Spearworks AI, Clackamas, Oregon
Practical AI for Portland-area small businesses.
We set up AI tools, train your team, and help you show up in Google and AI search. Most first projects run $500 to $1,000, quoted in writing before we start.
Book a free consultWork you can check.
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Start with a free consult. Go as far as you want.
- Book this: Free consult
Free consult
Free
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We meet at a coffee shop or at your office, whichever is easier. Online or over the phone works too. We talk through your business, or you show us the tech you're up against, and we make recommendations. Often that's enough to point you in a direction you can run with on your own. If you'd rather have help, we'll put together a statement of work. No pitch.
Cost: Free.
- Book this: Website review
Website review
$149 one-time
Details on Website review
We go through your key pages by hand. Broken links and buttons, typos, pages that contradict each other on hours, prices, or policies, contact forms that don't deliver, phone numbers that don't tap to call on mobile, and whether your Google Business Profile matches the site. We also check the search basics (page titles, descriptions, your sitemap, and what Google can and can't see) and look for signs someone has tampered with the site. You get a written report that ranks what to fix first. Fix it yourself, hand it to your web person, or have us do it.
Cost: $149, paid up front. One-time. The full $149 is credited toward the paid audit if you book it within 60 days of payment.
- Book this: Paid audit
Paid audit
$600 one-time
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A short pre-call questionnaire so we come prepared. A 60-minute working session where we review your tools, processes, and the work that's eating time. Within five business days, a written report covering what we saw, three specific opportunities ranked by impact and effort, and a clear recommendation for what to tackle first. The report is yours. Implement it yourself, hire us, or hire someone else.
Cost: $600, paid up front. One-time. The full $600 is credited toward your first implementation project if you start it within 60 days of the audit.
- Book this: Project engagement
Project engagement
$500 to $1,000
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A scoped, written quote with a not-to-exceed cap before any work starts. We do the implementation ourselves, train your team, or sit with you while you do it. Configuration, integrations, documentation, and training so the tool actually gets used after we leave.
Cost: Time and materials at $150/hour with a not-to-exceed cap per project, quoted in writing before work starts. No retainer, no long-term contract, no minimum project size. Most projects land in the $500 to $1,000 range.
- Book this: Ongoing advisory
Ongoing advisory
$600/mo minimum
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We're available for questions, quick reviews of new tools, periodic check-ins, and small fixes as they come up. You pay only for the time we spend on your business, with a monthly minimum and a 3-month commitment so we have enough runway to actually be useful to each other.
Cost: Time and materials at $150/hour against a 4-hour monthly minimum, so $600 per month at the floor. Quoted in writing. 3-month minimum commitment.
- Book this: AI training and education
AI training and education
Quoted per series
Details on AI training and education
A customized series of live, hands-on one-hour sessions, in person or on Google Meet. Google Meet sessions are recorded so your team can rewatch them or onboard new hires with the same material. Each session is practice with your actual tools and your actual data, not generic slides. You keep the recordings.
Cost: Time and materials at $150/hour with a not-to-exceed cap, quoted in advance. Covers prep, delivery, and recordings of any Google Meet sessions.
- Book this: Private AI setup
Private AI setup
$600 to $1,500
Details on Private AI setup
We start by sorting your work into two piles: the tasks that genuinely need a frontier model like Claude or ChatGPT, and the tasks a smaller model running on hardware you already own can handle just as well. Then we install and configure open-weight models on the machines in your office, connect them to your document library so you can search and summarize your own files without anything leaving the building, and write a one-page policy your team can actually follow about what data goes where. Training included so it gets used after we leave.
Cost: Time and materials at $150/hour with a not-to-exceed cap, quoted in writing before work starts. Most setups land in the $600 to $1,500 range. If you need hardware, you buy it directly. We do not mark it up.
- Book this: AI-powered SEO, AEO & GEO
AI-powered SEO, AEO & GEO
Setup from $300 + $600/mo
Details on AI-powered SEO, AEO & GEO
Agents we built handle the work a full agency team would staff for: technical SEO audits and fixes, content gap analysis, structured data and AI-readable content markup, citation and answer-engine tracking, and generative-engine optimization so your business shows up when someone asks an AI for a recommendation. Agents don't get tired or skip steps, so coverage is more thorough than a person doing this by hand, at a lower cost.
Cost: Setup comes first: $300 to $750 if we're building the search foundation into a new site, $1,000 to $1,500 if there's an existing site to audit and repair. After that, $600 a month covers local search and Google Business Profile work, $1,000 a month adds ongoing AI answer optimization, and $1,500 a month adds entry Google and Meta ad management. Time and materials with a not-to-exceed cap, quoted in writing after a scope call.
