Ongoing retainer

AI Consulting

Everyone's telling you to "do something with AI." Almost no one's telling you what to do first.

You need someone who understands ecommerce, small business, and your tech stack, and knows how to apply AI across the business without breaking anything or making something useless.

None of that means you're behind. It means you're asking the right question before spending money on the wrong one.

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Does this sound like you?

✓You know AI could help somewhere, but you don't know where to start, or what's actually safe to hand it.
✓You've tried a tool or two and gotten output that looked impressive and wasn't actually usable.
✓Your data, financials, inventory, customer records, isn't clean enough yet to trust an answer AI gives you about it.

How it actually works

1

AI has to ease into a business, not get bolted on.Layered quietly on top of data you can trust, not headlined as the big feature. The businesses that get real value aren't the ones that moved fastest, they're the ones that moved in the right order.

2

Start with where you actually stand.A clear current-state picture of how your business uses AI today, grounded in your products, your tech stack, your team, and how you actually run.

3

Map it against the AI Maturity Model.An honest read on where the business, you, and your team actually stand with AI today, so the plan starts from the truth, not a guess.

4

Build the plan, quick wins and the long game.A short-term and long-term roadmap, balanced against the core systems AI depends on: a clean general ledger, an inventory/ERP system, a data warehouse. AI on top of trustworthy data, not ahead of it.

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Human in the loop, on purpose.AI accelerates the work. It doesn't replace the judgment calls that matter, those stay with you and your team. Once something's genuinely automated, people spend their time on the exceptions, not on routine clicking.

What this can build over time

An AI chief of staff
For the founder, so the most valuable person in the business stops drowning in the small stuff.
A company brain
Your data and what's happening across the business, captured and kept current in real time, so the whole team always has it on hand.
An AI vision, and the plan to get there
A clear picture of where AI takes the business, and the sequenced steps to make it real.

Why Scott

Scott's spent fifteen-plus years inside the financial and operational reality of ecommerce businesses, and he uses AI daily in his own work, so his read on what actually helps versus what just sounds good in a demo is lived, not theoretical. Same foundation-first discipline that built his reputation on the accounting and systems side: sequence it right, keep a person in the loop, and never let the tool get ahead of the data it's supposed to be trustworthy about.

It starts with an audit

Every engagement starts with the Ecommerce Business Audit, which includes an AI-readiness read across the business, is AI a real risk, a real opportunity, or just noise for you specifically, right now. That honest starting point matters, because the right AI move depends entirely on how solid the foundation underneath it already is.

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