The definition, no frills
What an artificial intelligence consultancy does
An artificial intelligence consultancy analyses how a business works, identifies which processes can be carried out with AI, and designs and implements the systems that do it. The complete job has five parts:
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Assessment. Understanding how you really work today and what each process costs, in hours and in money.
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Solution design. Deciding what gets automated, what gets handed to agents, what gets integrated and what isn't worth touching yet.
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Build and integration. Building it and connecting it to the tools the business already uses.
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Team training. Making sure the people who'll be working with the system know how to use it from day one.
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Monthly service. Keeping it running and up to date when an API, a process or the underlying AI model changes.
Most consultancies deliver the first two: the assessment and the design. That's legitimate and can be worth a lot of money, but on the last day you go home with a document. We deliver all five, and that's why on the last day there's something up and running.
So what gets automated in practice? Almost always the same areas: invoicing and accounting (reading invoices, extracting data, getting it ready for the ERP), moving information between systems (from email to Excel, from Excel to the CRM), first-line customer service (sorting what comes in, answering the repetitive questions, escalating the rest), recurring reports, onboarding and offboarding customers, employees or suppliers, sales follow-up and document management. None of these processes gets automated just because it's on the list: it gets automated if, in your business, it happens a lot, follows rules that can be written down and works with information that's already in some system.
If you want to know more, we go into it in detail in this article: which business processes to automate.
Reinicia does all five because the last three are where most AI projects fall apart: a plan gets approved, nobody integrates it with the real tools, the team doesn't use it and three months later the business concludes that "AI wasn't for us".