AI Solutions For SMBS
Practical AI for the businesses everyone else overlooks.
We help small and mid-sized businesses turn AI into work that ships, with strategy, nearshore engineering talent, and implementations built to run in production.
No long-term contracts Fixed-scope pilots Quarterly ROI reviews
HOW WE WORK
Strategy first.
Fixed-fee engagements.
Owned outcomes.
Why A Manifest AI Engagement
Most SMBs get priced out of real AI consulting, or DIY their way into a pile of prototypes.
Enterprise consultancies start at six figures. Off-the-shelf tools rarely fit the way a real business operates. Our practice was built for the SMBs caught in the middle.
Domestic and Nearshore Talent
U.S.-based strategy leads paired with vetted nearshore engineers. Same time zones, lower burn rate, and a direct line to the people doing the work.
Strategy Through Shipping
Roadmap, build, deploy, measure. We own the outcome from your first idea through the first model running in production.
Enterprise Rigor, SMB Pricing
The same governance, security, and architecture practices we brought to Fortune 500s, packaged into fixed-scope engagements your CFO will sign.
Our Process
A five-step engagement, with checkpoints you control.
A repeatable model that de-risks every stage. You will know the cost, timeline, and expected outcome before we write a single line of code.
Your Idea
Validate & Discover
Solution Blueprint
Execution Plan
Ship & Optimize
Timeline transparency
Discovery in two weeks. Blueprint in four. First production deployment in eight to twelve. You will know the schedule before we start, and you will hear from us the moment anything slips.
Cost transparency
Fixed-fee discovery. Fixed-fee blueprint. Fixed-fee builds. No hourly billing surprises and no scope-creep games, just clear numbers tied to clear outcomes.
What We Build
Four practical AI offerings, built to run in production.
These are the AI projects that consistently return value for small and mid-sized businesses, scoped as fixed-fee engagements.
Internal copilots and agents
Custom assistants trained on your SOPs, knowledge base, and tools. Built for the intake, triage, reporting, and routine work that owns too much of your team’s calendar.
Best for: ops, finance, customer success
Predictive analytics
Forecast demand, churn, pipeline, and inventory using your own historical data. Bring an analytical baseline to decisions your team currently makes by gut.
Best for: sales leadership, ops, supply chain
Conversational support and sales
Chat and voice agents that deflect tier-one tickets, qualify leads, and book meetings. Wired into your CRM and helpdesk, with a clear escalation path to humans.
Best for: support orgs, inside sales, e-commerce
Extraction and summarization
Invoices, contracts, claims, applications. Pulled apart, summarized, routed, and dropped into your systems automatically. Hours per week back, errors significantly reduced.
Best for: legal, finance, healthcare, insurance
The Manifest Advantage
A senior team that ships the AI work other firms either won’t take or won’t finish.
We sit between staff augmentation and the big consulting firms. Our clients hire us because we own the work end to end, with the seniority to make calls and the discipline to deliver on a fixed scope.
Senior, accountable teams
U.S. leadership working alongside vetted nearshore engineering specialists. The people you meet in the kickoff are the people who deliver the work.
A sensible rate card
Our nearshore delivery model lands meaningfully below Tier 1 U.S. consultancy rates without the quality or communication tradeoffs of fully offshore work.
AI on our own delivery
We use AI on our own engagements. That is why we move faster and leaner than firms still billing for status meetings and slide decks.
Outcomes that get measured
Every engagement ships with a metrics dashboard tied to KPIs you set in discovery. If we cannot measure the impact, we will not take the project.
Proof
Real numbers. Real references. Available on request.
Every active client is willing to take a reference call. We will share specific case figures, ROI math, and named contacts once we are talking about a similar engagement.
Frequently Question
Questions we hear in the first ten minutes.
Answered up front, so the intro call can stay focused on your specific situation.
Have a question that is not here? Send it over.
We are under 50 people. Is AI consulting really for us?
Yes. Bigger firms hire us to chase efficiency that is already pretty good. SMBs hire us when a single workflow is eating a meaningful percentage of their team’s week, and that is where the math typically works fastest. Our smallest active clients have under 20 employees.
What is the typical investment for a first engagement?
Discovery engagements run in the low five figures and produce a fixed-fee blueprint that is yours to keep, even if you take it to another vendor. A full pilot-to-production build typically lands in the mid-five-figure range. We share specific numbers on the intro call once we understand what you are solving for.
Our data is not in great shape. Are we even ready?
Most clients’ data is messier than they think, and that is normal. Our discovery phase explicitly assesses data readiness and tells you what to fix first. If your data is not usable yet, we will say so before you spend money on a model that will not work.
Will you replace our internal IT or developers?
No. We are a build partner, not a takeover. We work alongside your internal team, or, if you do not have one, we slot in as the AI function until you hire one. Knowledge transfer is built into every engagement.
How do you handle security and data privacy?
The same way our managed IT practice has for years. Data stays in your environment whenever possible, models run on infrastructure you control, and we sign whatever NDA, DPA, or BAA you need before discovery starts. HIPAA-aware engagements are standard for us.
What if the pilot does not work?
The discovery phase is designed to catch that before you commit to a build. If a pilot fails to hit its success metric, we tell you, document why, and recommend whether to iterate, pivot, or stop. We would rather lose a phase than waste your money on the next one.
Ready When You Are
Bring the problem. We will bring the path.
A 30-minute call to walk through what you are trying to solve, what is realistic with AI, and what a first engagement would look like.
30 minutes. No prep needed. No pitch deck.