Question 1

What does an AI strategy consultant actually do?

Accepted Answer

An AI strategy consultant works out where AI fits inside your business and ships the systems that make it real. The good ones do the work. They sit with the team that owns the bookings calendar, the WhatsApp inbox, the CRM, the email replies, and they ship something inside those tools within weeks. Not a 60-page roadmap. Not a steering committee. A working system the team uses on Monday morning.

Question 2

How is this different from hiring an AI agency?

Accepted Answer

Agencies bill 40 percent overhead, 30 percent sales commission, 20 percent account manager, and roughly 10 percent on the actual work. We are the work. There is no account manager because the founder runs every engagement. There is no campaign hand-off because the system goes live inside your existing CRM and stays there. We ship code into your stack, not slides into your inbox.

Question 3

How much does an AI strategy consultant cost?

Accepted Answer

We charge £2k per month for our Foundation tier, £3.5k for Growth, and £5k for Dominance. That is fixed monthly, no percentage of ad spend, no per-seat fees, no surprise scope creep. The market range for AI strategy consultants in 2026 sits between £150 and £500 per hour, which works out to roughly £6k to £20k per month for serious engagements. We are deliberately on the lower end because the work is fractional and the systems we ship keep working without us.

Question 4

How long until we see results?

Accepted Answer

First systems live in 14 to 21 days from kickoff. Measurable changes in qualified inquiries, response times, or booking conversions inside 60 days. AI search visibility takes 3 to 6 months because Google and ChatGPT need time to index and trust the signals. Eight of our 12 clients hit a 4x improvement in qualified inquiries within the first 60 days. The two who did not had broken upstream sources we had to fix first.

Question 5

What is the 30 percent rule in AI?

Accepted Answer

The 30 percent rule is shorthand for the typical productivity gain when AI is integrated into a workflow correctly. McKinsey, BCG, and Stanford have all published variants of it. The point is that 30 percent only shows up when AI is wired into the workflow people actually use. Bolting on a chatbot nobody opens does not get you 30 percent. It gets you a chatbot nobody opens and a bill.

Question 6

Do you only work with Dubai businesses?

Accepted Answer

No. We work globally and bill in GBP. Dubai is our home market and where most of our case studies sit, which gives us a useful operator perspective on hospitality, real estate, and clinic owners across the GCC. We have shipped work for clients in London, Manchester, Singapore, and the US in the last 12 months. Calls are over Zoom or Telegram. Time zones are easy as long as we overlap two to three hours per day.

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