We close the gap between AI promise and SMB reality.

AIbusinessunits.com exists because the SMB AI market sits in a gap. Generic tools are too generic. Custom consulting is too expensive and too slow. Our category — productized, diagnosed AI Units — is the missing middle.

AIbusinessunits.com is a European studio building productized AI Business Units for SMBs of 5–100 employees. We diagnose real operational frictions, match them precisely to what current AI can deliver, and ship self-contained deployable modules — not generic tools, not custom builds. Founded in 2024, headquartered in the EU, with a deliberate bias toward local-first deployment.
Our story

Why this company exists.

We spent years inside large enterprises watching AI projects burn €500k discovery budgets and ship nothing. We watched the same companies' SMB suppliers — restaurants, law firms, clinics, agencies — get pitched ChatGPT enterprise licenses they didn't need or know how to operationalize.

The diagnosis was the same every time. The gap wasn't in the models. It was in the productization — turning what AI can do into something a 30-person business can actually buy, deploy, and own.

So we built the productization layer. Each Unit is the result of a specific operational diagnosis we've run dozens of times, packaged as a deployable module, priced like equipment.

Our approach

Three commitments.

Diagnostic before product

We refuse to sell a Unit before we've spent time with an operator. About 25% of diagnostic calls end with 'don't buy anything yet'.

Local-first when sensitive

Privileged, regulated, or commercially sensitive data defaults to on-prem hardware. Cloud is the alternative, not the default.

Outcome-named Units

Every Unit owns a named, measurable KPI. If we can't name the outcome, we don't ship the Unit.

Team

Small team. Senior practitioners.

Founder & lead diagnostician

12 years operations consulting

Head of AI engineering

Ex-research lab, open-weight specialist

Vertical lead — Restaurants

10 years F&B operations

Vertical lead — Law

Former in-house counsel, mid-cap firm

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Want to know if we're the right fit?

A 15-minute diagnostic call is the fastest way to find out. We'll be honest either way.

About 1 in 4 calls ends with us recommending you don't buy anything.