Small businesses won't fund discovery.
Good advice needs a real picture of the business. A 30-person company won't pay weeks of fees to build one. So you guess, or you eat the cost.
For AI strategy consultants
Founding members wanted
Roadmaps · fractional AI leads · operating models · change management
AI consultants: arrive after the diagnosis.
The hardest part of selling AI strategy to a small business is the discovery they won't pay for. Our clients already paid. Each one bought a $1,500 assessment and has a written report — ProcessScout calls it a Trail Map — signed by a human analyst. Your advice starts from evidence, not a blank whiteboard.
Free to join · Every application read by a human · Answer in 3–5 days
The problem
Strategy is the hardest thing to sell to a stranger.
A build has a demo. Strategy has your word. Four ways that hurts you:
“Strategy” sounds like slideware.
Buyers have seen roadmaps that went nowhere. Without evidence underneath, your plan looks like one more deck.
You compete with free vendor advice.
Every tool vendor offers a free “strategy session” that ends in buying their tool. On a gig board, you can't prove you're independent before the sale.
Your wins are invisible.
The disaster you helped a client avoid never shows up in a portfolio. Star ratings measure the meetings, not the plan.
The work
What work we'd send you.
Our clients are small businesses — 10 to 49 people, mostly on QuickBooks. Every report ends with a first move, a 90-day plan and check-ins. Someone has to own making that real. Example: the report gives a company a 90-day plan and nobody inside owns it. That advisory seat comes to you.
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| What the report found | The job you'd get | What you'd know before quoting |
|---|---|---|
| A 90-day plan with no one to run it | Own the plan as a fractional AI lead — keep budget and momentum honest | The plan itself, with 30- and 90-day check-ins already agreed |
| Fixes that cut across roles and approvals | Design who does what once the automation lands | The workflows documented, the costs measured per process |
| A first change the team quietly dreads | Manage the change — training, adoption, the human side | Named processes, named owners, a measured starting point |
| A do-not-buy list vendors will ignore | Vendor selection with that list as your guardrail | An analyst-signed record of what not to buy yet, and why |
Examples, not live jobs. What we send you depends on what client reports find.
Before you meet the client
The discovery is paid for before you arrive.
Every client paid $1,500 for the assessment. A human analyst signed the report. Everything you recommend on top of it survives “how do you know?”
- You know which facts are solid. Every claim is marked high, medium or low confidence, with sources.
- The case for change is in dollars before your first workshop — not an appeal to urgency.
- The work is already ranked by payback. Your roadmap starts from a defensible order, not a stakeholder's favourite.
- There's a written skip list — an independent answer to every vendor pitch that lands mid-project.
- Your advice gets measured at 30 and 90 days, against agreed numbers. That's how advisory work builds a track record here instead of vanishing into slides.
Said plainly
No promised amount of work. We introduce you when a client matches your skills — and we only earn when you do.
Pricing
What it costs.
Four numbers. That's the whole price list.
$0
To join. No listing fees, no bid credits, no subscription. A human reads your application in 3–5 days.
$0/mo
For the software. ProcessScout — normally $390/month. Free while you're a member using it with clients.
10%
On clients we send you. Drops to 5% after $25,000 with the same client.
0%
On clients you bring. Always. Even on the free software.
Example: an $18,000 project from us → you keep $16,200 · plus $300 for each business you refer to the $1,500 assessment · payment protection on some jobs Not on every job yet
Launch pricing. Your exact terms are fixed in writing before your first project.
Questions strategy consultants ask
Frequently asked
Doesn't the report replace the strategy work?
No — it replaces the part clients hate paying for. The report is a diagnosis. Turning it into an operating model, sequencing the change, keeping the plan honest for two quarters, holding the line against vendor noise — that's your work. It just starts on page one instead of week six.
Can I use the referral program with my own clients?
Yes — it's built for that. Refer a client to the $1,500 assessment and you earn $300 when they buy. The report that comes back becomes the evidence base for your advisory work. And your own clients always pay us 0%.
What do you charge?
10% on clients we send you, dropping to 5% after $25,000 with the same client. Clients you find yourself: 0%, always. Joining and the software are free. We don't promise a volume of work.
Founding members
Bring the judgement. The evidence is already gathered.
Join free. Free software for your own clients. Advisory work that starts from a signed report. A human reads your application and answers in 3–5 days.