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AI Business Consulting
Where your business meets what AI can do.
We help businesses find the common ground between what they need and what AI can do. We walk through your workflows, pinpoint the bottlenecks, and either build the fix or hand you a plan you can execute.
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About
Where AI actually pays off.
AI is here to stay, and at some point using it stops being optional and starts being the thing that keeps you ahead. Most small businesses don't have the time, budget, or technical background to figure that out alone, so that's where Common Ground comes in. Together, we walk through your business using the same AI agents and skills built for exactly this kind of work, and find what's actually costing you time or money. From there, we either build the fix or hand you something you can run with.
AI-assisted audits
We map your actual workflows and find exactly where AI can save you real time or money.
Technical depth
We know what's realistic to build for your business, backed by years of production software experience, including compliance-grade systems.
Hands-on implementation
Whether the fix is automating a manual process, building a dashboard or website, digging into your data, or cleaning up your SEO, we build and implement it for you.
3 Founding Spots · $2,500 Value, Free
The AI Leverage Audit.
A fixed-scope, two-week engagement that turns “we should probably use AI somewhere” into a ranked, ready-to-execute plan.
- A working session on your actual workflows, tools, and data
- A written roadmap ranking the 3 highest-leverage AI opportunities
- One opportunity scoped in enough detail that any developer, including us, could build it
- A 30-minute walkthrough call to go through it together, in plain language
What Happens Next
From booking a call to holding a roadmap.
No mystery about what happens after you book. Here's the exact timeline.
No cost to talk it through.
The Deliverable
What the roadmap looks like.
A real excerpt from an actual Audit, shown in the same format yours would follow.
Build analytics dashboards surfacing which posts actually drove growth
Set brand colors and visual guidelines based on what was working
Update thumbnails and SEO-analyze captions using the data
Opportunity #1, scoped
- Problem
- A growing TikTok creator had analytics data nobody was looking past the surface-level view count. No clear read on which posts, times, or formats actually worked.
- Approach & build
- Reviewed her analytics, identified the KPIs that mattered, and built dashboards surfacing what actually drove views, saves, and follows against what didn't.
- Outcome
- Followers grew from 569 to 702 (+23%), and 90-day video views from 1.33M to 1.58M (+19%), reversing the funnel softening the original audit had flagged.
Every Audit follows this same format.
Who We Help
For the owner with no one else to hand it off to.
We work one-on-one with small, under-resourced businesses first. Enterprise teams are welcome too.
Small & Under-Resourced
Buy back your time.
You're the owner, the ops person, and the one doing the books, all at once. We work one-on-one with owners like this to find where a few hours of AI-assisted work buys back a week of yours.
Content Creator
A growing TikTok creator handling her business herself. We reviewed her analytics, identified the KPIs that mattered, and used them to find her best posting times and improve her SEO. From there, we identified opportunities to improve components like her thumbnails, wrote branding guidelines, improved how she handles collaboration communications, and set a roadmap for monetization.
569 → 702 (+23%)
Followers gained since the audit.
1.33M → 1.58M (+19%)
90-day video views over the same window. Her view-to-profile and profile-to-follow rates both improved too, reversing the funnel softening the original audit had flagged.
Retail Business
A mom-and-pop retail store with years of sales and inventory data locked in paper notebooks. We turned it into dashboards, so instead of digging through notebooks, they can see what's working and plan the next move.
18 Years
of handwritten financial records turned into a dashboard surfacing trends they'd never been able to see.
Food Business
A meal-prep business scaling past what one person could track by hand. We're building out the backend now: margin calculators, branding, and a plan they can actually execute against.
Sound like your business? This is the fastest way to find out.
Beyond the Audit
Other ways to work together.
Already know what you need? These are the engagements the Audit usually leads to.
Workflow Automation & Agent Builds
Scoped agents and scripts that eliminate one specific manual task: data entry, lookups, report generation. Best for teams with a specific bottleneck costing time or money.
One MCP server replaced a 40–50 hour manual import process with a seconds-long lookup.
Dashboards & Reporting Tools
Turning scattered or raw data into a dashboard your team opens without being told to, built around the decisions you need to make. Best for teams sitting on data they don't have time to make sense of.
Built dashboards visualizing city planning data, with reusable components that cut integration time on future builds.
AI Mentorship & Training
Ongoing, hands-on mentorship that leaves your team using the tools long after the first session. Best for organizations building lasting AI fluency across their team.
Anthropic-certified in Teaching AI Fluency, with a ~30% average skill improvement across years of 1:1 instruction.
Tell us which one on the call, and we'll scope it from there.
Every engagement gets full attention. On purpose.
Joan Escamilla, Founder
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Conversation before contractWe talk first. You'll know if it's worth pursuing before anything's signed.
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Honest about fitIf we're not the right fit, we'll say so. Wrong-fit engagements waste your budget and our attention.
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Full attention, start to finishYou get the person who did the diagnosis, start to finish.
FAQ
Questions worth answering before you book.
What happens after the first 3 founding spots are filled?
The Audit becomes a paid engagement at $2,500, with the same guarantee attached, once the 3 founding spots are claimed or 30 days pass, whichever comes first. Everything else about the offer stays the same.
Is my data safe with you?
I spent three years as the subject-matter expert on a healthcare platform handling some of the most sensitive patient data there is. Whatever you share stays between us, and we're happy to sign an NDA before we start if that helps.
Do I need a technical team for this to work?
No. The Audit and the roadmap are written in plain language for a business owner. If a recommendation needs a developer to build, we'll say so, and we can be that developer if you want.
What if the Audit doesn't find anything worth pursuing?
If the Audit doesn't surface an opportunity worth more than it costs, you don't pay. That's the guarantee, and it holds whether you're one of the first 3 founding spots or booking after.
Get in touch
Book a call.
Pick a time that works. We'll talk through your business on the call, no form required first.
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