A one-week AI audit of your business. £2,500. A report on day 7.
Under three hours of your team's time. You find out which of your problems AI solves, which ones it doesn't, and what it would actually take — costed honestly enough to plan against.
I have spent the last year building AI agents that run in production for real businesses, so most of what I know is what they can't do. Nearly everyone selling AI advice has built demos; very few have hit the walls firsthand.
One week
intake Monday, report day 7
£2,500
fixed, agreed before we start
Under 3 hours
of your team's time, total
Paid 50% on booking, 50% on delivery. A fixed price, not a day rate — so an audit that turns out harder than expected is my problem, not your invoice.
Setting expectations
What this isn't
Worth saying up front, because the category is full of all four.
- A strategy deck
- A maturity score
- A vendor shortlist
- A sales document for follow-on work
The deliverable
A written report on day 7, walked through on a call
Six sections. Two of them exist specifically to be useful to you whether or not you ever work with me again.
Where the time goes
The recurring work across your business, in your own people's words, and quantified.
Opportunity register
Every candidate we found, scored on value, effort and — the axis most consultants skip — reversibility. Owners care a great deal whether a change can be undone.
The top three
Specified concretely enough that anyone could action them, with honest effort and cost estimates you can plan against.
What not to automate, and why
The section that earns the trust. Where AI would add risk, cost or fragility without a matching return — and the reasoning, so you can disagree with it.
Do-it-yourself quick wins
Things you can implement this month without help from me or anyone else. Giving these away is what makes the rest of the document credible.
Data and governance note
Including what your staff are already doing with AI unsanctioned, often with client data. Owners rarely know. It usually lands as a genuine finding.
The week
Under three hours of your time, and that is a design constraint
Not an estimate — engagements die of homework. Here is the whole week, and everything it asks of you.
Day 0
A short intake questionnaire — facts only, about fifteen minutes — plus a request for a handful of real working documents.
Owner or office manager
Day 1
A 90-minute call to understand the business as a whole, with a screen-share walkthrough of how the work moves.
Owner
Day 2
A 30-minute call with someone who actually does the day-to-day work. The best findings come from this one.
Someone in operations
Days 3–5
Analysis and drafting, with the occasional short email question as gaps appear.
Nothing needed from you
Day 7
The written report, delivered and walked through on a 45-minute call.
Owner
I ask for documents, not descriptions
A real CV, a client report, an invoice, a typical email thread. Two minutes of your time, and worth more than an hour of answers — people describe a process as it should be, and documents show what it is.
What you provide, in full
- About fifteen minutes on the intake form
- A handful of real working documents
- Ninety minutes of your time
- Thirty minutes with one person who does the day-to-day
- A few short email answers mid-week
- Forty-five minutes for the walkthrough
What I look at
Six areas, the same six every time
Where time actually goes
Recurring tasks by role rather than by org chart. What gets done twice, and what gets retyped from one system into another.
Document and communication flows
What arrives, in what state, what gets produced from it, and who actually reads the result.
System landscape
What you run on, what is connected, where data sits siloed. This determines feasibility more than anything else does.
Bottlenecks and decisions
What waits on one person, and what sits in a queue because nobody owns the next step.
Constraints
Client requirements, regulatory limits, and how comfortable your staff actually are with the technology.
Shadow AI
What people are already doing unsanctioned. This is frequently the finding an owner did not expect and most needed.
How I work
Three rules I hold myself to
The audit is complete in itself
It should be worth the fee if you never hire me again. Nothing is held back, and there is no phase-two cliffhanger. The moment it reads as a sales document, the honesty that makes it valuable evaporates.
I will recommend things that do not benefit me
Off-the-shelf tools, a process change, hiring a person. One recommendation that costs me money is what buys trust in the whole document.
The report is yours
Act on it in-house, hand it to another partner, or come back to me. It is written to be useful to whoever does the work, including someone who is not me.
Fit
Who this is for — and who it isn't
A good fit if
- Profitable, but capacity-constrained — more work than you can handle
- Expensive people doing manual, repetitive work
- Growth blocked by admin rather than by demand
- Document-heavy operations, roughly 10–100 staff
- No in-house IT team to hand this to
Probably not, if
- You want someone to validate a decision you have already made
- You know exactly what tool you need built — book a scoping call instead
- Nobody can spare a few hours to talk to me
The audit pays off fastest where the pain is a bottleneck rather than a cost line. If you are cutting back rather than straining at capacity, this is probably not where your money should go right now — and I would tell you that on the call rather than after the invoice.
After the audit
Four ways forward, and one of them is on your own
I only offer build work once I know I can deliver it. If the queue is long, I will say so rather than book you in and leave you waiting.
I build it
A bespoke build on the Opafex platform, shaped to the workflow the audit identified.
Bespoke buildsI run it for you
You send the input, I deliver the finished output. No software for your team to adopt.
OutcomesYou run the platform
Take the plan and drive it yourself, on the same platform my builds run on.
The platformYou take it elsewhere
The report is yours. Give it to your team or another partner — genuinely no hard feelings.
ConsultancyCurious what a build looks like? Two I have delivered.
The audit
Get started
Book an audit
Tell me roughly what your business does and where you think the time goes. If I do not think an audit would help you, I will say so instead — that conversation costs you nothing.