What AI automation actually costs a small business
Nobody publishes prices, so everybody assumes it costs either nothing or a fortune. Here are real ranges, what drives them, and the arithmetic that tells you whether a project is worth doing.
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Real prices, honest limitations, and the questions to ask anyone selling you AI. Including us.
Nobody publishes prices, so everybody assumes it costs either nothing or a fortune. Here are real ranges, what drives them, and the arithmetic that tells you whether a project is worth doing.
A lot of "AI agencies" are one person with a no-code subscription and a markup. These questions surface that in about ten minutes, and they work even if you are not technical.
After mapping a lot of processes, the same five tasks come up again and again as the highest-return things to automate first. None of them are glamorous.
We shipped a takeoff system with 0.81 mean accuracy and put that number in the interface. It built more trust than 0.99 ever would have.
The honest version: the tasks change, the role usually gets more valuable, and how you introduce it determines whether it works at all.
A 30-minute call where we work out whether there is anything here worth building. If there is not, we will say so — that is a useful outcome too.