Advice from someone who builds the fix himself.
Most small businesses don't have a tech problem. They have five vendors, four subscriptions, and nobody on their side of the table. Consulting here starts with evidence: what you're paying for, what it's doing, and what's quietly costing you customers.
Independent, plain-English, and fixed-scope. The audit is flat-rate and everything after it is quoted before work starts. One consultant, based in Oxford, serving all of North Mississippi.
Three ways to start.
Site & Search Audit
48 hours of evidence on what you have now: how fast your site really is, what you rank for, and where customers fall out of your forms. A prioritized fix list you can act on with anyone.
Advisory day
A working session on one decision: which booking system, whether to leave your current vendor, what that subscription stack is doing for you. You leave with a decision made, not a proposal to read.
AI readiness review
Where AI genuinely pays in your business, and where it doesn't. What to automate, what to keep human, and what your data setup allows. No demo-ware. A short plan tied to your real workflow.
What I look at.
- Your website & search posture
- Speed on real phones, what your town finds when they search, and what competitors own.
- Booking, intake & phones
- Where customers try to reach you, where they give up, and what a missed call costs.
- The software you're paying for
- The monthly stack (site builder, booking platform, marketing vendor) and which bills overlap or underdeliver.
- Who owns your accounts
- Domain, Google Business Profile, hosting, socials. If a vendor left tomorrow, what would you lose?
- Where AI pays for itself
- The repetitive work a model can carry (intake, FAQs, documents) and the places it shouldn't touch.
Questions.
- Do I need a consultant or a builder?
- With me it's the same person. I build and run these systems myself, so the advice doesn't come from a deck. When the recommendation is a build, I can do it. When it's "cancel that subscription, you don't need me," you get that answer too.
- What does AI consulting mean here?
- Figuring out, for your specific business, which work a model can reliably carry (answering the same questions after hours, reading intake, drafting the repetitive writing) and which work it can't. You get a short plan in plain English, scoped to what your data and tools allow, before anyone builds anything.
- What does it cost?
- The audit is flat-rate. Everything past it is scoped and quoted fixed before work starts. No hourly meter, no open-ended retainer. Numbers happen in the quote, where they can be honest about your situation.
- Will the advice just point back at hiring you?
- The report and the plan are yours either way, written so any competent builder can act on them. Plenty of audits end in fixes you can make yourself or with whoever you already use. I'd rather be trusted for the next decision than paid once for a bad one.