AI Consulting Services for Small Businesses: How to Compare Them from Cowplain
AI consulting services range from a one-hour talk to a full build. This guide sets out what you can buy, how to compare consulting companies with an individual consultant, and where Dean Keating fits.
Dean Keating provides AI consulting services for small businesses in Hampshire, including Cowplain, from Horndean. He is a consultant rather than a consulting company, and his service goes beyond advice: he builds AI agents, installs them in your tools, trains your staff and supports them. The first call is free on 07418 627304.
Book my free AI call ↓Three things people mean by "AI consulting"
A talk or workshop that explains what AI is. A report that lists what you could automate. Or a service that actually does the work. All three are sold as AI consulting services, and they cost and achieve very different things. Settle which you want before you compare names.
A sole trader at a networking table
A business referral group meets on Wednesday afternoons at Waterlooville Golf Club, which our guide to business networking in Cowplain covers. Picture a self-employed bookkeeper at that table, hearing three people say they use "an AI consultant" and not knowing whether that means a course, a report or software. The bookkeeper's real problem is smaller: client emails arrive all week, the same five questions repeat, and reminders are sent by hand. The useful question to ask each consultant is "which of those would you have working by the end of the engagement?"
Comparing consulting companies
When you look at consulting companies, set them side by side on the same points:
- Output. A report, a training session, or a working system?
- Where it lives. Inside the email, diary and accounting software you already pay for, or in something new?
- Who does the work. The people you meet, or someone you do not?
- Afterwards. Who answers when it goes wrong?
- Leaving. What do you keep if you stop?
We have no basis for ranking providers, and this page does not.
What Dean Keating offers
He is an AI automation consultant working under his own name, not a company. The service is done for you. He builds AI agents, installs them in the tools the business already uses, trains your staff and supports it. His website lists the jobs: replying to new enquiries within minutes, following up every lead, sending and chasing quotes, booking into the diary, answering common questions across email, web and WhatsApp, raising invoices, chasing late payments and the weekly report.
The process is a free call, an audit of the work worth automating, build and install, then training and support. He begins with the single task that makes the most difference, and you leave the free call with a plan you can use with or without him.
Limits and fairness
It is not a course and not phone answering. There is no published price list; the cost is given after the free call, with no obligation. He is based in Horndean, Hampshire, and works remotely; his website says he can visit businesses in Hampshire or nearby. Because he publishes this site, speak to another provider too.
Contact
Call or WhatsApp Dean Keating on 07418 627304, or email dean@deankeating.com. See the Dean Keating profile on Cowplain.co. Websites: ai-agent.deankeating.com and deankeating.com.
About this guide
Cowplain.co is published by Dean Keating, who also runs the service described here. He is based in Horndean, Hampshire, the next village north of Cowplain along London Road, and sets everything up remotely. His website says he can visit businesses in Hampshire or nearby in person. This guide recommends our own service, so compare it with other providers before you decide.
From the publisher of Cowplain.co
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Free, no obligation. With Dean Keating, the publisher of Cowplain.co. Based in Horndean, Hampshire, the next village north of Cowplain; sets everything up remotely.
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