AI strategy from someone who has to live with the plan.
Most AI strategy is a deck. Ours is a build order: where AI pays in your business, what it needs underneath, and what it will cost, written by the operator who then implements and runs it.
What the engagement produces
The honest audit
Where your business actually loses time and margin, mapped against what AI can genuinely do today. Including the areas where AI is the wrong answer.
The AI roadmap
Systems ranked by payback with build order, foundations required, effort and cost. Plain English, no transformation theatre, actionable by anyone.
The measurement plan
Every roadmap item carries the number that proves it worked. If we later implement it, this is the plan we are held to.
Every recommendation is one we are prepared to build ourselves.
That single constraint is the difference between AI consulting services that produce decks and a strategy that produces systems. The roadmap was proven on a $5m Australian store first: the same method that decided its systems decides yours.
Common questions
What does an AI strategy consultant do?
Works out where AI actually pays in your business, in what order, and what it needs underneath. A good engagement ends with a prioritised roadmap: the two or three systems worth building now, the foundations they depend on, what each should cost, and how the result will be measured. A bad one ends with a slide deck about transformation.
How is Wattle Labs different from other AI consulting services?
Most AI strategy is written by people who will never build what they recommend. Ours is written by the operator who implements it: every recommendation is something we are prepared to install, run and measure ourselves. That constraint kills the fantasy items that make decks impressive and projects fail.
What is in an AI roadmap?
The systems ranked by expected payback: what each one does, the data and foundations it needs, build order, effort, and the measurement that proves it worked. Written in plain English so you can hand it to anyone, including a competitor of ours, and act on it.
How much does AI strategy consulting cost?
The first consultation is free and many businesses get what they need from it. A full roadmap engagement is scoped from that conversation. Australian consulting rates for this class of work typically run $2,000 to $6,000 per month equivalents, and there are no lock-in contracts.
Do you only work with ecommerce businesses?
Ecommerce is home ground because the method was built on a $5m Australian store, but the strategy work applies to any business with real operations: services firms, wholesalers, professional practices. If AI cannot pay for itself in your business, the roadmap will say so.
Book the free strategy consultation
Twenty minutes on your business and where AI genuinely fits. You leave with the first three roadmap items either way.