Canonical: https://www.strataigize.com/services/ai-consulting/ Description: AI consulting for US and Canadian businesses. We find where AI actually pays back, publish the roadmap and the payback math, and can build what we recommend. [Home](https://www.strataigize.com/) / [Services](https://www.strataigize.com/services/) / AI Consulting AI Consulting # AI advice from people who ship it. Most AI consulting ends at a slide deck. Ours ends at a costed workflow inventory, a scored shortlist, and a 90-day roadmap we are willing to build against. [Book an audit →](https://www.strataigize.com/audit/)[Free AI readiness check](https://www.strataigize.com/tools/ai-readiness/) BDC Preferred vendor A preferred AI vendor for **Business Development Bank of Canada** advisory clients. LIFT lends Canadian businesses $25,000 to $5M to adopt AI, and the technology has to come from a Canadian supplier. We are one. [How LIFT works](https://www.strataigize.com/bdc-lift-program/) 50+ Hours a week our own AI agents save our team, our estimate 2 Weeks from kickoff to a costed 90-day roadmap $7.5K Fixed price for the AI Opportunity Audit, published Overview ## Where AI pays back, _and where it does not._ AI consulting has a credibility problem, and it is deserved. The standard engagement produces a maturity model, a list of use cases copied from a vendor deck, and no number anyone can be held to. Six months later nothing has shipped and the budget is gone. We start from the work instead of from the technology. What does your team actually do, how many hours does each of those things cost, how often does it go wrong, and how bad is it when it does. Only then do we ask which of them a model can do well enough today, because that question is meaningless without the first four answers. The output is a costed inventory, a scored shortlist, a payback estimate for the top candidate with its assumptions written down beside it, and a 90-day sequence. It regularly recommends buying a tool, or doing nothing in a given area yet. That is the point: a roadmap that only ever says build is a sales document. We can advise on this because we run it. Our own agency is operated by an agent fleet in production, and we publish both what it saves us and what has broken. If you already know what you want built, our [AI agent development](https://www.strataigize.com/services/ai-agent-development/) line takes one bounded workflow at a fixed price, and [AI workflow automation](https://www.strataigize.com/services/ai-automation-services/) is the operations layer that runs it afterwards. We serve the US and Canada from downtown Vancouver. If you are local, the [Vancouver page](https://www.strataigize.com/ai-automation-agency-vancouver/) covers in-person kickoffs and how we build under PIPEDA and BC PIPA. Canadian companies funding this work should read [how the BDC LIFT program works](https://www.strataigize.com/bdc-lift-program/). Everything is published: the audit, the pilot build and the retainer are all listed on the [pricing page](https://www.strataigize.com/pricing/). How it works ## From guesswork to _a costed plan._ 01 ### Inventory We map the work your team actually does, by hours and by cost, before naming a single tool. 02 ### Score Each workflow is scored on volume, cost, error rate and how reversible a mistake would be. 03 ### Prove One candidate gets a real payback estimate with the assumptions written down beside it. 04 ### Roadmap A 90-day sequence: what to build first, what to buy, and what to leave alone on purpose. 05 ### Govern Access scope, approval gates, audit trail and the kill threshold agreed before anything ships. Case studies ## AI advice, _tested on ourselves first._ [ Strataigize Marketing ### How Our Marketing Agency Uses AI Agents to Automate Busywork **50+** Team hours saved weekly**40+** Client tasks queued monthly Read the case study → ](https://www.strataigize.com/case-studies/how-agency-uses-ai-agents-automate-busywork/)[ Strataigize Marketing ### AI Agents for Business: The Operator Running Our Agency **$160K+** Two roles we never had to hire**3 min** New client onboarded, signed contract to live project Read the case study → ](https://www.strataigize.com/case-studies/ai-agents-for-business-the-autonomous-operator-running-our-agency/) [Browse every case study →](https://www.strataigize.com/case-studies/) Questions ## AI consulting, _answered._ What does an AI consultant actually deliver? A decision you can act on. In our case that is a workflow inventory costed in hours, a scored shortlist of what AI can do well today, a payback estimate for the top candidate with its assumptions written beside it, and a 90-day roadmap naming what to build, what to buy and what to leave alone. Two weeks, a fixed $7.5K, and it stands on its own whether or not you hire us to build anything. How is this different from your automation and agent pages? This page ends at a decision. AI