Why We Built a 9-Seat AI Advisory Board Instead of Hiring a Consultant
cover: image: /images/ai-board-of-advisors.webp alt: “AI board of advisors in a modern digital boardroom” Good strategy advice is expensive. A fractional CMO runs $3,000–$8,000 a month. A one-hour session with a legitimate growth consultant is $300–$500. Most small agencies can’t afford either consistently — so they skip the strategy layer entirely and just execute. We took a different approach. What We Built A 9-seat AI advisory board. Each seat is a specialized advisor with a defined mandate, focus area, and constraints — built on Claude and callable from the command line. ...