AI Audit
Know exactly where AI fits in your business. In seven days.
We map how your operation actually runs, put an annual cost on every bottleneck we find, and rank what to fix first. You get a plan, not a list of tools to evaluate.
$2,500
Fixed price · 7 days · Fee comes off the build
Starts with a free 30-minute call. No obligation, and we'll tell you on that call if an audit isn't worth your money.
The real problem
You don't have an AI problem. You have a 'where do I start' problem.
The technology works. That stopped being the hard part a while ago. What's blocking you is that nobody in the building can say which process to fix first, what it costs you today, or what it would take to fix it. So the decision keeps getting deferred, and deferring it is not free.
- 01
Demo fatigue
Every vendor demo looks impressive. Not one of them tells you what to do on Monday morning.
- 02
The same meeting, every quarter
Three people, three ideas, no decision. The debate has now cost more than the build would have.
- 03
Shelfware
Somebody bought the tool. Nobody changed the workflow around it, so it sits unused and renews annually.
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No payback number
You can't sign off on a spend nobody in the room can attach a return to. So it doesn't get signed off.
What you get
Five deliverables in seven days. Not one slide deck.
Every item below is something you can hand to a finance director or an engineer and have them act on it. Nothing in the package exists to justify the invoice.
- //01Day 1
The reality check
One page: where your team's hours actually go
We sit with the people doing the work, not just the people describing it. By the end of day one you have a single page naming your biggest time sinks, your most error-prone handoffs, and the two or three things that could be fixed inside a month.
- //02Days 2–3
The process teardown
Maps of your three costliest workflows, with a number on each
We take the workflows draining the most hours and map them as they genuinely run, including the exceptions your team handles from memory and nobody has written down. Each map carries what it costs you per year and what automating it would give back.
- //03Day 4
The systems check
A readiness note on your stack and your data
Automation dies on bad plumbing. We look at your CRM, helpdesk, spreadsheets, and databases and tell you what can be built on today, what needs cleaning first, and where your data would block an agent from being trusted with a decision.
- //04Days 5–6
The ranking
Your top five opportunities, ordered by payback
Every opportunity we found, scored on hours returned, cost to build, and risk if it goes wrong. Ranked, so the argument about what to do first is settled with a number instead of whoever spoke last.
- //05Day 7
The plan
A 30-day sprint, a 90-day roadmap, and fixed quotes
What to build in the first month, what follows in the quarter, and what each piece costs, quoted fixed. Written so you can take it to a board, to another vendor, or to your own engineers. It's yours either way.
Why this one
This is a diagnostic, not a consulting engagement.
Seven days, not seven weeks. Most consultancies take months to hand over a strategy. You get a plan with quotes attached, on a date agreed before we start.
$2,500 fixed, not hourly. No scope creep, no surprise invoices, no meter running behind this one. And it comes off the build if you go ahead.
A plan, not recommendations. You don't get a list of tools to go and evaluate. You get a sequenced plan with costs, timelines, and payback figures your board can sign off.
We say no in writing. Some of the workflows you're hoping we'll take shouldn't be automated. Those go in the report with the reason attached. An audit that's free to you can't afford to tell you that.
Run by the people who build it. The same engineers who ship the automations run the audit, so every estimate comes from having done the work rather than from a rate card.
The maths
The cost of not doing this.
- $3,600
- per month of senior time spent debating what to automate
- $21,600
- over six months, with nothing in production at the end of it
- $2,500
- for a plan you can start executing on day eight
The question was never whether you can afford the audit. It's whether you can afford another six months of deciding.
Assumes three senior staff at four hours a week. Run it with your own salaries; the shape of the answer doesn't change.
Honest qualification
Is this for you?
About half of all businesses process up to 500 invoices a month, and most still lose five working days a month doing it by hand. If that shape sounds like your operation, an audit will find something worth fixing. If it doesn't, we'd rather say so.
Built for
- You're roughly 10 to 200 people, with real operational volume behind the front desk.
- Your team handles hundreds of documents a month: invoices, intake forms, orders, claims, reports.
- Somebody is losing the better part of a day each week retyping data between email, PDFs, and spreadsheets.
- Someone has a mandate to act this quarter, not to keep researching.
- You'd rather hear a hard no than be sold a project.
Not a fit if
- You're under ten people or pre-revenue. The volume isn't there yet to pay a build back.
- You want a proof of concept to show an investor rather than a working system.
- No decision can be made internally without a six-month committee.
- You've already scoped the build and just need hands to write the code.
If you're reading the right-hand column and recognising yourself, say so on the call. We'd rather lose the invoice than run an audit that was never going to help you.
Volume figures are published industry benchmarks for accounts-payable and document processing, not our own client data. Your numbers will differ. The shape rarely does.
Before you decide
Fair questions.
Why does it cost anything? Other agencies audit for free.
A free audit is a sales call, and it ends in whatever the agency happens to sell. Charging for this is what lets us tell you that a workflow isn't worth automating, or that your data needs a year of cleaning first. The fee also comes off the build if you go ahead, so the only case where it costs you anything is the case where we told you not to hire us.
How much of my team's time does it take?
About three hours in total, spread across the week. Roughly an hour with whoever owns the process, an hour with the people who actually run it day to day, and a short session at the end to walk through the findings. We do the rest without you in the room.
What if the answer is that we shouldn't automate anything?
You still get all five deliverables, including the reasoning. That's a real outcome: knowing which parts of your operation are better left alone saves you far more than $2,500. In practice it's rarely everything, but it's often the one thing you were most excited about.
Do we have to build with you afterwards?
No. The plan is yours, written to be handed to anyone: your own engineers, another vendor, whoever. We'd like to build it, and we quote fixed prices so you can compare us honestly. But nothing in the audit is locked to us.
We already know what we want to automate. Is this still worth it?
Sometimes, and sometimes not. If you have a specific workflow and a clear picture of how it runs, book the free call instead and we'll scope it directly. The audit earns its keep when there are several candidates and no agreement about which comes first.
Is our data safe, and is it used to train anything?
No, your data stays your data. We work under an NDA, we architect around whatever privacy requirements your industry carries, and none of what we see goes into training a model. It's in writing before day one.
Next step
Tell us about the workflow that eats your team's week.
Thirty minutes. We'll tell you honestly whether an agent can take it over, or whether you'd be paying to fix the wrong problem.