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AI consulting for US businesses, from an Australian team.
We work with businesses in the United States and we are not going to pretend to be American. What we offer is a genuine overlap with your working day, past US client work, and rates that sit below the US market because our cost base does. If a US-based consultant is what you need, we will say so.
hello@raamaimarketing.com · Melbourne based, working across the United States
The the United States market
What is actually different here.
The time difference works better than most people expect, and worse in one direction. Melbourne mornings overlap with US Pacific afternoons of the previous day, so a 9am call here lands mid-afternoon on the West Coast. East Coast is harder and usually means an early start for us, which we are happy to do. What does not work is same-hour availability all day, and you should know that before you engage anyone offshore.
The cost difference is real rather than a discount. US AI consulting rates reflect US salaries and US overheads. We charge Australian rates for the same work, which for most engagements lands meaningfully below comparable US quotes without any reduction in scope.
Our US experience is specific rather than general: an AI content and image generation system for a nationwide printing company based in Houston, a CRM consolidation for a US marketing company that removed over a thousand dollars a month in subscriptions, and an AI marketing strategy for a US agency that saved around fourteen hours a week of manual production.
Where we work in the United States
The areas, and what each one needs.
West Coast (PT)
The best overlap. Our morning is your previous afternoon, so same-day turnaround works naturally.
Mountain and Central (MT/CT)
Workable. Early calls our end, late afternoon yours.
East Coast (ET)
Hardest overlap and entirely doable. Expect early-morning calls from us rather than mid-day availability.
Distributed and remote-first
Frequently the easiest of all, because these teams already work asynchronously and judge output rather than presence.
Suburbs and centres we cover
- New York
- Los Angeles
- Chicago
- Houston
- Austin
- Dallas
- San Francisco
- Seattle
- Denver
- Boston
- Atlanta
- Miami
- Phoenix
- San Diego
- Portland
- Nashville
- Minneapolis
- Remote and distributed teams
What is included
What you get, and what it costs.
Quoted and invoiced in Australian dollars, which for US clients has generally meant a meaningful saving against comparable local quotes. Ongoing engagements run AUD $2,500 to $5,000 a month, a defined build is AUD $8,000 to $30,000, and standalone diagnosis is AUD $4,000 to $9,000. Currency movement is your risk and your upside; we do not build a margin in for it.
Past US work: an AI content generator and brand-aligned image generation for a nationwide printing company in Houston, a Go High Level CRM consolidation for a US marketing company that removed over $1,200 a month in subscriptions, and an AI marketing strategy for a US agency that saved roughly 14 hours a week of manual production. We are Melbourne based with no US office, and we would rather state that plainly than let you discover it on a call.
Full details on AI app development- Diagnosis of how work actually moves through your business
- A ranked opportunity list with expected value per item
- Custom AI tools, agents and internal dashboards
- Marketing, sales and operations automation
- AI content and search systems
- Documentation and team training
- Handover, with your accounts and your code
the United States questions, answered straight.
Including what it costs, whether we cover your area, and where being Melbourne based does and does not matter.
How does the time difference actually work?
Melbourne is ahead of the US, so our morning is your previous afternoon. A 9am Melbourne call is mid-afternoon Pacific and late afternoon Eastern the day before. In practice that means West Coast clients get a natural same-day rhythm and East Coast clients get early calls from us. The build work is asynchronous regardless, so the overlap only needs to cover calls and decisions.
Is it cheaper than hiring a US consultant?
Generally yes, and for a structural reason rather than as a discount. We charge Australian rates because our cost base is Australian. For most engagements that lands below comparable US quotes for the same scope. We quote in Australian dollars, so the exchange rate is your risk and your upside.
Have you actually worked with US clients?
Yes. A nationwide printing company in Houston, for AI content and brand-aligned image generation. A US marketing company, consolidating a stack of tools into one CRM and removing over $1,200 a month in subscriptions. And a US marketing agency, for AI marketing strategy that saved around fourteen hours a week. Not a large portfolio, and real.
What about our data leaving the United States?
Reasonable question and it needs answering before you engage anyone offshore. In practice your data usually stays in your own systems and your own cloud accounts, because that is where we build. Where a model processes it, we use business tiers where inputs are not used to train public models. If you have contractual or regulatory requirements about data residency, tell us at the start and we will design around them or tell you we are the wrong fit.
Do you work with US businesses in any particular state?
We work nationally rather than by state, because the work is remote and the demand is national. Practically, West Coast clients get the easiest scheduling. We have not built state or city pages for the US because the search volume behind them is negligible and we have no local presence to justify them, which is the honest reason.
Why would we use an Australian firm at all?
Three reasons that hold up: cost, because Australian rates are genuinely lower for the same scope. Overlap, because our working day covers your afternoon rather than being fully offshore like some alternatives. And the fact that we build rather than advise, so you finish with working systems you own. If none of those matter more to you than having someone in your time zone, hire locally, and we will say so on the call.
Start here
Tell us what is actually slowing you down.
Thirty minutes. If this is not the right thing for your the United States business to spend money on, we will say so and point you at what is.
Melbourne based · working across the United States · hello@raamaimarketing.com
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