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The AI audit

Find out exactly where AI would earn its keep.

A day looking at how your week actually runs. You get the two or three jobs worth handing over, a number against each, and a straight note of what to leave alone, in plain English with the arithmetic shown.

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What is an AI audit?

An AI audit is a day spent looking at how your business actually runs, followed by a short written report. It names the two or three jobs worth handing to AI, what each one is worth to you, and what should be left exactly as it is.

What we do

We sit with the people who do the work and go through how the week really goes: what gets typed twice, what gets chased, what waits until somebody is free. We check what your existing software can already do, put a number on each job using the same sum every time, and write it all up in plain English.

Nothing is built on the day. You come away with a decision you can make on the numbers, whether or not you make it with us.

What the audit helps with

  • Finding the jobs worth handing over
  • Putting a number on each one before anything is built
  • Spotting what your current software already does
  • Knowing what to leave well alone
  • Writing an AI policy, if you need one
  • Deciding what to do first

Find out before you spend anything.

A free 20-minute call first. We will tell you honestly whether the audit is worth your money.

Book a free call

The day itself

We look at how the week actually goes.

Not how it is meant to go on paper. A day with you and whoever else does the work, and it is a conversation rather than an inspection.

01

We watch the work

The jobs that come round again and again, and what each one really takes.

02

We follow the paper

Where things get typed twice, waited on, or chased.

03

We check your software

Often something you already pay for does far more than anyone realised.

04

We put numbers on it

Hours and cost, so the shortlist sorts itself out.

05

We write it down

A short plan you could hand to anybody, including somebody who is not us.

What lands on your desk

A report you can actually do something with.

Short, in plain English, and written so it is still useful in six months.

01

The shortlist

The two or three jobs worth handing to AI, each with a number against it: the hours it would give back, and what it would cost to build. Easiest first, so you can see one work before committing to anything larger.

02

The leave-alone list

A straight note of everything we think should stay exactly as it is, and why. A shortlist without that list beside it would be a sales document rather than advice.

03

What you already have

Where the software you already pay for would do the job perfectly well, so you are not buying the same thing twice.

04

A written AI policy

If your business is regulated, or you simply want something to show anyone who asks, we write it as part of the audit rather than selling it back to you afterwards.

05

A follow-up call

Four weeks later, once you have had a go at the easy one. Included, not extra.

What we look at

Everywhere the same work happens twice.

We go wherever the repetition is. In most businesses that is some of these, and rarely all of them.

AdminEmail and enquiriesDocuments and paperworkQuotes and proposalsReportingSpreadsheetsRecords and CRMMeetings and notesResearchMarketing and contentSales follow-upHandovers between peopleThe software you already pay forConfidentiality and control
How the number is worked out

The same sum, every time, shown in full.

We use one sum, we put it in the report, and we count only part of the time as saved, because automation rarely takes a whole job away and pretending otherwise would flatter the answer.

Where the honest answer is that a job would not pay for itself, that is what the report says.

Try the sum on your own jobs

times per week × minutes
× people × 46 working weeks
÷ 60  =  hours a year
then count 70% of it, usually
90% where nothing needs checking
50% where checking is as slow as doing

Worked through with your own figures on the day, and printed in the report with every assumption named, so anybody in your business can argue with it.

Doing it safely

Confidentiality is settled before anything is built.

For most businesses the first question is not what AI can do. It is what happens to the information, and who is still responsible for the answer.

What goes in, and what never does

Written down and agreed with whoever carries the responsibility, so your people know exactly where the line sits.

The decisions stay with people

Anything that needs judgement, or that somebody signs, keeps a person at the end of it. That is the point of the leave-alone list.

A policy you would actually read

Short, specific to how your business works, and included in the audit rather than sold as an extra.

What it costs

One fixed price, whichever way you have it.

  • At your premises or over video, your choice, same price
  • The written report within the week
  • A follow-up call four weeks later, once you have had a go
  • Nothing else priced until we both know the shape of the job

Payable on booking, and the date is held once it clears. Whatever comes out of it is yours to keep, and yours to hand to somebody else to build if you would rather.

The AI Audit
£750
Introductory price · normally £1,250

Book a free call first

We will tell you whether the audit is worth your money before you spend any of it. If it is not, we will say so on the call.

What happens next

Before the day, and after it.

Before

  1. A free twenty-minute call, to work out whether an audit is even the right thing for you.
  2. We agree whether it runs at your premises or over video, and who should be in the room.
  3. The day itself, spent with the people who do the work, not only whoever signs it off.

After

  1. The written report within the week, with the shortlist, the arithmetic and the leave-alone list.
  2. You take it away and decide. Plenty of what we find, you can do yourselves.
  3. A follow-up call four weeks on, whether or not you have asked us to build anything.

Either way, you come out of it knowing where AI fits, and where it does not.

Before you book

The things people usually ask.

How much does an AI audit cost?

£750 as an introductory price, normally £1,250. One number, agreed before we start, with no hourly rate and nothing bigger arriving afterwards.

How long is it?

A day, or two half days if that suits the diary better. The written report follows within a week.

What do we prepare?

Nothing at all. A normal week is exactly what we want to see. A tidied-up version of it would tell us less.

Do we have to build anything afterwards?

No. The audit stands on its own, plenty of what comes out of it needs no help from us, and there is nothing to sign at the end.

Is our information safe?

Nothing leaves with us that does not need to, nothing goes near a free public AI tool, and we will sign whatever your business needs us to sign before we start.

Where do you go?

Anywhere in Scotland, in person. Online works perfectly well too, if that is easier.

What if AI would not help our business?

Then that is what the report will say. Every report carries a list of what should be left exactly as it is, with a reason against each.

Want to see the whole day first? What actually happens in an AI audit walks through it, start to finish.

Start with a conversation, not a commitment.

Twenty minutes on the phone and you will know whether this is worth your time. There is nothing to prepare.

In person or online · Anywhere in Scotland · No obligation