AI consultant in Franklin, Tennessee

Ian Titus · Franklin, TN · Updated November 11, 2026

I’m Ian Titus, an AI consultant based in Franklin, Tennessee. I work with small and mid-sized companies in Franklin, across Williamson County and in Nashville, organizing the files, records and know-how they run on so their team and their AI can answer from them. Every answer cites its source.

Work starts with a $1,250 audit that takes about an hour with you, in person in Franklin or by video, and the written report is in your inbox within 48 hours.

Before any of that, the assessment is free and takes about 15 minutes. You can answer a few written questions and get my reply in writing with no meeting at all. If you’d rather talk, pick a 15-minute call.

Most AI consulting pages around Franklin describe services. This one points you to finished work, with what each build cost to run and the parts that didn’t go to plan, so you can judge it before we ever talk. Every build below has its own page.

Two of those didn’t go to plan. The Legacy system is finished, it ran on real data, and it’s sitting in a backup because a structure nobody adopts is worth nothing and adoption didn’t happen.

On Pine Water, an hour before I shipped the page, a step meant to total a client’s utility bills was multiplying them by twelve and turned $11,460 into $137,522. I caught it because the number looked too high. Both stories are on the case study pages.

I also ran the method on my own business before I sold it. That was 3.7GB of records with 804 files moved, nothing deleted and every move logged so it can be walked backward.

Working with me runs in five steps and you can stop after any of them. There’s a free 15-minute assessment, then a $1,250 audit that takes about an hour of your time, then a build at one fixed price, then grading before you rely on it, and ongoing work only if you want it.

1. The free assessment

You answer a few written questions about where things get stuck and I reply in writing with what I see and whether the audit is worth it for you. If you’d rather talk, book a 15-minute call by Zoom or phone. I read the written answers myself and if the audit isn’t worth it for you I’ll say so.

2. The $1,250 audit

The audit takes about an hour with you, in person in Franklin or by video. Sometimes I need a short conversation with someone else on your team and sometimes I don’t. What I find in that hour decides which.

Within 48 hours you get the operating map, a PDF that opens with the quickest win and then covers how the work runs today, how it would run rebuilt, which one workflow is worth doing first, what a system should and shouldn’t be allowed to do, and what it’s worth in hours and risk.

Nothing in your files gets touched or deleted and you keep the map whether or not you hire me again.

3. The build, at one fixed price

The build is quoted at one fixed price from what the map finds, so you see the number before anything starts. If you go ahead within 14 days of getting the map, the full $1,250 credits toward it.

When your information flows, the first working system is live inside 30 days. When it’s hard to reach it takes longer and the audit tells you which before you commit.

4. Graded before you rely on it

A demo proves a thing can happen once, which isn’t the same as knowing it holds on a Tuesday when nobody’s watching. So every build gets graded against questions with known answers that I write by hand before the system sees them, including the cases where the right move is to refuse.

What comes back is a pass rate, the failure categories and the measured cost per run. On Harpeth Bend that was 12 of 12, and the two that count are the two refusals.

5. Ongoing work, if you want it

A structure nobody tends grows back into a tangled mess, so there’s ongoing work if you want it. The test of whether I’m doing that job right is that it shrinks.

In Franklin and Nashville, a first engagement with an AI consultant starts at $1,200 and runs into the $3,500 to $5,000 range, based on the prices local consultants published as of November 2026. Builds start at $5,000 to $8,000 where a price is published and ongoing advisory starts around $3,000 a month. My audit is $1,250.

What the number buys matters as much as the number. Ray Arceneaux’s $1,200 buys a 4-hour strategy session. Dane Hale’s AI Opportunity Audit starts at $3,500 and takes two weeks, with a written report and a readout call.

Gladiator IT lists its AI Readiness Assessment at $2,500 to $5,000. Mine is $1,250 for about an hour of your time and a written operating map within 48 hours. The full amount credits toward a build if you go ahead within 14 days.

Where a local page doesn’t publish a build price, it usually says the build is “scoped per project” and stops there. Mine is quoted at one fixed price from what the map finds, so the price comes after the audit, when there’s something real to price, and it’s one number you see before you commit.

