Practical AI Consulting for Small Businesses in Cleveland
Sixth City AI: Right-Sized AI for Growing Companies
Practical AI Strategies for Small & Mid-Sized Businesses
Sixth City AI is a hands-on Artificial Intelligence (AI) advisory and implementation partner based in Cleveland. If you don't know where to start, we can explain it all and make planning for AI deployment in your organization simple and successful.
We’re built for small teams like yours—affordable, people-first, and grounded in Midwest practicality
What We Do
Sixth City AI turns AI buzz into practical wins for smaller businesses.
We begin with an AI readiness assessment, choose a target area to deploy AI, determine the right level of AI autonomy for your organization, ensure your processes are documented, help you connect with the right AI solutions tools or providers, prepare your people and culture, and then deploy. Next, we track metrics, tune models, and map steps to scale.
Deploy & Adopt
Next, we build and test small, useful AI tools that plug into your current systems. We guide your team through using them—step-by-step—with hands-on support and simple checklists.
Measure & Expand
We keep tabs on what’s working: looking at results, tuning models, and improving prompts. As confidence grows, we help you scale what works and explore where to go next.
AI Isn’t Just for Big Companies
Think AI’s only for tech giants? Not anymore. You don’t need a huge budget or fancy tools to start. With low-cost, flexible options out there, you can try something simple -- like helping your team reply to emails faster or catching invoice mistakes before they go out. No jargon, no big leap. Just one small win at a time, guided by someone who knows how to keep it simple.
Email buddy to an AI-powered team: You’re in control—but we recommend starting small, with something like a helpful AI buddy that earns its keep fast: writing emails and organizing notes you’d otherwise lose in the shuffle. Once you’re comfortable, let your admin try out a few more: one for reports, another for the calendar, maybe one that handles messy spreadsheets. You’ll grow your team without adding headcount -- and free up real people to do work that actually matters. The pace can be slow or faster, you decide.
Why waiting on AI could cost your small business big!
AI isn’t just for the big guys anymore. New research shows small businesses using AI can see productivity gains of 27%–133%. Those who delay often stall out on growth and struggle to keep talent. Even skipping a single budget cycle can leave you behind—and catching up gets harder each year. (Source: Enterprise Nation)
From Our Blog
I started Sixth City AI because I saw what happened when small teams put AI to work on everyday stuff -- they got more done without burning out. My goal is to help other business owners see that using AI isn’t complicated or risky. It’s just a smart way to grow, and it starts with one step.
