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Offer 01 · One week, fixed price

The AI Opportunity Audit.

Most AI projects fail before they start, because someone picked the impressive workflow instead of the one with a checkable output. The audit exists to pick the right one, in your numbers, before anyone spends a build budget.

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How the week runs

Day 1IntakeA 60-minute call and read-only access to what you already have: the core system, the inbox, the spreadsheets that hold the business together.
Days 2 and 3Where the hours goWe trace five recurring workflows end to end and count the hours, the handoffs and the errors. Your numbers, not industry averages.
Day 4What would hold upFor each candidate we test the one question that decides it: is there a checkable output? If nobody can say whether the system got it right, it is not a candidate.
Day 5The readoutA written report and a 60-minute session: a ranked roadmap with cost, return and risk per item, and the first build scoped to the week.

You spend about three hours across the week. Everything else is ours.

What you get

01

A ranked roadmap

Three to six opportunities, each with the hours it returns, what it costs to build and run, and the risk if it is wrong.

02

An architecture for the first one

Data in, decisions, human handover, checks. Enough for any competent team to build from, ours or not.

03

A proof plan

How we would know it works before it goes live, written down before anyone writes code.

04

A straight answer

If there is no case, the report says so. You pay for the week, not for a yes.

What it costs

$2,000 to $3,000Fixed, agreed before day oneQuoted in your currency. The price depends on how many systems we need to read, not on how big the answer is.
1 weekStart to readoutTwo weeks when access takes time to arrange. We tell you which on the intake call.
CreditedAgainst the first buildIf the roadmap leads to a build with us, the audit fee comes off the sprint price.

About four in ten audits lead to a build. The other six get a report they can hand to anyone, and a clear reason why now is not the time. Both are the audit working.

What happens after

$12k to $25kAI Product Sprint, 4 to 6 weeksThe first item on the roadmap, built to production with weekly demos and the proof plan run before launch.
$4k to $8kFractional AI product engineering, per monthAn AI product owner and builder on your team, three-month minimum, capped at three clients at a time.
$1k to $2.5kCare plan, per monthMonitoring, model cost control, regression checks on every change. Attached to every sprint at handover.

Who it is not for

  • A business with under ten people and no system of record. There is nothing to connect yet.
  • Anything that needs a 24/7 human-free SLA on day one.
  • Hospitality property management systems, which compete with work we already do.
  • Anyone who wants a demo more than a decision.

Worked examples

Five industries, five worked examples of where the hours go and what we would build. None of them is a client case study, and each says so.

Recruitment and staffing36 hours a week before anyone speaks to a candidateProperty managementMaintenance coordination eats 40% of the weekHome servicesOne in four inbound calls goes unansweredDental and veterinary groupsA third of calls to the front desk ring outAccounting and bookkeepingChasing documents is the top problem for two thirds of firm owners

Bring one workflow you suspect is costing you. Thirty minutes decides whether the audit is worth a week.

If there is no real project here, we say so on the call rather than in an invoice.

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