Your process, mapped end to end
Every repeatable job the business does, written down in one place. Who touches it, how often, how long it takes, and what it costs you a year. Most owners have never seen this on a single page.
The AI Audit
Two weeks. We map every repeatable process in your business, cost each one in hours and pounds, and rank what AI should take over first. You get a working proof of concept on the top item, not a slide about it, plus fixed prices for everything else. If you go on to build within 90 days, the full audit fee comes off.
Most AI spending is guesswork with a budget attached
A business decides it should be doing something with AI. Someone buys a few subscriptions. Someone else wires up an automation and then leaves. Six months later there are three half-finished pilots, nobody can say what any of it saved, and the same person is still doing the same copy-paste job every Tuesday morning.
The problem isn't the tools. It's that nobody costed the work first. You can't tell whether automating something is worth building if you've never worked out what doing it by hand costs you a year.
So that's what the audit does. It puts a number on the work before anyone spends anything on replacing it.
What you get
Four deliverables, and one of them runs
You keep all four whatever you decide next, including if you decide to work with somebody else.
A ranked list, with the reasoning
What AI should take over first, second, third, and what it shouldn't touch at all. Ranked on hours saved against build cost, so the order is about payback rather than what's technically interesting.
One working proof of concept
We build the top item and run it on your real data. Not a demo video, not a mock-up. A working thing you can put in front of the person who currently does that job and ask whether it holds up.
A costed plan for the rest
Fixed prices and timelines for everything else on the list, so you can budget the next 12 months without booking another call. If you never work with us again, you can hand this plan to anyone.
The fortnight
What happens, day by day
Total time from your side is about 4 to 5 hours across the two weeks. We'd rather watch the work happen than run workshops about it.
01 Days 1 to 3
Kick-off and shadowing
90 minutes with whoever knows the process best, then we watch the work actually happen. Real screens, real handoffs, real workarounds. The gap between how a process is described and how it runs is where most of the money hides.
02 Days 4 to 7
Mapping and costing
We write up every repeatable job and put hours and pounds against each one. You get the draft mid-week to correct anything we've read wrong, because a map you disagree with is worth nothing.
03 Days 8 to 12
Building the proof of concept
We take the top-ranked item and build it properly against your real data. This is the part that separates an audit from an opinion. If the idea doesn't survive contact with your data, better to learn it now than after a full build.
04 Days 13 to 14
Handover
We walk you and your team through the map, the ranking, the working proof of concept, and the costed plan. You get the documents and the code. Then you decide, with no pressure and no expiring discount.
The price
One number, and you can get it back
AI Audit
Fixed price, agreed up front
2 weeks. Scoped on the free call.
- Every repeatable process mapped and costed
- Ranked list of what to automate first
- One working proof of concept on your real data
- Fixed-price costed plan for everything else
- About 4 to 5 hours of your team's time
- Credited in full against a build within 90 days
Every price is fixed and agreed in writing before we start. No day rates, no scope-creep invoices, and money back if you don't approve the prototype on a build. Because the audit fee is credited in full, on a typical build it effectively costs you nothing. More on how we work sits on the AI consultancy page, and the guide to AI for small business covers what to count before you talk to anyone.
Fit
When to buy this, and when not to
We'd rather turn you away now than take your money for a fortnight that tells you to wait.
Worth it if
- You have a process that works and gets repeated every week
- The business is past guessing and into refining
- Someone on the team does obvious copy-paste work daily
- You'd rather pay for a fortnight of clarity than spend another year guessing
Not yet if
- You're pre-revenue or still working out the offer
- The process changes substantially every month
- You want a strategy document for a board, not working software
- You're hoping AI replaces a team rather than the boring half of its work
Frequently asked questions
Questions about the audit
Why would I pay for an audit when other people offer them free?
Because free audits are sales calls. They're an hour long, they end in a proposal, and the person running one has every reason to conclude that you need exactly what they sell. We still do a free call, and you should book that first. Paying for it buys something different: two weeks of engineering time, your whole process mapped and costed, and a working proof of concept you can put in front of your team. If we conclude you shouldn't build, we still hand all of that over.
What do I actually get at the end of it?
Four things. A written map of every repeatable process in the business, each one costed in hours and pounds. A ranked list of what AI should take over first, with our reasoning. One working proof of concept built on the top item, running on your real data. And a costed plan for the rest, with fixed prices and timelines so you can budget without another conversation. It's a document and a working thing, not a slide deck.
Is the audit fee really credited back?
Yes, in full, against any build you start within 90 days of the audit finishing. Whatever the audit cost comes straight off the build price, so on a typical build it effectively costs you nothing. If you don't build, you keep the audit and we're square. The credit is written into the audit agreement, not a verbal promise.
How much of my team's time does this take?
Less than you'd expect. A 90-minute kick-off with whoever knows the process best, then two or three short sessions across the fortnight to check what we've mapped is right. Call it 4 to 5 hours of your side's time in total. We do the rest ourselves, and we'd rather watch how the work happens than sit in workshops about it.
What if you find there's nothing worth automating?
It happens, and we'll say so plainly. Sometimes the fix is a changed rule, a tool you already pay for that nobody set up properly, or a spreadsheet. You'd still have the process map and the costings, which most owners tell us is the first time they've seen where the hours actually go. That's a better outcome than finding out the same thing slowly, after paying for a build.
Do I need to have my processes documented already?
No. Mapping them is the job. If you already have documentation we'll read it, but most businesses this size have the process in a few people's heads and that's fine. What does matter is that the process is settled. If how you deliver is still changing every month, wait until it isn't, because anything we build now gets rebuilt later at your expense.
Book the free call first
Nobody should buy an audit off a web page. Book 60 minutes, walk us through how the business runs, and we'll tell you straight whether the audit is worth it for you or whether you'd be wasting the money.