CYA Help Me Brings Plain-Language AI Consulting to Wichita Small Businesses

Every software vendor now says its product has AI in it. Most small business owners can't tell what's real, what's safe to use with customer data and what's a subscription they'll pay for and never open. Bodie Engel wants to be the person who sits in your office and tells you. Engel ran local IT support in Wichita for years under the CYA name. His new practice, CYA Help Me, applies the same standards to a new problem: helping Wichita-area businesses with 5 to 100 people decide where AI actually belongs in their work, and then building it with them.

Start With a Free Session

The first meeting is free, in person or on video, and runs sixty to ninety minutes. You bring your questions and one workflow that annoys you. You leave with a written, plain-language recommendation whether or not you go further.

How an Engagement Runs

CYA Help Me is built in steps, and each one has to earn the next. AI Readiness Audit, from $2,500. Two to three weeks of interviews and workflow review, ending with a ranked roadmap, a written AI-use policy and a fixed quote for what comes next. Implementation sprint, $6,000 to $18,000. Four to eight weeks to build one to three working automations, documented, with your staff trained to run them. Fractional AI Lead, from $1,500 a month. Ongoing ownership: a standing meeting, a backlog, vendor questions handled and support hours every month. Stop wherever it stops making sense. That's the stated design, not a sales line.

Your Business, Plus the Right Amount of AI

The logo is a split image: one half is how your office already runs, the other is what AI can add. The job is fitting the two together without breaking what works. You bring the way quotes, emails, scheduling and paperwork actually get done today, the software you already pay for (Microsoft 365, Google, QuickBooks, your CRM), customer data that has to stay private, and staff who are busy and skeptical. CYA Help Me adds a short list of automations that pay for themselves in weeks, AI features switched on properly inside the tools you already own, a written AI-use policy so nobody pastes the wrong thing into a chatbot, and hands-on training in your office on your real work.

Who It's Built For

The practice is aimed at businesses with an owner who can decide in one meeting and enough repetitive desk work to make automation pay. Engel names the kinds of work he sees most: insurance, law and accounting offices buried in documents and email; aviation suppliers and job shops handling quotes, RFQs, spec reviews and maintenance records; trades and field services juggling bids, scheduling, missed calls and review responses; clinics and home health managing intake and documentation carefully; real estate and title offices producing listing content and lead follow-up. And, in his words, anyone tired of vendor demos.

Why the Name

CYA is the name Wichita businesses knew for years of dependable local IT support. Same person, same standards, new problem. Engel's pitch is simple: he'll look at the actual work, say what's worth doing, and then do it with you. Sessions are booked through cyahelp.com.