How we run a 1-week AI Opportunity Audit (and what we cut)
The shape of the $1,000 Audit: intake on day one, scorecard by day four, recorded readout by day seven. What's deliberately not in scope.
Every audit is a fixed week. Day one is intake. Days two through four we score workflows. Day five we draft. Day seven you have a scorecard, two or three opportunities with rough ROI, and a 30-minute recorded readout.
We cap our own time at three hours per audit. That number isn't bravado — it's how the price stays at $1,000 without us subsidizing it. The hours we don't spend on the audit are hours we spend on the system that runs the audit.
What we deliberately cut
A few things keep getting requested that we keep refusing. Each one would make the audit better; together they would make the audit a different product.
A full implementation plan. That's a Blueprint engagement. The Audit gets you to 'should we' — Blueprint gets you to 'how.' Doing both inside the audit blurs the upgrade path and silently doubles the work.
Tool-specific recommendations. We name the workflow shape, not the vendor. Vendor selection is downstream of the spec; pretending otherwise sells you on a stack before you've decided on a strategy.
Live audit calls beyond the readout. The whole engagement is async by design. If you want the discovery to be conversational, you wanted a Blueprint.
What the readout actually contains
A scorecard of your top five workflows, ranked by automation fit. Two or three opportunities with order-of-magnitude ROI estimates. A short list of what's a separate engagement and why. That's it.
The Audit credits 100% toward a Blueprint within sixty days. If you read the readout and decide to go further, you don't pay twice.