
This lecture explains market focus, client problem, credibility assets, ethical claims, service boundary. Students apply the ideas to a realistic business decision, examine common failure modes, and complete a practical exercise they can use immediately.
This lecture explains process discovery, value potential, data readiness, risk assessment, priority matrix. Students apply the ideas to a realistic business decision, examine common failure modes, and complete a practical exercise they can use immediately.
This lecture explains deliverable design, engagement stages, scope control, pricing logic, success criteria. Students apply the ideas to a realistic business decision, examine common failure modes, and complete a practical exercise they can use immediately.
This lecture explains discovery conversation, proposal, stakeholder alignment, implementation cadence, proof of value. Students apply the ideas to a realistic business decision, examine common failure modes, and complete a practical exercise they can use immediately.
This lecture explains case evidence, thought leadership, renewals, delivery systems, growth roadmap. Students apply the ideas to a realistic business decision, examine common failure modes, and complete a practical exercise they can use immediately.
Qualify a costly workflow before proposing an AI solution. Apply selected original course narration to a fictional services firm, separating the buyer, observable problem and supporting evidence. Complete the Consulting Problem Qualification Canvas and Buyer Interview Evidence Log to prepare an evidence-backed discovery conversation.
Turn an opportunity audit into a bounded pilot recommendation. Compare value, readiness and risk without treating assumptions as measurements. Use the AI Opportunity Prioritization Board and Audit Evidence and Limits Register to explain why one opportunity proceeds and others wait.
Define what a client is buying before quoting. Distinguish the promised outcome, included work, dependencies and exclusions, then rehearse a request for another department. Complete the Consulting Scope Boundary Sheet and Change Request Decision Card to document the review and approval of changed work.
Make delivery economics visible before committing to a fee. Examine preparation, review cycles, data work and support assumptions in a fictional engagement. Use the Engagement Effort and Margin Worksheet and Pricing Assumption Review to test whether the delivery model supports the proposed quote.
Replace a polished demonstration with observable acceptance evidence. Agree the tasks, review criteria and client owner, then document limitations and support responsibilities. Complete the Pilot Acceptance Evidence Checklist and Client Handoff and Owner Map. This practice lesson applies selected original course narration to a new engagement case.
Evaluate whether delivery capacity supports another client. Compare current commitments, available expertise, quality review and ongoing support rather than assuming growth is automatically profitable. Use the Consulting Capacity Decision Ledger and Retention Review Conversation Guide to record a bounded next engagement and review point.
Use the hypothetical Apex Mobility case to connect customer need, distinctive value, capabilities and management systems. Compare competing directions, identify the trade-offs that make a position credible, and complete the strategic recommendation record. This workshop develops strategic diagnosis for client engagements; the industrial case is illustrative.
Diagnose rivalry, entry, substitutes, supplier power and buyer power before recommending growth. Apply the hypothetical Apex Mobility case to distinguish attractive opportunities from pressures that weaken returns, then complete the industry diagnosis workbook. Treat the analysis as a testable client hypothesis.
Separate a list of resources from evidence of competitive advantage. Apply value, rarity, imitation and organizational support to the hypothetical Apex Mobility case, distinguish current constraints from potential strengths, and complete the client capability audit for a real engagement.
Connect the customer problem, value proposition, revenue logic and activity system. Examine the hypothetical Apex Mobility case to test business-model coherence and scope decisions, then record the evidence, sacrifices and open questions in the business-model review workbook.
Translate strategic choices into priorities, owners, measures and learning routines. Use the hypothetical Apex Mobility case to distinguish execution evidence from activity, identify assumptions and review triggers, and complete the strategic delivery plan. The case is illustrative, not a claim of an implemented AI client result.
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
Build an AI Consulting Business: Offers and Delivery gives professionals a structured system to turn AI knowledge into a credible consulting offer with disciplined diagnosis, delivery, evidence, and client safeguards.
The course is designed for consultants, coaches, agency owners, executives, analysts, educators, and professionals launching an AI advisory practice. It moves beyond disconnected tips and tool demonstrations. Students learn how to define the business decision, organize evidence, design a practical workflow, evaluate quality, preserve human accountability, and connect activity to measurable results.
The continuing case follows an experienced business professional who understands AI tools but lacks a focused market, diagnostic method, clear offer, delivery process, and proof of value. Every lecture includes a management framework, application guidance, quality controls, and an assignment learners can use in an organization, client engagement, career, or business.
Dr. Law Payne combines doctoral-level leadership education with substantial entrepreneurial, marketing, and teaching experience. He holds a Doctor of Business Administration specializing in Organizational Leadership and Development, a master’s degree in Educational Psychology, a master’s degree in Business, and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Marketing. His professional experience includes nine-figure entrepreneurship, published work reaching more than one million copies, and growth leadership involving more than one billion dollars in managed sales.