I wanted to address some of the most frequently asked questions I've been getting about our program, The AI Consultancy Project.
Whether you’re new to AI, consulting, or a seasoned pro at either, I've got answers for you on how it can use it to start and grow an AI consultancy that gives you more freedom and flexibility, not less of it.
Q: What is The AI Consultancy Project?
The AI Consultancy Project is IWAI’s comprehensive 6-month program to help you build a 1-person AI Consultancy, capable of making $250K in annual profit.
Live training, coaching, implementation tools, and 1-on-1 support will be available from me, and my team – we're all teachers and doers that love this stuff, so we've got your back.
Q: Who are you?
Rob here 🙋🏻♂️.
You may know me as the founder of Innovating with AI, a training and education company I created to provide relevant, credible, timely, and “non-hype” help to fellow executives and entrepreneurs who want to harness the power of AI.
What you might not know:
I went from $50K/year as a solo freelancer to a $2M/year service business. My approach? Designing businesses that create more freedom, not less.
This philosophy and practice allows me—and anyone who works at my two companies—to enjoy more of what matters in life, whether that’s volunteering at school in the middle of the day, walking dogs whenever, taking guilt-free vacations, or working on meaningful projects.
I’ve shared my strategies at events like Freelance Business Week in Denver, CO. I’ve also privately mentored multiple 6-figure consultancies. Whether in-person or on a Zoom call, I’m committed to sharing the best of what I know.
As a direct result of my mentorship, multiple consultants have already created their own 6-figure freedom businesses. For some, freedom meant walking kids to school every morning. While for others, it’s meant traveling the world for 4+ years, exploring new countries to work remotely from.
Now, with the AI Consultancy Project, I’m inspired to help many more, but specifically with an AI-focus. With over 300+ students inside, we're creating remarkable results like replacing full-time incomes in as little as 4 months, signing first-time $10K contracts, and much more.
To help you create your fun and fulfilling consultancy, I’ll be blending my 20+ years of expertise as an entrepreneur, mentor to consultants, “freedom business” tools, lifestyle philosophy, and the technical side of AI -- all to give you the maximum leverage, flexibility, and career innovation.
In a world that tells you to shrink your dreams, I’m here to say - dream bigger and do the work to make them a reality.
No hype train over here.
Just decades of what’s worked, applied in a whole new way, for you to have the best of both worlds -- your very own 1-person AI consultancy so you can live more of the life you want.
If you have seen it, then you’ll appreciate going a bit deeper.
Just as it is with our AI Incubator program, there are 3 choices you’ll need to make:
Choice 1: Commitment
Results come from consistent action toward a goal. Action requires motivation. Consistency requires follow-through. Act and follow-through – necessary for success in business and life.
Choice 2: Clarity
Rather than spending days, weeks, months or even years searching, clicking, and “Frankensteining” all the pieces together that are required for success – sometimes it’s just more efficient to follow an ‘always-up-to-date’ roadmap, or path to get from Point A to Point B.
That’s what every program at Innovating with AI provides: a step-by-step way to get where you need to go without info overload.
Choice 3: Confidence Courage
Confidence comes from evidence of successfully doing something.
If you haven’t built a 1-person AI consultancy in 6 months before, then it’s perfectly natural to have excitement, maybe even mixed with a bit of fear.
Yes, you’ll have world-class support and incredible guarantees that we provide on all our products and programs to help you get it done, but I wanted to be upfront about the natural fear many of us experience in new endeavors.
We’ve created, tested, and continuously test our process so we know it’ll deliver, but I’ve got to be upfront about this part:
Use courage to create confidence.
Q: How is this different from other things I’ve tried?
Other things like: buying 56 different courses, 37 podcasts, 99 “must attend” webinars that turn out to be sales pitches.
There’s an entire sea of “overnight AI expert advice” to drown in, with quite a few promising you the moon, stars, and a box of puppies.
Here at Innovating with AI, we do things a lotta bit different.
Case in point:
I share what I’ve actually done myself. I’ll also share what I’ve trained, coached, consulted, and mentored others to do.
It’s not theoretical.
I’ll show you exactly what’s worked, and then, go one step further - I’ll show you how to make it your own, because your situation is unique.
Personally I don’t like a bunch of sales pitches, and that’s why this program is invitation-only. Heck, you’ve been reading a lot and haven’t even seen a hyperlink to enroll yet. That’s because I believe in you making an informed decision - that way, you’ll hit the ground running. My focus isn’t for you to enroll - my explicit focus is to see you actually cross the finish line.
That’s because my goal is for you to create something that endures - I know I don’t need to say this but I’ll say it anyway. This isn’t some “get rich quick” thing. It’s about building an actual business that serves not just your clients, but you.
Q: Who is this for?
This is for those who want to:
(1) Build a 1-person AI consultancy (2) Add AI consulting as a new line of business to an existing practice or business entity.
The model can work whether your primary source of income right now comes from:
A full-time role as an employee in someone’s organization
Solo “indie” consulting/freelancing
Leader of a team or business you created
This will show you how to start or restart in an ultra-lean (read: more profitable, more time, more energy) way. Then, establish marketing and sales. Then, establish systems for repeatability and give direction on how to go beyond that.
Finally, for very advanced cases - where you’ve got special considerations like HIPAA compliance, or very privacy sensitive information - there are levels of support that allow for private time with myself and my team, to not just advise, but to also just get some stuff done (like actual coding).
Live and recorded training is available. So is coaching. Tools. Much more more.
I’ve thought of everything you need to succeed, and for everything else, I’ll be listening closely to your feedback to build that in as well.
Q: What’s the next step?
Like I mentioned above, we’ll be opening enrollment in a few weeks.
(1) We get to know each other a bit better (2) Prepare to have an unfair advantage over everyone else.
How? By using the free material I'll be sharing over the coming weeks, which will be better than paid material that's out there.
I have a lot to say, and so expect more frequent emails. That said, I want you to read 'at your own pace' because as they say in martial arts, slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.
Q: Why Am I Doing This?
Simple – this way, if you decide to invest in our program, you’ll already know how committed we are to helping and you'll already be prepared to hit the ground running 😎.
To Your Consultancy,
– Rob Howard
Founder of Innovating with AI Creator of The AI Consultancy Project Amateur wild deer and chicken photographer
PS - If you’ve got questions, then I want you to have answers. Reply to this email or text / WhatsApp me (rob@innovatingwithai.com / 720-900-1030). I guarantee that any reply you will be coming from me - not a bot (AI-powered or otherwise).
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