AI consulting firms in Memphis: how to choose one

King & Company wrote this page, and King & Company is one of the firms on it. Please read it with that in mind. People often search for the best AI consulting firm in Memphis, and the honest answer is that the right firm depends on the kind of help you need. A brokerage team that wants its lease abstracts drafted for review needs something different from an accounting firm that wants an AI policy, and both need something different from a company that wants its IT provider to add AI tools to a managed contract.

This page is written for a Memphis professional firm, such as a commercial real estate brokerage, an accounting practice, an insurance agency, or an advisory firm. It lists seven firms in alphabetical order, describes each one using only what that firm says about itself on its own website, and then spends most of its length on the questions worth asking any of them.

What is true about AI in Memphis right now

Memphis has had a good deal of AI news. In December 2024 the Greater Memphis Chamber announced that xAI would expand its Colossus supercomputer facility in the city, and that Nvidia, Dell, and Supermicro were establishing operations there. The Chamber described the expansion as the region's largest capital investment to date, and its announcement refers to Memphis as the "Digital Delta" (Greater Memphis Chamber).

The University of Memphis has been adding training as well. Its Fogelman College lists a Master of Science in Information Systems with a concentration in applied AI for business, starting in fall 2026 and designed for early to mid-career professionals (University of Memphis). The FedEx Institute of Technology and 901 AI at the university also host an annual AI and cybersecurity conference, which reached its third year in 2026 (University of Memphis).

None of that changes what a thirty-person professional firm needs. A supercomputer across town does not abstract a lease or draft a proposal. What a firm like that needs is someone who will sit with the people doing the work, learn how they do it, and build something they will use next week. The local news is useful mainly as a prompt to ask what AI could do for your own firm's work.

The kinds of firms you will find

Before looking at names, it helps to know that "AI consulting" covers several different kinds of provider. The table below describes the types in general terms. It is not a judgment of any firm on this page.

Type of provider	What you typically receive	When it tends to fit
National accounting and advisory firm	Strategy, governance, risk review, and larger implementation programs	You want AI work tied to audit, tax, or enterprise risk, and you already work with the firm
Technology and software consultancy	Custom applications, platform implementations, and AI features added to them	You have a defined software project and a budget for it
Digital and web agency with AI services	Websites, commerce, marketing, and AI built into those	Your AI need is customer-facing or tied to your website
Business advisory firm	Planning, vendor selection, and adoption guidance	You want an independent view before you commit to tools
Embedded or forward deployed engineering firm	Working tools built inside your environment, with your team trained during the build	You want specific workflows rebuilt and handed over to the people who own them

If the last row is unfamiliar, we explain the model at more length in forward deployed AI engineering firms.

Firms a Memphis buyer could consider

The list is in alphabetical order. It is not a ranking, and no firm here was scored. For each firm other than our own, we opened its website on October 2, 2026 and wrote down only what the site says. We left out any firm whose details we could not confirm from its own site, so the list is not complete. We have not worked with these firms and we are not in a position to judge their work. Ask them directly.

BlueprintIQ

BlueprintIQ describes itself as a multidisciplinary advisory firm, with services grouped under business strategy, technology advisory, and operations. Its site lists responsible AI adoption and governance among its technology advisory services, and says its recommendations are based on technical fit, organizational capability, and total cost of ownership and not on vendor relationships. It says it serves organizations with 5 to 500 employees, in engagements of three to twelve months. The site lists an office on Young Avenue in Memphis and a second office in Amarillo, Texas.

Deloitte

Deloitte lists a Memphis office on Poplar Avenue. The service menu on the firm's site includes audit, assurance, tax, and cyber, along with an AI and engineering category that has AI and data, cloud services, and engineering under it. That menu covers the firm as a whole and is not specific to the Memphis office.

eBiz Solutions

eBiz Solutions gives its location as Memphis, Tennessee. Its site lists generative AI, AI agents, AI automations, machine learning and computer vision, and AI consulting, alongside Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and custom application development. It describes its AI consulting as a four-step process: identifying business challenges, exploring where AI applies, assessing the data, and developing a feasibility assessment and roadmap.

Forvis Mazars

Forvis Mazars lists a Memphis office on Aaron Brenner Drive and says that office provides audit, tax, and consulting services to clients in industries including financial services, nonprofit, construction, real estate, and manufacturing and distribution. The firm's AI strategy and integration page describes four areas of work: modernizing the data and technology foundation, defining AI use cases and strategy, implementing and deploying AI solutions, and AI risk and governance. The AI page covers the firm as a whole and is not specific to the Memphis office.

King & Company

King & Company is a forward deployed engineering firm, and it is the firm that wrote this page. It embeds with a client's team to build AI workflows, Claude skills, custom software, and systems integrations, and it trains the team during the build. The client owns what is built, and the work is done inside the client's own AI workspace. Its focus is commercial real estate first, then professional services, then private equity portfolio companies. King & Company does not have a Memphis office. It has clients in Memphis, including commercial real estate brokerage, accounting, and insurance firms, and also in Atlanta, Boston, and the Miami and Orlando area. Its two partners live in Boston and Miami, and the work is done embedded with the client's team, largely remotely.

