If you run a $1-10M revenue small business in New York and you keep hearing "use AI" but don't know who to hire for it, this post is for you. I'm a Fractional AI Officer based in Brooklyn. Here is exactly what the local engagement looks like.
Most AI consulting happens over Zoom. I do too, most of the time. But for NYC businesses, a couple of things make local useful:
I come to your location if possible. Walk through the operation. Talk to whoever's doing the manual work. Look at what breaks when volume spikes.
End of week 2: you get a written audit with 3-5 specific automations ranked by ROI. Each one includes: estimated hours saved per week, estimated cost to deploy, estimated cost to run monthly. No frameworks. No fluff. Just the numbers.
We pick one or two automations from the audit. I build them. Deploy them. Train whoever will live with them daily. Hand over the code, access, monitoring.
Typical first-sprint targets:
After the sprint, you can keep me on retainer to maintain the systems, build new ones, or just to be the person who fixes things when they break. Most of my clients do this for 6-12 months post-sprint.
For businesses that want the whole operator-layer stack: voice, outreach, customer service, P&L, social content, ad watchdog, all deployed together. 4-8 week build. Same stack that runs my own five businesses.
One of the businesses in my portfolio is a Ukrainian paint distributor with a brick-and-mortar location in Brooklyn. Everything I've learned about in-store AI (inventory, customer re-engagement, foot traffic analytics) was built and tested there first. I know what works.
Our photo-mosaic business Mozabrik has 700+ verified Amazon reviews at 4.6 stars with zero customer service headcount. AI handles the entire customer-facing layer. If you're a $1-10M Amazon or multi-channel seller in NYC, this is my most dialed-in playbook.
OD Granite imports Ukrainian stone into US commercial construction. The voice agent cold-calls 100-200 contractors a day. If you run a small distribution or wholesale operation in NYC, same playbook works.
I've built automated intake, conflict-check, and document-triage systems for service businesses. Compliance-sensitive work is where a lot of generic AI consultants fail. I keep humans in the loop where the regulators require it.
Book a 30-minute call via calendly.com/negodiuk/audit. No prep needed. I'll ask you 5 questions about your operation and tell you straight up whether there's a fit. If yes, we'll schedule the audit. If no, I'll tell you who to look at instead.
If you prefer in person and you're in Brooklyn or Manhattan, I can meet Thursday or Friday afternoons. Propose a coffee spot.
NYC small business owner? Book a 30-min AI audit call.
I'll tell you exactly which workflows to automate first and which ones to leave alone.