PRACTICAL AI FOR SERVICE BUSINESSES & SMALL TEAMS
I help service business owners and small teams simplify client follow-up, organize team knowledge, and build practical AI workflows—with a clear plan and human judgment at the center.
Short intake. General starting tips. A clear next step.
01 / HOW I HELP
Strategy, implementation, and learning—each shaped around the people, processes, and priorities in your business.
Find the business problems worth solving, evaluate your readiness, and turn your ideas into a focused WiseByDesign AI Roadmap™.
Put your strategy into practice with custom AI assistants, agents, and workflows designed around how your business operates.
Help your people ask better questions, use AI thoughtfully, and practice on tasks that matter in their day-to-day work.
Bring an approachable, business-centered perspective on AI to your next event, leadership meeting, or professional community.
EXPERTISE IN PRACTICE
A real example of how I turn a business question into a focused AI tool—and make the thinking behind it easy to understand.
EXPLORE THE PROJECT FEATURED PROJECT · CUSTOM GPT
Meet Solomon, the custom GPT I created to help business owners clarify goals, challenge assumptions, and think through a decision before acting.
AI IN YOUR EVERYDAY BUSINESS
The best starting point is often a task you already know well. Explore a few ways a thoughtful AI workflow could help.
Every follow-up starts from scratch.
Organize your meeting notes
Draft a relevant follow-up
Review, personalize & send
AI helps with the first draft. You own the relationship.
Example only. Solutions are tailored and tested for your business.
02 / THE WISEBYDESIGN APPROACH
We connect the dots between what your business needs and what AI can meaningfully help you do.
Understand your goals, daily friction, existing systems, and readiness for AI.
Prioritize opportunities by value, effort, and readiness. Give your next move a reason.
Build the selected solution, test it in context, and prepare your team to use it.
WHAT YOU TAKE AWAY
A written plan for choosing where to start, what needs to be ready, and how to judge the first step.
We agree on the workflows covered, delivery date, review session, and fee before starting. Building the solution is scoped separately.
ILLUSTRATIVE ROADMAP EXCERPT
A fictional example of the level of detail—not a client result.
The online assessment starts the conversation. Your tailored roadmap follows a scoped engagement.
Discuss my roadmap03 / MEET YOUR STRATEGIST
People, purpose, and practical progress.
FONTONYA SMITH · FOUNDER
I help business owners think strategically, ask better questions, and turn AI possibilities into useful systems.
My work has always centered on helping people grow—as a business owner, leader, coach, and educator. I bring that experience to AI consulting, with clear explanations, thoughtful questions, and practical steps you can use.
I hold the AI Consultant Certification delivered by AI InnoVision. I bring a thoughtful, practical approach to implementation—so your technology supports your goals and your judgment.
View my certification Let’s talk about your businessFOR TEAMS, LEADERS & COMMUNITIES
Bring practical AI thinking to your next event or team session. Let’s shape a conversation around your audience and the decisions in front of them.
CONVERSATIONS WE CAN BRING TO YOUR AUDIENCE
01Practical AI for Better Business DecisionsA business session on choosing one useful AI workflow, reviewing its output, and planning a small pilot.02Build Your Own Strategic Thinking GPTA practical workshop on turning expertise into a focused AI thinking partner.03Practical AI for Business OwnersAn approachable introduction to where AI can fit in everyday business.A LITTLE MORE CLARITY
Your written roadmap describes the current workflow, compares opportunities, recommends a first project, and sets out a pilot and measurement plan. We agree on the workflows covered, delivery date, review session, and fee before starting. Implementation is scoped separately.
Yes. We can start with your business goals and the work you already do. You don’t need to know which tools to choose or arrive with a technical plan.
The online assessment is a short intake about your business, bottlenecks, and goals. After submitting, you receive general starting tips based on your selected priority and a downloadable copy of your answers. Your responses are saved for Fontonya to review. A tailored roadmap is scoped separately after a conversation.
We discuss one business challenge, the tools you use, and where AI may help. The aim is to clarify a useful next step and whether working together is a fit. A tailored roadmap, implementation, and any project fees are agreed separately.
An assessment helps establish the problem, priorities and readiness before a solution is built. If you already have a clear brief, share it through the inquiry form so we can discuss the right starting point.
Your existing systems are part of the assessment. We’ll look at what can be improved, connected or simplified, and confirm what is feasible before committing to an implementation.
Pricing depends on the scope, complexity and support needed. Share what you’re trying to accomplish, and we can discuss an appropriate engagement. Scope, fees and timing are agreed before work begins.
Absolutely. Choose Speaking Engagement or Training & Workshops in the inquiry form, and share your audience, preferred date, format and goals.
LET’S BUILD WITH INTENTION
Bring one business challenge to a 30-minute introductory call. We’ll discuss what’s slowing you down, the tools you use, and a practical next step.
YOUR 30-MINUTE CONVERSATION
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