Ashford Partners

Clear answers on AI, for your business.

1:1 consulting with the team behind the AI Engineering series, for startups building AI infrastructure or products, and for established businesses bringing AI into their processes or products.

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Who it’s for

Whether you’re building on AI from day one or bringing it into a business that already runs, the calls start from where you are.

Startups

Building AI infrastructure or AI products

You’re building a company on AI and need to get the foundations right: the product, the models behind it and the infrastructure it runs on.

Typical situations
  • Turning an AI product idea into a scoped first version
  • Designing your AI stack: models, data pipelines, hosting
  • Moving from a working prototype to a reliable production system
  • Deciding what to build in-house and what to buy or call via API
  • Keeping inference and infrastructure costs in check as you grow
Established businesses

Integrating AI into your processes or your product

You have a working business, existing systems and a team, and you want AI to make the processes or the product better without disrupting what already works.

Typical situations
  • Finding which business processes AI can actually improve
  • Adding AI features to a product your customers already use
  • Connecting AI to your existing systems, tools and data
  • Rolling AI out to teams in a way they’ll adopt
  • Meeting security, privacy and compliance requirements

What founders and business leads ask us

A few of the questions that come up most. Bring these, or your own, to any call.

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  1. Where should we start with AI?

    Which use cases are worth doing first, and which can wait.

  2. Which model fits our use case?

    Comparing models and providers on quality, cost and how they handle your data.

  3. Should we build this ourselves or buy a tool?

    When an off-the-shelf tool is enough, and when building your own pays off.

  4. How do we get our AI product from prototype to launch?

    Evaluation, reliability and the infrastructure you need for production.

  5. What will this cost to run at scale?

    Estimating inference and infrastructure costs, and keeping them under control.

  6. How do we bring our team along?

    Rolling AI out so people adopt it instead of working around it.

Book a consultation

Start with a Strategy Call for direction, or go straight to a Deployment Roadmap built around your business. Prices in USD.

1 hour

Strategy Call

$239

One focused hour on your AI questions, so you know exactly where to go next.

  • 60-minute 1:1 consultation
  • Bring any AI business questions
  • Leave with clear direction and concrete next steps
Book 1 hour
Best value 2 hours

Deployment Roadmap

$597

The in-depth option. We study your business before the call, then build your AI deployment roadmap with you.

  • 2-hour 1:1 consultation
  • Pre-call analysis of your business
  • Build your AI deployment roadmap live
  • Prioritized use cases + recommended stack
Book 2 hours

Questions

Which call should I choose?

Choose the Strategy Call if you have questions and want clear direction and next steps. Choose the Deployment Roadmap if you want us to analyse your business beforehand and leave with a deployment roadmap, prioritized use cases and a recommended stack.

What happens before the Deployment Roadmap call?

After booking, you share some information about your business, goals and current setup. We analyse it before the call, so the two hours go into building your roadmap rather than background questions.

Do I need a technical background?

No. The calls are for founders and business leads, technical or not.

Not sure where to start?

A 1-hour call is the quickest way to get your AI questions answered.

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