Find out where AI actually pays in your business
A paid diagnostic, department by department. We work out where your hours go, which of that AI should take, what it is worth, and what it would cost to do. You get a ranked plan you can act on with us or without us.
- Ranked plan with the numbers attached
- Written so anyone could implement it
- Fixed price, agreed before we start
The most expensive AI mistake is not buying the wrong tool
It is automating the wrong thing. Businesses build the workflow that was easiest to describe in the meeting rather than the one eating the most hours, then find that the saving is real but small and the enthusiasm is gone.
The work that actually costs you is rarely the work people complain about. It is the task so routine that nobody mentions it, done by four people in three departments, taking six hours a week between them. Nobody owns it, so nobody raises it.
The audit exists to find those before you spend anything.
How the audit runs
- We sit with each department. With the people doing the work, not only the managers describing it. What the process document says and what actually happens on a Tuesday are different things, and the gap is usually where the hours are.
- We map where the time goes. Task by task, with volumes and frequencies attached. Not impressions, numbers.
- We separate three categories. Work AI should take entirely. Work AI should prepare for a person to decide. Work that should stay exactly as it is.
- We cost it both ways. What the current way costs per year, and what changing it would take to build and run.
- We rank it. Quick wins that pay back in weeks, separated from the builds worth doing but not first.
- We say what could go wrong. Every item carries its risks and its dependencies, including the ones that make it a bad idea for your business specifically.
What you get
A written plan containing the workflow inventory with time and cost against each item, the ranked roadmap, a scoped and priced first project, and an honest list of what we recommend you do not do.
It is written so that your own team, or another provider, could pick it up and run it. If we have done the job properly you should be able to walk away with the plan and be better off than when you started.
Why it is paid
Free assessments have one purpose, which is to sell the engagement that follows, and their findings reliably point that way. Charging for the diagnosis is what makes it possible to tell you that most of your list is not worth doing, or that the right answer is a better spreadsheet rather than a project.
It also means the thinking gets done properly rather than squeezed into the time a free consultation can justify.
When an audit is the right first step
- You know AI should be helping somewhere but cannot say where.
- Several departments want different things and you need them ranked.
- You have licences already and nothing has changed since you bought them.
- You need a business case with numbers before anyone will approve spending.
When it is not
If you already know exactly which workflow is the problem and just want it fixed, skip the audit and tell us the workflow. If your team has never used AI at all, training first is usually the better sequence, because people who have used the tools describe their own bottlenecks far more accurately.
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Common questions about the AI Ops Audit
What does the audit involve for our team?
Short sessions with the people who do the work, not just the managers who describe it. Usually forty-five minutes to an hour per function, plus access to a handful of the reports and files they use. We watch how the work actually happens rather than how the process document says it happens, because those are rarely the same.
How long does it take?
A single department is typically a week or two from first session to delivered plan. A whole business is longer and depends on how many functions there are and how available people are. We agree the scope and the timeframe before starting.
How is this different from a free AI readiness quiz?
A readiness quiz sorts you into a category. This produces a ranked list of specific workflows in your business, with an estimate of the hours each one consumes today, what removing it is worth, what it would take to do, and what could go wrong. It is a working document, not a score.
Do we have to use you for the implementation afterwards?
No. The plan is written so that another provider, or your own IT team, could pick it up and run it. That is deliberate. An audit whose findings only one company can act on is a sales document, not an audit.
Why is this paid rather than free?
A free assessment has one job, which is to sell you the next thing, and the findings always point that way. Paying for the diagnosis means we can tell you that three of your five ideas are not worth doing, or that the answer is a spreadsheet rather than a project. That answer has value and it cannot be given away.
What if the answer is that AI is not worth it for us?
Then that is what the report says, and it is a legitimate outcome. It has happened. Knowing that before you spend on licences and a rollout is worth considerably more than the audit costs.
What systems do you need access to?
Less than people expect. Mostly the exports and reports your team already produces. Where deeper access helps we will ask, explain why, and work within whatever your IT and privacy obligations allow. Read-only is sufficient for an audit.
Can you audit one department instead of the whole business?
Yes, and for a first engagement it is often the better choice. Pick the department that complains loudest, prove the process works, then extend. It also gives you a real basis for judging whether we are worth continuing with.
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