Remote-first, and honest about it
Plenty of agencies claim a US address and run the actual work offshore. We do the opposite: our team is based in New Delhi, we say so up front, and we serve US small businesses on terms that fit how you operate. You're billed in US dollars. We build on the tools you already run: HubSpot, Salesforce, Zendesk, Intercom, Slack. And we work a daily overlap window with US Eastern and Central hours, so you're never waiting overnight for an answer.
What you skip is the part of a local agency's rate that has nothing to do with your build: the office, the account managers, the weekly status meeting that exists to justify the retainer. The engineering is the same. The price isn't.
What we build for US small businesses
The AI that pays back for a small business is rarely the flashy kind. It's the repetitive, high-volume work that quietly eats hours: answering the same questions, triaging leads, moving data between systems. Three things cover most of it.
01 · AI chatbots
Chatbots that answer, not deflect.
A support or FAQ chatbot built on your own content, embedded on your site, and tuned so it sends the hard questions to a human instead of guessing.
AI chatbot development →02 · Lead-qualifying agents
Agents that qualify and book.
An agent that runs the qualifying conversation, scores intent against your criteria, pushes the lead to your CRM, and books the meeting, so no rep babysits the queue.
AI agent development →03 · AI consulting
A scope before you spend.
Fixed-scope advice on what to build, what to buy, and what to skip, so you walk into any build with a number you can defend instead of a vague enterprise quote.
AI consulting →What US small businesses actually pay
We bill a fixed price per project, not by the hour, so a slow week never lands on your invoice. For a US small business, a simple FAQ chatbot runs $3K–$15K, a lead-qualifying chatbot $15K–$40K, and a full agent that qualifies, routes, and books $30K–$80K. A fixed-scope consulting project lands between $5K and $50K.
Those are real ranges, not anchors. We've written the math out in full, so you can size your own build before you talk to anyone:
- What it costs to hire a chatbot developer →
US rates: $40–$200/hr freelance vs $15K–$40K fixed agency builds.
- AI chatbot development cost →
FAQ bot $3K–$15K, lead-qualifying $15K–$40K, full agent $30K–$80K.
- AI consulting cost →
$150–$500/hr, $5K–$50K per project, $3K–$15K/mo retainer.
Why remote-first works for a US small business
The worry with a remote team is always the same: will I lose time to the gap? In practice the gap is the smaller problem. We hold a fixed US-hours overlap for anything live, and write down every decision so nothing lives only in someone's memory of a call. Most US clients find that's tighter than the local agency they left, where progress moved at the speed of a weekly meeting.
The bigger difference is the money. A fixed-price build means you approve a number and a written set of acceptance criteria before any code is written. If we miss them, you're not the one who pays for the rework. That's the trade a US small business actually wants: not a handshake in a conference room, but a defined result for a defined price.
Not sure what to build first?
Start with the AI Profit Leak Audit. For $497, over 7 days, we map your operations, find the workflow where AI returns the most, and hand back a 30-page report with the build-or-buy call and the numbers behind it, before you commit to anything bigger.