Good AI advisory for a small business is short, priced up front, and ends in decisions: which uses of AI will pay, which are risky, and what rules your team needs. If it arrives attached to a software quote, it is sales, not advice.
Most of what is sold as AI advice to smaller companies comes from someone with a product to place. The consultancy has an implementation team to feed. The reseller has margin riding on the answer. That does not make the advice worthless, but it means nobody in the room is paid to say "skip it."
We only sell the advice. The Exposure & Opportunity Review runs three weeks at a price quoted in writing before work begins, with the range published up front, and ends in a ranked list of decisions with a cost against each one, including the ones that cost nothing.