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AI for Small business

You do not need an AI department. You need three things to work.

You are already paying for software with AI in it and using almost none of it, while the same three jobs eat your week. Small businesses do not need an AI programme. They need three things designed properly, in the order that pays.

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Where AI pays first

Three things AI does in small business before anything else

Generative AI

The tools you already pay for, set up to save time

Copilot, or the AI inside your accounting, CRM and email tools, configured to draft from your own documents inside the software your team already opens. Most small businesses have the licence and have never had the setup or the permissions check.

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AI Automation

One automation that removes the admin you hate most

Quotes from enquiries, invoices from job sheets, follow-ups from unanswered emails: one flow between the systems you run, built so it stops and asks when something is unusual. Usually the first project that pays for itself.

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AI Agents

One agent for the work that interrupts you all day

The enquiries, bookings and status questions that break your concentration, handled by an agent that knows your business and hands over to you when it should. You get your day back; the customer gets an answer in a minute instead of tomorrow.

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AI Fundamentals

Take the five-minute AI Opportunity Score, then book the Executive AI Workshop sized for a small team. It is a fixed fee, the price is on the page, and you leave with the one thing to do first.

Workshops that make AI understandable, without the hype.

Governance in this sector. A one-page acceptable-use policy and an approved-tool list are enough for most small businesses, and they take a fortnight. The AI Governance service scales down to exactly that.
How AI Fundamentals worksSee the packages

The six stages for small business

  1. 1 Discover
  2. 2 Define
  3. 3 Design
  4. 4 Deploy
  5. 5 Defend
  6. 6 Develop
  • 1 Discover. where AI already is
  • 2 Define. where it pays
  • 3 Design. the architecture
  • 4 Deploy. into real workflows
  • 5 Defend. govern and control
  • 6 Develop. measure and expand

Questions

What small business leaders ask us

Is AI consulting worth it for a business our size?

A short engagement is; a long one is not. The workshop and one designed project usually cost less than the software you are already under-using, and the packages page shows the structure so you can see where the money goes before you commit.

Can we just do this ourselves?

Some of it. The workshop tells you which parts, and we will say so plainly when a task is a settings change rather than a project. What people get wrong on their own is permissions and the approval step, and those are the two that cause the expensive mistakes.

We do not have an IT person. Who runs it afterwards?

Either you, with the documentation we leave behind, or AI Managed, our monthly service that watches cost, quality and drift and answers the questions. Be Cloud runs the Microsoft 365 platform underneath under the same agreement.

Other industries

How AI pays elsewhere

Professional servicesLaw, accounting and consulting firms.ConstructionBuilders, subcontractors and project offices.HealthcarePractices, allied health and aged care.RetailStores, online shops and distributors.ManufacturingProducers, processors and fabricators.Financial servicesAdvisers, lenders and insurers.Small businessUnder fifty people.

Three things that work, in the order that pays.

Five minutes for your AI Opportunity Score, then a fixed-fee workshop that leaves you with one project worth doing.

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