AI Consulting Services for Small Businesses: How to Compare Providers Across Hampshire
Consulting can mean a report, a workshop or working software. Before you hire anyone, find out which one you are buying.
Dean Keating of Horndean, Hampshire, provides AI consulting services to small businesses across Hampshire, including Emsworth. He is one consultant, not a consulting company. He audits the work worth automating, builds the AI agents, installs them and trains your team. Phone or WhatsApp 07418 627304.
Three things "consulting" can mean
Some consulting ends in a document: findings, a roadmap, a list of tools. Some ends in a workshop for your staff. Some ends in something working. Ask which one is in the quote before you compare prices, because the three are not the same product.
Where this service sits
Dean Keating's service is the third kind. His website describes 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. The cost is given after that call; there is no published price list. He is a single consultant, not a company or a large practice with departments, which suits a small business and may not suit a large one.
Picture a dental practice
The directory lists two dentists (counted 10 October 2026). Picture a small practice. The people at the front are with patients, so messages wait. The jobs on his website include replying to new enquiries, sending updates, confirmations and reminders, and escalating to a person. That last one matters here: anything that needs a person's judgement is passed to one, not answered by software. Whether any of this is right for a practice is a conversation to have first, and he starts with a free call.
Comparing consulting companies
Whoever you speak to, ask:
1. What exactly will exist at the end that does not exist today?
2. Is it built inside the tools I already use?
3. Who trains my staff, and for how long does support continue?
4. What do I keep if we stop working together?
5. Will you say when AI is not worth it for a job?
Where he works
Based in Horndean, Hampshire, he does the build and install remotely, and his website says he can visit businesses in Hampshire or nearby in person. He has no rated Google business listing, so there are no reviews to quote here. Because he publishes this site, get at least one other view.
Related reading: AI agency or one consultant and practical implementation help. The directory's AI consultants page holds his profile.
Contact
Call or WhatsApp Dean Keating on 07418 627304, or email dean@deankeating.com. See the Dean Keating profile on Emsworth.co. Websites: ai-agent.deankeating.com and deankeating.com.
About this guide
Emsworth.co is published by Dean Keating, who also runs the service described here. He is based in Horndean, Hampshire, the same county as Emsworth, and sets everything up remotely. His website says he can visit businesses in Hampshire or nearby in person. This guide recommends our own service, so compare it with other providers before you decide.
From the publisher of Emsworth.co
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