AI Consultant in Chicago

Working software that removes a manual job from your week. Here's what most engagements look like:

• Lead intake and qualification

  A new lead hits your web form, inbox, or phone. The agent enriches it, scores it against your ideal customer, writes the CRM record, and drafts the first reply. Whole thing takes minutes.

• CRM and pipeline automation

  HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, GoHighLevel. Deals move, notes get logged, follow-ups get scheduled, stale records get flagged. Nobody on your team has to babysit the CRM.

• Inbox and follow-up automation

  Email triage, drafted replies in your voice, reminders that fire when a thread goes quiet. Your team reviews and sends instead of writing from scratch.

• Proposals, quotes, and contracts

  From a call transcript or a form to a finished proposal in your template. Pricing rules, scope language, and e-signature handled.

• Document and data processing

  Invoices, applications, intake packets, insurance forms, PDFs from clients. Read, extracted, checked, and pushed into the systems you already run.

• Client onboarding and scheduling

  Document collection, reminders, calendar booking, kickoff prep. One client cut onboarding time by 3x.

• Customer support agents

  Chat, email, and phone agents that answer from your own knowledge base and hand off to a human with full context when they should.

• Bookkeeping and back-office

  Invoice matching, AR reminders, expense categorization, payroll prep. Wired into QuickBooks or Xero, with a person approving the money moves.

• Reporting and KPI agents

  Weekly numbers pulled from your tools, summarized, and sent to the people who need them. Dashboards that update themselves.

• Internal knowledge assistant

  A company brain over your SOPs, Drive, Notion, and past projects. New hires ask it instead of interrupting the one person who knows.

• Content and marketing engine

  Repurposing, drafts, scheduling, and reporting for the channels you actually post on. Reviewed by a human before anything goes out.

• Multi-agent operations

  A coordinated set of agents that runs a whole function, with one person approving the big calls from a single dashboard.

A system nobody uses is a wasted sprint. Most companies this size have no one whose job it is to own AI, so we do the enablement work too: the plan, the training, the skills and folders your team runs on, and the rules that keep data where it belongs.

• AI integration plan for your org

  We audit the workflows across sales, ops, support, and finance, rank them by hours saved and revenue touched, and hand you a 90-day plan with the first three builds sequenced.

• Hands-on team training by role

  Half-day workshops where your sales team, ops team, or support team use ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini on their own real tasks. They leave with working setups, not slides.

• Custom skills, folders, and knowledge bases

  Reusable skills, prompts, project folders, and shared knowledge bases (Claude Projects, custom GPTs, Claude Code skills) so everyone gets consistent output from the same tools.

• SOPs turned into agent-runnable procedures

  Your existing checklists and process docs rewritten so an agent can execute them and a person can audit them.

• AI policy, data rules, and guardrails

  Which data can go where, who approves what, scoped access per tool, and which vendors to trust. A one-page policy your team will actually follow.

• Tool selection and stack setup

  Which AI subscriptions to keep, which to cancel, and how they connect to Google Workspace or Microsoft 365. Most companies are paying for three tools and using one.

• Leadership briefing

  Ninety minutes for owners and managers on what AI can do in your business right now, what it cannot, and what it costs. Straight answers.

• Fractional AI lead

  Monthly retainer: office hours, new automations, monitoring the ones already running, and a standing seat in your ops meeting.

Any business where the owner or an ops lead is still doing repetitive work by hand, from solo founders to established teams. Professional services firms (law, accounting, insurance brokerages), marketing and creative agencies, real estate teams, logistics and trades operators, healthcare administration, and e-commerce operations.

If one workflow eats five or more hours a week, automating it pays for itself fast. If nothing does, we'll tell you on the call.

1. 01

   Strategy call (free)

   Thirty minutes. We find the one workflow costing you the most time or money right now and tell you whether it is worth automating. If it isn't, we say so.

2. 02

   AI Ops Sprint (10 business days)

   We design, build, and deploy the system inside your accounts. Fixed quote before anything starts. What you get at the end is running software.

3. 03

   Ongoing partnership (optional)

   Most clients keep us on to monitor the system, fix what breaks, and add the next automation as the business changes.

The person you talk to on the strategy call is the person who builds and deploys your system. Neeraj Chemburkar spent 11 years shipping financial technology at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Capital One, Discover, and NextCapital (Series B startup) before starting AlphaFlow. That background means production-grade builds, scoped access, and documentation your team can actually use.

Every build runs on current agent tooling: Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini, wired into the tools you already run. Your CRM, email, calendar, spreadsheets, and accounting software. Nobody on your team has to learn a new platform.

Home base is the West Loop. In-person sessions are available across the city and near suburbs, including West Loop, The Loop, River North, Fulton Market, Lincoln Park, Wicker Park, Evanston, Oak Park, Naperville, Schaumburg, Northbrook. Most build work happens remotely, and we work with clients across the US and Canada.

Is AlphaFlow a Chicago-based AI consultant?

Yes. AlphaFlow Consulting is based in the West Loop in Chicago, Illinois, and is led by founder Neeraj Chemburkar. We serve businesses across Chicagoland and work remotely with clients across the US and Canada.

Do you meet clients in person in Chicago?

Yes. In-person kickoffs and working sessions are available anywhere in Chicago and the near suburbs. Most of the build work happens remotely because that is faster for everyone.

How much does an AI consultant in Chicago cost?

It depends on scope. A single automation for a five-person shop and an agent system plus team training for a 150-person operation are very different builds. Every engagement starts with a free strategy call and you get a fixed quote before any work begins.

How long does it take to get an AI agent live?

Ten business days from the end of the strategy call to a deployed, documented system. That's the standard AI Ops Sprint.

What kinds of Chicago businesses do you work with?

Solo founders through mid-size companies: professional services firms (law, accounting, insurance), agencies, real estate teams, logistics operators, healthcare administration, and e-commerce operations. If one workflow eats five or more hours a week, it usually pays for itself.

What is the difference between an AI consultant and an AI agency?

An agency sells you a team and a discovery phase. At AlphaFlow the person on the strategy call is the person who builds and deploys the system. There's nobody in between.

Do you work with businesses outside Chicago?

Yes. Chicago is home base, but engagements are fully remote by default and we work with businesses across the United States and Canada. Anywhere with a video call and a shared login works.