AI Consulting Services in Swindon: How to Compare What You Are Offered
Every provider describes AI consulting a little differently. Here is a way to line them up so you are comparing like with like.
For AI consulting services in Wiltshire, compare what each provider will actually deliver, not what it calls itself. Dean Keating, based in Horndean, Hampshire, offers a done-for-you service: a free call, an audit of what to automate, a build and install, then training and support. He works with Wiltshire businesses remotely.
What the phrase covers
"AI consulting" can mean a report, a workshop, a pilot or a finished system. Some providers advise and leave. Others advise, build and stay. Neither is wrong, but the price and the result differ, so ask early which you are buying.
A comparison you can do in an evening
Pick two or three providers and put the same questions to each.
1. What do I have when the first stage ends? A document, a trained team, or something running?
2. Who builds it? The person you speak to, or someone you never meet?
3. Where does it live? In tools you already pay for, or a new platform?
4. What happens afterwards? Is support part of the deal?
5. How is it priced? In writing, before you commit.
We have set out several Wiltshire providers from their own websites in a separate list of AI consultants in Wiltshire. It is a list, not a ranking, and the same applies to anyone calling themselves one of the best AI consulting companies: there is no independent league table.
Dean Keating's service
He is an AI automation consultant, not a large consulting company. The work is done for you. He builds AI agents, installs them in the tools your business already uses, trains your staff and supports it afterwards. There are four steps: a free call, an audit of the work worth automating, the build and install, then training and support. He starts with the single task that would help most, and you leave the free call with a plan you can use with or without him.
There is no published price list. The cost is given after the free call, with no obligation. His website says it is not a course, not phone answering and not a chatbot product.
An example from the shelves
Think of a bakery or deli that supplies cafes and offices on account. Orders arrive by message, invoices are raised by hand, and late payers are chased when the owner remembers. This directory lists three shops, among them food retailers, and that account-customer pattern will be familiar to anyone who sells to other businesses. A consultant who audits the work would find the invoice and the reminder first, because they repeat every week. That is the kind of job his website lists: raising invoices and chasing late payments.
What to be wary of
A provider who cannot name the tools it will use, who will not say who does the building, or who gives no idea of cost until you have signed anything deserves another question or two.
Where he is
Horndean, Hampshire. The build and install are done remotely anywhere in the UK, and he has no office in Wiltshire. If you want to meet in person, say so at the start and weigh up Swindon-based providers as well.
Contact
Call or WhatsApp Dean Keating on 07418 627304, or email dean@deankeating.com. See the Dean Keating profile on Swindon.co. Websites: ai-agent.deankeating.com and deankeating.com.
About this guide
Swindon.co is published by Dean Keating, who also runs the service described here. He is based in Horndean, Hampshire, not in Swindon, and works with Swindon and Wiltshire businesses remotely. If you want someone in the room, say so on the first call and look at Swindon-based providers too. This guide recommends our own service, so compare it with other providers before you decide.
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