Know where AI pays off — before you spend.
A structured look at your operation, a shortlist of AI moves ranked by return, and hard numbers behind each one. That's the deliverable. Not a 40-page deck.
The deliverables, plainly.
A structured review of your workflows, systems, and data — where the hours go, what's automatable today, and what isn't. You get a written scorecard, not vibes.
Your AI opportunities in order of payback: what to do first, what it costs, what it returns, and what to skip. Most businesses have 2 or 3 moves worth making this year — not 10.
Numbers for each move — hours saved, error rates, payback period — so the decision is easy to defend to a partner, a lender, or yourself.
We don't resell software and we're not paid by any vendor. If the right answer is an $89-a-month off-the-shelf tool, that's the recommendation you'll get.
Three steps, no mystery.
Free 30-minute call
We learn how your business runs and tell you straight whether a full assessment is worth it. About half the time, the call itself answers the question.
The assessment
Usually 2 weeks, mostly asynchronous, minimal disruption. We dig into your workflows, your systems, and where the hours actually go.
Roadmap review
You get the findings, the ranked plan, and the numbers. Build it with us, build it yourself, or don't build it at all — the plan is yours either way.
Want the plan owned, not just handed over?
For businesses that want AI led, not just planned, we take the strategy seat: a part-time Chief AI Officer, a few days a month, with one person accountable for making the roadmap real. You get executive-level AI leadership without the executive salary.
Ask about it on a free 30-minute call →It's a fixed monthly retainer scoped to a set number of days, month to month — no annual lock-in. And the honest part: the goal is to work ourselves out of the job by building your team's ability to run this without us.
We run the plan from the assessment — sequencing, budgets, and course corrections as your business and the tools change. When something slips, it's our job to catch it.
Every tool pitch and proposal crosses our desk first. We don't take vendor commissions, so the recommendation is whatever is actually right for your business.
What your team can use, what data stays private, and what gets a human check — a working policy your people will actually follow, not a Fortune 500 legal binder.
Hours saved, dollars spent, what shipped and what's next — reported against the roadmap, so you always know whether it's paying off.
- Owners who keep hearing about AI and want a straight answer on what it means for their business
- Teams buried in manual work but unsure what's actually automatable
- Businesses that tried a chatbot or a copilot and didn't see the point
If AI isn't a fit for your operation yet, the assessment says so. Roughly 1 in 5 businesses we look at should wait — we'd rather tell you that in week 2 than bill you for a year.
What we're seeing.
OpenAI and SpaceXAI launched competing AI model families within 24 hours this week, while Microsoft reversed course on forced AI features in Teams.
Read it →Microsoft and Amazon launched embedded AI units this week, Anthropic's Sonnet 5 is now the default, and a federal AI security clearinghouse went live.
Read it →ChatGPT loses its market majority, GitHub Copilot's usage billing hits home, and your EU compliance deadline is 5 weeks out. AI SMB news for June 29.
Read it →Find out where you stand.
A free 30-minute call. We'll tell you if a full assessment is worth it — and if it isn't, that's a useful answer too.