AI Strategy · Faith-Driven Business Leaders
I help faith-driven small business owners cut through the hype and make their first confident move with AI — a clear plan built from your actual workflows, grounded in your values, with a trusted guide alongside you.
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You're not alone in this
Every week brings new announcements, new tools, new warnings. You can't evaluate it all — and you're not sure you can trust what you're hearing.
You want to lead with integrity. What you adopt should reflect who you are, respect the people in your care, and honor the calling behind your business.
Navigating a technology wave faithfully requires someone who has been here before — who understands the technology from the inside, thinks at the level of strategy, and shares your conviction that how you build matters as much as what you build.
How I can help
I work with a small number of clients at a time. The work is specific, relational, and designed to give you clarity — not just a deliverable.
Primary Engagement
A structured engagement that maps your business, identifies practical AI opportunities aligned with your values, and delivers a clear 90-day plan and 12-month roadmap. You leave with confidence and a specific path forward — not a generic list of tools.
Includes one month of Advisory support and access to the client resource portal — so you're not left to execute the plan alone.
Learn moreOngoing
After the Roadmap, many clients continue with regular advisory sessions — working through decisions as AI evolves, evaluating new opportunities, and staying grounded as the landscape shifts.
This is the relationship most clients are looking for: a trusted advisor in their corner who shares their values and understands their business.
Start with a discovery callNot an AI question? I've spent eight years helping business leaders navigate all kinds of disruption — ownership transitions, mergers and acquisitions, new funding, and more. If you're facing a different kind of challenge, I'd still be glad to talk.
A different kind of AI advising
Most AI consultants help you find efficiencies. I help you make decisions you can stand behind — to your team, your customers, and your God. The GRACE Framework is the lens I bring to every engagement.
What competing goods are at stake, and what might be lost?
What responsibilities do we retain, even when AI performs the task?
What is actually shaping this decision — and does it deserve that authority?
Who is this decision shaping us to become?
Who bears the consequences, especially those with less power?
AI is now contributing to its own development. What does that mean — and how should Christians think about it? Neither panic nor denial, but clear-eyed preparation.
Read at ClearPurpose March 2026 · The Smart StewardWhen AI reshapes what work looks like, the question of what you're actually building — and who you're becoming in the process — becomes unavoidable.
Read on LinkedIn January 2026 · Book ReviewZack Kass's optimistic vision of AI's future — what it gets right, what it glosses over, and how to read it with discernment.
Read at ClearPurpose March 2026 · Faithful Intelligence"The people who performed best with AI were those who refused to let AI think for them. They used it as a sparring partner. They stayed in the driver's seat."
Read on SubstackAbout Russ McGuire
I've been here before — twice. In the mid-1990s, I co-founded the first web development firm in Oklahoma, helping businesses figure out what the Internet meant for them before any had a website. In the mid-2000s, I wrote The Power of Mobility, helping leaders navigate the smartphone revolution before the iPhone even had an app store.
Each decade, a new wave. Each time, the same conviction: leaders who move thoughtfully and early come out ahead. Now, in the mid-2020s, I'm focused on Faithful AI — helping faith-driven small business leaders cut through the hype and make their first confident move, with a clear plan built from their actual workflows and goals, and a values framework for making decisions they can stand behind.
I'm not here to sell AI. I'm here to help you figure out what it actually means for your business, your people, and your calling. I work with a small number of clients at a time — if that's what you're looking for, I'd be glad to talk.
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