AI advisory for small & mid-sized business
95% of AI projects fail.
Here's how to be in the 5%.
Succeeding with AI isn't about budget. It's about discipline: knowing what to build, what to govern, and what to shut down. Hekima IQ brings that discipline to businesses your size.
A 30-minute call to see if there's a fit.
of enterprise GenAI pilots deliver little or no measurable business impact.
MIT NANDA · GenAI Divide · Aug 2025of organizations can tie any profit impact to AI.
McKinsey · State of AI · Nov 2025enterprises benchmarked against 35+ verified sources to build the method.
Hekima IQ Benchmark · 2026What you get
What AI can actually do for a business your size
AI can take real work off your team: answering customer questions, drafting and routing email, handling scheduling and reminders, pulling answers out of your own documents, flagging what needs attention in your data. The upside is real. So is the risk. Most AI gets bought and never deployed, and sensitive data quietly leaks through apps nobody approved. Hekima IQ helps you find the few uses that pay off, set them up safely, and drop the ones that don't.
A sense of what's possible
Systems I've shipped
Real work I've built. Client names kept private.
- Answers from your own documents. An AI assistant in Microsoft Copilot Studio that turned about an hour of manual lookup per question into seconds.
- Reminders that run themselves. An automated system sending around 1,000 emails a week across custom schedules, with no added IT workload.
- Higher collection of payments. Workflow optimizations that raised the collection by 75% in only one week.
- Know who's about to churn. A prediction model that sharpened retention targeting.
The method
Direction · Delivery · Discipline
Direction
Aim at the right thing. Tie every AI use to one number and one owner.
Delivery
Make it work. Let your team build simple wins with approved tools.
Discipline
Keep it safe. Simple rules and a human check, so nothing leaks or runs unchecked.
How it works
Assess → Align → Advise
A ladder, not a leap. Start by finding out where you stand. Fix the gaps that matter. Keep the discipline as you grow.
Assessment
A clear read on where you stand, a gap map, a shadow-AI exposure check, and a shut down/keep/fix verdict on every AI initiative you're running.
The Sprint
Close the gaps: a one-page policy for safe AI use, one safe tool set up properly, use cases tied to a KPI, a 90-day roadmap.
Alignment Retainer
Part-time AI oversight, month to month. Your engineers build; I gate, evaluate, and shut down what underperforms.
Why trust this
Benchmarked, not improvised.
Built by benchmarking 29 enterprises against 35+ verified sources, by a solutions architect who's shipped AI on the Microsoft stack. Every claim here is backed by data you can check, not vendor marketing.
Latest insights
All insights →The real SMB AI risk isn't rogue agents — it's the tab already open on your team's screens
The hype points at autonomous agents going wrong. The evidence points somewhere quieter and far more common: staff pasting sensitive data into unapproved tools. Here's the cheapest control that works.
May 20, 2026The 95% you keep hearing about — and the 5% that doesn't
Most enterprise AI pilots deliver no measurable P&L impact. The reason isn't the technology. It's the absence of discipline — and that's a gap an SMB can close cheaply.
Find out where you stand.
The AI Alignment Assessment turns the method on your business and gives you a clear verdict in about two weeks, mostly remote.
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