Look inside before you
commit a budget to AI.

A focused audit that shows leadership where AI actually pays in your business, and what to move first. Backed by your own data.

Duration
From four weeks
Investment
From €35,000
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Where does AI actually pay, and how do you commit budget without guessing?

Where you are

The fundamentals run. The base is solid enough to build on, and you have decided to reach for a real edge with AI over the next few years.

The tension

The ground keeps moving. What was state of the art last quarter is table stakes this one, so any plan has to be grounded in how you actually work, and in the position only you hold.

More AI capability doesn't free up time.
It expands work.

Give a capable person AI that genuinely works and their role grows, their output starts crossing team lines, and processes stop making sense. That reshaping is the transformation itself, and it cannot be predicted from the top.

Capability expands what people do

A person whose AI carries real work takes on more, reaches further, and starts overlapping the roles around them.

No plan predicts it from above

Whose role grows, which handoffs collide, which process turns to dead weight: it only becomes visible inside the work.

So you look inside first, and set a baseline

Read how the work actually runs today, freeze the numbers that matter, then commit the strategy on ground truth.

Field note
Why AI transformation resists top-down planning: the expansion only your people see.
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The audit is a survey before any renovation.

Map where you create value.

We put the whole business on one page and break it into the areas where you create value, each one named before any weighing begins.

Illustrative. Yours is drawn from your business.
Read each area, surface to underneath.

Four reads on every area: the objective, how value moves, the flows, and the data and infrastructure underneath, the layer where most pilots quietly die. What leadership, function leads, and the floor each say gets reconciled against what the work shows.

Surface to underneath. What is said, reconciled against what the work shows.
Rank the opportunities.

Every candidate weighed on value against the resources it takes to win, held to the same test.

Value against cost to win. Payback shades the dots.
Why the read comes first · Field note
Why the proven AI tool still fails: the operating reality no two companies share.
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You get a ranked read of where AI pays, and where it earns nothing.

Four things you can act on, owned by your team. The read-out closes with a recommended path: the first move, the order behind it, what to own and what to scope out. What you do next stays yours.

Read-only

We look at how work and data move, and we change nothing.

Tagged honestly

Every finding is marked as fact, inference, or unknown.

Traceable numbers

Every figure traces to your own volumes and an estimate we state in the open.

AI-readiness score

Where you stand today, domain by domain, on a fixed four-level scale.

Customer acquisition
Operations
Finance and admin
Data and infrastructure
Illustrative domains. Yours come from the map, the scores from the read.

Includes how far your team's knowledge actually reaches. The four levels run Ad hoc, Emerging, Operational, AI-native, and they never change, so every later re-read measures against the same yardstick.

A ranked ROI-potential list

Every opportunity, ordered on value against cost to win.

Client onboarding
Price elasticity of demand
Monthly reporting
Product intelligence
illustrative areas · your own data sets the order

Each with the numbers behind it, sized on your own volumes, and shaded by payback: under 3 months, 3 to 9, or 9 and beyond. Potential we stand behind, based on real-world experience.

A frozen baseline

Today's numbers, captured and frozen before anything changes.

Hours per case6.4 h / week
Cost per unit€480
Cycle time, end to end11 days
Illustrative metrics. The audit captures yours, then freezes them.

Captured at kickoff. It is what turns later action into a number that holds up, and the ground every later result is measured against.

A resource and ownership map

Who owns what: build or buy, bring the skill in or teach the team.

Client onboardingBuild in-house · Ops lead
Product intelligenceBuy in · Product lead
Price elasticity of demandTeach the team · Commercial lead
Illustrative calls. The audit places each one on evidence.

If a hire is genuinely needed, the map defines the role concretely rather than leaving it to a job title. Plus a read of your infrastructure readiness, with the risks in what you run today.

Think of us like the structural survey you commission before a major renovation. We are not the builder. We go through the whole property, tell you what is sound and best left alone, what pays to change and in what order, and roughly what each move is worth.
You walk away owning the survey.

You can't price a transformation you haven't looked inside.

Investment
From €35,000
From four weeks. Larger scopes carry their own timeline, set on the scoping call.

Your AI-readiness score · the ranked ROI-potential list · a frozen baseline · the resource and ownership map.

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A documented first-year unlock
$517K / year

Freed in a year for one six-person team, measured against the baseline. A documented case. Watch the founder walk through it →

AI experts in the domains you run on.

The audit reads each domain of your business separately, and we staff it the same way: for every area, an operator with real AI depth in that kind of work, so the findings win buy-in domain by domain. Our founding partner leads every engagement, and the scoping call sets the queue.

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The audit is the door. What it opens is the strategy.

The audit ends in decisions you can act on: a ranked list, a baseline, a real quote for the work ahead. Everything past it is scoped from what the audit finds, and owned by your team.

✓ The audit
Ranked priorities
The strategy

What the audit hands you, and where the strategy starts.

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Tell us where you want to take the business. We'll tell you what's actually possible from here.

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