AI Consultant, Phoenix
If you're a Phoenix small business owner looking for an AI consultant who actually runs a business, here's my angle: I put AI to work in my own business first, and I only bring you what actually worked.
At a glance
Sonoran Intelligence is a Phoenix-based AI consultancy for small businesses, founder-led by someone who used AI to grow his own business before advising anyone else's.
Based on growing Liquid Breathwork, Ryan McBurney's own business, from 17 clicks a month at its low point to a peak of 1,647 (Google Search Console, Feb to Jun 2026).I don't sell a generic AI playbook I've never tested. I run one Arizona business myself, and I bring the exact pieces that worked there to a small number of other local business owners, without stripping out the human parts of their business to do it.
I've run a real Arizona business since 2018, Liquid Breathwork, a Breathwork training company. I wore every hat: sales, content, the website, the books, the actual teaching. A couple years ago, that website barely existed to Google, as few as 17 clicks in a month at the low point.Google Search Console, Feb 2026.
I started using AI, seriously, not to replace myself but to get more done. It made me roughly 10x more productive. Today that same site pulls a peak of 1,647 clicks a monthGoogle Search Console, Jun 2026. and gets cited by ChatGPT and Gemini 684 times in 82 days.Microsoft Clarity, Mar 1 to May 21 2026. Read the full breakdown on the Liquid Breathwork results page.
I did that to my own business before I ever offered it to anyone else, and that's still the only way I'll work with yours.
Plenty of people call themselves an AI consultant right now. Most of them have never run a business, let alone grown one. I'm not a faceless agency, and there's no account manager standing in the way. I won't hand you a pile of AI-generated blog posts with your name on them and call it a strategy, and I won't tell you to replace your team, or yourself, with a bot.
AI handles the repeatable, time-consuming parts of running a business. The parts that make your customers trust you, your voice, your face, your judgment, stay entirely human. That's on purpose.
Part of the work is showing up where your customers are already asking for help: on Google, and increasingly by asking ChatGPT and Gemini directly for a recommendation. I call that generative engine optimization, and it's one of the pieces I bring into a business, alongside a website and the basic AI systems worth actually using. AI SEO, using AI-assisted work to rank higher specifically inside Google itself, is a related but separate piece I also handle.
If you want a look before you book a call, start with my free website and AI visibility check. It tells you whether ChatGPT and Google's AI already recommend you or a competitor, free, with no obligation.
Everything I build after that is custom to your business and the landscape of your industry. Everything is custom based on how you actually operate. I figure out the price on a call.
I work with a small number of Arizona businesses at a time, mostly plumbers, painters, sign shops, and other local service businesses that live or die on being found, so I can actually do the work myself instead of spreading it across a roster of clients I've never met.
FAQ
Myself, personally. No team, no offshore contractors, no account manager who disappears after the pitch. I build the site, run the SEO and AI visibility work, and stay on it after.
I ran a real business before I ever consulted on someone else's. Most agencies sell you a package built for nobody in particular. I built my own playbook on Liquid Breathwork first, then bring the parts that actually worked to Arizona business owners, one at a time.
No. That's not what I do. AI handles the repeatable, time-consuming parts. The parts of your business that make people trust you, your voice, your judgment, your face, stay human. I build it that way on purpose.
Every business is different, so pricing is custom. I'll quote it on a free call.
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