Practical AI.Written scope.
Meridian Loop Advisory helps small and mid-size businesses decide where AI and automation are worth using. It publishes the scope and the price of every service and sells no software of its own.
- Location
- Columbus, Ohio
- Email the firm
- Weekday hours
- 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
- Services published
- Six, with scope and price
01 · Services
Six priced services
Each service is published with its scope, its price and the kind of business it suits. Nothing on this website completes a booking.
01.1 · Priced index
- 01AI readiness review$1,200
- 02Workflow automation sprintfrom $4,800
- 03Strategy decision session$450
- 04Data and reporting cleanupfrom $2,600
- 05AI use policy workshop$1,800
- 06Fractional operations advisoryfrom $3,200/mo
02 · Approach
The scope is agreed in writing before the work starts, and the price follows the scope.
Meridian Loop Advisory works to a stated scope rather than an open-ended retainer. A published figure applies to the scope printed beside it; anything outside that is quoted before it begins, so the number on the invoice is the number that was agreed. How the firm works.
02.1 · Three steps
From the first question to finished work
-
01
The question is written
The business describes the process or the decision in writing, and the published service it falls under is named.
Before anything is charged
-
02
The price follows the scope
The figure published beside that scope is confirmed in writing. Anything outside it is quoted separately before it starts.
Within one working day
-
03
The work is handed over documented
Finished work comes back with a written record of what was found, what was changed and how the business’s own staff maintain it.
The agreed date
02.2 · What one engagement contains
- 01 Scope
- A written statement of what the service covers, what it excludes and which published price applies to it.
- 02 Inputs
- The process descriptions, tool list and sample data needed, listed once at the start. Nothing further is requested unless the scope changes and is requoted.
- 03 Handoff
- The finished recommendation or build, the documentation behind it and a named owner for each part of it.
- 04 Next step
- One named action and the date it falls due. Where no further work is needed, the record says so instead.
03 · Gallery
Rooms and working sessions
04 · Staff
The two who lead the work
04.1 · Principal consultant
Marcus Ellery
Principal consultant
Marcus Ellery leads AI readiness reviews and strategy decision sessions. He spent twelve years running operations at regional logistics and home-health companies, and writes every recommendation so that a non-technical owner can act on it.
04.2 · Automation lead
Priya Raman
Automation lead
Priya Raman leads workflow automation sprints. She previously built integrations for a Columbus software consultancy, and documents every automated step so that the client’s own staff can maintain it after handover.
05 · Reviews
What three clients wrote
01
We came in convinced that a chatbot would clear our tenant email backlog. Marcus Ellery spent the first week reading a sample of three hundred messages with us and showed that most of them were the same four questions about maintenance visits. The written review put a shared reply library and a better request form first, and a chatbot trial only if volume stayed high after a quarter. It was not the answer I expected, and the figure on the invoice matched the one on the website.
Hannah B.
- Service
- AI readiness review
- Written
02
Priya Raman automated the route from our web shop into invoicing and delivery scheduling, using software we already paid for. No new subscription was added. What made the difference was the handover guide: every automated step is written down with what triggers it, what it touches and who owns it. Two months later one step stopped after a vendor update, and our office manager fixed it from the guide without needing to call anyone.
Luis O.
- Service
- Workflow automation sprint
- Written
03
I booked the decision session to settle one question: hire a second scheduler or pay for scheduling software. The preparation list asked for five numbers, and the session itself stayed on that single question. The summary arrived two days later with both options costed over a year and a note on what would change the answer. We hired the scheduler. Nobody tried to sell me the software, or anything else.
Grace T.
- Service
- Strategy decision session
- Written
06 · Questions
Common questions
06.1 · Answers
01 Which service should a business start with?
Most businesses start with the AI readiness review or a single strategy decision session. The review suits a business with several ideas and no clear order to take them in; the session suits one specific question that needs an outside view. Each description on the Services page states what the service covers and what it leaves out, and where two still look equally suitable, the contact form can name both and the firm will say which scope fits and why.
02 Are the displayed prices final?
Published prices apply to the stated scope and to nothing else. A figure without a qualifier is the price for that scope. A price marked from is a starting figure, and the confirmed figure is agreed in writing, after a short scoping conversation, before any work begins. Software licences that a recommendation involves are paid by the business directly to the provider and are never marked up.
03 Does the firm build or sell AI software?
No. Meridian Loop Advisory sells no software of its own and accepts no referral fees or commissions from software vendors. Where a tool is recommended, the business buys it directly. Automation work is built inside software the business already owns or has chosen, and it is documented so that the business can maintain it or move it to another provider.
04 Is the work done on site or remotely?
Both. Interviews, mapping sessions and workshops can be held at the office in Columbus, at the client’s premises within the Columbus area or by video call. Most build and reporting work is done remotely inside the client’s own systems. The written scope names where each part of the engagement takes place.
07 · Contact
Send the firm one specific question
An enquiry is answered by email or telephone during office hours. A message is a question, not an appointment, and nothing on this website confirms one.