What an AI Consulting Engagement Actually Looks Like
Turn business problems into paid AI consulting projects with practical discovery, clear scoping, and a repeatable path from client conversations to delivery.
- Beginner
- 8 lessons
- 1 hr 12 min
- Taught by Lindsay Gonzales
What you'll learn
- Spot Paid AI Opportunities Identify repetitive, costly workflows in familiar industries and frame them as business outcomes instead of tool demos.
- Warm Outreach Use specific warm-introduction asks to reach service business owners without relying on cold outreach or a portfolio.
- Outcome Discovery Ask outcome-based questions that reveal pain, current processes, constraints, workarounds, stakes, and revenue levers.
- AI-Assisted Pilot Design Prompt an AI assistant with messy discovery notes, request clarifying questions, and refine recommendations into a simple paid pilot.
- Reliable Workflow Deployment Specify, test, host, and monitor always-on automations with clear inputs, success criteria, edge cases, and failure handling.
- Impact-Based Pricing Estimate upside from booking, show, close, volume, and ticket metrics to price upfront builds and ongoing support.
Lessons 8 lessons · 1 hr 12 min
Every lesson comes with Pro, $29 a month.
- Lesson 1: Introduction and background 4 min
- Lesson 2: How to get your first AI consulting client 9 min
- Lesson 3: Warm network outreach and discovery questions 11 min
- Lesson 4: Identifying business pain and revenue levers 11 min
- Lesson 5: Using Claude to shape the solution 11 min
- Lesson 6: Building the appointment reminder demo 10 min
- Lesson 7: Deployment, hosting, and infrastructure choices 9 min
- Lesson 8: Pricing pilots and wrapping up Q&A 7 min
Your teacher
Lindsay Gonzales
AI Consultant
Lindsay Gonzales builds practical AI automation for growing companies, the kind that takes high-volume manual work off a team's plate and keeps running after she leaves. A former teacher and a six-year BlackRock veteran, she now runs Automate AI Consulting, leads a community of 3,000+ people implementing AI in real businesses, and publishes practical AI content to 22,000+ on YouTube. She's based in Fresno, California.