— Practice / AI for small business
AI for your business, without the leap of faith.
You keep hearing you should be using AI, and nobody says what for. The AI readiness sprint is a fixed-scope engagement that answers it concretely: we audit how your business shows up to AI systems and where AI actually helps your workflows, implement two or three quick wins, and leave you a written roadmap in plain language. No jargon, and nothing sold that does not earn its keep.
— What you get
Three deliverables, all real.
The audit — where you stand
How your business appears to AI assistants and answer engines — the systems your next customer increasingly asks instead of searching. Plus a walk through your actual workflows: where the hours go, what repeats every week, and what data you already sit on.
Quick wins — implemented, not proposed
Two or three fixes done before the sprint ends, not a slide deck. Examples: making your website legible to AI assistants, automating one repetitive workflow (intake, quoting, reporting), and written guardrails for staff AI use — what is safe to paste into a chatbot and what, under privacy law, is not.
The roadmap — a plan you own
What to do next, what to skip, and roughly what each step costs — written for an owner, not an engineer. It is yours whether or not you ever work with us again.
— The honest part
What we will not sell you.
A chatbot nobody asked for. An “AI transformation” with no deliverables. Tools that quietly ship your client data somewhere it should not go. And if AI genuinely cannot help your business yet, the roadmap says exactly that — a no is cheaper than a wrong yes.
— Why us
We run all of this on ourselves.
This site is fully readable by AI assistants — you can check it with the same free scanner we would run on yours. We build AI systems in production for engineering teams, and the site answers questions about our work through its own AI search. The sprint packages that practice for businesses that do not have an engineering team.
— After the sprint
Built to stand alone — and to continue.
The sprint stands alone — you can take the roadmap and run. Most of our work, though, continues past a first engagement: the website, the automations, and the AI surface maintained month over month as the standards move. The shapes of those ongoing relationships are described on our how-we-work page; each is scoped in writing, and none has a rate card.
— Questions
Before you write.
We are not technical. Is this for us?
Yes — it is written for owners. You do not need to know what an embedding is; you need to know which hours of your week a machine can take and which it cannot. We do the implementing, and everything we leave behind is documented in plain language.
How long does it take?
The shape is fixed — audit, quick wins, roadmap — and the exact scope and timeline are agreed in writing before anything starts. The sprint is scoped to fit within a few weeks alongside normal operations, and your time in it is a handful of conversations, not a second job.
What does it cost?
A fixed price, agreed in writing before the sprint starts. SetKernel Digital Inc. does not publish a rate card because a five-person firm with a simple website and a twenty-person firm with three systems are different sprints. Send a short brief and the reply — within one business day — includes the number.
What if AI turns out not to be useful for our business?
Then the roadmap says so, in writing, and you have spent a fixed amount to stop wondering. You still keep the quick wins — the visibility fixes help you in ordinary search regardless, and the staff guardrails matter whether or not you adopt anything else.
How do we start?
Send a short written brief: what the business does, how many people, where the repetitive hours go, and your website address. We reply in writing within one business day with fit / no-fit and, if fit, a scope and price.
— Engage
Wondering what AI is actually worth to your business?
Two paragraphs is enough: what you do, how many people, where the hours go. We reply in writing within one business day.