AI Consultant in Edinburgh

A real AI consultant,
for Edinburgh businesses.

I build AI tools that help small businesses scale. I am a Scot, and Edinburgh businesses get the same attention from four hundred miles away that they would get from the next street.

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What an AI consultant actually is
and what it is not

Right now your feed is full of people telling you AI will change your business. Type this prompt, copy this script, watch the money roll in. Most of them have never run a business in their life. They are selling you the feeling of doing something, not the thing itself.

That is the gap I fill. I am not here to hand you a list of prompts and disappear. I look at your actual business, find the parts that are slow or leaking money or eating your time, and I build the tool that fixes it. Then I make sure it works and I stick around.

There is a real shortage of people who do this properly. Plenty of noise, very little genuine help. I would rather be the person a Edinburgh business owner can actually call and trust than another voice adding to the noise.

What I Do

What I can build for your business

Most small business owners are doing the work of ten people. I build the tools that take the heavy, repetitive jobs off your hands, so you can get back to scaling.

Bring in more customers

Tools that find the right people and bring them to your business, without you chasing every lead by hand.

Win back your time

Automate the admin that eats your day, the quotes, the follow ups, the repetitive jobs a computer should be doing instead of you.

Get found on Google and in AI

Show up when someone searches for what you do, or asks ChatGPT to recommend it.

A tool built for your business

Whatever your business actually needs, built around how you work. Never a template with your name dropped into it.

Working with Edinburgh, remotely and properly

Edinburgh runs on small businesses that punch a long way above their size. Independents through Leith and Stockbridge, professional firms of five or six people doing work that would sit comfortably in a City practice, tourism and hospitality operators handling volumes that would frighten a business three times their size.

The pattern underneath is the one I see everywhere. The owner is doing five jobs. One of them happens the same way every single time and eats hours. Nobody has ever had a clear week to sit down and fix it, so it just keeps happening.

That is the work. Not a strategy document, not a workshop, not a list of prompts you will never open again. I look at how the business actually runs, find the part that is slow or quietly losing money, build the thing that fixes it, and stay involved long enough to know whether it worked.

The phrase AI consultancy gets stretched to mean almost anything, and what an Edinburgh business usually needs is far more ordinary than the phrase suggests. Enquiries answered at ten at night rather than Tuesday morning. Quotes that write themselves. Follow ups that happen without anyone having to remember them.

Everything happens remotely and none of it is handed off. You are dealing with the person who builds the thing, start to finish, and somebody who would rather tell you the truth about your business than sell you something.

Edinburgh, properly

What working with an Edinburgh business actually looks like

August, and the eleven months around it

Edinburgh has a business problem almost nowhere else in Britain has. For three weeks in August the city roughly doubles and a great many businesses do a meaningful slice of their annual trade in that window. Then it empties, and January is very quiet indeed.

That shape breaks a lot of ordinary advice. Hire for August and you are carrying people through February. Staff for February and you drown in August, turn away work, and burn out the people who stayed. Most owners solve it by absorbing the difference personally, which is why so many hospitality and tourism operators here are exhausted by September.

This is exactly the shape of problem worth automating, because the work that overwhelms you in August is almost entirely repetitive. The same enquiries, the same questions, the same confirmations, just fifteen times the volume. A system that handles that does nothing much in February and saves your neck in August, and it costs the same either way.

If your business has that rhythm, tell me in the first conversation. It changes what is worth building and when to build it, which is usually late winter rather than June.

What I would actually build for an Edinburgh business

The label matters less than the specifics, so here is what this looks like across the businesses the city is actually made of.

Tourism and hospitality. Enquiries arrive in four places and the answers are nearly always the same, availability, group sizes, accessibility, whether you can do a dietary requirement, what happens if it rains. The fix answers all of it instantly in your own words, at any hour and in the volume August throws at you, and only involves a person when something genuinely needs one.

A professional firm in the New Town. New enquiries need qualifying before anybody senior gives them an hour. The fix asks the right questions properly, writes up what it learns, and puts a short brief in front of you so the first real conversation starts from something rather than from scratch.

