AI Consulting Firm

An AI Consulting Firm
That Builds What It Recommends

Anar Agency is an AI consulting firm for companies with 10 to 500 people. We do the strategy and the build in one engagement: a two-week AI roadmap, then working AI systems in 60 to 120 days, with your team trained to run them. Engagements run $2,000 to $15,000 per month, and you own everything we build.

Most AI consulting ends with a deck. Ours ends with a system your own people run. Plain language the whole way.

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What does an AI consulting firm do for a small business?

A good AI consulting firm answers three questions and then proves the answers: which of your workflows should use AI first, what it will cost to run, and how you will know it is working. Then it builds the first one.

The gap in the market is between firms that only advise and shops that only build. Advice without a build leaves you with a plan and no working system. A build without the thinking gives you a tool nobody asked for. We do both, in order, with one team.

Our AI implementation services page covers the build side in detail. This page covers the consulting side: the roadmap, the choices, and how to pick a firm.

AI strategy consulting: the two-week roadmap

Our AI strategy consulting is short on purpose. In the first two weeks we sit with your team and produce a one-page roadmap:

Then we build against it. A roadmap that is not followed by a build inside 30 days is a strategy deck, and we do not sell those. The thinking behind this is in Operations Disguised as AI Problems and the AI maturity model we use to place you.

Framework: Prove, Transfer, Scale

Prove that a workflow pays before you staff it. Transfer it to a named owner before you scale it. Scale only what your own team can run.

How we differ from a large consulting firm

Large consulting firmAnar Agency
Built forEnterprises with procurement cycles and internal IT teamsOwner-run companies with 10 to 500 people
What you getA strategy engagement, then a separate implementation partnerThe roadmap and the working systems from one team
TimelineMonths of discovery before anything runsA working, measured system inside the first month
OwnershipOften depends on their platform or their peopleYour accounts, your data, your team trained to run it
PricingQuoted per project, often six figures$2,000 to $15,000 per month, billed monthly

We are the right fit when you want AI doing real work this quarter. We are the wrong fit if you need a research report or an enterprise procurement process.

What AI consulting costs

Our engagements run between $2,000 and $15,000 per month, billed monthly, not by the hour. The first phase is 60 to 120 days and you should see a working, measured system inside the first month. Full detail on what moves the price is on our AI implementation services page.

Hourly AI consultants exist and can be right for a second opinion or an audit. For a build, hours add up and nobody owns the result. That is why we price by the month with a named deliverable.

How to choose an AI consulting firm: seven questions to ask

Ask every firm on your list, including us, these seven questions. The answers separate builders from deck makers.

  1. What will be working, and measured, 30 days after we start?
  2. Who on my team will own each system when you leave, and how will you train them?
  3. What data leaves my company, where does it go, and under what terms?
  4. What will each system cost to run every month after the build?
  5. What happens when the AI model changes or gets more expensive?
  6. What rules stop the AI from doing something it should not?
  7. Can I talk to a client who now runs a system you built?

The longer version, with the math on hiring in-house instead, is in AI Consultant vs In-House Team: The Real Math.

Who we work with

Owner-run companies where a missed call, a slow follow-up, or a pile of documents costs real money:

Questions owners ask us

What is an AI consulting firm?

An AI consulting firm helps a business decide where to use AI, then plans and often builds the systems. The useful ones measure results against a before number and hand the system to your team. The less useful ones hand you a strategy document.

Is AI consulting worth it for a small business?

It is worth it when the engagement ends with a working system that saves measurable hours or catches measurable leads, and when your own team can run it afterward. It is not worth it when it ends with a report. Ask any firm what will be working 30 days in.

What is the difference between AI strategy consulting and AI implementation?

Strategy decides what to build and in what order. Implementation builds it. Most companies under 500 people need two weeks of strategy and then months of implementation, not the other way around. We do both in one engagement.

How much does an AI consulting firm cost?

Our engagements run $2,000 to $15,000 per month depending on how many workflows we build, how messy the data is, and how many systems the AI must connect to. Hourly consultants and large firms price differently; ask for a monthly all-in number.

Do you only work with Phoenix companies?

No. We are based in Phoenix, Arizona and work with companies across the United States. Everything we build runs online, and training and handover happen over video calls.

Can you build on Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini?

Yes. We build on the major model providers and keep your systems model-agnostic, so you can switch vendors as prices and capabilities change.

Who owns what you build?

You do. The accounts, the data, the documentation, and the trained owner on your team are all yours when the engagement ends. Ownership is in the contract, not a promise.

How is this different from just buying an AI tool?

A tool gives you a blank box. A consulting firm that builds gives you the tool connected to your data, wrapped in rules about what it can touch and spend, checked for quality, and handed to a trained person on your team.

Sources and standards we build against
NIST AI Risk Management Framework (we align guardrails and review steps to it) ↗Stanford AI Index (yearly data on business AI adoption) ↗Anthropic: Building Effective Agents (the agent patterns we use) ↗

Bring us one workflow that wastes your team's time.

In 15 minutes we will tell you what we would build, what it would cost to run, and how you would know it is working. No pitch deck.

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