01 / Ready to see where
You know AI is worth doing. You want to see where.
Book the 30-minute Free AI Opportunity Assessment. A senior advisor walks three of your workflows and tells you what AI could save you in year one.
AI That Actually Runs Inside Your Business. Fixed Scope. 90 Days.
B:Side Advisors implements AI inside small and mid-size businesses. Not slide decks. Real workflows, custom agents, and integrations your team uses on Monday. Audit starts at $3,500. Built on 35 years of small-business operating experience.
Free. No obligation. No pitch. A senior advisor walks your workflows and tells you where AI saves real money.
ENTRY$3,500SPRINTS$12K to $45KASSESSMENT30 MINROI Yr 1+$132K typical
Which path fits you right now.
Three doors. One direction. Pick the one that matches where you are today.
02 / Know the build
You already know what to build. You want a fixed price.
Skip the audit. Book a 30-minute scoping call. We quote a fixed-price Implementation Sprint in writing within 48 hours.
03 / Still evaluating
You are still figuring out whether AI is for you.
Read five essays from our founder's weekly newsletter, The B:Side Way. Decide whether we sound like people who understand your world.
Your competitors are not working harder. They are running leaner.
01INTAKE02SCHEDULING03FOLLOW-UP04INVOICING05REPORTING
The businesses that connected AI to those operations are pulling ahead. The rest bought a ChatGPT subscription and wondered why nothing changed.
The difference is not the technology. It is having someone who knows how to connect it to a business like yours.
THE DATA2025 / unambiguous
- 34%Productivity boost for workers using AINBER, 2025
- 5%+Profit-margin growth at AI high performersMcKinsey, 2025
- 22%of adopters see the full AI impactMcKinsey, 2025
- 78%bought the tools and saw almost nothing changeMcKinsey, 2025
What manual work is costing you right now.
Pick your industry. Pick your team size. See what automating repetitive work could return in year one. Ranges. Not promises.
ESTIMATE.V1
ILLUSTRATIVE / RANGES VARY01 / Industry
Law, accounting, insurance, consulting, financial advisory.
02 / Team size25
550100
Assumptions
- Manual work / employee$4,000/yr
- Lost revenue / employee$2,000/yr
- Sprint investment$18,000
Output / Year one
- Repetitive manual work+$100,000
- Lost revenue (capacity)+$50,000
- Sprint investment-$18,000
Net ROI / Year 1For 25 people
+$132,000
Your exact numbers are different. The calculator gives a signal, not a guarantee. We quote ranges in the assessment and commit to fixed scope at engagement.
Total opportunity: $150,000Method: BSA-ROI-v1 / updated 2026
Three services. Fixed scope. Clear pricing.
Audit and sprint bands are published. Managed is scoped monthly in writing before kickoff. No retainer creep. No custom-quote theater. Scope and acceptance tests are defined before we start.
Service
01
Timeline
2 to 4 weeks
Fixed price
$3,500 to $8,500
AI Readiness Audit
Most businesses start here.
A diagnostic, not a sales pitch. We map your workflows, score your AI readiness across 8 dimensions, and deliver a prioritized roadmap with ROI projections and a written 'do not do' list.
What you leave with
- A workflow map of your real operations
- 5 to 12 prioritized AI opportunities with ROI projections
- A phased implementation roadmap
- A readiness score you can act on this quarter
Service
02
Timeline
4 to 12 weeks
Custom scope
$12,000 to $45,000
AI Implementation Sprint
You know what to build. We build it.
Custom AI agents. Workflow automations. Tool integrations. Team training. Fixed price. Fixed timeline. Defined acceptance tests. If it takes us longer than planned, that is our problem.
What you leave with
- Custom AI agents built to your workflow
- Tool integrations across your existing stack
- Team training and runbooks
- Acceptance tests defined before work begins
Service
03
Timeline
Monthly retainer
Retainer
Scoped monthly
Managed Services
AI does not stand still.
