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How much does AI consulting cost in Greenville, SC?

Bodhi & Co prices AI consulting in two ways: a fixed-price pilot that automates one workflow, or a monthly retainer of hours. Retainers start at 10 hours a month with no annual contract, and pilots are quoted up front after a free call.

What moves the number is scope, how many systems the agent has to work with, and how much of the work you want to own afterwards. We can speak for our own pricing, not for the whole market.

What you are actually paying for

Three things: finding the workflow worth automating, building the agent, and integrating it into the tools you already run — email, CRM, spreadsheets, your website — with a person approving what it does. Strategy without a build is a report. A build without integration is a demo. You want the third thing.

The two ways we price it

  • A fixed-price pilot. One workflow, one price, built on your real data. You see it working before committing to more. This is where we suggest most businesses start.
  • A retainer. A block of hours each month for building the next workflow, maintaining the last one and training your team. Ours start at 10 hours a month, with no annual contract, and the hours can move between AI and social work as the month demands.

What makes it cost more, or less

  • Integration depth. Drafting replies in an inbox is simple. Writing orders into an accounting system with approvals is more work.
  • How many systems. Each tool the agent touches adds testing.
  • Data readiness. Clean, consistent records mean faster builds. Messy ones mean a clean-up step first.
  • Running costs. The AI usage itself is billed by the model provider, on top of our fee. It depends on how much the agent does, and we estimate it for your workflow before you commit.

Questions to ask any AI consultant

  1. Will a person approve what the agent does, and how?
  2. What happens to my data, and which providers see it?
  3. Who owns the build when we stop working together?
  4. What does it cost to run each month, separate from your fee?
  5. Can you show me something you have shipped, not a slide about it?

If the answers are vague, the price is not the problem.

Questions, answered.

FAQ

Is AI consulting worth it for a small business?

It can be, when it starts with one workflow that costs real hours every week: inbox triage, order entry, after-hours questions, chasing paperwork. If a pilot saves ten hours a week, the sums are easy to do. Automating something nobody does much of is not worth the money.

How long does an AI pilot take?

We scope a pilot to a single workflow on your real email and data so that it can go live in weeks rather than months, with a person approving everything the agent drafts from day one.

Do I need to be technical to work with an AI consultant?

No. If your team can use email, they can use what we build. We handle the models, the plumbing and the safety rails.

Do you charge for the first conversation?

No. The free AI visibility check and the first call cost nothing, and the fix list is yours to keep either way.

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Is AI recommending you yet? Let’s find out.

Start with the free instant check: it reads your website the way an AI crawler does, in about ten seconds. Then ask us for the full check, where we put a customer’s questions to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity and show you who they name.