AI business consultant
An AI consultant who builds it with you
Michal Juhas is an AI business consultant based in Bratislava, Slovakia. He helps leadership teams work out which processes are worth automating, picks a stack that fits their constraints, and builds the systems with their people — delivering 30+ AI projects in the last year for companies including SEC Technologies, Wincent, 26HOUSE.
Twenty years in IT, former startup CTO, and the author of three AI products running in production. Engagements delivered in Slovak and English, on-site across Central Europe or remotely.
What does an AI business consultant actually do?
The real gap in most companies is not tools. It is knowing what to automate, which stack fits the constraints you already have, and how to change the way work gets done so the change survives contact with a busy Monday.
Typical work in an engagement:
- Spotting automation opportunities across admin, IT, operations and product
- Choosing and combining tools that fit your budget, vendors and security posture
- Designing rollouts that people will actually follow
- Integrating new technology so it sticks with your existing stack
FOUR WAYS TO APPROACH AI. THREE DON'T WORK.
Do nothing
Wait until it matures
- The team uses ChatGPT from personal accounts and nobody has oversight
- Competitors pull slightly further ahead every month
- No measurable result, and no data on what would have worked
DIY
Give it to a capable junior
- Cheap, and occasionally it works
- Hours lost working out which of the advice online is even true
- No prioritisation — twenty things started, none finished
Big 4
Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG
- A brand your board already recognises
- €30–80k and six months, often staffed with juniors
- You end up with an 80-page strategy you still have to implement yourself
This
A consultant who implements
- Led by someone who works with AI daily and ships software with agents
- Deployments built on your processes, not a strategy deck
- A follow-up four weeks later so the work actually lands
Why an AI consultant should also be a builder
Most AI consulting is delivered by people who have read about agents. I build and commercially operate three of them: Calyflow for autonomous recruiting, Coconector for B2B sales outreach, and Sellerita for B2C sales — used by companies across the EU and the US.
That matters more than it sounds. The problems that decide whether an AI project survives contact with production — verification instead of guessing, deduplication, cost control, knowing when an agent should stop and ask a human — only surface when you run these systems commercially and carry the consequences. See what I build.
When leaders bring me in
- They want a clear picture of what is genuinely possible with AI
- They need to cut cost and drag out of admin or IT
- They feel stuck with vendors or legacy systems
- They want to ship new products and MVPs faster
The engagement model is deliberately embedded rather than advisory: focused blocks of time, clear outcomes, and practical implementation alongside your own team. Typically one to three days a week with a three-month minimum, working directly with founders or the leadership team.
COMMON QUESTIONS
What does an AI business consultant actually do?
A useful one does three things: works out which of your processes are worth automating, chooses a stack that fits your constraints and vendors, and gets the result into daily use. The failure mode of the category is stopping after the first one and delivering a strategy document nobody implements.
When should a company hire an AI consultant?
When leadership wants a clear picture of what is genuinely possible, when admin or IT costs are dragging, when you are stuck with legacy systems or vendors, or when you want to ship new products faster. If your only goal is training a team on ChatGPT basics, a workshop is cheaper and enough.
How much does an AI consultant cost?
Fractional advisory engagements typically run €3,000–€10,000 per month depending on scope, usually one to three days a week with a three-month minimum. A single workshop is far less. For comparison, a Big 4 AI strategy engagement is commonly €30,000–€80,000 over six months and ends with a document rather than a deployment.
What is the difference between an AI consultant and an AI trainer?
A trainer changes what your people can do. A consultant changes what your company does. In practice the two overlap: most engagements start with a workshop to build shared understanding, then move into building the systems.
Where is Michal Juhas based and where does he work?
Bratislava, Slovakia. On-site across Slovakia, Czechia, Poland and Austria, and remotely worldwide. Engagements are delivered in Slovak or English.
What makes this different from a large consultancy?
Three things: the person in the room is the person doing the work, the output is deployments on your own processes rather than illustrative examples, and there is a follow-up about four weeks later to make sure it actually stuck.
Let's sanity-check your priorities
A short call to work out which of your processes are worth automating first — and whether bringing me in is the right move at all.
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