AI opportunity assessment
Find out where AI actually helps your business — and where it should stay out.
Most AI readiness assessments are a ten-question form that scores you against a generic maturity model. Ours follows one real workflow from trigger to finished output, then tells you what is actually causing the friction. Sometimes that is AI. Often it isn't.
Free
The quick assessment
A focused conversation about one bottleneck. We follow the work to its root cause, map a better version of the workflow, and show where AI helps and where it doesn't. You get the write-up the same day.
- · About 15 minutes, one conversation
- · One workflow, mapped end to end
- · A ranged estimate with its assumptions stated
- · No cost, no obligation
Paid engagement
The in-depth assessment
The one that finds the things nobody at the top of the org knows about. We interview the people who actually do the work — across departments — and cross-check what they tell us. When three people independently describe the same broken handoff, that's a finding you can act on.
- · Interviews across roles and departments
- · Findings triangulated across people, not taken on one account
- · A full readout with a ranked opportunity map
- · Leads directly into implementation, if it's worth doing
What does an AI readiness assessment measure?
A real assessment scores five dimensions, each on a five-point maturity ladder from ad hoc to optimized. The headline number matters less than which dimension is lowest — that's where the recommendations should point.
- Tooling
- Whether the software running core work is capable, and what AI is already in use.
- Data readiness
- Whether data is centralized, clean, and reachable — or trapped in exports and inboxes.
- Process maturity
- Whether workflows are defined and repeatable, or live in individual people's heads.
- Automation
- How much already runs without someone manually moving it along.
- Team & AI literacy
- Whether people are ready to use it, and whether leadership is actually driving it.
Why doesn't the assessment start with AI?
Because automating a broken process just makes it break faster. We work the same order every time, and AI is the last step, not the first:
- 1 Question the requirement — does this work need to exist at all?
- 2 Delete what shouldn't be there.
- 3 Simplify and standardize what remains.
- 4 Accelerate the handoffs and feedback loops.
- 5 Automate last — and only where a person doesn't need to decide.
How do you calculate the ROI?
Automation frees hours. Hours are not money. They become money in exactly one of three ways — spend stops, a planned hire is avoided, or confirmed waiting demand gets served — and we count one of them per workflow, never two. When the honest answer is that the hours just evaporate into the day, we say so and the number is zero. Where value comes from more output, we use gross profit, never revenue.
Every figure traces back to something you told us or something calculated from it. We don't fill gaps with industry averages, and a missing fact stays marked unknown.
What happens after the assessment?
If the opportunity is real, the assessment becomes the roadmap for a fractional engagement — we embed as your AI department to educate the team, set the strategy, and build the systems, then report the return in dollars every month. If it isn't real, we'll tell you that instead. See what that has looked like for other companies or how engagements are priced.
Common questions
- What is an AI readiness assessment?
- An AI readiness assessment is a structured evaluation of where AI can realistically help a business, based on how the work actually gets done. A useful one measures five things: the tools already in place, how accessible the data is, how repeatable the processes are, how much already runs without manual effort, and how ready the team is to adopt something new.
- How much does an AI assessment cost?
- Our quick assessment is free and covers a single workflow. The in-depth assessment is a paid engagement scoped to the size of the business and the number of people we interview. Most companies start with the free one, because it answers whether the deeper work is worth doing.
- How long does an AI assessment take?
- The free assessment is a conversation of about fifteen minutes and you get the write-up the same day. The in-depth assessment runs over a few weeks, because it involves interviewing the people who actually do the work rather than only the person who commissioned it.
- What do you deliver at the end?
- A map of the current workflow as it really runs, the observed problem separated from the likely root cause, a redesigned future state, an explicit line between what a person decides and what a system executes, a ranged financial estimate with its assumptions stated, and the fastest way to validate anything we are unsure about.
- Will you tell us not to use AI?
- Yes, and regularly. AI is the seventh option we consider, not the first. Often the honest answer is to delete a step, fix a policy, or configure a system you already pay for. A recommendation to spend money on AI that will not return it is worse than no recommendation.
Start with one workflow.
Fifteen minutes, no cost, and a straight answer about whether AI is the right tool.
Start the free assessment