A shop or independent in Leith or Bruntsfield. The same fifteen questions arrive every week, opening hours, whether you post, whether you do vouchers, whether that thing in the window is still there. Answering them is not difficult, it is simply endless. The fix handles them the moment they are asked.

A trade or contractor across the city and the Lothians. Somebody wants a quote, you measure up, then you write it on a Sunday because that is the only quiet hour you get. By then it is Monday and they have gone with whoever answered first. The fix builds the quote from details you already collect, so it goes out the same day.

What to ask before you hire anyone, including me

There is a lot of money being made in AI consultancy right now by people who have never run a business. Four questions will sort most of them out quickly.

What will I own at the end? If the answer is a document, a dashboard or continued access to their team, you are not buying a tool, you are renting a relationship. That may be fine, but know which one you are paying for.

Who is actually doing the work? The person on the call is often not the person who builds it. Ask directly, and ask whether you will speak to them.

What does it cost to run once it exists? A real answer is a number. Ten pounds a month, forty, eighty. Vagueness here is the single most reliable warning sign there is.

And the one most people never ask. What would you tell me not to bother with? Anyone who cannot name something is selling, not advising.

Why I will sometimes tell you not to bother

If a job takes you an hour a month, automating it saves twelve hours a year and will cost more than it returns. I would rather tell you that in the first conversation than take the fee and let you find out later.

That has cost me work. It has also meant the people who do work with me tend to stay, and tend to send other people, which turns out to be the better arrangement over a few years.

Plenty of this you can do yourself, and I will say so when that is true. Sit down with an assistant for an afternoon and you will get a surprising distance. Bring somebody in when a specific job is eating your week, when you are losing enquiries you never even knew arrived, or when what you need does not exist off the shelf and has to be built.

Common Questions

AI consulting in Edinburgh, answered

How much does an AI consultant cost for a Edinburgh business?

I keep it simple and fixed. A proper AI Audit is £297 flat, about a week to turn round, and it tells you the one thing in your business actually worth automating, with real numbers against it, before you spend a penny more. If we go on to build something, that is scoped and priced before we start, never open ended. Full detail is on my Work With Me page.

What does an AI consultant actually do for a Edinburgh business?

I look at how your business really runs, find the parts that are slow, costly, or eating your time, and build the AI tool that fixes it. Then I make sure it works and I stick around. It is real, practical help, not a list of prompts.

Can you work with a small business in Edinburgh?

I look after Edinburgh businesses remotely, and it works well in practice. You still get someone who does the real work and stays properly involved, the distance makes no difference to the result.

How is this different from the AI advice all over social media?

Most of it is people who have never run a business telling you to copy a prompt. I build the actual tool your business needs and take responsibility for whether it works. That is the gap I fill.

How much does an AI consultant cost for an Edinburgh business?

A simple automated workflow tends to land between £500 and £2,000. A custom AI tool built around one bottleneck is £2,500 to £8,000. On top of that the software it runs on costs tens of pounds a month rather than hundreds, and you will see that number before you agree to anything. Every price is fixed and scoped in writing first.

Does working remotely with an Edinburgh business actually work?

Yes, and I would say so if it did not. Everything this work touches already lives on a screen, the enquiries, the quotes, the bookings, the follow ups, so the distance between us is not what decides whether it succeeds. What decides it is whether I understand how your week really goes, and that comes from asking properly rather than from sitting in your office.

Can this help with how busy we get during the Festival?

That is one of the better reasons to do it. The work that overwhelms an Edinburgh business in August is mostly repetitive, the same enquiries and confirmations at fifteen times the usual volume. A system that absorbs that costs the same in February as it does in August. Build it in late winter rather than in June, so it is tested well before you need it.

Could I just do this myself?

Quite possibly, and I will say so if I think it. An afternoon with a good assistant gets a lot of people further than they expect, and if that is your answer then take it and keep your money. The point at which it stops being realistic is when the thing you need has to hold together on its own every day, without you checking it, while you are doing something else.

Want a hand with your business?

If you are working hard to scale and could use the right tools and honest guidance, get in touch. Always happy to talk it through, no pressure.

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