AI consulting in Ireland
Irish AI consulting that ends with a working prototype and a plan, not a slide deck. GDPR-aware, grant-eligible, priced to pay back inside a quarter.
- Kilkenny-based, working nationwide
- GDPR & EU AI Act by default
- LEO / Enterprise Ireland grant-eligible
The work, specifically
No retainers for “advisory”. Every engagement produces something running against your real data.
Process & opportunity audit
Half a day on-site or on Zoom mapping where AI actually pays back in your operation — with cost, revenue-at-risk and effort scored against each candidate. You leave with a ranked list, not adjectives.
Prototype against real data
We build the top-ranked workflow against your live data inside the engagement, so the decision to scale is made on evidence rather than a vendor demo.
Governance & compliance design
Model providers, data residency, DPAs, retention and EU AI Act risk classification decided up front and documented — so nothing you deploy in 2026 needs re-work in 2027.
Team enablement
A half-day workshop that leaves your people with prompts, patterns and guardrails they'll use on Monday — plus a plan an in-house hire could pick up cleanly.
What changes in the first quarter
A minute-old lead converts roughly seven times better than a day-old one. Automated intake closes that gap without a hire.
CRM notes, follow-ups, reporting and reconciliation admin handled by the system instead of at 11pm.
We only recommend workflows where the arithmetic works inside a quarter. If it doesn't, we say so.
From first call to live automation
Short, sequenced, and cancellable at every gate. You always know what the next €1 buys.
- 01
Free 60-second pitch audit
Self-serve. Surfaces where a business shaped like yours is most likely leaking revenue. If the output doesn't look like you, we've saved you a call.
Same day - 02
Paid audit
On-site or Zoom. We map two or three candidate workflows with real numbers attached and rank them by payback.
Half a day - 03
Build sprint
The top workflow goes live against real work, deployed to accounts you own — your n8n, your cloud project, your database.
4–8 weeks - 04
Operate & expand
A small retainer keeps automations healthy and expands the ones that are paying back. Cancel any month; your automations keep running.
Monthly, optional
Priced against a hire, not a vibe
Indicative bands. Final scope comes out of the audit — no surprise invoices.
Half-day audit with a ranked, costed list of AI opportunities. Credited against a build if you proceed.
- On-site or Zoom working session
- 2–3 workflows scored on payback
- Compliance & data-flow review
- Written recommendation
Two to three workflows designed, built, tested and handed over on infrastructure you own.
- Everything in Audit
- Live workflows against real data
- Documentation & handover
- Team training session
Monitoring, fixes and incremental improvements once things are running.
- Uptime & error monitoring
- Monthly improvement cycle
- Priority support
- No lock-in
“We stopped losing quotes to silence. The follow-up runs itself now and we can see exactly what it's recovering.”
What you should know before you buy
Marble City AI is an AI consulting practice based in Kilkenny, working with Irish businesses that want AI to earn its keep — not sit in a slide deck. This page is for Irish owners and operators comparing AI consulting options and trying to work out what a useful engagement actually looks like.
What AI consulting in Ireland should deliver
A useful AI consulting engagement in Ireland ends with three things: a short list of the two or three workflows in your business where AI genuinely pays back, a working prototype of the first one against real data, and a plan you could hand to an in-house hire. If the deliverable is a strategy document, you’ve been sold a report, not a result.
Who we work with
Irish SMBs and mid-market operators — professional services, trades, agencies, clinics, hospitality — typically 5–150 staff. The pattern is always the same: revenue is fine, the team is stretched, and the biggest leaks are in lead response, quote follow-up, and admin the owner shouldn’t be doing.
How an engagement runs
- Pitch audit (free, 60 seconds). A quick self-serve tool that surfaces where a typical business like yours is leaking revenue. Available at the pitch audit page.
- Paid audit (half-day, on-site or Zoom). We map two or three candidate workflows with real numbers attached — cost, revenue at risk, effort to build.
- Build sprint (4–8 weeks). One workflow live inside a month against real work, handed over on infrastructure you own.
Irish specifics we handle by default
- GDPR & the Data Protection Commission. Model providers, data residency, DPAs, and retention policies picked so the DPC would nod, not raise an eyebrow.
- EU AI Act. We build against the Act’s risk classifications so nothing you deploy in 2026 needs re-work in 2027.
- Revenue & Xero-shaped bookkeeping. Automations that respect Irish VAT, RCT and PAYE workflows rather than fighting them.
- Grant-eligible. Trading Online Voucher, LEO Digital for Business, and Enterprise Ireland Innovation Voucher engagements are scoped to be grant-fundable where they qualify.
Bring one process that’s costing you sleep. That’s the whole starting point.
Common questions
Find the leaks before anyone touches code.
The free audit takes 60 seconds and surfaces the two most fixable revenue leaks in your operation. If the output looks like your business, book the paid one.