AI consulting · St. Petersburg, FL

AI consulting in St. Petersburg from the marinas to the Edge District

St. Pete pairs a working waterfront with one of Florida’s liveliest downtowns. We help its businesses use AI where it genuinely saves time, and skip it where it doesn’t.

Call 941-777-0541. A relaxed conversation about your business, no obligation.

SkyRock Agency LLC

AI consulting with a St. Pete point of view

Walk the downtown waterfront and you pass marinas, charter docks and boatyards alongside marine science labs, galleries and coffee shops full of people building startups. St. Petersburg’s economy blends hands-on trades with knowledge work, and both carry more administrative work than anyone signed up for.

Here, AI consulting often means helping small teams act bigger. A boatyard with four people in the office can answer customers, schedule haul-outs and track parts like a much larger operation. A downtown agency can turn around first drafts faster and spend its hours on the creative work clients actually pay for. We study your workflow, build what’s worth building, and leave the rest alone.

The city’s big finance, insurance and electronics employers have in-house technology teams, but their suppliers and smaller competitors usually don’t. For those companies we act as the AI department they can’t justify hiring yet: advising, building, and keeping the tools current as the models change. Where a company does have its own developers or IT staff, we can train them instead, so they build and run AI tools themselves.

Connectors that let AI use your own software

We also build MCP servers, custom connectors that let AI assistants work directly with your systems. For one project we wrapped a flight-leasing site’s API so staff can book reservations and create bills simply by asking. See the demos.

St. Pete examples

Where St. Petersburg businesses put AI to work

Drawn from the city’s waterfront, creative and tech scenes.

Marinas, boatyards and charters

Answer slip, fuel and charter questions at any hour, schedule service and haul-outs, and match parts orders to work orders, so the dock staff can stay on the dock.

Creative agencies and galleries

Draft proposals, first-pass copy and social posts in your voice, catalog artwork and inventory with descriptions, and keep client feedback organized in one place.

Startups and tech teams

Ship AI features in your own product, or connect your internal tools so assistants like Claude and ChatGPT can use them safely, with permissions you control.

Questions

Questions St. Pete businesses ask us

Do you only work with tech companies?

No. Some of our most useful projects are for traditional businesses like boatyards, contractors and professional offices. If your team spends hours on repetitive paperwork, we can probably help.

We're a startup that wants AI inside our own product. Is that something you build?

Yes. Along with consulting, we write production software: AI features, integrations and custom MCP connectors, delivered with tests and documentation so your developers can take it from there.

How do we start if we're not sure what we need?

Book the free thirty-minute discovery meeting and bring one real problem. We'll tell you whether AI is the right tool for it, and what we'd do first.

How we work

From a free meeting to a running tool, in four steps

  1. Free discovery meeting

    30 minutes · free

    Bring one real problem. We tell you plainly whether AI helps, what it takes, and what it costs. "Not yet" is an honest answer.

  2. AI readiness assessment

    Two weeks · from $1,500 · credited toward the pilot

    A review of your processes, data, systems and risks, with a prioritized roadmap and a fixed-price quote for the top project.

  3. Pilot build

    Fixed scope · from $4,500

    One working tool from the roadmap, delivered with tests and docs.

  4. Run & train

    From $450 per month

    Hosting, monitoring, updates, a real person to call, and hands-on training for your team.

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No-obligation discovery meeting

Thirty minutes, free. Bring one real problem from your business. We'll tell you plainly whether AI helps, what it would take, and what it would cost. If the honest answer is "not yet", you'll hear that too.