There's £100k hiding in your business. This is how I find it.
The problem
Your enquiries live in three places.
Email, voicemail, the Facebook page, and a notepad on the office desk. Whichever one the team checks first wins; the rest go cold.
Your team retypes the same information every week.
Customer details, quote data, supplier names, opening hours. The same paragraph keyed into three different systems. Multiply by everyone on the team.
You've tried ChatGPT. Now what?
You've drafted a few emails. Maybe summarised a meeting. It's clearly useful, but you have no idea how to turn that into anything systematic.
Your best knowledge is stuck in someone's head.
There is a person on the team who knows how to do the difficult thing. If they leave, or just go on holiday, the business gets harder by Tuesday.
The deliverables
Workflow map
Visual map of your business's day-to-day operations, with cost-of-gap quantified in pounds per year per workflow.
Top 5 AI opportunities ranked by £ ROI
The five workflows where AI saves the most money, ranked, with the reasoning written out for each.
Risk register
Data privacy, vendor lock-in, change-management, and reputational risks tied to each opportunity. UK GDPR-aware.
30 / 60 / 90-day implementation plan
What to do in the first 30 days, the next 30, the next 30. Calibrated to your team's actual bandwidth.
Tool shortlist with £/month costs
Specific software recommendations (named products, not categories) with monthly costs and free-trial paths.
The process
Phase 1 · 1-2 weeks elapsed
3-5 people for a 10-staff business, up to 8 for a 25-60 staff business, up to 12 for 60-100 staff. 30-45 minutes each. A mix of leadership and operational staff. Recorded if everyone consents.
Phase 2 · 5-7 days offline
Workflow diagrams drawn up. Cost-of-gap calculations. Tool research and shortlist. Risk register written. No status calls during this phase; you get your week back.
Phase 3 · 90 minutes
In-person in Devon, or video call for everywhere else. Walk through findings and roadmap. Open Q&A. Written deliverables ship within 48 hours of the session.
The artifacts
Pricing
Small
£5,000
Team size10-25 staff
Engagement scopeSingle-site, single team
Mid
£10,000
Team size25-60 staff
Engagement scopeMulti-team
Large
£15,000
Team size60-100 staff
Engagement scopeMulti-site or regulated sector
The fit
Profile
Sectors
When the audit is not the right fit
I'm not the answer for everyone. Two better-fit paths if the audit isn't yours.
Too early? Try this first.
If you're not sure AI is right for your business yet, start with the free AI Readiness Assessment. Score yourself across seven areas, find out where the gaps are, take 20 minutes. No commitment, no email required.
Take the free Readiness Assessment →Too big? Go to a bigger firm.
If you have an internal data team and a £200k+ budget for production AI builds, you'd be better served by a larger consultancy. OpenKit and Faculty are two UK firms with the team size and infrastructure to handle that scale. I won't try to be them.
I ship software too
Most AI consultants stop at the slide deck. I build production software solo, in regulated industries, end-to-end. The flagship is the TRT Platform: a multi-tenant clinical management SaaS for UK Testosterone Replacement Therapy and men's-health clinics.
Featured product
Live build. Doctor login, patient flows, AI-assisted blood-test analysis all running. Multi-tenant auth (Clerk), Next.js, Prisma, Neon, CQC-aligned audit logs, GDPR-compliant data handling.
Proof in pounds
£50,400 annual revenue uplift
A 4-engineer plumbing and heating business in Plympton, just outside Plymouth. Family-run, twelve years in business, good word of mouth, owner-operator who'd been on the tools every day since he started.
The starting situation: 60% of out-of-hours callers never rang back. By the owner's own estimate, about £4,000 a month was walking straight to whichever competitor answered first. He'd tried hiring an answering service. Too generic, too transactional, missed jobs anyway.
What the audit found: the lost revenue was almost entirely in evenings and weekends, mostly from boiler emergencies (high-margin, urgent). The existing CRM was a mix of paper notepads and his iPhone Notes. No booking system. No qualification step. The owner was the single point of triage for every enquiry, twenty-four hours a day.
The roadmap they implemented: an AI voice agent answers every out-of-hours call, asks five qualifying questions (address, problem, urgency, access, contact preference), books the job into a shared calendar, and texts the owner a summary by morning. Tool cost: £99 per month. Setup time: 8 hours. No new hires.
The result, eighteen months in: 18 extra jobs in the first month. £4,200 revenue uplift in month one alone. £50,400 annualised revenue uplift overall. The behaviour change the owner mentioned in the follow-up call: he stopped answering his personal phone after 6pm for the first time in eleven years. His wife noticed first.
Questions
The booking
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