Claude Implementation for Small Business

You have Claude.
We make it work.

Shannon Advisory helps small business owners implement Claude — from first workflow to full operation.

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What clients say
"We knew we wanted to use Claude. We didn't know where to start. That's exactly what we got help with."
Owner
Small Professional Services Firm
"We had Claude for months and nothing had changed. After this engagement, we had actual workflows."
Operations Director
Regional Services Firm
"Came in, understood the business, built something that actually worked. No wasted time."
Founder
Boutique Advisory Firm
The gap

Access isn't the problem.
Implementation is.

Claude is extraordinarily capable. The bottleneck is almost never the technology — it's the translation from raw capability into how your business actually runs.

01
Experimenting, not implementing You've tried Claude. Maybe your team has too. But there's no system — just occasional use that hasn't changed how the business runs.
02
Generic prompts, generic results Without the right setup, Claude returns average outputs. The capability is there. The configuration isn't.
03
No one has time to figure it out Small teams are stretched. Getting AI implementation right is a real job — one that keeps losing to everything else on the list.
04
The firms that do this don't work with you Enterprise AI consultancies have enterprise minimums. Small businesses are left to figure it out alone — or not at all.
What we believe
Small businesses move fast.
With the right implementation, Claude moves with them.
Named for Claude Shannon — the mathematician who founded information theory — we treat working with Claude as a learnable, systematic practice. Not magic. Method. And small businesses deserve access to that method just as much as anyone.
How we work

Three ways to engage

Every engagement is scoped for a small business — clear deliverables, no enterprise overhead.

Retainer

Fractional Head of AI

Ongoing Claude strategy and implementation — your embedded specialist without the full-time hire.

  • Monthly workflow audit and prioritization
  • Prompt library development and maintenance
  • Team enablement and adoption coaching
  • Quarterly implementation roadmap
  • Async support and rapid iteration
Starting at $3,500 / month · 3-month minimum
Most popular

Scoped Engagement

One high-leverage workflow, fully implemented. Fixed scope, fixed timeline, clear deliverable.

  • Workflow discovery and process mapping
  • Custom prompt system design
  • Tool integration and testing
  • Documentation and handoff materials
  • 30-day post-delivery support
From $6,500 · 4–6 week delivery
Workshop

Team Implementation

Half or full day, in person or remote. Your team leaves as capable Claude practitioners — not just users.

  • Needs assessment before the session
  • Prompt engineering for your specific use cases
  • Live workflow building exercises
  • Custom reference guide and prompt templates
  • Follow-up Q&A session
From $2,800 · In-person or remote
Methodology

Specific. Testable. Measurable.

1
Diagnose before prescribing
Every engagement starts with a workflow audit. We find the leverage before recommending anything.
2
Build for your context
Prompts, systems, and workflows built around your specific business — not someone else's template.
3
Test against real outputs
Does it save time? Does it improve quality? We iterate until the answer is clearly yes.
4
Transfer capability, not dependency
We're done when your team can run and extend the implementation on their own.
The Founder
John Crowley

John is a U.S. Army veteran and graduate of West Point, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Kennedy School. After working as a Summer Associate at McKinsey & Co., he turned down a return offer to pursue startups — first as an early employee at venture-backed companies in health tech and consumer tech, then as a founder. He publishes a weekly newsletter on AI and works with small businesses as both a practitioner and a commentator.

U.S. Army Veteran West Point Harvard Business School Harvard Kennedy School Goldman Sachs Blackstone McKinsey & Co. AI Commentator Claude Practitioner
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Let's talk about
your implementation.

30 minutes. No pitch deck. We'll figure out where the leverage is and whether we're the right fit.

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