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AI and Automation

Automation Audit & Roadmap

Structured review of manual work with a prioritized automation plan.

Overview

What we deliver

We audit your current workflows, score automation opportunities, and deliver a sequenced roadmap your team can execute with confidence.

We run a focused review of how work actually moves across your business and where time, errors, and handoffs pile up. Our team interviews operators, observes systems, and inspects data flows to map the work as it really happens, not as the org chart suggests. From there, we score each opportunity by effort, value, and risk, then group them into quick wins, structural projects, and longer plays. The output is a clear roadmap with owners, sequencing, dependencies, and expected outcomes for each initiative. We share the findings in plain language so operations, finance, and IT can align on the same plan. The goal is simple: give you a defensible automation plan that ties to revenue, cost, or capacity, and that your team can start executing the week the audit closes.

Fit Check

Built for teams like yours

Who it's for

  • Operations leaders without an automation plan
  • COOs reviewing back-office costs
  • Founders scaling past manual work
  • Heads of finance and shared services
  • RevOps teams stuck on repetitive tasks

Pain points we solve

  • Unclear where automation will pay back first
  • Too many tools and no shared map
  • Manual work hidden in spreadsheets
  • Stalled automation pilots with no roadmap
  • Conflicting opinions on what to automate next
What's included

Capabilities

Everything we cover in this engagement.

  • Stakeholder interviews and shadowing
  • Workflow and system mapping
  • Opportunity scoring by ROI and effort
  • Risk and compliance review
  • Tooling and vendor landscape review
  • Sequenced roadmap with owners
  • Business case modeling
  • Executive readout and Q and A
How we work

Our process

A clear, predictable path from kickoff to outcomes.

01

Kickoff

Align on scope, teams, and success criteria.

02

Discover

Interview operators and observe daily work.

03

Map

Document workflows, systems, and data handoffs.

04

Score

Rank opportunities by value, effort, and risk.

05

Deliver

Present roadmap, business case, and next steps.

What you get

Deliverables & outcomes

What you get

  • Current-state workflow maps
  • Opportunity backlog with scoring
  • Prioritized 6 to 12 month roadmap
  • Business case per initiative
  • Tooling and integration recommendations
  • Executive summary deck

Outcomes you can expect

  • Clear sequencing of automation work
  • Shared view across operations and IT
  • Defensible business case for funding
  • Faster decision making on tools
  • Visible quick wins within 30 days
Timeline

3 to 6 weeks

Engagement

Monthly retainer, Project, Sprint

Tools we use

Miro, Lucidchart, Notion, Airtable, Excel

KPIs we track

Hours saved per week, error rate, cycle time, cost per transaction, payback period

Client stories

What clients say

"

Holiday season was about to break us. We needed 22 agents in six weeks and our internal hiring pipeline could not move that fast. They staffed it, trained on our tone guide, and ran nesting alongside our senior reps. CSAT actually went up by three points during peak. First Q4 in four years my support lead took her vacation.

Tom H.
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We had 14 cornerstone pages stuck on page two for 18 months. Their SEO crew rewrote the internal linking, cleaned up our schema, and shipped 22 supporting briefs over a quarter. Eight of those pages broke top three by month five. Organic pipeline went from a trickle to our second-largest source. Felt like watching interest compound.

James T.
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Quick answers to the questions we hear most.

Do we need clean process documentation before we start?
No. We work from how things actually run today and document as we go.
Who do you need to interview during discovery?
Operators, team leads, and the people who own the systems that touch the workflow.
Will you recommend specific vendors?
Yes, when relevant we name tools and explain trade-offs based on your stack and budget.
How is the roadmap structured?
By quick wins, structural projects, and longer plays, each with owners and sequencing.
Can you help execute the roadmap after delivery?
Yes. Many clients move into a build or fractional engagement once the plan is set.

Ready to see where automation will pay back first?

Book a working session and we will scope your audit in 30 minutes.