Altitude.
Data & AI consultancy · Small business focus

Practical data & AI that moves your business up.

Altitude helps small businesses make smarter decisions with their data, without hiring a data team, without enterprise-level complexity, and without waiting months to see results.

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30-minute callSenior delivery onlyFixed-fee or monthly retainer
§ 01 / The problem

AI is moving faster than most businesses can react. The ones who move now will pull ahead for years.

Small businesses don't need another tool or another trend report. They need a trusted partner to cut through the noise, pinpoint the two or three places AI can meaningfully grow revenue or save hours, and put it to work before the competition gets there first.

§ 02 / What we actually do

What a trusted AI partner actually does. Strategy, build, and everything between.

We help you find where AI moves the needle for your business, build it into the tools your team already uses, and keep it running, so you spend less time chasing trends and more time pulling ahead.

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Data Strategy

Before you build, you need a map. We assess your current data maturity, identify the highest-value opportunities, and create a pragmatic roadmap you can actually execute with your team and budget.

Data auditRoadmapBuy vs buildKPIs
What you get

Current-state data audit and gap analysis.

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AI Readiness & Use Cases

Most small businesses are closer to benefiting from AI than they think, but starting in the wrong place wastes time and money. We assess your data, tools, and workflows, then identify where AI actually fits your operation and build a simple proof of concept to validate it.

AI readinessUse casesPOCGovernance
What you get

AI readiness assessment (data, talent, tooling).

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Automation & Integrations

When you're a small team, manual work is expensive. Every hour spent on spreadsheets, copy-paste, and repetitive reporting is an hour not spent on the business. We identify the most costly workflows and replace them with custom automations that talk directly to the tools you already use.

Process auditCustom workflowsIntegrationsDoc extraction
What you get

Process mapping and automation opportunity audit.

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Analytics & Business Intelligence

Great dashboards answer questions before they're asked. We design and build custom analytics that plug directly into the tools you already run your business on, so your team gets one clean, reliable view of what's actually moving the numbers, not a pile of vanity metrics.

Custom dashboardsSelf-serve analyticsData modelingEnablement
What you get

Custom dashboards built around the decisions you actually make.

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§ 03 / How we work

Three steps. No surprises.

A simple, transparent process built around your outcomes, not billable hours. We keep it short and fixed-fee because ambiguity is where most consulting relationships go to die.

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Discovery & Assessment

It starts with a free 30-minute call. No pressure, no decks. From there, a structured 2–3 week fixed-cost engagement to deeply understand your business, data, tools, and workflows. It ends with concrete deliverables: a prioritized roadmap, a workflow assessment, and clear recommendations. Move forward with us into a build engagement, or take the deliverables and run with them yourself.

2–3 weeks · Fixed-price · Yours to keep
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Delivery & Enablement

Two-week sprints with weekly check-ins. We build alongside your team, document as we go, and hand over ownership at the end. No dependency created.

2-week sprints · Your team owns it
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Senior Partner

Optional ongoing partnership for businesses that want a senior data and AI operator on call. Roadmap evolution, vendor reviews, and build support. Priced monthly, cancel anytime.

Monthly retainer · Cancel anytime
§ 04 / Selected work

What 'shipped' actually looks like.

Small companies, specific problems, measurable outcomes. We measure success by what changes in your business: hours returned to your team, cleaner numbers to decide on, and day-to-day operations that stop getting in the way.

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Six disconnected tools collapsed into one platform: 10+ hours back every week and real-time visibility into every active job.

Residential Construction

A regional residential contractor was running Discovery, Design, Build, and Deliver across spreadsheets, email threads, and a patchwork of tools, with no shared source of truth and no reliable way to measure project health. We started with a data-maturity assessment and a prioritized roadmap, then built a serverless platform on AWS that manages the full lifecycle end-to-end: operational dashboards tied to real KPIs, AI-powered document review running in production, and purpose-built workflows for project managers, customers, and trade partners.

10+ hrs
saved per week
4 phases
lifecycle managed
< $30/mo
infrastructure cost
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§ 05 / About

Practitioners, for small businesses.

Senior delivery on every project. Built from a simple belief: small businesses deserve the same quality of data and AI thinking as large enterprises, without the complexity and cost that usually come with it.

Our background is enterprise data and AI consulting, helping organizations modernize platforms, design architecture, and unlock value from their data. Along the way we saw the same pattern: businesses sold solutions that looked impressive on paper but did little to solve the problems that actually mattered day to day.

You talk to a senior person, and that senior person does the work.

We started Altitude to take a different approach. We work to understand each client’s highest-leverage opportunities and deliver real value for their business. Our incentives are aligned with your performance: fixed-fee work tied to measurable outcomes, not hours billed. And when a project isn’t the right fit, we’ll say so before anyone signs anything.

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§ 06 / How we engage

Two ways to work together, both priced before we start.

No hourly invoices. Either a scoped fixed-fee project with a clear price up front, or a monthly retainer for ongoing advisory and build. The price is on the table before any significant work begins.

Option A

Fixed-Fee Project

A scoped build with a defined outcome. Clear price upfront, weekly demos, shipped in 4–10 weeks.

Option B

Monthly Retainer

A senior operator in your corner. Roadmap, vendor review, and ongoing build. Priced monthly.

§ 07 / FAQ

The questions we actually get asked.

Straight answers. If you've got one we haven't addressed, bring it to the call, or email altitudedigitalsolutions5@gmail.com.

We offer two models: fixed-fee projects and monthly retainers. Fixed-fee projects include a scoping phase so both sides are aligned before any significant investment: clear price upfront, weekly demos, typically shipped in 4–10 weeks. Monthly retainers suit ongoing advisory, vendor review, and iterative build, and are priced per month (no hourly billing). We are transparent about costs upfront. No surprise invoices. We also give you full visibility into infrastructure costs and take pride in building cost-efficient solutions that minimize ongoing IT overhead.

It depends on scope. A focused assessment takes 2–3 weeks. A BI dashboard project typically runs 3–6 weeks. A full data platform modernization is 8–16 weeks. AI use case proof-of-concepts are usually 4–8 weeks. We break everything into two-week sprints, so you see progress continuously.

Data security is built into how we work. We sign NDAs and data processing agreements before accessing any systems. We follow least-privilege access principles, work in your existing cloud environment where possible, and never retain client data after an engagement ends. We are familiar with SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR requirements and can work within regulated environments.

We build custom cloud-native solutions that plug directly into the tools you already run your business on: spreadsheets, QuickBooks, HubSpot, Shopify, your CRM, and anything with a modern API. The advantage for you is that you're not locked into a vendor's way of working and you're not paying monthly for features you don't use. We focus on what fits your operation and budget, not what we have a partnership with.

We work with small businesses, typically 1 to 50 employees. That might be an owner-operated company, a lean management team, or a growing business without a dedicated data or IT function. This is where practical data and AI investments tend to have the biggest impact relative to their cost, because there is often a lot of untapped value hiding in existing tools and workflows.

§ 08 / Book a call

A 30-minute call.
No decks. No pressure.

If we're a fit, we'll tell you what we'd do and what it costs. If we're not, we'll point you at someone better suited. That's the whole thing.

What to expect
  • Real questions about your business, not a demo.
  • Honest read on whether we can help.
  • A one-page follow-up with our take, within 48 hrs.
  • Zero commitment. Seriously.
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