What You Actually Get From an AI & Automation Audit

“Audit” has a bad reputation, because most of the time it’s a sales pitch wearing a clipboard. A real one should leave you with something useful whether or not you ever hire the person who did it. Here’s what an AI & Automation Audit actually produces, so you can tell the difference before you pay for one.

What's actually in the report

• A workflow map — how work actually moves through your tools today, not how the org chart says it should.
• A tool and systems inventory — what you're already paying for and using, so nothing gets automated twice.
• Automation opportunities, ranked — not a wish list, a prioritized order based on time saved versus effort to build.
• A fixed-price quote for the build — so the next decision is a yes/no, not another open-ended estimate.
• A written report you keep — useful on its own even if you never build a single piece of it with me.

How the price is set

It's a flat fee based on team size, not a scope-dependent estimate — $950 for teams under 25 people, $1,500 for teams of 25 or more. Team size, not project complexity, is what actually predicts how long a proper workflow walkthrough takes, so that's what sets the fee. If you move forward with the build afterward, the audit fee is credited in full toward it — so at worst, it's a flat cost for clarity; at best, it costs nothing extra.

Signs you're ready for one

• You, or someone on your team, is re-typing the same information into more than one tool.
• You've tried ChatGPT or another AI tool, but nothing about how the business actually runs has changed.
• You suspect automation would help, but you don't know what to automate first.
• You're about to hire someone to “just build something” without a plan for what that something should be.

If any of that sounds familiar, the audit is the cheapest way to find out what's actually worth building — before you spend real money guessing.