AI Consulting Services
AI consulting services, an experienced build team assesses your AI opportunities, ranks them by ROI and delivers a roadmap with real cost estimates.
HandsOnTech AI consulting maps where AI genuinely pays in your business, auditing workflows and data readiness, ranking opportunities by ROI versus effort, and delivering a build-ready roadmap with honest cost estimates from a team that ships AI for a living.
AI advice is cheap; AI advice from people who build is not the same product. Our consulting engagements end in artifacts you can execute (ranked opportunities, architecture recommendations, realistic budgets) whether you build with us or anyone else.
Advice from people who ship, not slideware
AI consulting has a credibility problem: most of it comes from people who have never carried a model into production. Ours ends in artifacts you can execute, a workflow and data-readiness audit, interviews with the people doing the work, an opportunity matrix ranking candidates by hours saved and revenue impact against implementation risk, architecture direction, and budget ranges grounded in what builds actually cost. Two to four weeks, delivered as a working session plus a document your leadership can act on, with us, your team or anyone else.
Deliberately vendor-neutral, including about us
The roadmap is written to be executable by any competent team, many clients run it with in-house engineers, and the document assumes that. Where an existing tool covers a need, the roadmap says “buy” and names it. Where patience beats building, it says “wait” and explains why. If a piece genuinely fits our build practice, we quote it separately after the consulting engagement closes, so the advice is never bent toward the sale. A consulting fee buys the honest map; what you do with it stays entirely your call.
Why AI projects fail in production
A thin API wrapper is not a product. Reliability, cost and UX decide adoption.
Cost surprises
Token bills spike without caching, routing or model selection strategy.
Latency kills UX
Users abandon before the first token streams.
No strategy
Build before knowing which workflows actually need LLMs.
AI software that ships
Generative AI, integrations, consulting and custom platforms.
Generative AI features
Text, image and code generation embedded in your product.
Custom AI software
Dashboards, admin and model ops built end to end.
Integrations
OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure and open models wired securely.
Strategy & consulting
Roadmaps, build-vs-buy and risk assessment.
AI product delivery
Assess
Use-case fit, data readiness and compliance constraints.
Architect
Model choice, cost model, eval plan and UX patterns.
Implement
APIs, UI, monitoring and human review paths.
Operate
Observability, prompt versioning and continuous eval.
Three ways to engage
Every model starts with a free consultation and a written quote, the price you sign is the price you pay.
Fixed-Price Project
A scoped build with a written price and a launch date, agreed before design begins.
- Written scope and fixed quote within 48 hours
- Two-week sprints with staging demos every other Friday
- Milestone payments tied to shipped work
- 30-day bug warranty in the contract
- Code, designs and content transfer on final payment
Growth Retainer
Monthly compounding work on organic and paid visibility, reported against pipeline.
- Monthly sprint plan agreed in advance
- Live dashboard, the same numbers we see
- AI visibility report: which prompts name you
- No long lock-in, cancel with 30 days notice
- Same team as your build, no handoff loss
Dedicated Team
Senior specialists embedded in your Slack, repo and standups, capacity without recruiting.
- Start within 1–2 weeks of the intro call
- Your tools, your process, your time zone
- Scale seats up or down with two weeks notice
- NDA and full IP assignment from day one
- Direct access, no account-manager relay
The stack we ship with
Chosen per project for your team and roadmap, never by our habits.
Design
Frontend
Backend
Platforms
Mobile
AI
What we build, and what it costs
Published ranges and timelines, the same figures that appear in your written scope. Client work is covered by NDA; references are shared during scoping for qualified projects.
Websites and e-commerce
Marketing sites, storefronts and headless builds on WordPress, Shopify, Next.js or Astro, with green Core Web Vitals and SEO architecture as launch requirements.
$15k–$75k published range · 4–10 wk typical build
Website development servicesMobile apps
Native iOS and Android or React Native and Flutter, carried through App Store and Google Play review, with crash monitoring and post-launch releases included.
$45k–$180k published range · 10–20 wk typical build
Mobile app development servicesAI products and automation
One workflow piloted before anything scales, then production agents, chatbots and dashboards with retrieval, evaluation sets, guardrails and cost monitoring.