The cost people usually forget to ask about is what a system costs to run once it’s built, because model and hosting fees show up every month. On my builds that’s been about $40 a month for the roofing CRM, about $0.60 per deal analysis and about $0.20 a briefing. Each number is on its case study.

The full price table, with a link to each consultant’s own page, is in the comparison section below.

An AI consultant works out which recurring jobs in a small business AI should take over, gets the company’s information into a shape AI can answer from, then builds and tests the system that does the work. Most of the job happens before any AI gets switched on, because a model can’t answer well from a business it can’t read.

Plenty of companies haven’t started. The U.S. Census Bureau’s Business Trends and Outlook Survey put AI use at 19.8% of U.S. businesses as of May 3, 2026, and at 37% of firms with 250 or more employees, so most small companies haven’t put AI to work yet.

In practice I sort every step of a job into one of three buckets before anything gets built. Plain code goes where the rule is fixed, the model goes where the goal is clear but the inputs vary, like reading a lease, and a person stays wherever the call is ambiguous or hard to undo. Most bad AI builds are one of those three put in the wrong bucket.

The recurring jobs these systems most often take over are on the what I build page.

My AI audit in Franklin costs $1,250, takes about an hour with you in person or by video, and returns an operating map within 48 hours. The map shows how the work runs today, how it would run rebuilt, the one workflow worth doing first, what a system may and may not do, and what it’s worth in hours and risk.

The audit and the build are different jobs. Running them together is how a business ends up with a tidy system full of the wrong decisions, so the audit only looks.

I trace how the work actually happens, which is almost never how the written process says it does, and I run the same trace on your information. That covers what’s there, what’s duplicated, which copy is real and what everybody assumed existed and doesn’t.

Nothing gets moved, touched or deleted. You keep the map whether or not you hire me again and you can hand it to anyone, another consultant included.

Other published audits around Franklin take two weeks or start at $2,500. Mine asks about an hour of your time, plus a short conversation with someone on your team only when the audit needs it.

I’m based in Franklin and work with small businesses across Williamson County and in Nashville. The audit hour happens in person in Franklin or by video, so a company in Brentwood, Cool Springs, Spring Hill, Nolensville, Thompson’s Station or Nashville works with me the same way a company downtown does.

Some of the pages you’ll find for this search come from agencies in other states that publish a page for every Franklin neighborhood. You’d be working with one person who’s based here and what I build doesn’t depend on my being nearby once it’s done. Hermes, the operations agent in the proof table, runs always-on for about $0.20 a briefing whether or not anyone’s at a desk.

The system lives in your folders, on your machines, and a person can read every part of it with no AI in the room. You log into whatever AI you already pay for and that’s the only login involved. Companies outside Middle Tennessee do the audit by video and the work is the same.

Before you pay any AI consultant in Franklin, ask five questions and expect a straight answer to each, from me included. They cover a measured result, what you hold at the end of the first engagement, what happens to your files, who owns what gets built, and what it costs to run each month.

Can you show me a measured result? Most pages in this market describe services without naming a single result. Ask for a number and the page it lives on. Mine are in the proof table above, including the two that didn’t go to plan.

What will I hold at the end of the first engagement, and by when? A session, a report and a working tool are very different things to pay for. From my audit you hold an operating map, in your inbox within 48 hours.

What happens to our files? Ask whether anything gets moved or deleted and whether the moves are logged. In my audit nothing moves and when a build does reorganize files every move is logged so it can be walked backward.

Who owns what gets built, and does it keep working if the consultant leaves? If the answer is a login to the consultant’s platform, you’re renting. With me there’s no subscription of mine and no seat count, so nothing stops working if I do.

What will it cost to run each month? Model and hosting fees are real and they recur. Ask for the cost per run on something the consultant has already built. Mine are published per build.

A solo AI consultant fits when the first job is working out what to build and you want one accountable person. An agency fits when the job is already defined and you want it running fast.

Your IT company fits when security and licensing are the main worry. Doing it yourself fits one person’s productivity more than shared company knowledge.

These are the prices published by the consultants and firms that come up for this search. Every one of them is a real local option and the right pick depends on the job.

Prices are as published on each company’s own site on November 11, 2026. They change, so check the links before you decide.

I help Franklin small businesses use AI when they have 10 to 150 people, run on documents and deadlines, and want AI with nobody inside who owns it. That usually means owner-run trades and home services, professional services firms, and property and real estate companies.

