The Audit, AI Consulting
Find out where your business bleeds money.
A paid diagnosis for owner-run businesses of every kind, from med spas, law firms, manufacturers, and practices to artists and brands. We map how the work actually happens, find where time and revenue leak, and hand you a roadmap where every fix is priced in dollars per year.
From $2,500, scoped by complexity and task count. Two to three weeks.
Our guarantee: if the audit doesn't surface more recoverable annual value than you paid for it, we keep digging at no charge until it does.
Why start here
Most AI failures are problem-selection failures.
Buying tools before diagnosing is how businesses end up with abandoned software and no ROI to point to. The audit de-risks both sides: you get a valuable deliverable either way, and whatever gets built next is what the business actually needs.
Executives don't buy AI, they buy outcomes. A team wasting 2 hours a day across 8 people at $40/hour loaded cost is bleeding $166,400 a year. Numbers like that make the next decision obvious.
The method
Six steps. None of them involve picking a tool.
01
Define outcomes
“We want AI” is a wish, not an outcome. We pin down current state, target state, and a measurable delta, every outcome ends with “worth $X per year.”
02
Map the business
Executives know the destination; operators know the road. We interview the people doing the work, “walk me through yesterday morning”, not just the owner.
03
Map the tasks
“Follow up with leads” sounds like one task. It's usually seven. AI opportunities live in the details, so we break work down until it can't be broken further.
04
Find the AI fits
Four questions per task: structured input? predictable output? rule-based decisions? repeated often? Yes to all four, prime candidate. AI takes the predictable 80%, humans keep the judgment.
05
Prioritize
Business value vs. implementation difficulty. Quick wins first, the one that pays for the engagement, then the big swings once the wins prove the model.
06
Price the ROI
Time wasted × people × days per year × loaded hourly cost = annual waste. That number is what makes the decision easy, for you, not for us.
Who it's for
Built for owners who built something real.
Every industry bleeds differently. These are the patterns we see most, if yours isn't listed, the method still applies.
Med Spas
- ✦Inquiries answered hours later, booked elsewhere
- ✦No-shows without automated confirmation flows
- ✦Front desk buried in rescheduling and intake forms
Law Firms
- ✦Consult requests that wait a day get a different lawyer
- ✦Intake and conflict checks eating billable hours
- ✦Document prep and status updates done by hand
Manufacturers
- ✦Quote turnaround measured in days, not minutes
- ✦Order status calls interrupting the floor
- ✦Reporting stitched together in spreadsheets monthly
Dental & Medical
- ✦Unfilled chair time from slow recall follow-up
- ✦After-hours calls going to voicemail, then to a competitor
- ✦Insurance verification done one phone call at a time
What you walk away with
A deliverable that wins either way.
- A map of how your business actually runs, not how the org chart says it runs
- ~20 scored opportunities, each priced in dollars per year
- A prioritized roadmap: quick wins first, big swings second
- The one quick win that pays for the audit before lunch
- No tools pitched. No jargon. A document you could hand to any builder, including us
Questions owners ask
Before you book.
How much of my time does the audit take?
About three hours total, spread over two to three weeks: a kickoff call, short interviews we schedule around your team, and a findings walkthrough at the end.
Do I need to be technical?
No. We interview in plain English and deliver in plain English. Nothing in the audit requires you to touch software.
What if I already have a marketing agency or an IT person?
Keep them. The audit maps how your operation runs, not your marketing. The roadmap is written so anyone can build from it, including the people you already trust.
What do you need from us?
A kickoff conversation, access to the people doing the work for short interviews, and honesty about where things feel slow.
What happens after the audit?
You keep the roadmap either way. Most clients have us build the top quick win first; some take the roadmap and run with their own team. Both count as wins.
From $2,500 · scoped by complexity
Two weeks from now, you'll know the number.
Tell us about the business. We'll scope the audit on a short call, complexity and task count set the price, and you'll know it before we start.
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