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Know where AI pays in your firm, before you buy anything.
Most owners are being pitched products by people who have never watched their business run. The audit does the reverse. We sit with you first, watch the work, read the records, and give you a written answer you can take to anyone, including a rival supplier.
Who it is for
A fit if this sounds like you.
- Owners of firms of about 5 to 50 people who know AI matters and have no plan
- Anyone holding a quote for an AI tool they cannot judge
- Firms that tried a tool, saw little change and are not sure why
The problem
The usual order is wrong. A tool arrives, then a business is found to fit it. An audit turns it round: the work comes first, the tool last, and sometimes the answer is that nothing should be bought.
39%
How it runs
Four steps, in order.
Days 1 to 2
Sit with the owner
A long conversation about how money comes in, where it slows and what keeps you up. No slides.
Days 3 to 5
Watch the work
We follow an enquiry, an invoice and a renewal through the people who handle them, and note every hand-off.
Days 5 to 8
Read the records
Twelve months of enquiries, invoices and renewals, read for gaps. Anything we cannot see, we say we cannot see.
Days 8 to 10
Write it plainly
A ranked list of fixes with a cost and a payback each, and a short list of what to leave alone. Then a walkthrough with you.
What you get
On the table at the end.
- A written report in plain English, not a deck
- Fixes ranked by payback, each with a cost range
- A leave-alone list: things AI would not improve in your firm
- A thirty-minute walkthrough and a written answer to your questions
What it does not do
The honest limits.
- We do not build anything as part of the audit, so we have no reason to inflate the findings
- It is not a security or legal review. Where a finding needs a specialist, we say so
- It does not promise a result. It prices the options so you can choose
Questions
Straight answers.
- How much does an AI readiness audit cost?
- £1,500, the same price as every other unit of work we sell, confirmed in writing once we have scoped your firm. Published UK price guides put small-firm audits at roughly £1,500 to £6,000 and large-consultancy audits at £50,000 and above. We price at the small-firm end because the work is done by the people you meet.
- How long does it take?
- One to two weeks from the first conversation to the written report, depending on how quickly we can get at your records.
- Will you try to sell me a build afterwards?
- We will say what we could build if the list says it is worth it, and we will say who else could. The report is yours either way and works with any supplier.
- Is our data safe?
- We ask for the minimum records the audit needs, read them under a written confidentiality agreement and delete our copies when the report is delivered. Say if there is anything you would rather we did not see.
Read and run next
- Tool: Try the sector tools on sample data
- Research: More than half of UK SMEs now use AI, and almost none have cut jobs
- Research: Government data: 14% of micro businesses use AI, and three in four users see no revenue change
- Guide: AI-assisted billing review for professional firms: what the evidence supports
- Prices: Free Leak Scan, then £1,500 a stage
- Guides: All nine UK guides on revenue leakage, WIP, lock-up and late payment
Start with a free Leak Scan.
Twenty minutes, a written estimate, and a plain answer on whether AI Readiness Audit is the right next step. If it is not, we say so.