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Seven businesses built. Three acquisitions. Four industry awards. More than 300 AI systems built, and building with AI since 2019. You work with Chris on AI strategy, sales systems and growth, not with an account manager who passes your questions along.

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Two people in suits sit across a black table working on one strategy sheet with a glowing gold rising line, one holding a pen, the other pointing: you work directly with the CEO on your AI strategy.
You Your business AI strategy Sales systems and growth Chris, CEO No account manager
7
Businesses built
300+
AI systems built
2019
Building with AI since
4
Industry awards

We do this for companies worldwide.

Everything he tells you to do, he has done himself

Most AI consulting services sell you a partner in the pitch. Then they hand the work to a team you never met. This one is the other shape. The person who built the systems is the person on the call.

He has watched it work, and he has watched it fail. Most AI advice is written by people who have read about it. He has put AI into companies with real customers, real staff and a busy inbox. Habits nobody wanted to change. That is a different job from putting it in a slide. You get the shortcuts and the warnings in the same hour, from the person who built it.

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Advisory runs with 8 clients at a time. Discovery sessions are open now.

Chris Rowan, Founder and CEO of The Agency
Chris Rowan, Founder and CEO, The Agency

Who this is and is not for

Consulting only pays back when the person buying it can act on the answer. Here is who that is.

$250k

$10M

Build the machine first

This is for you

Monthly advisory

This is for you if

  • You run a company doing $250k to $10M a year and you want it bigger
  • You want AI put into your business properly, and you want it done once
  • You are about to make a big call and you want a straight second opinion
  • Your enquiries are leaking somewhere between the first message and the sale
  • You want a business that keeps running on the days you are not in it

This is not for you if

  • You want someone to agree with a decision you have already made
  • You are under $250k and not ready to put real money behind growth
  • You want a consultant who sends a deck and an invoice and stays out of it
  • You are looking for somebody to hand the responsibility to
  • You do not act on what you are told

The $250k floor is not snobbery, it is arithmetic. Below it, the honest answer is nearly always to build the machine, not talk about it. Over $10M, the monthly advisory is usually the right shape. In between, one wrong turn costs more than a year of advice. That is where this earns its money.

Where he can help most

Four areas. This is where the advice moves a number fastest.

  1. AI strategy and implementation

    Getting AI into a business that already has customers, staff and habits. Not a pilot, not a demo. We start with where your time and money actually go. Then we pick the two or three jobs AI does better than a person, and build those first.

  2. Sales systems and lead generation

    Turning enquiries into paying clients without anyone chasing. Answered in seconds, qualified, and booked into a calendar, day or night. Most companies do not have a lead problem. They have a response problem. The enquiries are already coming in and going cold while somebody is busy with something else. An agent that answers for you is most of this work now. The fix usually costs less than the leads you are losing every month.

  3. Business growth and transformation

    Growing revenue without growing headcount. He knows which bottleneck is worth fixing this quarter and which one you can leave alone for a year, and telling those two apart is most of the value. You cannot automate a process you do not understand.

  4. AI presence and brand authority

    Being the company AI recommends when a buyer asks it who to use. Buyers ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity now, and the answer they get is built from what your company has already published. Search, content and positioning, so your presence does the selling while you sleep. Most companies have no idea what the engines currently say about them, and that is usually the first thing we look at together.

These four are one job, not four. Fix your response time with nothing coming in, and you have moved the bottleneck, not removed it. Win the AI search results while enquiries go cold, and you have paid for traffic you cannot serve. In a Discovery Session we find which of the four is holding you back now. It is nearly always one of them. It is rarely the one people expect. Fixing the right one first is usually worth more than doing all four in the wrong order over a year.

Choose your engagement

Clear prices, no hidden fees. Every engagement starts with an agreed outcome and a fair price for it.

One-off

Discovery Session

$500

one session

One focused 60 minutes on the problem costing you the most. You leave with a written 90-day plan, three things to do first, and honest answers to the questions you have been going round in circles on. Most people book this to settle one decision and find we settle three.

  • 60-minute deep-dive strategy call
  • Pre-session business questionnaire
  • Written 90-day action plan within 2 working days
  • 3 immediate priorities with specific next steps
  • Full session recording
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Ongoing

Monthly Advisory

$3,500

per month

A CEO-level second opinion on every decision that matters, month after month. Two calls, direct access between them, and somebody who already knows your numbers when you need an answer this week rather than next quarter. The month you have a hard decision is the month this pays for a year of it.

