Personal branding · Consultants, coaches and advisers
The last AI pilot your buyer paid for never reached production.
Personal branding for an AI or data consultant is the visibility of somebody a buyer cannot technically assess: how you scope a problem, what you refuse to build, and what you have actually put into production. GullySales turns one interview a month into the year's writing, and you sign off every piece.
In one paragraph
Personal branding for an AI or data consultant is the visibility of somebody a buyer cannot technically assess: how you scope a problem, what you refuse to build, and what you have actually put into production. GullySales turns one interview a month into the year's writing, and you sign off every piece.
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AI consultant, Data consultant, Analytics consultant.
Where this sits
For AI and data consultants
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“The title stopped meaning anything about a year ago”
Everyone who finished a weekend course is now an AI consultant, and the buyer knows it. That is why the first meeting is spent proving you are not one of them instead of talking about their problem.
“Your buyer cannot judge the model, so they judge the explanation”
A managing director has no way to assess your architecture. What they can assess is whether you explained why a pilot failed without hiding behind vocabulary.
“Most of the job is the data nobody wants to discuss”
The client asks for a chatbot and has three customer masters, a Tally export with merged cells, and an order book that lives in WhatsApp. Say that out loud and you get hired for the right work.
“One small working thing outruns a month of posts”
A demonstration built on your own data, written up honestly with its limits stated, gets forwarded inside a company. Another explainer about what a large language model is does not.
What we do
What we deliver for AI and data consultants.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
A profile about what you have shipped, not what you have read
The problems you have solved, the scale you have worked at, the tools you actually use in delivery. Course certificates go at the bottom or not at all.
Result: A buyer who has been pitched by six people this quarter can see in thirty seconds which one has delivered.
The monthly interview about a project that misbehaved
An hour a month with you on something that did not work first time and what you changed. Failures are the only material in this field that cannot be copied from a newsletter. If a delivery month cannot spare that hour, do not start this.
Result: Writing nobody else in your feed is capable of publishing.
Plain explanations of what a model will and will not do
Written for a director who has been told by a vendor that everything is possible. No vocabulary the reader has to look up.
Result: Shorter sales conversations, because the expectations were set before the meeting.
Your own demonstration, written up so it can be sent
The thing you built to prove a point, described with its accuracy, its cost to run and where it breaks, so a prospect can pass it to their technical person.
Result: A proof you control, rather than a client case you are not allowed to mention.
Talks for rooms that are not full of engineers
Two subjects pitched to industry associations, family business forums and sector events, because that is where budget holders sit.
Result: Enquiries from owners rather than from other consultants.
The rest of your team credited by name
The data engineer who did the hard part gets the byline for it, so the firm reads as a team and not as one person with contractors.
Result: A larger project stops looking like a risk to the buyer.
How the result is measured
- Enquiries that name you or came through your profile
- Searches for your name, from Search Console
- Profile views and connection requests from your industry
- Speaking invitations, press enquiries and podcast requests
- Posts published against posts planned, and what held up the rest
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, then reported every month against it.
How it works
From your first message to the first monthly report.
No open-ended retainer. Each step has a point in time and something you receive.
01 · Day 1
Free audit call
45 minutes with whoever handles your enquiries: how they arrive, how fast they are answered, where they are lost.
02 · Within a few working days
Written, scored report
Six areas scored, fixes ranked by return and cost. If you want our help, the scope and fee come with it, in writing.
03 · Before work starts
Baseline recorded
Enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order, written down so every later month has an honest comparison.
04 · Month 1
The first fix goes live
Usually the cheapest one on the report: reply time, a follow-up sequence or the marketing-to-sales handover.
05 · Every month
Report against the baseline
What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words.
06 · Month 3 to 6
Renew on the numbers
The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. No twelve-month lock.
How the work runs for AI and data consultants
- 1
Work out whether this is even your bottleneck
The audit call covers how enquiries reach you today. Plenty of owners come asking for this and leave with a report saying the company's own site is the weaker link, and that comes first.
- 2
Search your own name with you
We look at what a buyer sees today: every profile, old listing and photograph. Some of it you will want taken down, and some of it only you can take down.
- 3
Agree what you will and will not say
The subjects you know cold, the ones that belong to your clients, and the lines your regulator or association draws. Written down before anything is published.
- 4
Rebuild the profiles
The bio page, LinkedIn and the directories that matter in your field, done once and done properly.
- 5
The monthly rhythm
Interview, drafts, your approval, publication. The interview is the only part that needs you, and it is the part that cannot be skipped.
- 6
Hand it over
The subject list, the drafting notes and the calendar are yours. Plenty of owners keep it running themselves after a few months, and that is a fair outcome.
Why us
Why owners pick GullySales over an agency.
Marketing and sales, as one job
Most agencies stop at the enquiry. We also fix what happens after it: the reply, the follow-up, the quote and the CRM.
The person on the first call does the work
No account managers in between. You are never handed to someone you have not met.
A baseline before anything starts
Your numbers are written down on day one, so every monthly report compares against something honest.
The fee in writing, split three ways
Our time, your media spend and production on separate lines. You always see what goes to us.
No lock-in, no guarantees we cannot keep
Three to six months at a time. We never promise a ranking or a lead count, because nobody controls those.
One office, and we say so
Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru. We work across India by call and WhatsApp and travel when a session needs to be in person.
#257, 3rd floor, Sri Nanjundeshwara Complex, Nagarbhavi 8th Block, Outer Ring Road. How we work.
The offer
Start with a free audit of how you sell.
It is useful on its own, whether or not you hire us.
What you receive
- A 45-minute call with the person who will do the work
- A written, scored report on the six places orders leak, within a few working days
- Every fix ranked by what it returns and what it costs
- The one thing to do first, and why
- An honest line on whether you need outside help at all
- If you do, the scope and the fee in writing
No invoice. No obligation. No sales script.
FAQ
Questions owners ask before they call.
Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.
Everybody in my feed posts about AI. Why would mine get read?
I have done two projects. Is that enough to publish?
How long before this brings an enquiry?
How long is the contract?
Who will actually do the work?
What do you need from us?
What if we are not happy with the work?
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