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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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7
Businesses built
300+
AI systems built
2019
Building with AI since
4
Industry awards

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.

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Advisory runs with 8 clients at a time. Discovery sessions are open now, and the plan you leave with is yours whether or not we carry on.

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

Everything he tells you to do, he has done himself. He has watched it work, and he has watched it fail. Most AI advice is written by people who have read about it. I have put AI into companies with real customers, real staff and a busy phone. 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 someone with nothing to sell you afterwards.

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.

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. The monthly build serves you better than an hour of my opinion. Above it, one wrong turn costs more than a year of advice. That is where this earns its money.

Where I can help most

Four areas, drawn from more than 300 AI systems built. This is where the advice moves a number fastest.

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. Every system I put in front of you is one I run in my own company, so you get told what broke the first time as well as what worked.

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.

Business growth and transformation

Growing revenue without growing headcount. Seven businesses built, three acquisitions, and the scars from the ones that looked easier than they were. I know 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. Most of these projects fail by automating the wrong thing beautifully.

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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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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What happens next is the same whichever one you pick. You send the enquiry. We confirm within two working days whether we have room. You get the questionnaire before anything is paid. The questionnaire is short. It is why the call starts at the real problem, not at your company history. Then we talk. Two working days later the written plan lands.

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.

No obligation to proceed

Book the Discovery Session and 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 a plan worth more than the session cost, and I will tell you plainly if you do not need me. I would rather lose the sale than take money for advice you can give yourself. Telling people the truth has sent me more work than the fees I turned down, and it is the reason most of this advisory list came from a referral rather than an advert.

Results that back the advice

I only give advice I have used. Every recommendation here comes from a business I built, ran, or fixed.

7
Businesses built
3
Acquisitions
4
Industry awards
300+
AI systems built
2019
Building with AI since
$0
Setup fee on any tier

Numbers on a consulting page are usually there to impress. These are here so you can check them. Seven businesses built means seven times through the part where it stops being fun. Three acquisitions means I have 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 me about the ones that did not work. It is a short list, and it is the more useful hour.

4x award-winning AI systems

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 an AI consulting firm, and is that what this is?

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. The Agency builds AI systems for companies every day, and this page is the door to the person who runs it. Where a large firm hands back a strategy document, we hand back a working system and the plan that got us there. If you would rather buy the systems as a monthly product than as advice, see our pricing.

Who is this for?

Founders, CEOs and senior leaders of companies turning over $250k to $10M a year who want to grow, put AI in properly, or fix one thing that is costing them money. Under $250k, start with the monthly build instead and come back later, because at that size the answer is nearly always to build the machine rather than talk about it. Over $10M, the monthly advisory is usually the right shape, since the decisions come faster than a one-off session can serve. This is for people who make decisions and then act on them.

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. I price 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 makes this different from one of the top AI consulting firms?

Scale, and who turns up. A large firm brings a method, a deck and a team of analysts, and that works, slowly, at a price that suits a company with a board behind it. I bring seven businesses built, four industry awards and more than 300 AI systems, and I answer the question in the call rather than in a report six weeks later. No 90-page deck, no discovery phase that bills for three months before anything moves. If your problem genuinely needs forty people on it, I will tell you that too, because sending you somewhere better is cheaper for both of us than taking the money.

What is included in the Discovery Session?

One 60-minute call, a short questionnaire beforehand so we do not spend the hour on background, a written 90-day plan within two working days, and the full recording. The plan names three things to do first, in order, with what each one is worth and who has to do it. 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. If the honest answer turns out to be that you do not need AI in the place you thought you did, that is in the plan too.

Can I move from a Discovery Session to ongoing advisory?

Yes, and most advisory clients start that way. The session is how we both find out whether this works before anyone commits to months of it, and it is a fairer test than any sales call, because you have seen the actual work rather than a pitch about it. If you want to carry on afterwards we talk about the monthly shape then, and nothing you paid for the session is wasted. There is no pressure to decide on the call either, since the plan is already yours.

How many clients do you take at once?

Monthly advisory runs with 8 clients at a time, because what you are buying is attention and attention does not stretch. If it is full you go on a priority waitlist and we tell you honestly how long that is likely to be. Discovery Sessions have more room through the year, and they are the faster route in. Send the enquiry and we confirm within two working days whether we can take it, and if the honest answer is that you should wait a quarter, that is what you will be told.

What industries do you work in?

Service businesses, agencies, consultancies, SaaS, ecommerce, professional services and media. If you sell something and want to sell more of it with less effort, this applies, because the bottlenecks rhyme across all of them. The work runs from global brands to owner-run companies: Netflix, Mercedes-Benz, Amazon Prime, San Miguel, Biovene, Champ Vision and Digital Saga. You can see what we actually did on our results page.

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