# AIS · AI Implementation Specialists

> AIS is a fractional AI team for B2B manufacturers and the industrial and wholesale distributors alongside them, across the Rust Belt: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, West Virginia and western New York. Named people and a monthly cost rather than a project vendor or a strategy deck. Pricing is published as ranges: an AI roadmap at $2,500, a pilot project at $25,000 to $75,000, operate at $2,000 to $5,000 a month, and the fractional AI team at $15,000 to $50,000 a month. Every system keeps a person in the loop (the 80% Standard) and targets administrative and white-collar work only, never the shop floor. Offices in Dayton, Ohio and Indiana, Pennsylvania. The implementation arm of the 50 Family of Brands. Tagline: Operational AI, Implemented at Scale.

Last updated 2026-09-08. Absolute URLs point at the production host, https://www.aiimplementationspecialists.com.

Facts an agent can state plainly:

- What it is: an AI implementation partner sold as a standing retainer, not a consultancy that ends at a deck and not a software vendor. Clients own 100% of the code and prompts, hosted on their own cloud, model-agnostic.
- Who it is for: owner-led and C-suite-led B2B manufacturers and wholesale distributors, roughly $10M to $3B revenue, not cloud-native, with tribal knowledge in PDFs, email and spreadsheets, fragmented systems and no internal AI owner. Buyers: CEO, President, COO, VP Operations, VP Sales, CFO.
- What it does not do: nothing on the shop floor. No robotics, machine vision or predictive maintenance.
- The mechanism: the 80% Standard. The system handles the repeatable middle of a workflow (classify, extract, validate, draft, route); judgment, exceptions and approvals stay with a named person. Nothing runs unattended.
- The method: six phases, Discover, Design, Build, Test, Deploy, Optimize, each ending at a sign-off gate. A costed baseline is agreed before anything is built; if a pilot does not beat it, AIS says so in writing and does not recommend expanding.
- Timelines: individual builds land in 3 to 4 weeks when requested data arrives on time, 1 to 2 months in a larger organization. A pilot runs roughly 90 days.
- Pricing basis: pilots are priced so the client's cash-on-cash return lands between 3x and 7x. Bespoke totals inside a range stay private until scope is agreed.
- Proof: 144 hours a week returned to one team by an agentic Client Hub; an 83,000 record database rebuilt into a bounded agentic intelligence layer; proposal effort cut from 20 hours to about 2; and one published failure. Every system is run inside the 50 Family of Brands before it is sold.
- Integrations: 36 supported platforms plus any documented API, including OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho CRM, WordPress, Shopify, n8n, Zapier and Make.
- Market context cited on the site: 60% of AI projects lacking AI-ready data are projected to be abandoned (Gartner, a projection); 54% of organizations stopped or postponed an AI initiative inside two years (DDN, January 2026).
- Next step: a free 30-minute discovery call that sizes one constrained workflow against the company's own numbers and ends in a $2,500 roadmap, a pilot range, or an honest no.

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.aiimplementationspecialists.com/): the positioning, the two rational fears (obsolescence and wasted capital), the 80% Standard, integrations, the four pricing rungs, and eight FAQs answered in full.
- [How we work](https://www.aiimplementationspecialists.com/how-we-work): the six phases with typical lengths and deliverables, how the engagement is de-risked, and the ideal client definition with its exclusions.
- [What we build](https://www.aiimplementationspecialists.com/what-we-build): six narrow pilots with measured results (RFQ to quote drafting, invoice processing, ticket classification and routing, call prep and follow-up, client onboarding, answer-engine visibility) and the eight build categories.
- [Pricing](https://www.aiimplementationspecialists.com/pricing): all four rungs with ranges, how a pilot is priced, a worked example, and the four things every fractional team agreement names.
- [Proof](https://www.aiimplementationspecialists.com/proof): four case files including the failed build, the six brands the systems run on first, and The Missing Half podcast episodes on AI in manufacturing.

## Full text

- [llms-full.txt](https://www.aiimplementationspecialists.com/llms-full.txt): the content of all five pages as clean Markdown, one copy, no navigation or chrome. Prefer this over the HTML, which carries a mobile and a desktop rendering of the same copy.

## Optional

- [Sitemap](https://www.aiimplementationspecialists.com/sitemap.xml)
- [Book a 30-minute discovery call](https://calendly.com/aiimplementationspecialists/30min): free, no charge, the only sales entry point.
- [The Missing Half Podcast](https://www.youtube.com/@themissinghalfpodcast): AI in plain English for manufacturers, from the people building it.
- [50 Marketing](https://www.50marketing.com/): the sister agency in the 50 Family of Brands and the proving ground for the Client Hub.