Lokion

Lokion lists an office on Ridge Lake Boulevard in Memphis. Its site lists six service offerings: digital commerce, content management, digital marketing and growth, AI integration and strategy, user experience, and custom development. It describes its AI offering as helping clients use AI in operations, decision-making, and customer experience, whether with existing tools or custom AI solutions.

Whippet Creative

Whippet Creative lists an address on Hallwood Drive in Memphis and describes itself as an AI digital solutions and digital transformation company. Its AI services page lists AI strategy and consulting, digital workers, AI integration and automation, and digital products. The site also lists website development, ecommerce development, graphic design, and digital marketing, and names healthcare, sports, transportation, agtech, manufacturing, logistics, retail, and ecommerce as industries served.

How to choose: five questions for any firm

This is the part of the page that matters most, and it applies to every firm above, including ours. Ask each firm the same questions, ask for the answers in writing, and compare them side by side. A firm that does good work will have clear answers ready.

Who does the building?

Ask for the name of the person who will build your tools, and ask whether that person will be in the scoping conversation. In some firms the senior person sells and scopes, and a different team delivers. That can work well, but you should know it going in. Ask how many hours a week the builder will spend on your work, whether any of it is subcontracted or sent offshore, and whether you can speak with that person before you sign. If the firm's main offering is advice, ask plainly whether the engagement ends with a document or with something your team can use on Monday.

Where does the data live?

A brokerage's leases and rent rolls, an accounting firm's client financials, and an insurance agency's policy and claims files are all confidential, and some are covered by professional or contractual obligations. Ask each firm where your documents will be processed and stored. The specific questions are these. Will the work happen inside your own accounts and your own AI workspace, or will your files be copied into the consultant's systems? Which AI model providers will see your data, and under what terms? Is any of your data used to train a model? Who at the consulting firm has access, and what happens to that access when the engagement ends? Will the firm sign your NDA and, if you have one, your client's? A firm that works inside your environment has less to explain here than a firm that asks you to upload files to its platform, but either can be acceptable if the answers are specific.

Who owns the result?

Ask what you own when the engagement ends. That includes the prompts, the instructions, the code, the templates, the integrations, and the documentation. Ask whether anything you receive depends on a platform the consultant controls, and whether there is a recurring license or platform fee to keep using it. Then ask the practical version of the question: if you part ways, can your own staff or another firm open what was built, understand it, and change it? Ownership on paper is worth little if the work is undocumented or runs only on the consultant's account. Get the ownership terms into the contract, including who owns improvements made along the way.

How does the team get trained?

A tool that nobody on your team uses has no value to you, however well it was built. Ask how the firm will get your team using what it builds. A training session at the end is the weakest form. Training on your own documents, during the build, with the person who owns the workflow in the room, is stronger, because that person helps shape the tool and already knows it when it is finished. Ask who on your side needs to be involved and for how many hours a week, and be honest with yourself about whether your team has that time. Ask what the firm does when a senior person on your team is skeptical, because in a professional firm that person usually decides whether the tool gets used.

What happens after the engagement?

AI tools need upkeep. Models change, your templates change, and the systems they connect to get updated. Ask what the firm leaves behind so that you can maintain the work yourself, and what ongoing support costs if you want it. Ask what happens when something breaks six months later, who you call, and how fast they respond. Ask whether continued support is optional or whether the tool stops working without it. A good answer includes written documentation, a named person on your team who can run each tool, and a clear description of what a follow-on engagement would cover if you chose one.

A reasonable way to run the process

Pick one workflow that costs your team real hours every week and that you can describe in a paragraph. For a brokerage that might be lease abstraction or the first pass of a broker opinion of value. For an accounting or insurance firm it might be proposal drafting, client reporting, or intake. We cover the brokerage version in more detail in AI consultants for commercial real estate.

Take that one workflow to two or three firms of different types from the table above. Ask each how they would approach it, who would do the work, and what you would have at the end. Ask for a reference from a firm of your size and kind. The differences between provider types become clear quickly when they are all answering the same concrete question, and you will learn more from that than from any list, including this one.

If your firm also has offices or clients in other cities, the same questions apply there. We have written a similar page for AI consulting firms in Atlanta.

Common questions

Which AI consulting firms have an office in Memphis?

According to their own websites, BlueprintIQ, Deloitte, eBiz Solutions, Forvis Mazars, Lokion, and Whippet Creative each state a Memphis office or a Memphis location. King & Company has clients in Memphis and no office there.

Does King & Company have a Memphis office?

No. King & Company has clients in Memphis, and its two partners live in Boston and Miami. The work is done embedded with the client's team, largely remotely, inside the client's own environment.

What should a Memphis firm ask an AI consultant before hiring one?

Ask who will do the building, where your data will live, who owns what gets built, how your team will be trained, and what happens after the engagement ends. Ask every firm the same five questions and compare the answers in writing.

Is a local firm better than a remote one for AI work?

It depends on the work. If you want someone in your office regularly, or a partner who also manages your IT, a local office matters. If the work is building tools against your documents and systems, it can be done well remotely as long as the firm works inside your environment and meets with your team on a set schedule.

Who wrote this comparison?

King & Company wrote it and is listed on it. The other firms are described only with facts from their own websites, and the list is in alphabetical order with no ranking.