Blues AI Consulting builds custom AI workflows, sets up Claude Code environments, and develops internal SaaS platforms for small businesses. They are technically capable builders based in Victoria, BC. But building a workflow is not the same as running your operations. Blues AI hands you automations and dashboards. Ironback hands you a trained dedicated AI operations partner who uses those same tools to manage your business 24/7 without you lifting a finger.
Trade businesses that need someone to own their entire operational automation stack — not just build it and hand over the keys. If you do not have a technical person on staff to maintain AI workflows, Ironback is the right fit.
Tech-forward businesses that want to build internal AI capabilities and have someone on staff who can maintain Claude Code environments, troubleshoot broken workflows, and expand automations independently after the initial build.
Third-party figures are planning estimates based on public pricing and market benchmarks, not vendor quotes. Verify current pricing and scope before making a purchasing decision.
Flat $8,000/month retainer, 3-month minimum, month-to-month after. Embedded specialist across 7 operational categories.
Blues AI pricing is not published. Positioned as done-for-you with no contracts. Typical AI agency project pricing ranges $2,000–$15,000 per workflow. Claude Code setup and training is a separate engagement.
Workflow-build pricing requires a current vendor quote and may separate implementation from support. Ironback is $96,000 for twelve months at the current flat retainer and includes ongoing management of the prioritized scope.
Ironback builds custom workflows too — but that is 20% of what we do. The other 80% is operating those workflows, monitoring them, fixing them when they break, expanding them as your business grows, and handling the operational tasks that no workflow can fully automate — like answering phone calls, interpreting photos for estimates, and making judgment calls about emergency dispatch. Blues AI gives you the plumbing. Ironback gives you the plumbing and the plumber.
Ironback's model is different. Instead of training your team to build and maintain AI systems — which takes months and pulls them away from their actual jobs — we embed a specialist who handles it all. Your team learns to work alongside the AI operations partner, not become AI engineers themselves. For a 30-person trade company, that is a much better use of everyone's time.
No contracts means no commitment — in both directions. Blues AI can deliver a workflow and disappear. When that workflow breaks at 2 AM because an API changed, you are on your own. Ironback's retainer means we are accountable for your operations every month. The retainer is not a risk — it is the mechanism that ensures someone is always watching your systems.
These specialty trades see the biggest impact from choosing the right AI operations approach.
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