Big Head Consulting
Enterprise-grade Fixed-fee Chicagoland Based

Enterprise-grade automation.
Small-business fair.

The tools that let banks and big firms move fast were never priced for the rest of us. We've spent decades building inside regulated finance — and we bring that same engineering to small businesses, professional firms, and credit unions alike, as a fixed fee you see before we begin. No enterprise price tag. No lock-in. The risk that the work runs long is ours to carry, not yours.

25+ years inside one of the most regulated industries in America — now in the corner of the businesses the enterprise tools left behind.

Who We Help

Same standard. Same fixed fee.
Whoever you are.

Every engagement walks the same path: a free assessment to find the fit, a paid discovery that scopes the work precisely — credited toward the build — and a fixed-fee implementation with one number and one defined result. Who we're doing it for just changes what we automate first.

Legal · Accounting · Insurance
Turn admin hours back into billable ones

Every hour your people spend chasing documents or re-keying data is an hour not spent on billable, advisory work. We target the workflows where automation returns the most capacity — then hand that capacity back to the people who can resell it.

Small & growing businesses
The same engineering, scoped to your one workflow

If a single workflow is quietly costing you real hours every week, we can often build something tightly scoped that earns its cost back fast — the same standard the banks get, at a price built for you. We'll tell you honestly on the call if it doesn't make sense yet.

How We Work

We learn your business
before we change anything.

AI works best when it's built around how your business actually operates. So we start at the ground level — where the real work happens — and build outward from there. You stay in the driver's seat the whole way.

It's more thorough than the consultants who'll sell you a slide deck and disappear — and it's the only way to build AI that actually works for your business, keeps working long after we're done, and leaves you more in control, not dependent on us.

01
You stay in control

The accounts, the code, and the data are yours — no lock-in, no black box, no hostage infrastructure. You come out of this more in control of your business, not dependent on us. We stay on to keep it running only if you want us. Your call.

02
Discovery without the homework

We learn how your business actually runs by watching the work happen — onsite when possible, screen share when not. Guided questions instead of blank-page questionnaires; no weeks of workshops, no homework for your team.

03
A proposal with real math

Your proposal shows the payback case computed from your own numbers — what the problem costs you each month, and when the fix pays for itself. Estimates are labeled as estimates. No invented statistics.

04
A plan with real prices

When we recommend tools, you see current vendor pricing — checked before we quote it. And when an off-the-shelf tool beats a custom build, we'll tell you to buy it instead of paying us to build it.

What's Possible

Win back the time and customers
slipping through the cracks.

Every missed call, forgotten follow-up, and late-night admin task is control you're handing away. Here's what AI and automation are reclaiming for small businesses right now, mapped to businesses like yours.

🍴
Restaurants
Cut no-shows by 40% with automated reservation reminders
🌿
Landscaping
Capture 30% more leads with an AI chatbot that books estimates 24/7
📊
Accounting
Save 10 hours a week by automating client document collection
🛍️
Retail
Triple your Google review count with automated review requests
🏠
Real Estate
Close 25% more deals with smart lead follow-up sequences
❤️
Healthcare
Drop appointment no-shows from 15% to 3% with smart reminders
💪
Fitness Studios
Fill empty class slots with automated waitlist outreach
🔧
Home Services
Respond to every quote request within 5 minutes — automatically
💇
Salons & Spas
Win back 30% of lapsed clients with automated rebooking texts

Illustrative examples of typical industry results — not client case studies. Your numbers get computed from your own business during discovery.

How We Help

Take back the parts of your
business you can control.

Every engagement starts with understanding your business, then hands you back the time, the customers, and the visibility you've been losing. We don't sell software — we solve problems. Custom builds are quoted as a fixed price, with an optional care plan that keeps them running — let's discuss what's right for your business.

