How Much Does an AI Consultant Cost in Northern Arizona?

Here’s the number up front, because that’s why you clicked. My first call is free. A strategy call where we dig into your business and find the real opportunities is $500 an hour. A written plan with the specific moves, in order, is $1,000. After that it’s either done-for-you, where I build and run it on a monthly retainer, or software-only, where you run it and keep me on call. Retainers are priced to the scope, and AI-made ads are quoted separately, usually a fraction of what a traditional production day costs.

That’s the whole pricing model. No “book a discovery call to find out.” Now here’s how to think about whether any of it is worth it.

Why the first call is free

Most Northern Arizona businesses that call me about AI don’t need everything AI can do. They need one or two things fixed. A contractor in Prescott Valley bleeding leads on Friday evenings doesn’t need a chatbot strategy, he needs every lead answered in seconds. A Flagstaff restaurant doesn’t need an automation audit, it needs ads that punch above its budget. The free call exists to figure out which kind of problem you have. Sometimes the answer is that AI isn’t your bottleneck at all, and I’ll tell you that too.

What the $500 strategy call gets you

An hour where we go through how your business actually runs: where leads come from, where they die, what eats your week, what you’ve tried. I’ve built this stuff myself, my own CRM and AI assistant from scratch, so I’m not reading from the same articles you could read. You leave the call knowing the two or three places AI genuinely helps your business and roughly what each costs. For some owners that call is all they ever need.

What the $1,000 plan gets you

Everything from the strategy call, written down in plain order: do this first, then this, here’s what each piece costs, here’s what it should return. It’s the document you can hand to whoever builds it, me or anyone else. I write it assuming you might not hire me for the build, because a plan that only works if you buy more from the person who wrote it isn’t a plan, it’s a pitch.

What monthly retainers look like

If I build and run it, pricing follows the scope: a lead system that texts every inquiry back instantly and follows up on its own sits at a different number than a full stack of automation, ads, and reporting. I scope it on the plan, you see the number before anything starts, and the retainer covers the software, the upkeep, and me on the other end of the phone. Software-only, where you run it yourself, costs less.

What AI ads cost

AI-made commercials, built with the newest AI video tools and mixed with real footage of your actual business, usually cost a fraction of a traditional production day, the kind of shoot that used to run five figures. Bigger budgets buy more polish and more iterations, but the point of AI ads is that a Prescott Valley shop can run creative that looks like a much bigger company made it. I was one of the first studios anywhere to commercialize this work, and it got press coverage before most agencies had tried it once.

How to compare quotes

If you’re shopping AI consultants around Prescott, Prescott Valley, or Flagstaff, ask every one of them the same three questions. What have you actually built? What exactly do I get for the monthly number? And what happens if I stop paying you? If the answers are vague, the pricing will be too. There’s a longer breakdown in how to tell AI hype from real help, and the plain-English version of the job itself in what an AI consultant actually does.

The short version

Free call. $500 an hour for strategy. $1,000 for the written plan. Retainer by scope after that, and AI ads quoted per project. If you run a business in Northern Arizona and want a straight read on where AI would actually pay for itself, tell me what you’re working with.

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