AI Consulting
AI strategy, grounded in your reality.
Most organizations don't have an AI problem — they have a "where do we start" problem. Riley Media's AI consulting practice helps you cut through the hype, find the use cases that actually move your business, and build the governance and adoption habits that make AI stick. Strategy, roadmap, vendor selection, governance, and enablement — without forcing you to buy a single tool you don't need.
AI Consulting & Strategy
Clarity before code.
AI is the most over-promised technology in a generation. We help you separate signal from noise — assessing where AI can genuinely create value in your organization, designing a roadmap that respects your budget and risk tolerance, and putting governance and training in place so adoption outlives the launch. Whether you've never deployed an AI workflow or you've got three pilots stalled in production, we meet you where you are.
What an engagement covers
AI Readiness Assessment
An honest audit of your data, tools, team, and workflows — mapped to a maturity model so you know exactly where you stand and what to fix first.
AI Strategy & Roadmap
A phased, prioritized roadmap tied to business outcomes — not a science experiment. Quick wins first, transformation second.
Use-Case Discovery & Prioritization
We pressure-test candidate use cases for feasibility, value, and risk — and cut the ones that won't move the needle.
Model & Vendor Selection
Build vs. buy, ChatGPT vs. Claude vs. Gemini, open-source vs. hosted — guidance grounded in what you actually need, not vendor hype.
AI Governance & Policy
Acceptable-use policies, data-handling rules, and review workflows that keep you compliant and defensible as regulations evolve.
Team Enablement & Training
Practical, role-specific training so your people actually use what we build — adoption is where most AI projects quietly fail.
ROI & Measurement Framework
Clear baselines and success metrics defined before we start, so you can prove value in language your board understands.
Pilot Scoping & De-risking
A small, time-boxed pilot designed to validate one assumption at a time — learn cheap, then scale what works.
Engagement Options
Pricing
Advisory engagements are fixed-price. Implementation — building the agents, workflows, or integrations the strategy surfaces — is scoped separately, because it depends on what we find. Prefer to talk it through first? Book a discovery call and pay after we've scoped it together.
Tier 1 — AI Opportunity Audit
Where AI can create value in your organization — and what to do first.
$2,500 one-time
- 90-minute discovery session
- Business/workflow assessment
- Current software/tool review
- Identification of 5–10 AI opportunities
- Automation opportunities
- Recommended AI tools
- Risk/privacy considerations
- Impact vs. effort ranking
- Estimated time/cost savings where reasonably measurable
- 90-day implementation roadmap
- 60-minute findings presentation
Tier 2 — Custom AI-Powered Workflow
One automated workflow, designed, built, and handed off.
$4,250 one-time
- 1 Custom AI-Powered Workflow
- Business Process Discovery Session
- Workflow & Automation Design
- AI Tool Selection & Configuration
- Up to 2 Business System Integrations
- Custom AI Prompts & Instructions
- Automated Data Capture & Processing
- Automated Emails, Documents or Follow-Ups
- Human Approval Steps Where Needed
- Workflow Testing & Optimization
- Team Training / Walkthrough
- Custom Workflow Documentation
- 30 Days Post-Launch Support
- Performance & Time-Savings Review
Tier 3 — AI Business Transformation
A full operational AI rollout across your organization.
$7,500 starting
- AI Opportunity Audit
- 3–5 automated workflows
- Custom AI assistants/agents
- Internal knowledge assistant
- Lead/customer intake automation
- Marketing automation
- Proposal/document generation
- Reporting/dashboard automation
- CRM integrations
- Employee training
- AI usage guidelines
- 90-day optimization period
Advisory only — we don't take a cut of the tools you choose. If implementation is the right next step, it's scoped from the roadmap, never assumed up front.
Not sure where AI fits yet?
That's exactly what a readiness assessment answers. Book a discovery call and we'll tell you whether it's worth one.
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