Global Innovation Group — the future belongs to the proactive
The AI era isn't just for the Fortune 500. We help business owners learn the tools, put them to work, and own the results — practical, affordable help from operators who run AI inside their own businesses every day.
Francisco built the playbook inside his own businesses — a CCIM-credentialed commercial real estate broker (SVP, KW Commercial Beverly Hills) running AI across brokerage, capital markets, and private lending. Cindy turned it into a repeatable practice and leads delivery on every engagement. Kristle makes sure business owners hear about it. When you work with GIG, you work with these three.
Operator · Broker · Builder
“I run small businesses. Lending, capital markets, brokerage. I put Claude and AI tools to work inside my own companies — then other owners kept asking how I did it. Global Innovation Group is that answer, made affordable for the community I come from.”
Operations · AI Implementation · Delivery
“I started in operations. Francisco showed me what AI could do, then dared me to learn it. Now I lead delivery on every engagement — intake, build, training — taking a client from a manual workflow to a live system, month after month.”
Brand · Demand · Content
“I built the brand and demand engine at Capital Direct Funding — taking a complex private-lending product and making it land with operators who don't have time for fluff. AI is the same job, different stack. The brand has to feel like the people behind it.”
Big companies get innovation teams and seven-figure consultants. The local brokerage, the neighborhood gym, the independent clinic, the family lending shop — they get hype, jargon, and pricing that makes no sense at their scale. We took a different path: we learned AI by running it inside our own small businesses — commercial real estate, private lending, loan servicing. Now we help business owners in our community do the same. Plain English, working tools, and prices a small business can actually say yes to.
We teach as we go — workshops, working sessions, honest answers. The goal is a community of owners who can use these tools, not a client list that depends on us.
Start with the tools you already have. Most small businesses get their first win from an affordable subscription and a well-built workflow — not custom software.
We run AI in our own businesses — brokerage, lending, servicing — before we ever recommend it in yours.
Priced so the math works at small-business scale. If an engagement won't pay for itself, we'll tell you straight and point you to the free tools instead.
You don't need an enterprise consultancy or a full-time AI hire to put these tools to work. You need someone who has done it in a business like yours, who teaches you while they build, and who charges a price that makes sense at your scale. That's what we do — training, hands-on builds, and honest advice, from operators who use AI in their own companies every day.
Francisco-led.
Workshops and working sessions for you and your team — what today's AI tools actually do, which ones fit your business, and what's just hype. No jargon, no prerequisites. You leave every session with something you can use the same day.
Cindy-led.
This is where most AI advice stops — we keep going. Cindy leads the build: automations for follow-up, intake, and paperwork; a CRM that finally stays clean; documents that draft themselves. Real tools, wired into the way you already work.
Built in.
Our job is done right when you don't need us. Everything we set up comes with training and simple playbooks so you and your team can run it, tweak it, and build on it yourselves. No lock-in, no dependence, no vendor hostage-taking.
Your first AI employee.
One flagship workflow, done for you — most businesses start with never missing a lead again: an AI receptionist with missed-call text-back and automated follow-up, set up, monitored, and tuned.
The system around your customers.
Two to three workflows working together — add review management, appointment reminders and no-show reduction, or CRM enrichment — with monthly optimization and a report showing the leads and revenue recovered.
Your AI department, fractional.
A multi-workflow program with depth in your vertical — intake and document extraction for lenders and firms, admin workflows for clinics, listing and lead systems for real estate — plus a private, self-hosted AI setup where your data warrants it.
For comparison: a professional answering service alone runs $800–$2,100 a month, and a single full-time hire costs several times the top tier. If AI won't pay for itself in your business yet, we'll say so plainly and point you to the free tools worth starting with.
See if it's a fitYou don't need to buy servers to put AI to work. Most small businesses start — and stay — on affordable subscription tools. But where your AI runs still matters: it drives cost, privacy, and control. So we make the setup decision with you. There are two paths.
OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta — the biggest companies on earth are locked in an arms race, spending billions to leapfrog each other every few months. Prices keep falling, capability keeps climbing, and open-source models now trail the frontier by months, not years. In a war like this, the winner is the customer.
What that means for you: the model is becoming the cheap part. Intelligence that required an enterprise contract two years ago now runs on a $20 subscription — or free, on open-source models you can download. Every month the war continues, the tools get better and your cost of entry drops. The advantage no longer goes to whoever spends the most; it goes to whoever applies it first.
And it points at where this ends: owning your own AI. Open-source models like Llama and Mistral already run on a machine in your office — your data never leaves the building, no meter running, a model tuned to your business that nobody can take away or reprice. We believe that's the future for small business: rent the frontier where it helps, own your own model where it counts. Every engagement is built so you can walk that path at your own pace.
Claude, ChatGPT, and off-the-shelf automation platforms — set up properly and wired together into your real workflow. Lowest cost, fastest start, nothing to maintain. This is the right path for most small businesses.
Client files, patient records, loan documents — some data shouldn't leave your hands. We set up open-source AI that runs on equipment you own or in your own accounts: your data never leaves the building, no subscription meter, a model tuned to your business. This is where the AI wars are heading — and you can own a piece of it now, sized and priced for a small business.
Either way, we right-size the spend. The goal is the cheapest setup that does the job well — not the biggest one we can sell you.
Pick your industry, set your revenue and a monthly AI budget, and see what automating the routine work is worth for a business your size. No submit, no email, no sales call — and if the math says “not yet,” it says so.
Recalibrate in real time. Pricing is quoted per business; this is a directional read.
Numbers reflect GIG's internal model at current calibration. The actual engagement is quoted in writing.
It starts with a free consult and ends with you running your own tools. Your first working automation lands in weeks, not quarters — and everything stays month-to-month, so you continue only while it's earning its keep.
We start with a free consult and a walk through your business — where the hours go, what the paperwork looks like, which tools you already pay for. Want the full picture? The AI Audit maps it end to end.
We pick the first win together — something small, affordable, and visible. You get a plan in plain English: what we'll set up, what it costs, and what it should save you.
We build it with you, in your real workflow — automations, CRM cleanup, document tools. You see it working in weeks, not quarters.
We train you and your team to run it, leave you the playbook, and stay available as you grow. Add the next tool when you're ready — month-to-month, no strings.
Every business has different busywork, different tools, different stakes. We help small businesses in six industries — see what the help looks like in yours.
Affordable AI for brokerages, small teams, and independent investors.
Claude and ChatGPT for the thinking work, everyday automation platforms for the busywork, open source when you need your data to stay home — chosen on fit and price, wired into the tools you already run. No vendor lock-in. No hidden dependencies.
Open source where it earns it. Closed models where it doesn't. Your hardware decision shapes both.
A real working conversation, not a sales pitch. We'll walk through your business, point out where AI is most likely to pay off, and tell you honestly whether it's worth spending money on yet. Want the deeper look after that? That's the AI Audit.
Before you spend a dollar on AI, it's worth knowing where it actually pays off. The AI Audit is a fixed-scope read of your business: we sit down with you, walk your workflows, and map where the hours and dollars are leaking. You get a ranked list of what to automate, which tools fit your budget, and an honest verdict — including “not yet” if that's the truth.
It's a flat fee, quoted up front — not a sales call in disguise. If you continue to a monthly plan, the audit fee credits toward your first month.
Tell us about your business below. Cindy reads every inbound, and you'll hear back within 24 hours. If AI isn't worth spending money on for where you are yet, we'll say so plainly — and point you to the free tools worth starting with.