Most small business owners are doing three jobs: the actual work, the business development, and all the operational overhead that comes with running a company. A properly built AI system handles most of that third job, in your voice, around how your business actually operates, without you starting from scratch every week.
That is what ChronoSage builds. Below is exactly what you get at each level.
Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute discovery call. We look at your business together, figure out where the biggest opportunities are, and tell you honestly which tier fits, or whether it is too early to start.
Most consultants show up to the first meeting knowing roughly what they are going to recommend before they have asked a question. We show up having already researched your market, your competitors, and your positioning. The Strategic Assessment is that research, delivered as a plain-language brief you can act on immediately, with or without ChronoSage.
The work comes from a career spent in environments where getting the analysis wrong had real consequences. That is the standard applied to every assessment. You get a clear, honest picture of where you stand and what is actually worth doing.
It is the right starting point if you have been burned by AI before, are not sure what is worth automating, or want to know how you actually compare to the businesses competing for the same customers.
On pricing: The range reflects scope. A focused competitive snapshot with a positioning audit lands at the lower end. A full market analysis covering multiple competitors, a detailed opportunity map, and an AI readiness deep-dive lands at the higher end. We will tell you which fits your situation on the discovery call, before you commit to anything.
Book a Discovery Call to Start with the AssessmentYou are a service business with 1 to 15 people. Your online presence is weak, outdated, or nonexistent. You know you should be posting content but you either do not have time or do not know what to say. You are getting some work through referrals but a better online presence would close more of those leads.
You do not need to be technical. You just need to be willing to spend 45 to 60 minutes in a focused conversation about how your business actually talks. That conversation is what everything we build is based on.
A website you are not embarrassed to send people to. A Google profile that works for you. A content system you will actually use, because you do not have to start from scratch every time.
Most Tier 1 clients move to Tier 2 within 6 months, once they have their online presence working and want to reclaim the hours they spend on follow-ups, scheduling, and admin.
Book a Discovery Call for Tier 1A focused 45 to 60 minute session where we learn how your business talks. This is what makes everything sound like you.
A written profile of how your business communicates. Feeds your Claude configuration and all future content work.
Copy that sounds like you wrote it, because we spent time understanding how you talk before writing a word.
Updated, accurate, and positioned to show up when local customers search for what you do. Includes claiming and verifying the profile if not already done, updating all business information, and setting up the posting workflow so content can be generated automatically in your voice.
Domain verified, sitemap submitted, all main pages indexed. A baseline to measure whether your search visibility is improving over time. Free.
Property created and connected to your website. Tracks visitors, where they come from, and which pages they spend time on. Free. Running from day one.
Drafts social posts and email content in your tone on a schedule. You review, approve, and post.
Your account, your name, you pay Anthropic directly. Roughly $20 to $100 per month. Runs without us.
Hands-on, plain English. You leave knowing how to use the system every day.
Questions, tweaks, and fixes for the first month at no additional charge.
You are running a service business and spending 5 to 15 hours a week on tasks that do not require your expertise. Follow-up emails, scheduling, weekly reporting, file organization, invoicing summaries, review requests. You have probably thought about hiring someone to handle it. A properly configured AI system handles all of it, on a schedule, in your voice, without supervision.
The tasks that eat 5 to 15 hours of your week get handled automatically. Your follow-up is faster and more consistent than it's ever been. Your business runs when you're not in the office, not just when you are.
Tier 2 clients who want live dashboards, quarterly system updates, and ongoing support as their business grows move to Tier 3. Most do within the first year.
Book a Discovery Call for Tier 2The step that makes everything else work, and the one most consultants skip entirely. We sit down with you and extract how your business actually operates: your processes, your language, your edge cases, your customers. The interview also includes a dedicated strategic positioning section, covering how you differentiate from competitors, who you're not for, and where the business is going. Everything we build is built on this.
Everything your AI system needs to know about your business, captured and structured. Your services, your customers, your workflows, your communication rules, your competitive position. This is what makes the AI sound like you and behave correctly in every scenario.
We identify your top time-wasters, score them by frequency and impact, and automate the highest-value ones first. You don't have to figure out what to automate. We map it for you.
Each of your top repeatable tasks configured to run automatically, on a schedule or on demand. Follow-ups, scheduling confirmations, weekly reports, review requests, file organization.
Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar, Slack, QuickBooks, and more, connected and configured for your specific workflows. Only the tools you actually use. No bloat.
Your existing processes, rewritten in the format an AI system can follow without you in the loop for every step.
You and your team, hands-on, until you're confident running the system every day without calling us.
Same as Tier 1. We're available for questions, tweaks, and fixes for the first month at no additional charge.
You want everything in Tiers 1 and 2, plus you want the system to keep improving as your business grows. You're not looking for a one-time project. You want AI as a permanent part of how your business operates. You're adding staff, expanding services, or tracking metrics you currently pull manually from three different places.
AI that works like a permanent part of the business, not a tool you configured once and hope still works. A system that gets more accurate and more capable as your business grows, not one that drifts out of date.
Some Tier 3 clients add Tier 4 Strategic Advisory when they want AI working on competitive intelligence and market positioning, not just operational efficiency.
Book a Discovery Call for Tier 3Full foundation: condensed knowledge capture session, brand voice document, website copy, content engine, Google Business optimization, plus the full knowledge capture interview (including strategic positioning section), workflow audit, 5+ automated workflows, custom plugins, and SOPs rebuilt for AI. Complete from day one.
Key metrics pulled automatically from your data sources. Revenue, leads, jobs completed, anything you currently track manually. Open it Monday morning and see where you stand. No spreadsheet gymnastics.
Every quarter, we audit what's working, update what's changed, and add new workflows as your business evolves. The system gets more capable over time, not just once at setup.
Your tools change, your business changes. The system needs to reflect both. Included in the monthly retainer.
Questions and issues addressed within one business day. No waiting in a ticket queue.
As your team expands, we bring new members into the system. No extra charge per person.
Brian spent his career working at levels where understanding the competitive environment wasn't optional. That same discipline is what Tier 4 brings to your business. Quarterly intelligence on where your market is moving, what your competitors are doing, and what it means for your strategy. Delivered in plain language, applied directly to your decisions.
Most AI consulting stops at operations. Configure the workflows, automate the follow-ups, set up the content engine. That's useful, but it's the floor, not the ceiling. Tier 4 is for clients who have their operations running and want to use AI the way a strategy team would: researching markets, monitoring competitors, identifying opportunities, and informing major decisions with actual data instead of gut feel.
Decisions informed by actual market intelligence instead of gut feel. A clear picture of your competitive position updated every quarter. AI working on the things that determine where your business goes, not just how efficiently it operates today.
Built for clients who already have their operations running, typically Tier 2 or Tier 3 clients who are ready to use AI for competitive advantage, not just efficiency. If you're not there yet, we'll tell you what to do first.
Book a discovery call and we'll discuss whether the timing is right.Where are your top competitors investing? What changed in your market in the last 90 days? What are their customers saying that you could address? Delivered as a plain-language brief, not a slide deck.
Is your brand voice still accurate for the customers you're trying to attract? Is your market position still differentiated? We audit the full picture once a year and update your knowledge base and voice documents accordingly.
What should you be doing that you're not? New services, new customer segments, new channels, identified through research and filtered for fit with your actual capacity and positioning.
New service, new market, new hire, new pricing structure. Before you commit, you get a research-backed brief covering the competitive landscape, the risks, and the opportunity. Delivered within 48 hours.
We talk about where the business is going, not just what the system is doing.
Any business question, answered with actual research. Competitor pricing, market sizing, customer sentiment, regulatory landscape. Whatever you need to make an informed decision.
You and your team, hands-on, until you're confident running the system every day without calling us.
Same as Tier 1. We're available for questions, tweaks, and fixes for the first month at no additional charge.
Not every engagement fits neatly into a tier. If you need something specific, we will scope and quote it directly.
New staff, refresher after business changes, or a team that needs a second pass.
Bringing a team member into an existing system without a full re-engagement.
A new automation that emerged after your original build was complete.
Full Webflow design and build on top of Tier 1 copy.
Pre-decision research on a specific competitor or market before committing to Tier 4
By the end of 30 minutes together, you will know exactly which tier makes sense for where your business is right now, and whether the timing is right at all. We will tell you honestly if it is not. No commitment. No invoice. No follow-up pressure if it is not the right fit.
The first step costs nothing. The alternative is another six months doing it manually.
Book a Discovery Call - 30 minutes. Free. No pressure.
AI Strategy + Implementation for small and micro businesses.