STRATEGY. RESPONSIBILITY. TRANSFORMATION.
We help SMBs and leadership teams implement practical AI solutions that cut costs, automate workflows, and accelerate growth, without a large tech team or enterprise budget. Using our AI Advantage System™, we guide you from strategy to implementation and deliver measurable outcomes within 90 days.
We drive results by staying engaged through implementation.
Ronnie partners with CEOs and SMB teams as a strategic advisor and implementation partner. He helps organizations modernize workflows, deploy practical AI solutions, and unlock measurable ROI - often in less than 90 days. With 25+ years of cross-industry experience, Ronnie combines executive insight with technical execution to help non-technical teams adopt AI quickly and confidently.
"There will be two types of companies at the end of this decade: those that have integrated AI into their company and those that are out of business." - Peter Diamandis
Most struggle with AI not because the tools are complicated, but because they lack the time, resources, or technical staff to implement AI the right way. These are the four gaps we close for you.
The AI is never wired into real processes. It sits on the side while business carries on unaffected - no tasks automated, no time saved.
Teams chase flashy use cases (ads, emails) and ignore back-office gold mines: document flows, approvals, reporting, compliance, and ops.
Handing AI transformation to IT is the classic mistake. IT keeps systems alive; AI success requires rethinking how the business runs.
Pilots launch without clear success metrics. Without KPIs, projects drift into demo-land - great showcases, zero P&L impact.
A complete framework that helps organizations shift their mindset, redesign workflows, and implement AI with measurable ROI, typically within the first 90 days.
This system includes four core pillars:
Mindset, leadership activation, and cultural readiness.
Clarity, roadmapping, and ROI opportunity mapping.
Implementation, automation, and operational redesign.
Optimization, measurement, and multi-department expansion.
Every business feels the pressure of AI - but not every business knows how to channel it.
You don't need a large technical staff or big budgets. You need practical AI solutions, implemented quickly, with a partner who guides you every step of the way.
The models are capable; execution is the gap. Our AI Transformation Sprint connects strategy to hands-on implementation, ensuring your business sees measurable impact fast.
Faster reporting & documentation cycles
Productive hours returned annually
Average revenue increase post-deployment
"We replace AI hype with execution
- and experiments with ROI."
We partner with CEOs, founders, and leadership teams to design and implement AI strategies that produce measurable results across the entire business. Our work focuses on clarity, operational alignment, and responsible execution.
High-level coaching and support so leaders can make confident decisions about AI and steer transformation with clarity.
A comprehensive strategy engagement that defines the role AI will play in your business and how to get from vision to execution.
Ongoing guidance to move AI from idea to production, ensuring solutions are reliable, usable, and aligned with business outcomes.
Redesign core operations to remove bottlenecks, reduce costs, and increase speed using AI-driven workflows and automation.
Whether you're a CEO, SMB owner, or part of a 200-person organization, Ronnie guides leaders in aligning AI strategy with business goals, working alongside trusted specialists to ensure clarity, scalability, and real results.
SMBs see the biggest wins because AI removes the manual work that slows growth. Most clients see meaningful ROI within their first 90 days.
Automate lead qualification, personalize outreach, and build intelligent follow-up sequences that never sleep.
Model your top sales performers to create AI Virtual Clones that handle outreach, follow-up, and proposal generation at scale.
Free every team member from repetitive tasks; get back a full day each week to focus on growth and creativity.
Streamline scheduling, ticketing, and support workflows to provide faster, more consistent responses.
Use AI to review contracts, summarize terms, and surface compliance risks in seconds.
Create, repurpose, and distribute press releases, blogs, and campaign content at scale.
Ronnie Barnard is a strategic advisor to CEOs and SMB's, helping organizations engineer clarity, accountability, and measurable impact in an AI-accelerated world. With more than 25 years of experience across technology, transformation, and operational design, Ronnie has guided leaders on four continents through complex modernization efforts, ensuring every system serves purpose, governance, and growth.