The fit shows up the same way in each of them. The answers live in one person’s head and two files disagree about which version is current. The roofing CRM and the deal analyzer in the proof table both started from that shape.

I’m the wrong hire if you need AI running this week without anyone looking at how the work actually happens, because the audit comes first. If you need a custom software product built from scratch, a development firm will serve you better. And if you’re well past 150 people with your own AI team, you probably want a firm with a bench, because I’m one person and there’s no bench behind me.

Do you meet in person in Franklin?

Yes. The audit hour can happen in person in Franklin or by video, whichever is easier for you. If you’d rather start with a conversation, the free 15-minute call runs on Zoom or by phone and you choose which when you book it.

Companies in Brentwood, Spring Hill, Nolensville and Nashville can meet me in Franklin or do the hour by video, and anyone farther away does it by video. Where we meet doesn’t change what you get, which is the operating map within 48 hours.

Is the first conversation free?

Yes. The free assessment takes about 15 minutes. You answer a few written questions about where things get stuck and I reply in writing with what I see and whether the audit is worth it for you, with no meeting required.

If you’d rather talk, book the 15-minute call instead. I read the written answers myself. The first thing that costs money is the $1,250 audit and you’ll know exactly what it includes before you book it.

What happens to our files during the audit?

Nothing happens to them. The audit traces how the work actually happens and what information you have, what’s duplicated, which copy is real and what everybody assumed existed and doesn’t. Nothing gets moved, touched or deleted and you keep the operating map whether or not you hire me again.

When a build later reorganizes files, every move is logged so it can be walked backward. On my own operation that was 3.7GB of records and 804 files moved with nothing deleted.

Do our files have to be clean before we start?

No. A tangled mess is the usual starting point and it’s why I start with the business, not the AI. The mess is usually there for a reason, like a spreadsheet still called “current” three months after it went stale, and the audit is where those reasons get written down.

Cleanup comes after the map, when you know which file governs and which ones are only copies. Superseded copies stay on disk in a folder that can’t be cited, because deleting is how you lose the one copy that mattered.

Do we have to buy new AI software?

Usually not. The structure lives in your folders and you log into whatever AI you already pay for, whether that’s ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot, and that’s the only login involved. There’s no subscription of mine and no seat count.

If a build needs a connection into software you already use, the map says so before you commit. When the next model ships, the same files work with it, because the judgment lives in the files.

How long until something is working?

The audit takes about an hour of your time and the report is in your inbox within 48 hours. After that, when your information flows, the first working system is live inside 30 days.

When it’s hard to reach, because it lives in people’s heads or in software that doesn’t export cleanly, it takes longer and the audit tells you which before you commit to anything. You’ll know the timeline and the price before the build starts.

What does a build cost?

The build is quoted at one fixed price from what the audit’s map finds, so you see the number before anything starts and it doesn’t run on an hourly meter. It isn’t published because it’s set from your map.

If you go ahead within 14 days of getting the map, the full $1,250 from the audit credits toward the build. For context, the consultants around Franklin who do publish build prices list starting points of $5,000 to $8,000 and you can see them in the table above.

Who owns what you build?

You do. The system lives in your folders, on your machines, and a person can read every part of it with no AI in the room. The AI side is swappable, so the same questions come back with the same answers whether your team runs Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot or whatever ships next.

There’s no account of mine that stops working if I do, which also means you’re never locked into keeping me around. Anyone you hire later opens the same folders I worked in.

What if the audit says we don’t need a build?

Then you’ve spent $1,250 and you have an operating map that says so, which costs less than finding out after a build. Sometimes the most useful thing in the map is that a workflow needs defining before any AI touches it, or that most of the work doesn’t need a system yet.

You keep the map either way and you can use it with anyone, including another consultant from the table above. If you come back after the 14 days, the audit no longer credits toward a build, but the map is still yours to build from.

The fastest way to find out whether any of this fits is the free assessment. It takes about 15 minutes, in writing or on a call, and I’ll tell you plainly if the audit isn’t worth it for you.

If you already know you want the audit, say so in the assessment and we’ll set the hour, in person in Franklin or by video. If you’d rather try the smallest version yourself first, the System Starter is a free folder template you can install on your own.