Business Management Consultant Richmond, VA

Our Practical AI Practice is dedicated to helping small and medium-sized businesses apply artificial intelligence in safe and productive ways. By prioritizing operational integration over technical complexities, Practical AI Practice enhances decision-making processes, boosts efficiency, and increases productivity. Through Practical AI Practice, we empower our clients to strategically leverage AI, enabling them to tackle complex challenges, scale their operations, and achieve their broader goals.

Education on AI

Blogs

AI is evolving at a rapid pace, and it's implementation into the business world is evolving just as quickly. Stay up to date on how AI can level up your business with our blogs. Written by professionals that are utilizing and implementing AI for our clients. 

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AI That Adds Measurable Value to Your Business:  Understanding ROI Metrics

The launch of a new blog series. Through this journey, Jim will guide you through actionable strategies and metrics to help SMBs like yours evaluate the return on investment (ROI) of AI implementation. This is designed to provide practical insights to make your AI adoption both effective and sustainable. 

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From Accessible to Intelligent: Transforming Documents for AI and All Users

Utilizing AI for document and knowledge management is an effective tool, when done correctly. Dive into the details about proper formatting techniques to optimize your AI. 

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Co-Pilot Palooza: Sorting Out Microsoft's AI Assistants

With the 'Copilot' name popping up across tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and SharePoint Agents, along with Microsoft Syntex, things can get a bit confusing. This article is here to help clear up any confusion and make things a bit easier to understand.

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Similarity Between Your AI Prompt and a 12-Year-Old

AI inquiries will only be as effective as the user. Understanding how to prompt, or talk to, your AI agent is essential. Learn more here! 

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More on AI

Check out our full repository of blogs for more educational material on AI and more!

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Services Overview

Practical AI Practice offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to help businesses successfully integrate AI into their operations. Guided by principles of safety, responsibility, productivity, and strategic impact, our services focus on actionable solutions that align AI adoption with business objectives. We aim to simplify AI implementation while delivering transformative results for our clients.

Why it’s needed:

A structured strategy ensures that AI adoption is aligned with business goals and is both scalable and impactful. 


Outcomes:

A tailored roadmap for AI efforts, enhanced focus on high-value initiatives, and alignment with broader business objectives.

Why it’s needed:

Companies often struggle to capture, organize, and leverage their knowledge effectively, leading to inefficiency and missed opportunities. 

Outcomes:

A well-structured and implemented strategy improves collaboration, ensures better access to enterprise content, and enhances decision-making. AI-assisted conversations further unlock actionable insights, maximizing the value of organizational knowledge.  

 

Why it’s needed:

Businesses often struggle to pinpoint the best applications for AI within their operations. 


Outcomes:

Prioritized use cases with tangible ROI, a clear direction for AI adoption, and actionable insights to tackle pain points.

Why it’s needed:

Seamlessly embedding AI into workflows can be challenging without expertise, leading to disruptions.

 
Outcomes:

Effective AI integration, minimal operational disruption, and enhanced productivity.

Why it’s needed:

Decision-making often suffers from incomplete or manual data analysis, slowing progress. 


Outcomes:

Data-driven decisions powered by real-time analytics, predictive insights, and customized dashboards.

Why it’s needed:

Teams need to feel confident using AI tools and embracing changes in their workflows. 


Outcomes:

Employees empowered with AI knowledge reduces the resistance to change and shifts the focus to high-value tasks.

Why it’s needed:

Inefficiencies and bottlenecks slow businesses down. AI can streamline workflows and automate repetitive tasks. 


Outcomes:

Optimized and automated processes, reduced manual workloads, and increased operational efficiency.

Why it’s needed:

Effective AI adoption requires clear frameworks for governance, compliance, and ethical use. 


Outcomes:

Robust governance structures, risk management strategies, and alignment with organizational values.

Why it’s needed:

A strong data foundation and framework is essential for AI success, yet many businesses face fragmented or inefficient data ecosystems. 


Outcomes:

A clear understanding of readiness, data quality, cost, identification of improvement areas, and a roadmap to prepare for AI integration. 

Why it’s needed:

Selecting the right tools and vendors can be overwhelming without technical expertise. 


Outcomes:

Confident technology adoption, reduced risks, and seamless alignment of AI solutions with your business needs.

 

Is Your business AI Ready?

AI Readiness Assessment

Companies often lack clarity on how prepared they are for AI adoption. Assessing your current operations, technology, and workforce helps identify gaps and opportunities. Through our AI Readiness Assessment, we provide a clear understanding of readiness, identification of improvement areas, and a roadmap to prepare for AI integration.

 

Fill out a brief questionnaire to start the process of your AI Readiness Assessment.

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How We Deliver

Our capabilities to deliver your AI solutions are built around the needs of your business. Whether looking for education and guidance or for our team to take a hands-on approach and deliver your solution for you, we are here to help. Learn more about our advisory and consulting services below. 

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