AI consulting · Nashville
Socket Solutions is a Nashville AI consulting firm and systems integrator for owner-led small businesses, agencies, professional firms and healthtech teams. Founder Caleb Dixon brings 25+ years in healthcare innovation and technology. We start with one workflow, measure how the work runs today, keep a named person approving important AI steps, then decide what to build next.
What we do
For most small businesses, AI consulting is less about models and more about fit: which work AI should take on, which systems need to talk to each other, and who checks the output. We work in four ways, and most engagements use more than one.
We review the tools you pay for, find where work stalls, pick what to fix first, and stay on as your advisor while your team runs it.
AI tuned to your documents, your rules and your voice, doing the reading, sorting and first drafts your team does by hand today.
Your CRM, practice software, accounting and spreadsheets passing data on their own, so nobody types the same thing twice.
We map how work actually moves through your business, remove the delays, and automate the routine steps around your people.
How we work
About two weeks
We sit with your team, map the work, and pick the first wins worth building. You leave with a plan and a number to beat.
Aim: 45 days or less
Existing workflows, live and measured. If they do not move the number, we tell you.
Aim: 90 days or less
The systems that run the business, connected and automated, with your team trained to own them.
90 days and beyond
We keep it running, watch the results, and build the next layer once the last one has paid for itself.
This is the typical path, not a guarantee. Timing depends on the workflow and the systems involved.
Who we work with
Owner-led and growing businesses: entrepreneurs, agencies, professional firms and healthtech companies. The common thread is a team doing too much by hand and an owner who wants a straight answer before spending.
Intake, call summaries and first drafts in your agency's voice, with a person checking before anything reaches a client.
See agency workflowsDocument review, triage and research, plus the connections between practice software, accounting and spreadsheets.
See workflow automationBuild-side AI, integration and workflow help, with Socket Health for health-system access.
Healthtech AI and automationChoosing help
It depends on the job. A large firm makes sense for enterprise-wide programs with many teams and a large budget. For one workflow, a few connected systems and a team that needs to own the result, a smaller integrator is often the better fit. Whoever you talk to, these questions separate a real plan from a pitch:
Those are the commitments we make in every engagement: a baseline first, a person in the loop, honest tool options, and the watch-outs in writing.
Cost
Published 2026 rate guides put a first small-business AI project at about $5,000 to $25,000 for a single-workflow pilot or strategy assessment, and independent US AI consultants list $150 to $350 an hour. Those figures are national, from our AI Consulting Market page, researched October 27, 2026, which cites each source.
For Socket Solutions pricing, ask on a 15-minute call. We scope to one workflow first, so the first number you see is for a specific job.
Tennessee context
Our free data hub tracks AI adoption, costs and rules in Tennessee, with every number sourced and dated.
The Census Bureau's Business Trends and Outlook Survey, round by round, comparing Tennessee with the US.
Read itPrice the hours your team spends retyping, copying and routing, at Nashville metro wages from the BLS.
Read itEvery AI bill in the Tennessee General Assembly and how far it got. Not legal advice.
Read itRecent work
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Candidate lists move from the recruiting system through contact enrichment into ready-to-work research sheets, then back into the database.
Result Research that took recruiters about 40 hours a week now takes minutes, and a stage-gate review keeps the data clean.
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A 60-month forecasting model that ties to QuickBooks to the dollar, plus a leadership planning cadence that turns the numbers into owners and decision gates.
Result From founder-held assumptions to a scenario model and strategy sessions the whole leadership team plans from.
Executive education · Lipscomb University
A two-day leadership workshop and cross-company peer cohort, co-built with Lipscomb University.
Result From concept to a two-day pilot that 30 leaders rated 4.46 of 5.
About
Caleb Dixon, Founder & CEO. Caleb has 25+ years in healthcare innovation and technology. Former senior leader at large health systems and multiple innovation ventures, current startup advisor, and AI implementer. NBJ 40 Under 40. Nashville tech connector.
Socket Solutions brings that enterprise integration experience to businesses of every size. The tools are new; integrating technology and systems so people can do better work is not.
FAQ
Socket Solutions is a Nashville integrator and advisor that helps owner-led businesses put AI to work: assistants tuned to your documents, connections between the tools you already pay for, and automated hand-offs, with a named person approving the steps that matter.
Published 2026 rate guides put a first small-business AI project at about $5,000 to $25,000 and independent US AI consultants at $150 to $350 an hour, according to our AI Consulting Market research of October 27, 2026. Ask us on a call for Socket Solutions pricing.
Yes. Advisory is one of our core services: a technology and AI roadmap sized to your business, vendor and tool selection with honest tradeoffs, and ongoing advice as you grow.
Yes, as a technology second opinion: whether the tool fits the work, how it connects to what you already run, and what the tradeoffs are. It is technology advice, not legal advice; your lawyer should review the terms.
Yes. Firms are one of the groups we serve, alongside agencies, entrepreneurs and healthtech teams. Common starting points are intake, document review and triage, and first drafts in the firm's own voice.
For one workflow, a few connected systems and a team that has to own the result, a small integrator is often the better fit. Large firms suit enterprise-wide programs. Either way, ask how they measure results, who reviews AI output and who runs it afterward.
Yes. Every AI step we build has a named human checkpoint, and nothing important goes out unreviewed.
Socket Solutions is an integrator and advisor for small businesses, based in Nashville, Tennessee, offering AI, systems integration, workflow automation and technology advisory. It was founded by Caleb Dixon, and its healthcare division is Socket Health.
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