I’ll show you where AI actually helps your business.
Twenty years building software that couldn’t afford to fail, now pointed at AI for small businesses. Book a call, tell me what eats your week, and I’ll tell you honestly what’s worth handing to AI, and what isn’t.
It starts with a call.
No demos, no decks. I want to understand your business before I suggest anything, and you should get to know who you’d be working with.
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A free 30-minute call
You tell me what eats your week, which tools you use and where your data lives. I mostly listen. No pitch, and I'll tell you on the call if AI isn't the answer.
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Your AI Opportunity Map
If it's worth going further, I look at how your work actually runs and send a short written plan: which tasks are worth handing to AI, what each would take, and what I'd do first.
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Then we decide together
You can take the Map and run with it, or I can help: build it, advise your team, or train them to build it themselves.
Then I’ll suggest one of four things.
I decide how to help after I’ve understood the problem, not before. Whatever it is, the scope and price are in writing before any work starts.
I build it
The AI agents or automations from your Map, built into the tools you already use, tested on your real work and handed over documented.
From $5,000Fixed scope, fixed feeI advise your team
A few hours a month as your AI lead: what to build next, which tools to trust, and a second pair of eyes on what your team ships.
From $2,500 / monthMonth to monthI train your team
Hands-on sessions on your own work, so your team can build and run its own agents and automations. No coding experience needed.
Fixed feeQuoted after the callOr nothing at all
If AI isn't the right answer, or the time isn't right, I'll say so. A good call that ends there is still a good call.
Free
The AI Opportunity Map is $1,500, and comes off the price of a build if you go ahead. The first three are free, in return for honest feedback I can quote.
Prices in USD.
Ali Salem.
Operator first. Advisor second.
I’ve spent twenty years building software, most of it leading the engineering teams behind systems that couldn’t afford to fail: real-time platforms used by millions of people, infrastructure handling billions of events a day, and an engineering organisation of more than fifty people.
Since 2023 I’ve pointed all of that at AI: agents that work through messy operational processes, search over a company’s own documents and data, and pulling information out of the PDFs and spreadsheets that slow teams down. When I recommend a tool, it’s because I’ve used it, broken it and lived with it.
I work with small and growing businesses across North America, the UK and the Gulf, remotely. You deal with me from the first call to the handover.
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AI asks before it acts
Anything I build drafts and waits for a yes before something important goes out. You decide what it's trusted to do alone.
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Start small, measure it
One task that costs you real hours, running on your real work, before anything bigger.
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You own what gets built
Your accounts, your data, documented and handed over. No lock-in and nothing to rent back from me.
Questions, answered.
If yours isn’t here, ask on the call or send a note below. I read every one.
Book a free 30-min call.
Pick a time that suits you. Come with whatever is eating your week, or just curiosity about what AI could do for your business. It's free, it's with me, and there's no pitch.