Ronnie's work blends deep technical fluency with enterprise-level leadership. Before founding AI Today Consulting, he led transformation initiatives across banking, telecommunications, construction technology, logistics, optical/vision-care, and global operations. His proprietary umbrella framework, The AI Advantage System™, guides organizations through the mindset shift, strategic planning, workflow integration, and performance scaling required for AI success. Within this system, Ronnie developed The Clarity Chain™, a practical execution model used by executive teams to align decisions, reduce operational friction, and deliver measurable ROI from AI initiatives.
At the core of Ronnie's advisory philosophy is a simple idea:
AI only creates value when people, processes, and purpose are aligned with absolute clarity.
He helps leadership teams eliminate noise, design explainable systems, and accelerate execution - without risk, disruption, or unnecessary complexity.
Whether guiding a board through responsible AI adoption or helping a CEO re-architect their operating model for scale, Ronnie brings the same principles to every engagement: clarity, integrity, and precision in execution.
⚙ My mission is simple: to help leaders turn AI into a multiplier for human potential, not a replacement for it.
Ronnie Barnard - Founder & Principal, AI Strategist
As business owners and entrepreneurs, we've become so busy that we've drifted from what we truly should do - set vision, invent the future, and lead.
AI gives us that power back. By automating mundane tasks, AI frees people to become innovators, visionaries, and creators - so leaders can focus on strategy, customers, and growth.
If you're overwhelmed by AI options or unsure where to start, we'll help you pinpoint exactly what to automate first and how to implement it with confidence.
Quick answers to help you understand how we work and what to expect
Don't worry if you're not sure where to begin with your AI strategy- that's normal. Reach out and we'll help you find the first use case. If you already have one, share the KPI you want to move; if not, we'll run a quick readiness chat to surface 2 to 3 high-impact options and propose a simple plan.
An AI strategy consultant helps organizations find valuable AI opportunities, create a clear AI plan, and make sure every initiative supports business goals, operations, and returns on investment. At AI Today Consulting, we evaluate your systems, workflows, and data environment to see where AI can have the biggest effect. We assist leadership teams in prioritizing use cases, scoring readiness, designing governance, and planning execution. Our goal is to provide clarity, speed up decision-making, and ensure AI solutions are practical, responsible, and linked to measurable business results. This includes everything from mapping opportunities and redesigning workflows to helping teams confidently adopt, scale, and implement AI.
AI consulting improves operations by finding inefficiencies, automating repetitive tasks, and creating AI-enabled workflows that boost speed, accuracy, and scalability across the business. Through structured assessments, we identify bottlenecks in documentation, approvals, reporting, customer interactions, compliance, and processes between departments. Then, with The AI Advantage System™, we redesign those workflows using intelligent automation and clear success metrics.
This leads to:
A Fractional Chief AI Officer (CAIO) is a part-time executive who offers senior-level AI leadership without the expense or commitment of a full-time hire. According to our AI Advisor page, a Fractional CAIO helps organizations define their AI vision, evaluate AI tools and vendors, establish governance and risk controls, and manage key AI projects. This role is perfect for companies that need strategic AI advice, workflow redesign, and executive oversight while developing internal capabilities.
A Fractional CAIO collaborates directly with CEOs and leadership teams to:
Yes, AI can deliver meaningful results even if your data is messy or incomplete. AI Today Consulting, we begin by working with the data you already have. During our AI Readiness process, we assess your current systems, documents, and workflows to identify high-value use cases that don't require heavy data preparation. We also apply light, fast data improvements such as deduping, labeling, and PII scrubbing when needed. Many of the highest-ROI early wins come from unstructured documents, process automation, and workflow redesign. As your AI initiatives grow, we help you gradually improve data quality, governance, and structure in a practical, business-first way that supports long-term scalability.
Yes, AI Today Consulting provides AI training and AI team enablement as part of our AI consulting and AI strategy services. We help your team understand how to use AI effectively and efficiently in their day-to-day roles.
We're vendor-neutral. We select the right approach - RAG, fine-tuning, agent workflows - based on your data, risk, and budget.