The AI Readiness Audit

One to two weeks. Fixed price, published below. A scored answer to the only question that matters before you spend real money: where does AI move our numbers, and what’s in the way?

Most AI initiatives don’t fail at the model — they fail because the data wasn’t ready, the workflow wasn’t understood, or the use case never had a payback in the first place. The audit costs less than one sprint of building the wrong thing. It’s how we earn the right to build, and how you avoid paying anyone — including us — to learn that lesson the expensive way.

Published Pricing

Three tiers, priced by the size of the job — not the size of your fear

Big-firm readiness assessments run into six figures and arrive by junior analyst. Ours are senior-led, fixed-price, and on the website — because a productized assessment should have a productized price.

Focused
$9,500
One week · Senior-led

For organizations under ~75 staff, or one department or workflow inside a larger company.

  • Scored readiness across data, workflow & value
  • Stakeholder interviews with the people who do the work
  • Top use cases ranked by expected payback
  • 90-day roadmap with the first build scoped
  • Executive readout session
Book a Focused Audit
Complex / Regulated
$32,500
Two weeks · Senior-led

For organizations over 500 staff, multi-entity structures, or regulated industries — healthcare, financial services, and organizations answerable to regulators and insurers.

  • Everything in Standard, at enterprise scope
  • Governance, risk & compliance readiness review
  • Vendor & data-handling assessment
  • Regulatory exposure mapped per use case
  • Program design brief your AI leader can inherit
Book a Regulated Audit

The audit pays for itself twice. First by stopping the wrong build before it starts. Then literally: move to an A2 implementation engagement within six months, and 100% of the audit fee is credited against it.

How It Runs

Two weeks, start to scored answer

1

Discovery

Structured interviews with the people who own the workflows AI would touch — plus a review of the systems and data sources those workflows run on.

2

Scoring & Sequencing

Every candidate use case scored for readiness and expected payback. Gaps identified with severity, cost to close, and what each fix unlocks.

3

Readout & Roadmap

An executive session walking your leadership through the scores, the 90-day roadmap, and the first build — scoped, priced, and with its success metric already defined.

Questions

Asked before every audit

Why publish the price?

Because hiding it serves the seller, not the buyer. Hourly billing on a standard readiness audit is usually a sign the deliverables and timeline aren’t defined either. A fixed, published price means our incentive is to finish well, not to bill long — and you can budget the decision in one meeting instead of three.

What if the audit says AI isn’t worth it for us yet?

Then that’s the answer you get, in writing, with the cheaper path spelled out. Some audits end the engagement — we’d rather lose the build than sell you the wrong one. The deliverable is yours either way.

Who actually does the work?

A senior practitioner, from kickoff to readout. No partner-at-the-pitch, analyst-at-the-standup switch. Your staff are in the working sessions too, because the most valuable data in your organization is in their heads, not your databases.

What happens after the audit?

Three common paths: your team runs the roadmap themselves (it’s written for that); we build the first use case together on a fixed base fee with an outcome-aligned component; or — if the audit surfaced a leadership gap — sister firm Talent Echo runs the search while we stand up the program the leader will inherit.

Which tier are we?

If you’re not sure, book the call — we’ll tell you in thirty minutes, and we’ll tell you honestly, including when the smaller tier is enough. Organization size is the starting point; regulatory exposure and system complexity are what move it.

Know where you stand in two weeks

Fixed price. Senior-led. Scored deliverable and a 90-day roadmap — credited in full if we build together.

Book Your Audit