Hourly consulting
$100–250 per hour
The small-business lane in Denver. Senior and enterprise consultants sit above this.
Pricing Guide · Colorado
What Does an AI Consultant Cost in Colorado?
It depends on scope, and anyone giving you one number before hearing about your business is guessing. Here is what Denver-area firms actually publish, so you can judge any proposal — including mine — against the market.
Published market ranges
These are other firms' published numbers, not mine. I publish no prices: my engagements are scoped after a discovery call. The ranges are still useful — they tell you what lane a proposal sits in.
Fixed projects
$3,000–15,000
Small-business builds: one workflow, chatbot, or automation, scoped and delivered.
Discovery sprints
$4,500–9,500
Enterprise lane: a working prototype on your data plus a production roadmap.
Production builds
$18,000–75,000
Enterprise lane, depending on scope, integrations, and data complexity.
Monthly retainers
$500–6,000 per month
From small-business support to enterprise ongoing care and monitoring.
Fractional AI leadership
$7,500 per month
One Denver firm publishes this for a fractional chief AI officer retainer.
Team workshops
$99–4,500 per session
From public seats to private team sessions, as published by Denver providers.
How I scope an engagement
We start with a discovery call: what you are building, where it hurts, and what a good outcome looks like. Then we agree on scope and terms before any work starts. No hourly meter running in the background, no surprise line items — you know what the engagement covers before it begins.
See the services themselves on consulting, and the local arrangements on Boulder, Denver, and Colorado statewide.
Questions, answered
Why do you not publish your prices?
Because every engagement is scoped after a discovery call. Two companies asking for "an AI agent" can need completely different work, and a published price would be wrong for one of them. You get scope and terms agreed before any work starts.
Is an audit or a build cheaper?
An audit is always first, and it is the smaller engagement. It decides whether a build is worth doing at all, which is how you avoid paying for the wrong system.
What drives the cost up or down?
Scope first: how many workflows, how many systems to integrate, and how ready your data is. Then team size for training, and whether you want ongoing support after launch.
How do we start?
With a discovery call. Tell me what you are building and where it hurts, and we agree on scope and terms from there. I reply within two business days.
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