Models change. Integrations break. Vendors shift pricing. We monitor every deployed workflow, report performance against baseline, and add one to three new automations per quarter inside the retainer.
What you leave with
- Monitoring on every deployed workflow
- Monthly performance reporting vs. baseline
- 1 to 3 new automations per quarter, in retainer
- On-call for integration breaks and vendor shifts
How we work.
Three phases. One team from kickoff to handoff. No junior account managers parachuted in between.
01
Discover
your workflows
Interviews. Shadowing real work. Tool audits. Process mapping. No guessing.
- 2 weeks on-site or remote
- 8-dimension readiness score
- Written workflow map
02
Build
the system
Custom agents, automations, and integrations. Weekly demos. Acceptance tests.
- 4 to 12 weeks per workflow
- Weekly demos, Friday acceptance
- Runbooks your team owns
03
Evolve
with your business
Ongoing monitoring, monthly optimization, expansion as your business grows.
- Monitoring on every deployed flow
- Monthly performance vs. baseline
- 1 to 3 new automations per quarter
Most AI agencies are 18 months old. Ours is older than that. The family behind it is 35.
Our parent organization, B:Side Capital, has spent 35 years underwriting small businesses across Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. 5,500 loans approved. 45,300 jobs created. We have sat across the table from thousands of owners. We know how a 20-person HVAC company actually runs. We know what a 12-attorney law firm actually bills. We know what a 3-location dental practice actually pays for software.
B:Side Advisors brings that operating pattern recognition to AI implementation. Enterprise-grade strategy. Main Street economics. AI-fluent talent recruited from ASU's W.P. Carey School of Business who did not learn AI in a bootcamp. They grew up with it.
01Difference
Pricing, stated plainly.
Audit and sprint bands are published. Managed is scoped in writing. No quote games.
02Difference
Vendor-neutral.
We do not resell software. We have no margin on your tool choices. What we recommend is what we would recommend if it were our own business.
03Difference
Senior advisors end to end.
The person on your kickoff call is on your final delivery call. You will never be handed to a junior account manager.
Who we work with.
Small and mid-size businesses. 5 to 100 employees. Revenue $1M to $50M. Specifically built for these five industries. If your business is outside those five, the 30-minute assessment will tell you honestly whether we are the right fit. We turn down engagements that are not a fit.
Profile / Right fit
Employees
5 to 100
Revenue
$1M to $50M
Coverage
U.S. remote
On-site
CO / AZ hubs
01
Professional services
Law, accounting, insurance, consulting, financial advisory.
Typical team
12 to 80
Top automations
Intake, billing, matter mgmt
Read the brief
02
Retail & e-commerce
Physical, online, omnichannel operators.
Typical team
5 to 60
Top automations
Inventory, support, merch
Read the brief
03
Healthcare & wellness
Practices, clinics, wellness businesses.
Typical team
8 to 50
Top automations
Scheduling, intake, coding
Read the brief
04
Construction & trades
HVAC, plumbing, electrical, general contracting.
Typical team
10 to 100
Top automations
Dispatch, invoicing, estimates
Read the brief
05
Hospitality & food service
Restaurants, hotels, catering, venues.
Typical team
15 to 100
Top automations
Staffing, reservations, ops
Read the brief
Three entities. One mission. 35 years of serving small business.
01 / Parent / Lending
B:Side Capital
Certified Development Company (CDC) and one of the nation's largest SBA lenders. Since 1990 across Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.
- Since
- 1990
- Loans
- 5,500+
- Jobs
- 45,300+
02 / Nonprofit / CDFI
B:Side Fund
501(c)(3) Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) for underserved entrepreneurs.
- Status
- 501(c)(3)
- Focus
- Underserved
- Type
- CDFI
03 / You are here / AIYou are here
B:Side Advisors
AI implementation for small and mid-size businesses. Enterprise quality at Main Street prices.
- Services
- 3 fixed
- Entry
- $3,500
- Coverage
- U.S.
Evaluate us before you ever pick up the phone.