🔎
Find Your Starting Point
A focused look at your tools and workflows to find where your time and money are leaking — and a clear plan to take that ground back.
Quick Discovery
💬
Never Miss Another Customer
Automated follow-up, appointment reminders, review requests, and lead response so every customer feels remembered, 24/7.
Implementation Project
🤖
Your 24/7 Front Desk
An AI assistant on your website that captures leads, answers questions, and books appointments — even at 2am.
Implementation Project
🌙
Get Your Evenings Back
Automate the invoicing, scheduling, and internal notifications that are eating your nights and weekends.
Implementation Project
📈
Understand Your Business
Custom dashboards that show you what is actually working — revenue trends, customer patterns, marketing ROI — in plain English.
Analytics Project
🎯
Stop Wasting Marketing Spend
AI-driven targeting so your ads and emails reach the people most likely to buy — and stop reaching everyone else.
Marketing Project
Fixed-Price Builds

Enterprise-grade software,
priced like a product.

The small-business on-ramp: our most-requested builds, quoted as a fixed price — not an open-ended hourly project — and built to the same standard as our regulated-finance work. Every build includes an optional monthly care plan (hosting, monitoring, small changes) so it keeps working after launch. Banks and credit unions get a bespoke, discovery-scoped engagement instead — see the regulated practice.

📞
AI Phone Agent

Answers and qualifies the calls you miss — tuned to your exact scripts, services, and hours. You pay call usage at cost; no per-call markup.

from $4,500+ from $199/mo care plan + infra at cost
🔁
Lead Intake & Follow-Up

Web form to CRM to email and text sequences that match how you actually sell — so every lead gets fast, consistent follow-up.

from $4,500+ from $169/mo care plan + infra at cost
🌐
Website + Lead Capture

A fast marketing site with built-in intake that you own outright — no site-builder subscription, no conversion limits.

from $6,500+ from $169/mo care plan + infra at cost
📊
Operations Dashboard

One screen pulling your existing tools into the numbers you actually watch — revenue, jobs, follow-ups, reviews.

from $9,000+ from $199/mo care plan + infra at cost
🔌
Systems Integration

Direct connections between your core tools, replacing a stack of per-task automation subscriptions.

from $5,000+ from $249/mo care plan + infra at cost
📅
Client Portal & Booking

A branded booking and status portal for when off-the-shelf schedulers can't model how your service really works.

from $18,000+ from $249/mo care plan + infra at cost

Prices are starting estimates; your final quote follows discovery and scope. And if an off-the-shelf tool fits better, we'll tell you to buy that instead of paying us to build it.

See It In Action

Watch the machinery
actually work.

No slideware — these are screen recordings of real systems, starting with the platform that runs our own consultancy. Most run under two minutes and play silently with captions, so go ahead and watch from anywhere.

The whole platform: lead to cash2:00

The full story on our own live system — a lead arrives, becomes a proposal, gets accepted, and pays. Every demo on this page runs on machinery we built and use daily.

Watch on YouTube ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Demo data is fictional; the software is real. Want to see it pointed at your business?

Deep Expertise

Deep expertise in
mortgage & financial services.

For 25 years, we've automated workflows in one of the most regulated industries in America — from the LOS, CRM, and pricing engine to the borrower-facing point of sale. That depth informs everything we do, and it's available to mortgage lenders who want a specialist who knows the platforms inside out.

The borrower journey, working — end to end.

The borrower-facing journey we build for lenders: a veteran household arrives wanting cash, gets an honest HELOC-vs-cash-out comparison, and runs every step to a submitted application — co-borrower and e-signature included. The math is computed, disclosures are fixed, and it hands off cleanly to a licensed loan officer.

This borrower self-service journey is growing into a full mortgage point-of-sale platform — in active development now. The experience above is real, not a mockup.

Watch on YouTube ↗ (opens in a new tab)
87%
Quote error reduction on a pricing engine redesign
100%
Manual processing eliminated on VOE and flood cert workflows
75%
Faster pricing response times after a pricing-engine integration
25+
Years of mortgage industry operational experience

From the LOS and CRM to the POS and pricing engine, we've built and integrated the platforms mortgage operations depend on — across the major vendors in each layer. We understand TRID compliance, LE/CD requirements, and what survives agency scrutiny.

