AI consulting
AI consulting for small businesses, at a fixed price.
Cannappy is a Sacramento software studio that sets up AI for small businesses: answering routine customer questions, drafting replies for a person to approve, sorting leads, and pulling reports out of the tools you already use. A first project is a fixed $2,500 and automates one task from start to finish. Advice by the hour is $150.
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Get a fixed quoteCannappy's AI consulting in three lines
- A first AI project with Cannappy is a fixed $2,500 and automates one task; most projects run $2,500 to $10,000.
- Cannappy runs AI in its own apps every day, including an AI budtender in Strain Guide and an AI plant doctor in Grow Guide.
- With Cannappy you get one working thing, not a strategy deck: we build it, test it on your real work and hand it over.
What does AI consulting cost for a small business?
Every project is quoted as a fixed price before any work starts.
A first project
One task automated from start to finish and tested on your real work.
Larger projects
Several tasks, or one that has to connect to more of your tools.
Advice by the hour
A second opinion, help choosing a tool, or a plan checked before you spend on it.
Monthly care
We watch it, fix it when one of your tools changes, and adjust it as the business does.
For comparison, one 2026 price guide puts junior AI consultants at $100 to $150 an hour and top-tier experts at $300 to $500 or more, with small AI strategy assessments at $5,000 to $25,000 (Leanware).
What can AI actually do for a small business?
- Answer the questions customers ask every day, from your own documents and prices.
- Draft replies to emails and messages, for a person to approve before anything is sent.
- Pick up a missed call, take the message and text it to you.
- Sort new leads so the good ones get a call first.
- Read a photo or a document and fill in the form for you.
- Pull a weekly report out of the tools you already pay for.
Why hire Cannappy for AI work?
Because we use it ourselves. Cannappy builds and runs its own apps, and AI does real work inside them: an AI budtender in Strain Guide, rated 4.8 stars from more than 900 App Store ratings, and an AI plant doctor in Grow Guide, rated 4.9 stars.
That means we have already paid for the mistakes: the answers that sound right and are wrong, the costs that creep, the tool that changes overnight. See every app we run.
How does a project work?
- Tell us the task that eats your week. Use the form below. The first conversation is free.
- We send a fixed price and a plain plan. What will be automated, which of your tools it touches, and what it costs. No hourly surprises.
- We build it and test it on your real work. You see it handle real examples before you rely on it.
- You get it running, with a short guide. Add monthly care if you want us to keep watching it.
Questions small business owners ask about AI consulting
What is AI consulting for a small business?
AI consulting for a small business means finding the routine tasks software can now do, such as answering common questions or drafting replies, and setting that up with the tools the business already uses. Cannappy does it as a fixed-price project starting at $2,500.
How much does AI consulting cost?
Cannappy charges a fixed $2,500 for a first AI project that automates one task, $2,500 to $10,000 for larger projects, and $150 an hour for advice.
Do I need technical staff to use AI in my business?
No. Cannappy sets it up, tests it and shows your team how to use it. You need someone who knows the task, not someone who knows AI.
Will AI replace my employees?
That is not the aim. Cannappy's projects take the repetitive part of a job, such as first drafts and common questions, and leave decisions and customers to people.
How long does a first AI project take?
A first AI project with Cannappy usually takes two to three weeks from the first call to a working setup.
Where is Cannappy based?
Cannappy LLC is based in Sacramento, California, and works with clients across the United States by phone and video.
Tell us the task that eats your week
It goes straight to our inbox. We reply by email with questions or a fixed quote.