The entry point
The AI Productivity Audit.
Ninety minutes of your time. A written value case in your own numbers, and a recommendation you can act on whether or not you ever hire me again.
What happens in the ninety minutes
We walk through a normal week, hour by hour, until we find the process that is costing you the most. Not the most annoying — the most expensive.
I will ask for numbers you may not have: how often it happens, how long it takes, how often it has to be redone, who does it. Where you do not have them, we estimate and mark the estimate as an estimate.
By the end we will have two or three candidates ranked, and one of them will usually be a surprise.
What you get
- A one-page recommendation. Do this, don't do that, here is what it returns. Written to be acted on, not admired.
- The value case. A model of what the automation costs to own against what it returns, over three years, with a payback period.
- The sensitivity table. What happens if adoption is slower, or the hours saved are fewer. Because it will be one of those.
- Both lenses and the personal line. Business cost, opportunity cost, and the evenings and weekends the process is currently taking.
- The spreadsheet. Yours to keep. Every number traceable, every assumption editable.
What happens after
About a third of audits end there, and that is a good outcome — the recommendation was to change a policy, buy nothing, or fix a process that had nothing to do with AI.
Where there is a case, the next step is a sprint: one process, installed. Where there is not, I will say so in the report.
Ninety days after anything is installed, we check the number. That is not optional, and it is the part that makes the first part worth believing.
Book the auditWho the audit suits.
It works when the owner is the person doing the work, can name the process that hurts, and has enough turnover to afford the change — roughly $200,000 a year and up.
It doesn't when the pain belongs to a manager rather than the owner, when the business is pre-revenue, or when the real problem is that nobody has time to decide anything. That is a different conversation.