You do not have to take our word for any of this. Our founder, Christopher Myers, publishes The B:Side Way every week. Long-form essays on current events impacting the world, the economy, and your business.
Read five posts. Decide for yourself whether we sound like people who understand your world.
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Recent postsRSS / live
- 01Nothing in Reserve
- 02Paleolithic Emotions, Medieval Institutions, and Godlike Technology
- 03Show Me the Incentive
- 04Nothing Left To Absorb
- 05The Diagnosis Was Never Enough
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What we promise. And what we do not.
The list on the left is what we sign up for. The list on the right is what no AI advisor should claim. If one does, ask harder questions.
What we promise
- Audit and sprint bands published on this site; Managed scoped in writing before kickoff
- Defined scope and acceptance tests before every engagement
- Senior advisors from kickoff to delivery
- Vendor-neutral recommendations
- A written 'we are not a fit' answer if the assessment reveals that
What we do not promise
- Guaranteed ROI numbers (we quote ranges; actual results depend on your execution)
- Magic transformations in weeks (real implementation takes 4 to 12 weeks per workflow)
- That AI is right for your business right now (sometimes the honest answer is 'wait a quarter')
Frequently asked questions.
Clicked from hundreds of operator calls. If your question is not here, ask it in the assessment.
01How much does AI implementation cost for a small business?
Our AI Readiness Audit is fixed-price between $3,500 and $8,500 depending on business complexity. Implementation Sprints are scoped at $12,000 to $45,000 with fixed deliverables. Managed Services is a scoped monthly retainer. Big Four firms typically require $500,000 minimums. We deliver the same strategic rigor for 50 to 70% less.
02What is an AI readiness audit?
A 2 to 4 week diagnostic where we map your workflows, identify the highest-ROI AI opportunities, and deliver a prioritized implementation roadmap with ROI projections. You leave knowing what to implement, in what order, and what each step will cost.
03How long does AI implementation take?
Most small-business AI implementations take 4 to 12 weeks per workflow, depending on complexity and integration depth. Our Implementation Sprint model uses fixed timelines and fixed scopes so projects do not drift. The Readiness Audit that precedes the sprint takes 2 to 4 weeks.
04What industries do you serve?
Professional services firms, retail and e-commerce operators, healthcare and wellness practices, construction and trades businesses, and hospitality and food service companies. Our Denver and Phoenix teams cover the Rocky Mountain and Southwest regions, and we work remotely with clients across the United States.
05How is B:Side Advisors different from Big Four consulting firms?
Big Four firms typically require $500,000 minimum engagements. We deliver enterprise-grade AI strategy at 50 to 70% less through a different cost structure built around AI-fluent talent from ASU's W.P. Carey School of Business. Fixed pricing. Defined scope. No retainer creep.
06Will you tell me honestly if AI is not the right move right now?
Yes. The free assessment ends with a clear recommendation, including 'wait a quarter' when that is the honest answer. We are not paid on the assessment. We are paid on implementations that work.
07What if I already have AI tools but they are not delivering?
That is the most common situation we walk into. The audit will show where the gap is: usually the tools are fine, but they are not connected to the workflow that matters. We fix the connection.
08Do you work with companies outside Colorado and Arizona?
Yes. We have offices in Denver and Phoenix and work remotely with clients across the United States. On-site discovery days are available for an additional travel fee.
The window is open. The gap is widening.
The business down the street is automating their intake, scheduling, and follow-up right now. Not because they have more money. Because someone showed them how.
The assessment is free. It takes 30 minutes. You leave knowing exactly what AI can do for your business and what it would cost.
Free. No pitch. No pressure. A senior advisor walks three of your workflows.
What happens in 30 minutes
- T+00IntroductionsSenior advisor. No sales rep. No pre-deck.
- T+05Three workflowsWe walk intake, scheduling, and one you pick.
- T+22Opportunity mapWhere AI saves money. Where it does not.
- T+28Honest verdictSprint, audit, or 'wait a quarter'. Written.