed for SMB and mid-market companies between $5M and $250M revenue.
Diagnostic & opportunity mapping
Stakeholder interviews, workflow observation, and tooling audit. We surface the 20–40 candidate use cases hiding in your operations and rank them by ROI, complexity, and risk.
Roadmap & build-buy decision
For the top 3 candidates: a model recommendation (commercial vs. open-weight), cost-per-transaction estimate, integration plan, and a 12-month deployment sequence your engineering team can actually execute against.
Pilot deployment & handoff
We stand up the highest-ROI pilot end-to-end — prompts, evals, integrations, dashboards — and train your team to operate it. You leave with a working system, not a recommendation.
AI Audit & Roadmap Sprint
- Full opportunity inventory + ranked ROI shortlist
- 12-month deployment roadmap with cost & staffing
- One working pilot system, deployed & operating
- Vendor & tooling recommendations (no kickbacks)
- 30-day post-engagement support
We work best with operators who have a real business and a finite window to act.
Professional services firms
Law, accounting, consulting, and agencies between 20–500 staff drowning in document-heavy workflows.
B2B SaaS & tech operators
$5M–$100M ARR companies looking to embed AI into product or unlock 30%+ ops leverage internally.
Distributed mid-market
Multi-location healthcare, real estate, manufacturing, or insurance with messy legacy systems.
PE-backed portfolio cos.
Recently acquired companies with a value-creation plan that requires ops leverage on a 24-month clock.
Operations-led companies
Logistics, BPO, claims processing, and back-office teams where labor cost is the central P&L lever.
HR & people leaders
Talent ops, recruiting, and onboarding teams looking to reduce time-to-hire and admin load 40%+.
The market is ready. Most consultants aren't.
The AI consulting market grew from roughly $11B to $22B in 2025 and is on track for $90B+ by 2033 at a 20–35% CAGR. Demand isn't the problem. The problem is that the firms charging $500K for a strategy deck don't ship anything, and the freelance prompt engineers can't think about your P&L.
We sit in between: senior operators who've built AI systems in production, with a fixed-scope engagement model designed for the speed mid-market companies actually need. No retainers. No bench. No bait-and-switch.
The SMB AI Implementation Playbook
The exact playbook we use to find $100K+ in annual savings in the first 7 days.
A 24-page tactical guide covering: the 12 highest-ROI AI use cases for mid-market companies, our build-vs-buy decision framework, an honest cost model (including the costs vendors don't disclose), and the four most expensive mistakes we see operators make in their first deployment.
What operators ask before they book.
How is this different from a Big Four AI engagement?
Three ways. Speed: 21 days vs. 6 months. Scope: we ship a working pilot, not a 200-page deck. Price: a Sprint costs less than the kickoff workshop at a Big Four firm. We also have no audit, restructuring, or M&A practice to cross-sell into, so the engagement isn't a Trojan horse.
What if we don't know which use case to start with?
That's the entire point of the diagnostic. You don't need to know before we start. Days 1–7 are designed to surface 20–40 candidate use cases hiding in your existing operations and rank them — most clients are surprised by what makes the top three.
Do we need an in-house engineering team?
No. About 60% of our pilot deployments use no-code or low-code stacks (Zapier, Make, Retool, n8n) plus an LLM API, which we configure end-to-end. If your roadmap requires production-grade engineering, we'll either coordinate with your team or recommend trusted build partners — at cost, with no referral fees.
What's the outcome guarantee?
If by Day 21 we haven't delivered (a) a ranked opportunity inventory, (b) a 12-month roadmap, and (c) one operating pilot system, you get a full fee refund — no clauses, no proration. We've had to invoke this once in three years.
What happens after the Sprint?
You own everything: the prompts, the integrations, the documentation, the dashboards. About 40% of clients move into an ongoing fractional-AI retainer ($3K–$8K/month) to build out roadmap items #2 and #3. The other 60% take it from there with their own team. There's no lock-in either way.
What industries do you decline?
We don't take engagements in regulated clinical healthcare (we're not HIPAA-BAA prepared for clinical-grade work), defense/intelligence, or high-frequency trading. We also pass on companies under $2M revenue — the math on a Sprint doesn't work for very small businesses, and we'll tell you so on the discovery call.
The companies winning with AI started before they felt ready.
Book a 30-minute discovery call. We'll diagnose two or three high-ROI opportunities live on the call, tell you whether a Sprint makes sense, and recommend a path either way. No deck, no pitch, no follow-up sequence.