AI consultation

AI consultation: Find where AI can save you time.

Practical AI consulting for small and growing businesses: where AI helps, where it doesn't, and how to put it to work safely.

Overview

Everyone is talking about AI, and most of the advice is either hype or too technical to use. Friday Creative's AI consultation starts with your business rather than the tools. We look at how your team spends its time, find the repetitive work where AI can genuinely help, and recommend practical tools and ways of working that fit. Then we help you set them up, write the prompts and guidelines, and train your team to use them well. We use AI every day in our own studio, so our advice comes from practice.

The problem

Know you should be using AI, but not sure where to start?

Maybe you've tried a chatbot and got generic results. Maybe your team already uses AI tools without any rules about what's safe to share. Without a plan, AI ends up as another subscription nobody uses properly. With one, it can give you back hours every week.

What's included

AI consulting services

Workflow review

A look at how your business runs today and where the time goes.

Opportunity list

A prioritised shortlist of tasks AI can speed up, and the tools to do it.

Tool set-up

The right tools configured for your business, from writing assistants to automations.

Prompts and templates

Ready-made prompts and templates for the tasks your team repeats most.

AI guidelines

Simple rules on what to use AI for, what to check and what never to share.

Team training

Hands-on sessions so your team uses AI confidently and safely.

Where AI often helps first

Every business is different. These are common starting points:

  • Drafting emails, proposals and social posts
  • Answering routine customer enquiries
  • Summarising meetings, documents and reports
  • Researching competitors and markets
  • Turning one piece of content into many formats
  • Tidying up data and reporting

Safe, sensible AI use

Using AI well means knowing its limits. We recommend business-grade tools, set clear rules about client and customer data, and build in human review for anything that goes out under your name. You stay in control of what AI does.

AI consulting and your marketing

Many of the quickest wins sit in marketing: content, reporting and ad testing. If your marketing needs more than tools, we can help with that too, including being found in AI search.

How it works

Our AI consultation process

  1. 1

    Discovery call

    What you want to achieve and how your business runs.

  2. 2

    Review

    A closer look at your workflows, tools and data.

  3. 3

    Recommendations

    A clear, prioritised plan you can act on.

  4. 4

    Set-up and training

    We help put it in place and get your team comfortable.

FAQ

AI consulting FAQs

Can't see yours? Email [email protected].

Do I need technical knowledge?

No. We explain everything in plain English and recommend tools your team can use without coding.

Will AI replace my staff?

That isn't the aim. The goal is to take repetitive work off your team so they can spend more time on the work that needs a person.

Which AI tools do you recommend?

It depends on what you need and what you already use. We aren't tied to any vendor, so we recommend what fits your business.

Is my data safe?

We recommend business-grade tools with clear data policies, and help you set rules about what can and cannot be shared with AI.

Can you build custom AI tools?

For most small businesses, well set-up existing tools do the job. If you need something custom, we'll tell you and bring in the right specialist.

Book a discovery call

Ready to put AI to work?

Book a free discovery call. You'll leave with one or two places AI could help your business right away.