Services available for mortgage clients:

  • LOS workflow design and automation
  • CRM optimization and integration
  • POS implementation and tuning
  • TRID-compliant disclosure automation
  • Borrower & realtor partner milestone messaging
  • Past-client refi and equity opportunity flagging
The Journey

What an engagement
actually looks like.

The same five steps every time — and at every one of them, you're holding something concrete.

1
Free assessment

Tell us about your business in about 90 seconds — pick your type, pick what sounds familiar. Then a short call, also free, to talk it through and make sure we're a fit.

You walk away withA personalized AI roadmap: specific solutions and tools for your business.
2
In-Depth Discovery & Design

Onsite when possible, screen share when not. We sit with the people who do the work and watch exactly how it gets done — every click, workaround, and re-typed field — so the plan fits reality, not a questionnaire.

You walk away withA fixed-price blueprint for your business — yours to keep, whoever builds it. The $500 fee is credited in full toward your engagement.
3
Proposal

A fixed fee, a timeline, and the payback math computed from your own numbers — estimates labeled as estimates.

You walk away withA proposal you can judge in dollars, not buzzwords.
4
Build

We build, integrate, and test around your real workflows — recommending off-the-shelf tools at verified current prices wherever they beat a custom build.

You walk away withWorking software plus an execution roadmap with real tools at real prices.
5
Handoff

Accounts, code, and data transfer to you. We stay on the care plan if you want us — your call.

You walk away withYou own everything. No lock-in, no hostage infrastructure.
Why Big Head Consulting Exists

"For 25 years I've watched a technology gap separate the haves from the have-nots in business. Big banks have AI teams. Independent lenders don't. Big retailers have automation. Local shops don't. But the tools to close that gap are finally here — and most small business owners don't know it. Big Head Consulting exists to bring practical AI to the businesses that have been left out of the conversation."

— Robert Raymundo, Founder · Naperville, IL

Education
MIT Sloan
AI: Implications for Business Strategy
Experience
25+ Years
Business operations and mortgage banking
Building
Borrower Self-Service
A mortgage point-of-sale platform, in active development
AgileOKR FrameworksRPATRID ComplianceWorkflow AutomationData VisualizationUI/UX DesignSDLCSMB AI StrategyMicrosoft 365 Copilot
After launch

We watch it so you never have to

Anyone can hand you software. The difference between a build and a partnership is what happens after launch. We watch your build around the clock and catch problems — usually before one of your customers ever does.

Your live site

Reachability and the security certificate — so a down page or an expiring cert is caught before your customers hit it.

Hosting & deploys

Failed deploys and elevated error rates — so a bad release is caught instead of quietly serving errors.

Application code

Build/test failures and new security advisories on the code that runs your tools.

Your database

Availability, security and performance advisories, and error spikes on the data your business runs on.

  • You'll never be the one who finds out your site is down from an angry customer — we already know, and we're already on it.
  • A live status page you can bookmark: one glance shows every part of your build is healthy, checked automatically around the clock.
  • Automated checks plus human judgment — our triage layer means fast response without a 24/7 babysitting bill.
  • Small changes included every month, so your build keeps pace with your business instead of going stale.
Essential
Keep it alive.
  • Around-the-clock monitoring of all four surfaces
  • Your live, bookmarkable status page
  • We catch and triage outages
Next-business-day response
Priority
Treated like mission-critical.
  • Everything in Care
  • Our fastest response SLA and extra change hours
  • A monthly health report on your build
4-business-hour response · monthly health report

Monitoring detects and triages — we catch issues fast and act on them. It is real coverage, not a guarantee that nothing can ever break.

Free Assessment

Get your custom
AI roadmap.

Tell us about your business. In about 90 seconds you'll get a personalized roadmap with specific solutions, tool recommendations, and an agenda for our follow-up call.

⏱️ Under 2 minutes·🎯 Personalized to you·🆓 Always free
⏱️ Step 1 of 3 · Pick your business type
Which sounds most like your business?

We'll show you common challenges for your type — pick what applies, add anything else, and we'll generate a roadmap specific to your situation.

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