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We help small teams stop losing time and money. Practically, not theoretically.

Beaton Consulting Group is a small, specialized consulting firm based in Prince Edward Island, Canada. We work with businesses of 2 to 20 people who know AI exists but don't have a working system for it yet.

Three specialists. One practice.

BCG is a boutique firm. You work directly with the people who built the methodology — not a rotating roster of junior consultants.

Wade Beaton
Sales & Training Lead
Wade Beaton

Wade leads client acquisition, outreach strategy, and the consulting sales process from first contact through delivery. He also heads the training curriculum — designing the AI fluency frameworks and skill modules that clients receive as part of every engagement.

His approach is grounded in a single conviction: businesses don't need more AI theory. They need a clear starting point and a system their team can run independently.

Background Highlights
Sales strategy and client engagement leadership
Curriculum design and AI fluency framework development
SMB consulting and operational improvement
AI tool integration and workflow optimization
Michele Beaton
Business Analyst & Needs Assessment Specialist
Michele Beaton

Michele leads the intake and needs assessment process — identifying operational gaps, translating business pain into AI opportunities, and building the findings that drive each client's roadmap. She is the primary point of contact during the assessment engagement.

She specializes in asking the questions most consultants skip: what is actually slowing this team down, and what would a real fix look like for this specific business?

Background Highlights
Business analysis and operational needs assessment
Process mapping and workflow documentation
Client discovery and diagnostic interviewing
Roadmap development and opportunity prioritization
Brian Beaton
Technical Lead & Head of Development
Brian Beaton

Brian owns the technical architecture behind every client implementation — automation builds, AI integrations, system design, and the development of internal tools that support the consulting and training practice.

His focus is on practical deployability: building systems that work reliably in the real-world constraints of a lean team — not architectures designed for enterprise environments.

Background Highlights
Technical architecture and systems design
Automation development and AI integration
Internal tooling and workflow infrastructure
SMB-scale implementation and deployment
Help small teams turn AI curiosity into a working system — improving efficiency, reducing repetitive work, and building lasting in-house capability.

We don't believe in AI theatre. We believe in clear problems, practical tools, and teams that leave with enough understanding to keep improving on their own. Every engagement ends with a handoff. The capability stays in the building.

Four principles we won't compromise on

Problem first, tool second

We never recommend AI for its own sake. We identify what's actually underperforming, then decide whether AI helps.

Plain language, always

No jargon. No "stochastic parity." If we can't explain it clearly to a business owner, we don't deploy it.

Build for independence

We're not building a dependency. The systems we create are designed to run without us — starting at handoff.

Teach by showing

Every training session produces something the client keeps and uses. Concepts land in the context of real work.

How we work — and why

Most consultants lead with tools. We lead with a diagnostic — because the order of operations is what makes AI adoption stick. Two rules shape every engagement.

Automation comes fourth, not first

Most businesses come to us asking for automation. It's deliberately step 4 of our ladder — because automating an undocumented, unstable process just produces faster mistakes.

1 Find the repetitive, structured task (Audit)
2 Define your voice and standards (Identity)
3 Document the workflow and review rules (Process)
4 Now automate — pilot one workflow, measure, then expand (Automation)
5 Keep it safe with a few clear rules (Governance)

Every automation gets a "stop and ask" rule

Before anything runs on its own, we define when it stops and waits for a person. Three situations always get a human gate:

The output reaches your customers

Anything client-facing gets human review before it goes out — no matter how confident the system is.

The input looks wrong

Missing or unusual data halts the automation and alerts a person. Bad input produces confident wrong answers.

The mistake would be expensive

Anything touching money, legal documents, or regulated data gets a human checkpoint before action — not just review after.

What we need from you — and what "done" looks like

An engagement is a two-way commitment. Here's what makes it work on your side, and the standard we hold ourselves to before we call anything finished.

What we ask of you

A decision-maker. One person with the authority to act. Committees stall adoption.

An internal champion. Someone who will drive adoption, not just approve it. They don't need to be technical.

Honest access. A short intake conversation, a list of your tools, and straight answers about your data and metrics.

Realistic capacity. If the next 90 days hold a seasonal peak or a big change, we sequence around it. Rushed implementations fail.

Willingness to write things down. If a key process lives only in someone's head, documenting it is part of the work — and usually the most valuable step.

We're not done until

A non-technical member of your team can follow every system we've built — without calling us.

Every deliverable includes at least one ready-to-use template.

Each solution solves one specific problem completely.

Nothing requires a further purchase to implement.

Your team can spot new AI opportunities on their own. The capability lives in your business — not in ours.

Based in PEI. Available internationally.

We are a boutique firm headquartered on Prince Edward Island, Canada. Our work is not limited by geography — assessments, audits, and training are delivered remotely and adapted to any time zone.

Headquarters

Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada
Atlantic Time Zone (ADT, UTC−4)

Service Area

Canada, United States, and international clients. All engagements available fully remote. On-site sessions available in Atlantic Canada by arrangement.

Time Zone Accommodation

We schedule calls across North American time zones and can accommodate UK and European clients with early-morning or evening availability.

Contact

Reach us through the contact form or by booking an initial call. We respond within one business day.

Prince Edward Island, Canada