agent development is the build line, one bounded workflow at a fixed price with a kill threshold. AI workflow automation is the operations layer that runs and maintains them. If you already know what you want built, skip the consulting and go straight to one of those. Do you only recommend things you can sell us? The roadmap regularly says buy the off-the-shelf tool, or do nothing here yet. We would rather lose the build than put an agent on a workflow that does not carry enough volume to pay for its own maintenance. The audit is priced so it is worth doing on its own. What makes you qualified to advise on this? We run the thing we are advising on. Our own agency is operated by an agent fleet in production, with published numbers for what it saves us and published write-ups of what has broken. We would rather point at that than at a certification. What does AI consulting cost? The AI Opportunity Audit is $7.5K fixed over two weeks. If it leads to a build, pilot builds are $25K to $60K fixed and production support starts at $8K per month. Every figure is on the pricing page. What we do ## Named work, not _vague scope._ Every line item opens into the artifact you receive, the typical duration, and the role that delivers it. ### Discovery - Workflow inventory Artifact Every recurring workflow named, with volume, hours and who currently owns it Typical duration 1 week Delivered by Automation lead - Cost-of-work model Artifact Loaded hourly cost applied to the inventory, so each workflow carries a dollar figure Typical duration 2 to 3 days Delivered by Analytics lead - Systems and data map Artifact What each workflow reads and writes, and which of those systems has a usable API Typical duration 2 to 3 days Delivered by Solutions architect - Stakeholder interviews Artifact Notes and a named-blocker list from the people who actually do the work Typical duration 3 to 5 sessions Delivered by Automation lead ### Assessment - Automatability scoring Artifact Each workflow scored on volume, cost, error rate and reversibility, with the rubric published Typical duration 3 to 4 days Delivered by Automation lead - Build, buy or leave call Artifact A written recommendation per shortlisted workflow, including the ones we say to leave alone Typical duration 2 days Delivered by Solutions architect - Payback estimate Artifact Hours saved, run cost and break-even month for the top candidate, assumptions listed beside it Typical duration 2 days Delivered by Analytics lead - Risk and control review Artifact Where a mistake would be irreversible, and the approval gate that prevents it Typical duration 2 days Delivered by Solutions architect ### Roadmap - 90-day sequence Artifact What ships first, second and third, with the dependency that orders them Typical duration 2 days Delivered by Automation lead - Success metric and kill threshold Artifact The number each build is judged on and the point at which it gets switched off Typical duration 1 day Delivered by Automation lead - Governance model Artifact Access scope, approval gates, audit trail and who reviews what, per workflow Typical duration 2 days Delivered by Solutions architect - Executive readout Artifact A working session walking the inventory, the scoring and the roadmap, recorded Typical duration 90 minutes Delivered by Automation lead Teams that trust us with the number - ![Podz logo](https://www.strataigize.com/logos/clients/opt/podz.webp) - ![Crush Crush logo](https://www.strataigize.com/logos/clients/opt/crush-crush.webp) - ![Kleo logo](https://www.strataigize.com/logos/clients/opt/kleo.webp) - ![Backroad Mapbooks logo](https://www.strataigize.com/logos/clients/backroad.svg) - ![GameGo logo](https://www.strataigize.com/logos/clients/opt/gamego.webp) - ![ZivTrack logo](https://www.strataigize.com/logos/clients/zivtrack.svg) - ![Sad Panda Studios logo](https://www.strataigize.com/logos/clients/opt/sad-panda.webp) - ![Appomate logo](https://www.strataigize.com/logos/clients/opt/appomate.webp) AI Opportunity Audit $7.5K fixed. Pilot builds $25K to $60K. Production from $8K per month Real ranges, published. Ad spend stays in your own accounts. [See the full pricing table →](https://www.strataigize.com/pricing/) Where this fits: [see the Strataigize Growth System](https://www.strataigize.com/how-we-work/), the ladder every engagement runs on. ### Talk to the AI team Tell us what your team spends the most hours on and we reply within 24 hours with whether AI is the right answer, what it would take, and the honest payback math. ## Find out what is _worth automating._ Two weeks, a fixed price, and a roadmap that stands on its own whether or not you build with us. [Book an audit →](https://www.strataigize.com/audit/) Want a five-minute version first? Run the free [AI readiness assessment](https://www.strataigize.com/tools/ai-readiness/). [Rated **5.0** on Clutch](https://clutch.co/profile/strataigize-marketing)