One Workflow Built takes five days and fixes one thing, and that is the right purchase when you can name the task and it never leaves one team. Some work isn't shaped like that. It crosses three departments and four systems, and every handoff is a place where it waits, gets retyped, or goes missing.
This is a different kind of work, not a longer version of the same work. One to two weeks, $3,500, and what you get is a map: how the work and the data actually move end to end, a dollar figure on each step, and a roadmap of what to automate in what order. It credits toward whatever you build from it. Work first. Then the AI.
You priced this work at — a year.
That figure came from one workflow. If the work crosses departments, the real number is larger, and this is how you find out where it actually goes.
Most of the time this is not the first thing someone buys. It is what they buy after discovering the problem is wider than one workflow.
Sometimes the Strategy Session shows the problem isn't one task, it's four handoffs between five people. Sometimes it's the build that shows it: the workflow now runs clean, and the process around it still doesn't.
Either way you learned the same thing, which is that fixing one workflow fixed one seam. Your $250 session credits against this.
If you can already name the three teams and the four systems involved, there is nothing to establish first. Start here.
The free readiness check is still worth five minutes first, because the annual cost figure it produces becomes the baseline the audit is measured against.
The difference is whether the output is about your organisation in the abstract or about one process in particular.
"You score 2.4 out of 5."
Scores you against somebody's framework across governance, data, talent and strategy. Reads well to a board. Nobody can start work on Monday from a 2.4.
"Here's the platform to buy."
Compares vendors for a process that has never been mapped. It can pick the best runner in the wrong race, and you find out after procurement.
"Step six costs you $41,000 a year."
Follows one real process from the moment work arrives to the moment it's done. Names every handoff, prices each one, and puts them in the order that makes arithmetic sense.
A finding you can't put a dollar figure on is an opinion with a chart on it.
Two weeks is the full shape, for a process that genuinely crosses several teams. One process inside one department usually lands in a week. Published for the same reason the session agenda is published: you should be able to decide whether this is worth $3,500 without a sales call.
Interviews with the people whose hands are actually on it, not only the people who manage it. These two descriptions never match, and the gap between them is usually where the cost is hiding.
Every step, every system, every handoff. Who touches it, what they do, how long it waits before the next person picks it up, and where the same information gets typed a second time.
Loaded hourly cost against measured time, per step. This is the part that turns priority from an argument into arithmetic, and it is the part most audits skip.
What to automate, in what order, and what to leave alone. Each item has a cost to build, a cost to run, and the annual figure it removes. Including the ones I recommend against.
We go through the map and the roadmap with whoever has to approve the spend. You keep the written audit either way, and nothing in it obligates you to buy the next thing.
Where client, patient or financial information crosses a line it shouldn't. This falls out of the mapping for free, and it is often the finding that gets acted on first.
$3,500, one to two weeks. It credits toward whatever you build from it.
Why the map has to come first.
Large AI projects get written off for a boring reason. They were scoped against somebody's description of the work rather than the work, so the exceptions nobody mentioned turn out to be forty percent of the volume. The map is what makes a fixed price honest, which is why the Private AI Build cannot be bought without one.
Then you don't need weeks of mapping. You need the thing built. Buy the $1,500 build, or the $250 session first if you want the plan before you commit to the week.
Spending $3,500 to confirm what you could already name is the kind of purchase that makes people distrust consultants, and I would rather send you down one step than take it.
They run in price order and in dependency order, and that isn't a coincidence. Each one produces the input the next one needs. You can stop after any of them and still be better off than when you started.
Decide what to change and in what order. One workflow, priced in dollars, with a written implementation plan you keep. Nothing here obligates you to spend another dollar.
See what happens in the hour →The single workflow from that plan, running by itself inside the tools you already use. Built on your real documents, living in your own Google or Microsoft account. Your $250 comes off the price.
See the five days, day by day →For work that crosses departments, where building one workflow only fixes one seam. An end-to-end map of how the work and the data actually move, then a roadmap of what to automate and in what order.
Two things get built in the room. Your AI tech stack, meaning which tool belongs on which job and the workflows that make people faster by Monday. And your governance standard, meaning what leaves the building and what never should, written by your own team so they actually keep it.
See what gets built in the room →A production system deployed inside your own infrastructure, scoped from a completed Workflow Audit. This is the only one with a prerequisite, because building at this size without the map is how six-figure AI projects get written off.
See what is in scope →Before any of them, the free AI-Readiness Check takes five minutes and tells you what the work is costing you a year. Most people should start there.
$3,500, one to two weeks, and it credits toward whatever you build from it. If the work sits inside one team, start one step lower instead. It's cheaper and it's the right answer.
Book the audit Start with the free check, it prices the work in five minutes →