AI Strategy FAQs

An AI readiness assessment from CICOR Marketing is a one-time fixed fee set by company size, with one fee for companies up to 25 employees and a higher fee for 26 to 100, quoted before the first call. The fee covers the interviews, the inventory, the use-case map, the policy draft, the roadmap, and the readout. The executive workshop and ongoing advisory are quoted separately.

An AI strategy consultant helps a business decide where AI fits, where it does not, and how to adopt it without creating new risk. At CICOR Marketing that means interviewing your team, reviewing your tools and data, ranking use cases by value and effort, drafting a use policy, and writing a roadmap. The consultant recommends. The owner decides what to build.

A small business should start with the workflow that eats the most hours, not with the tool that gets the most press. Look for work that repeats every week and follows a pattern: follow-up emails, reports, proposals, intake notes. Pick one, set a rule for what may and may not go into an AI tool, and have a person check every output before it goes out. An assessment makes that selection for you.

An AI readiness assessment is a short, structured review that shows a business where AI would help, what it would take to get there, and what could go wrong. CICOR Marketing runs it in three to four weeks: interviews with the people who do the work, an inventory of tools and data, a ranked map of use cases, and a roadmap with the first three projects scoped. The result is a written plan, not a product pitch.