Find out what is worth building before you pay to build it

The most expensive AI project is the one aimed at the wrong workflow. The audit comes first so that when you spend, you are choosing between real options instead of guessing at them.

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Four passes, in this order

  1. Sit in

    We watch the work happen. Not a questionnaire and not a workshop. The real week, with the interruptions left in.

  2. Map

    Every repeating task gets written down, with who does it, how often, and what it waits on. Most of this has never existed on paper.

  3. Rank

    Each workflow gets weighed on what automating it is worth against what it would take. Some come out obviously worth doing. Some obviously are not.

  4. Recommend

    You get a written call on where to start with the reasoning attached, so you can argue with it rather than take it on faith.

A document you can act on without us

The audit ends in a written report, in plain language, that somebody in your business can pick up and act on with no consultant in the room to interpret it.

It stands on its own. Take the audit, do the top item yourself, and come back a year later for the harder one, or never come back at all. That is a good outcome. The audit is a piece of work in its own right, not a door charge on a build.

What you get: a map of the repeating work in your operation, a ranked list of what is worth automating, an honest estimate of what each one would take, and a recommendation on where to start.

In the report

  • Where the week goesThe repeating work, by task and by person.
  • Ranked by what it is worthWhich workflows repay automating, and which do not.
  • What each would takeAn honest estimate of effort before you commit to anything.
  • What to do firstA recommendation you can act on with us or without us.

The places where time quietly disappears

  • The handoffs

    Work rarely stalls while somebody is doing it. It stalls in the gap between two people, waiting on a reply that nobody has been made responsible for chasing.

  • The re-keying

    The same detail typed into a second system because the two do not talk to each other. It appears on no org chart, nobody has ever been assigned to it, and it never stops.

  • The exceptions

    Every process has a version for normal jobs and a version for awkward ones. The awkward ones are where the real cost lives, and they are the reason a lot of automation quietly fails after the demo.

  • The work nobody gets to

    Follow-ups that would more than pay for themselves and never happen because the day ran out. This is often the best first build in the whole operation, and it is invisible in any process document.

Sometimes the answer is do not automate this

A workflow that runs three times a year, or changes shape every time it runs, or turns on somebody's read of a customer's mood, is a bad candidate. Automating it costs more than it returns and it breaks in ways nobody catches for months.

We would far rather write that in the report than build the thing and let you find out yourself.

An audit is worth as much for what it rules out as for what it recommends.

It also means that when we do recommend something, the recommendation carries weight. You are paying for an assessment, not for a pitch, and the report reads like one. If the honest answer is that your operation is already tight and there is nothing here worth automating yet, that is what you will get, and you will have it in writing.

This is for you if you have a suspicion, not a spec

If you can describe the feeling but not the cause, you are in the right place. Something in the week is eating hours and nobody can point at it precisely. That is exactly the right starting position, and it is the one the audit is built for.

If you already know exactly what you want built, you can skip this. Tell us the workflow and we will scope the build directly instead.

Either way: the first conversation is thirty minutes, and part of what we do in it is tell you which of those two you are.

Signs an audit will find something

  • The same question every weekSomebody keeps asking where a job got to.
  • Two systems, one truthDetails are keyed twice and drift apart by Thursday.
  • The Friday scrambleWork piles up because nobody owns it until it is urgent.
  • A tool nobody usesYou bought software to fix this and the team went back to the spreadsheet.

Tell us where your week goes

Tell us what the week actually looks like and we will come back on whether an audit would turn anything up. If we do not think it would, we will say so.

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