The method
How an AI consulting assignment works, what BH CONSULTING takes on, and what it turns down.
Half a day at minimum, on site or by phone
Your tasks, tools, data and figures are reviewed with you, job by job: what takes time, who does it, how many times a week, and where it jams. Nothing is installed that day. To prepare beforehand: access to the tools you use, your subscription invoices, and two or three sample quotes or invoices.
A costing in under a week
A written report: each opportunity with the hours and euros it brings in, what it costs to set up, the lead time, the risk to your data, and the order to tackle them in. Plus the list of what is better left alone.
The tools worth building
You pick the opportunities, and the report is yours even if you stop there. Otherwise BH CONSULTING builds, installs, trains the people who will use it, and hands you the keys.
How the audit decides
Every lead goes through three questions. After that, euros set the order, not enthusiasm.
The material comes from three places: the documents you provide, interviews with the people who do the work, and watching someone do the task rather than hearing it described.
The three gate questions
- Does the data exist?You can produce the clean input (client list, invoices, contracts) without six months of groundwork first.
- Is there an owner?Someone on the team carries it day to day. A manager backing it from a distance does not count.
- Can a trial run within 30 days?One team, one process, an off-the-shelf tool. If the answer starts with “we would first need to…”, it is not a quick win.
Three yeses: go. A single no: wait, and the report states what unlocks it.
Is one of your tasks ready?
Think of one specific task and answer the three questions. Nothing is sent: the verdict appears here.
Answer the three questions to see the verdict.
Go.
This task passes all three gates. The costing will show how much it brings in and where it ranks.
Wait.
What unlocks it:
- gather the input data in one place, in a clean format. If that is the real work, it is the first project, not AI.
- name the person on the team who will carry it day to day.
- shrink the trial: one team, one process, a tool already on sale.
The ranking, in euros
Leads are listed one per row, with these columns:
- Rank
- Function
- Opportunity
- Annual gain in euros
- Months to result
- Gate: go, or wait and why
- First step
Sort order: the gain in euros (cost avoided plus revenue won, minus the price of the tool), then speed, then the likelihood it lasts.
A gain rests on a volume that is observed or that you report. When that volume is missing, the cell says “to be measured”, never a made-up range.
What BH CONSULTING takes on
- Assignments where the gain can be put in figures before starting: hours saved per week, euros, lead time.
- Small outfits: a salon, a practice, a tradesperson, a shop, a company of 5 to 50 people.
- Taking back a website, an email setup or a domain name held hostage by a previous supplier.
- Hosting the tools on your side, and running a model on your own machines when your data calls for it.
- A written scope, a price per batch, and the right to stop after the audit with no explanation owed.
- Monthly maintenance and SEO, with a written scope you can cancel monthly.
- Training your people on your own files, so the tool lives on without BH CONSULTING.
- Saying no, and saying it early: if AI brings nothing, the audit says so and the assignment stops there.
What BH CONSULTING turns down
- A project where AI brings nothing measurable. The audit says so, and the project is declined.
- Sending your customer data to an uncontrolled online AI model without your written consent.
- Hourly maintenance with no defined scope.
- Native mobile apps for the App Store or Google Play.
Describe your need in a few lines.
The rest happens by email or phone, as you prefer.
Describe your need