AI Consulting & Ramp-Up
CAMF Solutions Inc runs three productized engagements that take SMBs from "we should probably use AI" to a workflow shipped in production. Fixed price. Your data, your IP. Vendor-neutral on model providers.
TL;DR
CAMF Solutions Inc provides AI consulting for SMBs through three productized engagements. The AI Readiness Sprint takes 2 weeks and costs $2,500–$4,500. The AI Pilot takes 90 days and costs $15,000–$35,000 fixed. The AI Operator retainer starts at $4,000 per month. We are vendor-neutral on model providers (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Mistral). Clients keep all model IP, prompts, evals, runbooks, and data pipelines.
SMBs know they need AI. They don't know where to start, what's safe, or what's hype. Most AI vendors quote a six-figure transformation or sell them a chatbot they don't need. The result: AI projects that stall in a slide deck, or ship as a demo and never reach a real user.
Pick the right starting point. Most SMBs begin with a Sprint; some move directly into a Pilot.
2 weeks · $2,500–$4,500 fixed
Workshop, audit, ranked opportunity backlog, and a 90-day roadmap.
90 days · $15,000–$35,000 fixed
Ship one high-ROI workflow end-to-end. Production, not a demo.
Ongoing · From $4,000/month
A retainer that keeps shipping new workflows quarterly.
AI Readiness Sprint — a 2-week fixed-price engagement that produces a ranked opportunity list and a 90-day roadmap.
AI Pilot — a 90-day fixed-price engagement that ships one workflow end-to-end into production.
AI Operator retainer — an ongoing monthly retainer covering new workflow delivery, maintenance, evals, and advisor hours.
Concrete AI workflows by function. Each one is small enough to ship in a 90-day pilot.
Five steps. The Sprint covers steps 1–2. The Pilot covers 2–4. The Operator retainer is step 5.
Map current workflows, tools, and data. Score AI opportunities.
Pick the highest-ROI workflow. Ship it end-to-end in 90 days.
Define success metrics up front. Track weekly during pilot.
Roll the workflow to more users, departments, or use cases.
Keep it tuned. Maintain prompts, evals, security. Add new workflows.
No vendor lock-in by design. Every deliverable is portable, your IP, and runs without us.
We use Anthropic, OpenAI, and Mistral business APIs configured to exclude inputs from training.
Every Pilot has a written security and access checklist scoped to the minimum the workflow needs.
No equity in model providers. We pick the best model for the workflow and document how to swap it.
Stage 1
$2,500–$4,500
Fixed price · 2 weeks
Stage 2
$15,000–$35,000
Fixed price · 90 days
Stage 3
From $4,000/mo
Retainer · month-to-month
An AI Pilot at CAMF Solutions Inc takes 90 days and costs $15,000–$35,000 fixed. The price covers discovery, build, pilot testing, and production rollout for one workflow. A 2-week AI Readiness Sprint ($2,500–$4,500) usually comes first to decide which workflow to pilot.
An AI Readiness Sprint is a 2-week, fixed-price engagement that produces a ranked list of AI opportunities for your business plus a 90-day implementation roadmap. CAMF Solutions Inc runs a stakeholder workshop, audits your tools and data, and scores each opportunity on effort and impact. The deliverable is a clear "do this pilot first" recommendation.
Two weeks to identify the first high-ROI workflow. 90 days to ship it into production. Ongoing retainer afterward if you want a new workflow each quarter. Most SMBs see their first AI-driven outcome (hours saved, conversion lift) inside the 90-day pilot.
Typical SMB pilots target one of three measurable outcomes: hours saved per employee per week, a conversion-rate lift on a specific funnel step, or a cycle-time reduction on an internal process. We define the target metric and how to measure it during the Sprint, before the Pilot begins. Pilots without a defined success metric do not get green-lit.
No. Most SMB AI workflows run on data you already have — Google Drive, a CRM export, a few spreadsheets, your support inbox. We design pilots around the data that exists, not around a hypothetical data platform. A warehouse is sometimes the next step after a successful pilot, not a prerequisite.
CAMF Solutions Inc is vendor-neutral on model providers. ChatGPT (OpenAI) and Claude (Anthropic) are both excellent general-purpose models; we also use Mistral for cost-sensitive workloads. For a typical SMB pilot we recommend a "build on top of an existing model" approach rather than training a custom model — it is faster, cheaper, and easier to swap if a better model ships.
An AI consultant scopes and ships AI workflows. A fractional CTO is a part-time senior technologist who makes broader technology decisions: architecture, hiring, vendor selection, roadmap. CAMF Solutions Inc offers both — an AI Pilot is the consultant engagement; a Fractional CTO retainer is the leadership engagement. They are often combined.
Yes — small teams often benefit the most because there is less internal friction to changing a workflow. A 10-person company can typically run a useful AI pilot at the low end of the $15,000–$35,000 range with a single workflow (e.g., support triage, proposal drafting, invoice extraction) and see weekly hours saved within the 90-day pilot.
Your data does not train public models. CAMF Solutions Inc uses model providers configured to exclude inputs from training (Anthropic, OpenAI, and Mistral all offer this on their business APIs). We publish an access and security checklist for every Pilot, scope data access to the minimum the workflow needs, and review credentials at handover.
You own the workflow and can run it yourself, hand it to an internal team, or move into our AI Operator retainer (from $4,000/month) for ongoing tuning and new workflows. The pilot deliverables — model, prompts, evals, runbook, training videos — are yours regardless of whether you continue with us.
Two weeks. Fixed price. If we cannot find a workflow worth piloting, the Sprint is on us.
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