How is this different from the two-week engineering audit?

The engineering audit reads your codebase and architecture over two weeks and delivers a domain map, risks, and a delivery plan. The assessment covers your business workflows in one week and never touches code. If your problem is quotes, invoices, and meeting notes, book the assessment; if it's software your team builds and runs, book the audit. If you're not sure, we'll tell you which one you need on a short call.

What if you find nothing worth changing?

Then you pay nothing: at least 5 recoverable hours per week in the report, or a 100% refund. This is a new service, so we won't quote invented client results; the refund carries the risk instead of you. And that outcome tells you something too: your operations are lean, and you can stop wondering what you're missing.

Do I need to be technical?

No. The discovery call is about how you work, not about technology, and the report is written in plain language with monthly costs and a 4-day quick-start plan. If you can describe your Tuesday, you can use this.

Which tools do you push?

None. We have no affiliate deals and no reseller agreements, so recommendations are vendor-neutral and sized to your company. Sometimes the best fix isn't AI at all: it's boring software you didn't know existed.

Why not just ask ChatGPT myself?

You can, and some owners do. ChatGPT doesn't know your workflows, your team, or current tool pricing, and it won't put a refund behind its answer. We do the structured discovery, the vendor research, and the ROI math, and we stake the fee on the result.

Can this stay under our data policies?

Yes. You decide what we see on the call, we sign an NDA on request, and the recording and transcript stay in our private tooling. Where a recommended tool would process sensitive data, we flag it in the report, note EU hosting options, and mark what needs a DPA before rollout.

SERVICE

AI TOOLS ASSESSMENTWe find you five hours a week, or you pay nothing

Quotes at 10pm, inbox triage before breakfast, copy-paste between systems that don't talk. In one week we map where your hours go, match proven tools to each bottleneck, and put the ROI math in writing. If we can't find at least 5 recoverable hours per week, you don't pay.

HOW WE WORK

01Discovery call45 minutes, recorded and transcribed. Your bottlenecks and the tasks you dread.
02AnalysisTranscript through our AI tooling plus tool-market research. Proven tools matched to each bottleneck, sized to your company.
03The reportExecutive summary, effort-vs-impact matrix, tool costs, a 4-day quick-start plan, and the ROI math.
04Review call30 minutes to walk it through. One question at the end: implement it yourself, or want our help.

PROOF

5 h/week

The minimum the assessment must find, or we refund the full fee. That threshold is our commitment, not a past result.

Our guarantee

PRICE

One-time fixed price, quoted on a short call. Full refund if we can't find at least 5 recovered hours per week.

GUARANTEE

If the assessment doesn't identify at least 5 recoverable hours per week, we refund the full fee. No forms, no argument.

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What we build

Structured discovery

A 45-minute call, recorded and transcribed. We map where your week goes: the meeting notes nobody reads, the reports you rebuild by hand, the tasks you keep pushing to the evening.

Tool matching, sized to you

We run the transcript through our own AI tooling plus current tool-market research. Every recommendation fits your company size. No enterprise CRM for a four-person firm.

ROI math in writing

Hours recovered, times your hourly rate, minus subscription costs. You see the number for every recommendation before you spend a euro on tools. If the number doesn't work, we say so and leave it out.

Not AI for its own sake

Sometimes the best fix is a plain piece of software, not an AI product. We recommend what removes the hours, not what's fashionable this quarter.

How we work

The process, the report, and the math, drawn out.

Four-phase timeline of the AI tools assessment: discovery, analysis, report, review, in one week — Four phases, one week end to end

Effort versus impact matrix with the quick-wins quadrant highlighted — Every recommendation lands on the effort-vs-impact matrix; quick wins first

Clock dial marking five hours per week, or a full refund — The guarantee: 5 recovered hours a week in the report, or you don't pay

ROI equation: hours recovered times hourly rate minus tool costs — The ROI math behind every recommendation

Flow from call transcript through AI analysis and matrix to the plan — From transcript to plan: how the analysis runs

Report contents: executive summary, matrix, tools, four-day plan, ROI — What the report contains

Three common quick wins: inbox, meetings, proposals — Where the first hours usually hide: inbox, meetings, proposals

Three ascending steps: assessment, implementation, concierge — Start with the assessment; implementation and the concierge are optional next steps

Stack in production

The tools we run for this work, and what each one is there to do.

Claude

Transcript analysis, workflow skills, and the drafting engine behind the report.

ChatGPT

Second-opinion analysis and the assistant most teams already pay for.

Zapier

Off-the-shelf automations between the tools you already run.

Make

Visual automation for multi-step flows on a small-business budget.

Notion

The client hub and the knowledge base your team keeps.

Airtable

Structured records where a spreadsheet stopped being enough.

What you get

01Visual report with an executive summary
02Effort-vs-impact matrix: quick wins vs major projects
03Recommended tool list with monthly costs
044-day quick-start plan
05ROI calculation for every recommendation
06Recording and transcript of your discovery call

If you want it implemented

Every package is scoped from your assessment report and delivered by the same senior engineers.

Workflow optimization sprint

On request

We take the report's top workflow and rebuild it end to end. Fewer steps, tools wired in, your team trained on the result.

Automation build

On request

One automation from the report, shipped and working. Your team runs it; we document it.

Knowledge system / custom AI skills

On request

Your documents, procedures, and know-how turned into an AI assistant your team actually uses.

Full implementation

On request

Everything in the report, built by the engineers who wrote it. Fixed scope agreed up front.

Common questions

How is this different from the two-week engineering audit?: The engineering audit reads your codebase and architecture over two weeks and delivers a domain map, risks, and a delivery plan. The assessment covers your business workflows in one week and never touches code. If your problem is quotes, invoices, and meeting notes, book the assessment; if it's software your team builds and runs, book the audit. If you're not sure, we'll tell you which one you need on a short call.
What if you find nothing worth changing?: Then you pay nothing: at least 5 recoverable hours per week in the report, or a 100% refund. This is a new service, so we won't quote invented client results; the refund carries the risk instead of you. And that outcome tells you something too: your operations are lean, and you can stop wondering what you're missing.
Do I need to be technical?: No. The discovery call is about how you work, not about technology, and the report is written in plain language with monthly costs and a 4-day quick-start plan. If you can describe your Tuesday, you can use this.
Which tools do you push?: None. We have no affiliate deals and no reseller agreements, so recommendations are vendor-neutral and sized to your company. Sometimes the best fix isn't AI at all: it's boring software you didn't know existed.
Why not just ask ChatGPT myself?: You can, and some owners do. ChatGPT doesn't know your workflows, your team, or current tool pricing, and it won't put a refund behind its answer. We do the structured discovery, the vendor research, and the ROI math, and we stake the fee on the result.
Can this stay under our data policies?: Yes. You decide what we see on the call, we sign an NDA on request, and the recording and transcript stay in our private tooling. Where a recommended tool would process sensitive data, we flag it in the report, note EU hosting options, and mark what needs a DPA before rollout.

NEXT STEP

Know what to automate before you buy a single tool

One week, fixed price, no code touched. If we can't find at least 5 recovered hours per week, you get every euro back.

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