AI Consulting for San Antonio small & mid-sized businesses.
National firms are too expensive. Solo consultants are too junior. I'm the third option: one senior technology leader, 30 minutes north of the metro, who has actually run security, IT, and AI at the scale national firms charge for. Fixed prices, real outcomes, and the same person on every call.
Other cities I serve: Boerne • Kerrville • Fredericksburg • Bandera
San Antonio's AI consulting market is broken in two directions
On one side: national consulting firms and Big Four practices that bring credibility but charge enterprise prices for what most San Antonio small and mid-sized businesses actually need. Six-figure engagements, multi-month timelines, and an account manager between you and the people doing the work.
On the other side: solo "AI consultants" who completed a bootcamp last year. Cheap, fast, and unable to handle the data security, cloud, or compliance work that determines whether your AI project survives contact with reality.
I'm the third option. A senior technology leader with 20 years of VP-level experience across security, engineering, IT, and AI at public-company scale, now applying that experience to San Antonio small and mid-sized businesses at fair prices. One person, one phone number, one accountable owner.
What AI consulting looks like for a San Antonio business
AI Readiness Assessment
Two weeks. Fixed scope. I review your data, security posture, and operations, score the highest-ROI AI use cases for your business, and hand you a 90-day roadmap with real cost ranges. $2,500 to $5,000. A national firm quotes this at $25,000+.
AI Implementation
One or two specific workflows automated end to end. Document processing, customer response drafting, internal search, lead qualification, claims processing, ticket triage. Built with your stack, handed off with documentation. $15,000 to $50,000 typical.
AI Advisory Retainer
Ongoing senior technology partnership and fractional CTO-level guidance. Monthly working sessions, vendor evaluation, security review, board-level strategy support when needed. $2,500 to $7,500 per month depending on scope.
Security, Cloud & Compliance Foundation
San Antonio has heavy concentrations of healthcare, financial services, and military-adjacent businesses. AI projects in those industries fail without the security and compliance foundation done right. I cover SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, and cloud hardening end to end.
Industries I work with in San Antonio
Healthcare & Medical Practices
HIPAA-aware AI workflows for patient intake, records summarization, billing follow-up, clinical documentation, and the operational layer behind a busy practice. Built so PHI stays where it belongs and your team gets hours back.
Financial Services & FinTech
Document review, customer communication, fraud-detection support, internal search, and the compliance-aware AI work that financial services demands. PCI and SOC 2 experience built into every decision.
Law Firms & Professional Services
Document drafting, discovery review, intake automation, and internal knowledge bases that respect client confidentiality. Built so paralegal, associate, and admin time goes to higher-value work.
E-Commerce & Retail Operations
Customer service automation, product content generation, review management, inventory and operational AI, and the high-availability infrastructure that San Antonio's e-commerce sector requires. End-to-end stack experience, not just AI on the front end.
Startups & Growth-Stage Companies
Strategic AI consulting for San Antonio startups that need senior technology judgment without hiring a full-time CTO yet. Fractional engagement, real decisions, no fluff. Common path: assessment, implementation, then advisory retainer through Series A.
Multi-Location & Mid-Sized Businesses
Operational AI for businesses with multiple offices, distributed teams, or complex internal communication. Same senior partner, scaled engagements that match your actual size, not whatever the firm at the top of the Google results would quote.
How an AI consulting engagement works
Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute call. From there I scope a fixed price, fixed timeline piece of work so you know exactly what you're paying for and what you're getting before any work starts.
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Free 30-minute call
A direct conversation. I tell you whether AI is the right move, what other gaps I'd address first, and how to budget for it. -
Fixed-scope assessment or pilot
If it makes sense, we scope a 2-week AI readiness assessment or a single workflow pilot with a clear price tag, deliverables, and timeline. -
Build, test, hand off
I build the system, test it in your environment, train your team to operate it, and document everything. No lock-in, no ongoing dependency unless you want it.
30 minutes from downtown
Boerne is 30 minutes north of San Antonio via I-10. On-site kickoffs and key working sessions are standard. Most San Antonio engagements include a mix of in-person and remote work, structured around your team's schedule.
Book a Free ConsultationAI consulting in San Antonio: Frequently asked questions
Two reasons. First, distance: 30 minutes is closer than most San Antonio consultants are to each other across the metro. Second, scale: most national AI consulting firms are priced for enterprise, and most San Antonio SMBs don't need a 50-person delivery team. They need one senior technology partner who can give them honest answers and ship working systems. That's the engagement model here.
Healthcare practices, law firms and professional services, financial services and fintech, e-commerce and retail, and growth-stage startups across the metro. The common thread is small to mid-sized businesses where one senior technology leader can move the needle, not enterprises with their own internal teams.
A 2-week AI readiness assessment runs $2,500 to $5,000. Full implementation projects (one workflow automated end to end, security review, team training) typically land between $15,000 and $50,000. Ongoing advisory retainers run $2,500 to $7,500 per month. Fixed prices, quoted after a free 30-minute call. National firms typically charge 3 to 5 times this for comparable work.
Yes. HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001 are part of the work I have led at enterprise scale and continue to do for Hill Country and San Antonio clients. AI projects in regulated industries need the compliance layer planned in from day one, not bolted on at the end. That's what most "AI consultants" get wrong and what 20 years of enterprise security experience makes routine.
For most small and mid-sized engagements, yes, and the comparison favors me on price and on senior involvement. For very large multi-team transformation work, the bigger firms have more bench strength. I'll tell you honestly which side of that line your project falls on during the free 30-minute call.
Senior. Local. Honest.
One person, one phone number, one direct line to the technology leader actually doing the work. San Antonio businesses deserve a third option, and this is it. Let's talk.
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