Free masterclass · How to start a consultancy
How to start a consulting business that wins clients on autopilot.
Going independent, or growing a consultancy you already run? This free masterclass shows how consultants use AI to become the obvious expert, fill their pipeline and turn calls into signed clients, with the free and paid consulting courses that teach each part.
- Become the expertPositioning, a clear point of view and content that makes you the obvious choice.
- Fill the pipelineLinkedIn, content, search, email and referrals, all fed by one AI brain.
- Sign the clientA funnel, discovery call and proposal that turn conversations into contracts.
Watch: how to start and grow a consulting business with AI, by David Tainsh.
What kind of consultant are you?
One system for every kind of consulting business.
Your expertise changes. Getting known, booking qualified calls, writing proposals and delivering to a standard works the same way, so every course here is built from your own business, whatever you advise on.
Going independent
Become a consultant
Turn years of experience inside a company into a consulting business with a clear offer and its first clients.
Strategy and management
Start a management consultancy
Position a point of view senior buyers trust, and win work through LinkedIn, referrals and proposals.
Marketing and sales
Start a marketing or sales consultancy
Show the method you sell by running it on yourself: content, funnels and outreach that book calls.
Technology and AI
Become an AI consultant
Use AI for research, proposals and delivery, then help clients put the same systems to work.
Specialist advisers
HR, finance and operations
Package specialist knowledge into a productised offer that sells without you reinventing it each time.
Coaches and trainers
Coaching and training businesses
Build authority, run webinars that convert, and turn one-to-one work into repeatable programmes.
The consulting playbook
How to start and grow a consultancy, in eight parts.
Each part builds one piece of the client-acquisition machine, in the order it needs to be built.
- 0Your AI brain
The knowledge base that feeds every channel, asset and email.
- 1AI authority
Become the obvious expert: positioning, point of view and content.
- 2Client acquisition
A pipeline that books qualified calls, on LinkedIn and beyond.
- 3Sales funnels
Turn calls into signed clients with a funnel, discovery call and proposal.
- 4Content and search
Get found on Google and inside AI answers, and nurture by email.
- 5Offers and delivery
Productise what you do, deliver to a standard, and prove the result.
- 6Automation and agents
Put the routine work on autopilot with AI agents.
- 7Launch and grow
Go live, land the first clients, and compound with referrals.
Where consulting clients come from
Six channels, one system feeding all of them.
Different buyers gather in different places. One AI brain keeps your message consistent across every channel, so you are never betting the business on just one.
Posts and outreach
Authority posts and personal outreach that book calls, running every day.
Content
One idea, a month of posts
A single idea becomes on-message content across every platform you use.
SEO and AI search
Get found and cited
Show up on Google and inside the AI assistants your buyers now ask.
Newsletter
An audience you own
Subscribers nurtured automatically until they are ready to talk.
Sales funnel
Page, webinar, call
Landing page to webinar to discovery call, on a path that converts.
Referrals
One client becomes two
Every happy client turned into the next introduction, on autopilot.
You don’t have to run all six on day one, but the system is built so you can without the message drifting.
How the courses work
Every lesson ends with a finished asset.
Free or paid, every consulting course is built the same way, from your own business rather than generic templates.
- 1Build your AI brain
A Claude knowledge base holding your positioning, offers, clients and voice, with rules that stop it inventing things.
- 2A short class
Why each part works and what good looks like, from 20+ years of running agencies and consultancies.
- 3A prompt pack
Prompts that read your knowledge base and produce the real asset: posts, outreach, pages, scripts and proposals.
Step 1 · Free
Start with the free consulting course.
Set up the AI brain every other course reads from.
Step 2 · Specialist courses
Get known, get the call, get the client.
Three focused systems, each built in a day or two from your own business: one for authority, one for LinkedIn, one for your funnel.
Authority
AI Authority Content Engine For Consultants
19 lectures13 prompt packs
A complete authority system: positioning, content, search and an audience you own.
$28View course →
Client acquisition
AI Powered Consultants LinkedIn Lead Machine
A complete LinkedIn client-acquisition system: find the right people, earn the reply, book the call.
$28View course →
Sales funnel
The 1-Day Consultancy Funnel Builder
17 lectures12 prompt packs
Ads, landing page, webinar, call script and proposal, built in an afternoon with AI and in your own words.
$28View course →
Step 3 · Flagship
The complete consulting system.
Every part of the playbook, built with you, in one programme with lifetime access.
Quick answers
Starting a consultancy: common questions.
How do I start a consulting business?
Decide who you help and what result you sell, then build in order: a knowledge base about your business, a clear point of view, one channel that books calls, and a funnel that turns calls into proposals. The free Set Up Claude course is the first step.
How do I get my first consulting clients?
Most consultants start with LinkedIn: authority posts plus personal outreach to the right people, leading to a discovery call. Referrals from early clients then compound. The LinkedIn Lead Machine course builds this system from your own business.
Do I need a big audience to become a consultant?
No. Consulting is sold through conversations, so a small number of the right people matters far more than followers. Outreach and a clear offer can book calls from day one while your audience grows.
How can AI help consultants?
Once Claude knows your positioning, offers and voice, it can draft posts, outreach, landing pages, call scripts and proposals that sound like you. The courses set rules that stop it inventing facts, so every output stays checkable.
Do I need to be technical?
No. Every course explains each step in plain English and gives you the prompts to run. If you can write an email, you can follow them.
Which AI do the courses use?
Claude. You build a knowledge base in a Claude Project once, and every prompt pack in every course reads from it.
How much do the consulting courses cost?
Two are free. The three specialist courses are $28 each, and the complete Consulting AI Operating System is $197. All come with lifetime access.
Which course should I take first?
Set Up Claude the Right Way. It builds the AI brain the other courses read from. Then take the specialist course for your biggest gap, or go straight to the Consulting AI Operating System for the whole system.
Ready to start your consultancy? Begin with a free course.
Set up your AI brain today, and walk away with a finished asset from every lesson after that.
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