I’ve owned a variety of businesses for over 16 years. Throughout my journey I have engaged with dozens of consultants stemming from leadership development to sales support, and event coordination.

Nearly without fail, every single engagement ends up having a starting price of $10k-$15k. In quite a few cases the result that I am after - call it the implementation or integration of the solution - is only about a 3rd of the total fee. That means roughly $9,000 is spent on getting the consultant up-to-speed (discovery), and the research (solution).

This is why the agentic AI is so powerful. It can greatly reduce or eliminate the need for the discovery and solution-ing. In many cases it also can eliminate the need for implementation.

In previous newsletter issues, I’ve discussed my AI consultant Ally. In fact, I even created a complete build from start to finish on how to create your own Ally. (Link below)

The power for business owners in building their own agentic AI solution like Ally, is that they can think of the “Chief of Staff” role, like an outside consultant. You hear a lot about replacing employees but the real immediate gain for many business owners is replacing consultants. The expertise needed to build a website, reconstruct a presentation, deliver market research, make sense of multiple sources of data - is here and available as an AI Chief of Staff, right now.

How do I know this is real? I’ve been doing it for the last 2 months.

Let me list a few projects my AI has completed for me.

All of these projects were taken from idea to execution, I only need to provide direction and quality checks along the way. If I were to hire these tasks out, I would have collectively spent an easy $50,000 - $80,000 in consulting services.

So for the business owner, I think the real power of using AI right now is discrete project delivery. There is also real power in implementing AI into your workflows and enabling your staff with an AI Employee, however, the risk for that type of implementation needs to be strongly considered and planned for. I will discuss this in future issues with more detail, but your organization is more vulnerable with embedded AI operations vs AI consulting. If you want to start with AI for your business, you can learn more by downloading my AI Readiness Assessment.

Every single day my AI learns more about my preferences and my business goals. Just in the span of 2 months, I have completed projects that would have easily cost me $50k in human consulting. SMB owners and other professionals shouldn’t sleep on this. Build your agent and let it work for you.

Until next week,

—Jared

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