AI consulting and assessment

Find the opportunities worth funding, and the ones that are not.

A fixed-scope opportunity assessment that maps where time actually goes, costs the current process as a baseline, and tells you plainly what to automate first and what to leave alone.

Built with Claude.

The situation you are probably in

You keep being told to adopt AI. Every vendor has a pilot. Nobody has told you which three things in your business would actually change, what it would cost to run, or what could go wrong. So nothing starts, or the wrong thing does.

What we do about it

We talk to the people doing the work, not just the people describing it. We map where the hours go, score each candidate task on how often it repeats, how clear the rules are, and how expensive a mistake would be, and we hand you a short written recommendation. Where plain code beats a model, the recommendation says so and prices both: we have made that swap five times in our own systems, and it costs less to run every month.

Typical engagement. Two weeks, fixed fee, credited in full against any build that follows. This is where most engagements start.

What you receive.

Concrete things, not outcomes on a slide. This list is the scope of the engagement.

1
Interviews with the people who actually do the work
2
A map of where the time goes, with the delays marked
3
A costed baseline of the process today, so any build that follows can be measured against it
4
A shortlist of candidate automations, each with an honest estimate of effort, running cost and risk
5
An explicit do-not-automate-yet list, with reasons
6
A one-page recommendation you can act on with or without us

A good fit when

You run or lead operations in a business of roughly ten to two hundred people
You want a decision, not a demo
You are willing to let us talk to your team

The right starting point when

You already know what you want built. Skip the assessment and go straight to the build conversation. We scope it, price it and start.
You need the business case in a number. That is what it produces: the process costed as it runs today, and every automation after it measured against that baseline.

Not sure which of these is you? Describe the process and we will point you at the right one, on this page or another.

Price it before you commission it

Put the hours the task takes today, the salary of the person doing it and any quote you hold through the payback calculator. It shows the yearly saving, the payback period and the arithmetic behind both. Free, and nothing is stored.

Run the payback numbers

Things you can check.

Figures from our own systems that this service draws on. Each one names its source.

5
times we swapped AI for plain code that costs less to run: 3
live systems you can open and use before you hire us: 5
months running every day with nobody operating it

Every figure names its source. How we count. The investing system runs on a broker paper account, not real money.

Built this way for ourselves

Decifer Markets is a public product we run with the same method this service uses. Open it before you hire us.

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Make the next AI project one the business can measure.

Thirty minutes with the founder, no slides. You will know what the right solution looks like, what it would take to build, what it should return, and which part to start with.

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