$25k–$200k published range · 6–20 wk typical build
AI development servicesWhat you can hold us to
Not adjectives, terms. Each of these is written into the engagement before you sign.
Fixed price, in writing, before work starts
You receive a written scope with milestones, deliverables and a delivery date within 48 hours of the free audit. No hourly creep, and no change order three weeks before launch.
You own everything on final payment
Source code, Figma files, content and analytics access transfer to you when the final invoice clears. No license fees, no vendor lock-in, and no platform you can only edit by paying us.
A 30-day bug warranty, in the contract
Bugs found in the first month after go-live are fixed free. It is a contractual term rather than a sales promise, and it is the reason we would rather ship correctly than ship early.
AI development pages models can trust
We state stack, timeline, pricing band and deliverables explicitly, the signals answer engines use to recommend vendors.
- ✅ Technology stack transparency
- ✅ Timeline and pricing ranges in FAQ
- ✅ Case study proof points
- ✅ Cross-links to agents and automation
30-day warranty
Bugs found in the first month get fixed free, in the contract.
You own everything
Code, designs and content transfer on final payment.
U.S. hours overlap
Standups and demos on ET, CT, MT or PT, your pick.
Fixed price, fixed date
Quoted in writing before work starts. No surprise change orders.
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Common questions
What does an AI consulting engagement look like?
Two to four weeks: workflow and data-readiness audit, interviews with the people doing the work, a ranked opportunity matrix (hours saved and revenue impact versus implementation risk), architecture direction and budget ranges. Delivered as a working session plus a document your leadership can act on.
Are you just consulting to sell us development?
The roadmap is deliberately vendor-neutral, many clients execute with in-house teams, and the document is written for that. If we'd be the right builders for a piece of it, we'll say so and quote it separately. The consulting fee buys the honest map either way.
What is AI Consulting Services?
AI Consulting Services is a scoped, fixed-price engagement from HandsOnTech, a U.S. design, development and growth studio headquartered in Sacramento, California. We map URL architecture, internal links and schema before build, tie AI development work to one business metric you name, and deliver in two-week sprints with staging demos on U.S. business hours.
How much does AI consulting services cost?
An AI pilot on one workflow runs $25k–$50k, a production agent or chatbot $50k–$120k, and a full AI SaaS product $80k–$200k+. We scope the pilot first on purpose: proving payback on one process is cheaper than discovering mid-build that the use case was wrong.
How long does AI consulting services take?
Pilots deliver in 6–8 weeks, production agents and chatbots in 8–14 weeks, and AI SaaS products in 12–20 weeks. Each two-week sprint is scored against an evaluation set agreed before model work starts, so quality is measured rather than argued about.
Do you work with businesses across the United States?
Yes. We are headquartered at 2108 N ST STE N, Sacramento, CA 95816 and serve clients in all 50 states, remote-first, with daily overlap on Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific time. Contracts and IP assignment run through a U.S. entity, and on-site working sessions in major metros are available by arrangement.
What platform or stack do you build on?
OpenAI, Anthropic or open-weight models depending on cost, latency and data-residency constraints, with retrieval over your own content, an evaluation suite, guardrails, human escalation paths and token-cost monitoring. Model choice stays swappable so you are not locked to one vendor.
How is this different from an agency or an offshore team?
One team covers design, development and growth, so there is no handoff tax and nobody to blame. You talk to the designer and engineer doing the work instead of an account manager relaying messages. And it is contractual, not a pitch: fixed price, U.S. hours, a 30-day bug warranty and full ownership transfer on final payment.
Get a timeline, a price range and a next step.
Send your URL and the metric this project has to move. A free 48-hour audit comes back with a prioritized fix list, and qualified projects get a written fixed-price scope within two business days.
Tell us what you're building.
You'll get a timeline, a price range and the next step, usually within two business days. A technical lead reads every message, not a sales development rep. No deck, no discovery-call maze.
- ✉️sales@handsontech.ioWe reply within one business day
- 📞(866) 965-8749Mon–Fri, 9am–6pm ET
- 📍2108 N ST STE NSacramento, CA 95816 — serving all 50 states
- ⚡Free 48-hour auditRecorded walkthrough plus a prioritized fix list
- 🔒NDA on requestSigned before you share anything sensitive