- Book this: Google & Meta Ads
Google & Meta Ads
$1,200 setup + $500/mo
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Account creation under your ownership, conversion tracking built and verified end to end, audience build, campaign structure and ad groups, keyword research against real search volume, a negative keyword list, and budget pacing. We do not run ads on their own. The search setup comes first so conversion tracking is in place, then a monthly search plan, then ads. Management is a flat monthly fee based on how much you're spending, never a percentage of it.
Cost: Setup is a flat $1,200 one time: ad accounts in your name, conversion tracking built and verified, audience and campaign structure, keyword research, and a negative keyword list. Management after that is banded to how much you spend: $500 a month up to $2,000 in spend, $800 up to $5,000, $1,200 up to $10,000, custom above that. Your ad budget goes straight to Google and Meta on your own card and never passes through us. $1,000 a month minimum ad spend, so a campaign has enough data to work with. Bundled with the search and AI answer plan, it is $1,500 a month for both.
How it works.
Free consult. Coffee, your office, or online. No pitch.
First visit on-site. We see how your business actually runs.
Then remote. Once we have access to your systems, the rest happens remotely.
Small businesses and owner-operators without an IT team.
Based in Clackamas. We work across the greater Portland metro and Southwest Washington.
What clients say.
“I really appreciated how Nathan started off by asking some really good questions and trying to understand what I actually needed. Later that day, he had already sent me some resources that helped me tackle some of those same problems. His depth of knowledge wrapped in his professional approach makes working with him truly enjoyable.”
“I am really glad to have found Nathan. He resolved all the technical issues I was having with great patience and expertise.”
“Nathan built my website and handled my marketing and made the whole thing easy. He explains things simply and actually gets what a small business needs. Highly recommend.”
Nathan Spear, founder.
Twenty years in enterprise IT at IBM, Lenovo, and Rackspace. Now working with the businesses next door.
More about Nathan
Before Spearworks AI, Nathan spent twenty years in enterprise IT, cloud infrastructure, and customer success at IBM, Lenovo, and Rackspace, working with everything from small businesses to large channel partners. Before that, Nathan directly supported 18 to 20 Portland-area small businesses with IT setup, compliance, and the kind of ongoing technical questions that don't fit neatly into a support ticket.
Questions we hear a lot.
What does Spearworks AI do?
Spearworks AI is an independent AI consulting practice for small businesses and owner-operators in the Portland metro area and Southwest Washington. We find where AI actually fits in your operation, set up the tools, and train your team. We work hourly with a not-to-exceed cap, no retainers required, no vendor commissions.
Is Spearworks AI a managed service provider (MSP)?
No. An MSP keeps your technology running: devices, logins, patching, outages. Spearworks AI finds the repetitive work eating your week and builds something that does it instead. We don't manage anything and we don't sell software. Plenty of businesses need both, and if an MSP is what you need we'll point you at a good one in the Portland metro.
Where does Spearworks AI serve?
We serve the greater Portland metro area and Southwest Washington, in person and remotely. That includes Portland, Happy Valley, Clackamas, Gresham, Milwaukie, Oregon City, West Linn, Lake Oswego, Wilsonville, Tigard, Beaverton, Hillsboro, Vancouver, Camas, and the surrounding Clackamas, Multnomah, Washington, and Clark counties.
How much does AI consulting cost?
Every project is billed time-and-materials at $150/hour with a written not-to-exceed cap, quoted in advance based on scope. The free consult is $0. The website review is $149. The written paid audit is $600, credited in full toward your first implementation project if you start it within 60 days of the audit. Most implementation projects land in the $500 to $1,000 range. Ongoing advisory is $600/month (a 4-hour monthly minimum) with a 3-month commitment. Google and Meta Ads management is a flat monthly fee, never a percentage of your ad spend. The rate and the cap are in your written quote before anything starts.
Are you tied to any specific AI vendor or software?
No. We take no commissions, no referral fees, and no kickbacks from any AI vendor or software company. If ChatGPT is the right answer, we'll set up ChatGPT. If Claude, Gemini, or a niche industry tool fits better, we'll recommend that instead. Our incentive is the work going well, not the software you buy.
What if AI isn't the right answer for my business?
We tell you. Part of the job is being honest when AI is the wrong tool for what you're trying to do. We've turned down work where the better answer was a process change, a different software tool, or hiring a human. You won't get a pitch, and you won't get sold something you don't need.
What would you like to discuss?
Pick the option that fits, tell us a little about your business, and we'll get back to you within one business day. Some options will send you what you need immediately.
What happens next?
- If you picked the free consult, you'll pick a time on the next screen.
- If you asked a quick question, we'll answer by email within one business day.
- If you picked the website review, you'll get a payment link by email, and the written report within five business days of payment.
- If you picked the paid audit, you'll get a payment link by email, then a booking link after payment.
- For everything else, we'll be in touch within one business day to set up a call.