AI & automationAI readiness assessment
One week. The three places AI pays back in your business, in writing.
The readiness assessment is how every AI engagement with us starts. It costs nothing, takes about a week, asks for two hours of your time, and ends with a short written report you can act on with or without us.
If any of this is you
- You have been told to do something with AI and nobody has said what.
- Vendors keep demonstrating chatbots. Nobody has looked at where your week actually goes.
- You do not want to spend money finding out what to spend money on.
What is included
What you receive.
A written report you keep, whatever you decide. Most are four or five pages, and the first page is the answer.
- A map of where the hours go
- Your main workflows, by team, with the repetitive steps and the waiting marked. Most owners have never seen it on one page.
- The top three opportunities
- Ranked by time saved, cost removed or revenue recovered, with a plain-language description of what each would do.
- A data readiness check
- What is already in good enough shape to build on, and what would need cleaning up first.
- Integration notes
- Which of your systems are involved and how they would connect. No rip and replace.
- A fixed price for the first build
- If one of the three is worth doing now, a scoped proposal with a fixed price and a timeline. If none is, we say so.
- No obligation
- The report is yours. Take it to us, to another provider, or to your own team.
For your technical lead
- Your time
- Two conversations of about an hour each, plus sample documents or a look at the process
- Who should be there
- An owner or operations lead, and whoever actually does the work
- Turnaround
- About one week from the first call
- Cost
- Free
- Output
- A written report and a walkthrough call
- Next step
- A fixed-price build proposal, or nothing
What it costs
Free to find out. Fixed price to build. Monthly to keep it working.
How it works
What happens.
Seven days, two conversations, one report.
Day 1
Book a call
Thirty minutes. What the business does, what is slow, what you have already tried. We agree who we need to talk to.
Days 2–3
Discovery
We sit with the people who do the work, on site or on a call, and watch how the week actually runs.
Days 4–6
Analysis
Opportunities ranked, data checked, systems mapped, the first build scoped and priced.
Day 7
Report and decision
We walk you through the report. You decide whether to go ahead, wait, or take it elsewhere.
What it costs
Free. Then a fixed price if you go ahead. Then a retainer once it is live.
The assessment is free because it is how we find work worth doing, and about half the time the honest answer is not yet. If you proceed, the first build is quoted at a fixed price you see before committing. Once it is live, most clients move to a monthly retainer for monitoring, retraining and changes, because AI that nobody looks after drifts.
How an engagement runs after the assessment- AI readiness assessment
Free
One week. We map where your team's time goes and hand you the top three places automation pays back, in writing. No obligation.
- Build
Fixed price, quoted in writing
Scoped and priced after the assessment, before any build starts. A typical build reaches launch in about seven weeks.
- Ongoing improvement
Monthly retainer, from a scope agreed at launch
Monitoring, retraining and changes as your business and data change. This is where the return compounds, and it is why we treat AI as an engagement rather than a project.
The assessment is free. Builds are quoted at a fixed price before work starts. Ongoing improvement is a monthly retainer. Final pricing depends on the systems involved, the state of your data and the integration scope, and is confirmed after the readiness assessment.
Fair questions
Fair questions before you book.
- Why is it free?
- Because it is how we find the work worth doing, and because a report that says 'not yet' still earns trust. We would rather tell you that than build something you do not need.
- Is this a sales pitch?
- It is a week of looking at your business and a report you keep. If there is nothing worth building, the report says so and we part as friends.
- Do we need to prepare anything?
- No. Bring the people who do the work. If you have sample documents or access to the systems involved, that helps, but we can start without them.
- What if AI is not right for us yet?
- We say so, and we tell you what to fix first. Often it is the data or the process itself, and sometimes it is plain managed IT.
- What happens after the first build?
- A monthly retainer covers monitoring, retraining and changes as your business changes. The scope and price are agreed at launch, and it is where most of the return comes from.
Start with a free AI readiness assessment.
One week, no obligation. We look at where your team's time goes and hand you a short written report on where AI would pay back first.
- A map of where the hours go in your business, by team
- The top three automation opportunities, ranked
- A fixed-price proposal for the first build, or an honest 'not yet'
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