A read of the work · a written answer · a price beside every line
Everyone says you should be using AI. Nobody says where.
That is the actual problem, and it is not a knowledge gap you can read your way out of. What fits depends on how your business really runs, which is why I go and look at it rather than sending you a questionnaire.
You end up holding a list of what is worth building, in order, with a number beside each one.
The AI Fit Assessment on video is $750.
That is the whole price, and all of it comes off a build you go ahead with within 30 days.
Ninety minutes in a private room on this site, with your screen shared so I watch the actual work rather than hear about it. Then the written list, and a call to go through it.
Booking, invoicing, quoting, scheduling, stock, payroll — anything whose bottleneck lives in a file or a system.
$750 comes off a build you go ahead with. If you never build anything, you still keep the document — and it is written for any developer, not only for me.
What happens
Three things, and the first one is me looking rather than asking.
I watch the work happen
Your screen shared while you do the job, so I see the real file rather than a description of it, and where the job happens away from a screen you show me on camera. I look instead of asking, because the things costing you money are the ones nobody thinks to mention.
I go through how it actually runs today
The spreadsheet somebody rebuilt, the thing that gets re-typed into two systems, the job that only one person knows how to do. I want the workarounds, not the org chart — a workaround is a business telling you exactly where its software stopped.
You get it in writing, with numbers beside it
A short document naming what is worth doing, what is not, what each one would cost to build, and which I would do first and why. It is yours whether or not you ever hire me, and it is written so another developer could work from it.
What this is not
Not a strategy deck, and not a readiness score.
There is no maturity rating, no roadmap, no vendor shortlist, and no comparison against companies I have never seen. Every line in the document is a thing that could be built, with what it would cost to build it, because a recommendation you cannot price is just an opinion with a font.
I am not selling you AI either. If the honest answer is that a whiteboard and a changed Tuesday routine would fix it, that is what the document says, and you still keep the document. Plenty of the best work I have done for a business had no AI anywhere near it.
And it is not a first conversation. That is still free, still has no assessment attached, and is still the right place to start if you already know what you want built. Builds start at $2,500. That is a floor, not a quote. What yours costs is agreed before any work begins.
What it assumes
Four things, so nothing is a surprise later.
- One business, one place.
- The price covers one location. If you run four, the other three are quoted separately, because four locations is four reads and not one.
- It happens while the work does.
- There is nothing to watch in an empty building or a closed screen, so we go when the job is actually being done. That is usually your busiest hour, and that is the point.
- It happens in an evening, on video.
- The plant's planning floor has my weekdays, so the session is an evening set ahead, and most evenings work. Where the job happens away from a screen, you show me on camera.
- A business with no repeated job has nothing to assess.
- What this finds is work that repeats and costs you time. Where there is none, there is nothing to price, and I would rather say that before taking the money than after.
Why me
I have stood on the floor in most of these businesses.
A restaurant floor at a casino for five and a half years. A bank's lending division, then cash management at a second bank. A clinical practice's scheduling and records. A licensed insurance practice. Now the planning floor of the appliance plant in town. That is not a credential I am waving — it is why I can watch your work and know which part of it is unusual, which is the only skill this job actually needs.