  • 2 x 60-minute strategy calls per month
  • Direct access between sessions
  • Monthly written strategy brief
  • Metrics review and performance analysis
  • Answers in hours, not next quarter
  • Only 8 clients at a time
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Custom

Custom Project

From $5,000

per project

One transformation, scoped and built. An AI system put in, a sales engine built, a department restructured. Priced on what the outcome is worth to you rather than on hours billed, so the result is agreed before anyone starts and nobody is watching a clock.

  • Full scope and outcome agreed upfront
  • Chris and the team on your project
  • Weekly progress reviews
  • Implementation, not just advice
  • The outcome is what we are paid for
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All enquiries are reviewed within 2 working days, and availability is confirmed before any payment is taken. No setup fee on any of the three.

What happens after you enquire

The same five steps whichever engagement you pick.

  1. You send the enquiry

    Use the Free AI Consultation Call button.

  2. We confirm we have room

    Within two working days we tell you whether we have room.

  3. You answer a short questionnaire

    It comes before anything is paid. It is why the call starts at the real problem, not at your company history.

  4. Then we talk

    The call is with Chris, on your business.

  5. The written plan lands

    Two working days later you have it in writing.

No obligation to proceed

Book your free consultation call. If you take the Discovery Session, the 90-day plan is yours either way. If the fit is right we talk about what comes next. If it is not, you still walk out with the plan, and he will tell you plainly if you do not need him. He would rather lose the sale than take money for advice you can give yourself.

Results that back the advice

Seven businesses built means seven times through the part where it stops being fun. Three acquisitions means he has sat on both sides of a deal. More than 300 AI systems means the advice comes from things running right now, not from a framework. Ask him about the ones that did not work.

Prestige Awards 2024/25 winner badges for Southern Europe and the Middle East, a Barcelona Prestige Awards 2020 winner badge and a 2019 finalist badge

Best investment we have made in our business. We are ranking number one for our industry keywords which is driving real enquiries and revenue.

Eleanor Rance, United Kingdom

325% retail spike and 89% online sales boost.

Erik, CEO, Biovene Barcelona, long-term client

Common questions about consultation

What is AI consulting?

AI consulting is advice on where AI pays back in your business, from someone who has built it. It starts with where your time and money actually go, then picks the two or three jobs AI does better than a person and builds those first. Our advice comes from more than 300 AI systems built, building with AI since 2019, and seven businesses Chris has built. The simplest way in is the $500 Discovery Session: one call, a written plan, nothing assumed. If you would rather buy the systems as a monthly product than as advice, see our pricing.

What is an AI consulting firm?

An AI consulting firm works out where AI belongs in your business, then puts it in. The good ones start with your numbers rather than with the technology, because the tools change every few months and the bottlenecks do not. Here you work with the CEO directly, not an account manager, and the advice comes from seven businesses built and more than 300 AI systems built. Where a large firm hands back a strategy document, we hand back a working system and the plan that got us there.

How much does AI consulting cost?

Here it is $500 for a one-off Discovery Session, $3,500 a month for ongoing advisory, and from $5,000 for a custom project. Across the market it is usually sold by the hour, and the range is wide enough that plenty of companies never find out what the answer was worth before the meter starts. Chris prices the outcome instead. You know the number before we start, the Discovery Session leaves you with a written plan whether or not you go further, and there is no setup fee on any of it.

What is advisory consulting, and how is it different from consulting?

Consulting is defined work: a Discovery Session that ends in a written plan, or a Custom Project scoped and built. Advisory is ongoing: $3,500 a month for two 60-minute strategy calls, direct access between them and a monthly written brief, so somebody who already knows your numbers is there when a decision lands. Advisory runs with 8 clients at a time. A Discovery Session is the safe way in, because it is how you both find out whether this works before anyone commits to months of it.

What is an AI strategy?

An AI strategy is the plan for where AI goes in your business, in what order, and who does it. A good one names the two or three jobs AI does better than a person and builds those first. Ours is the written 90-day plan from the Discovery Session: you answer a short questionnaire, take a 60-minute recorded call with Chris, and the plan lands within two working days with three things to do first, in order, with what each is worth. If the honest answer is that you do not need AI where you thought you did, that is in the plan too.

What is a discovery session?

A Discovery Session is a $500 one-off: a short questionnaire first so the hour is not spent on background, then a 60-minute call with Chris, recorded, then a written 90-day plan within two working days. The plan names three things to do first, in order. The recording matters more than people expect, because the person who has to build the thing is usually not the person on the call. You leave with a plan, not a nice conversation, and it is yours whether or not you carry on.

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