Assessment

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The Before Build Assessment

A fixed-fee engagement. Defined scope, defined deliverable, defined price. The easy first yes, and the foundation for everything that comes after.

1

Objectives

Interviews with owners and leadership to establish what the business is actually trying to achieve, and where they already sense an opportunity.

60–90 MIN PER LEADER

2

Validate

A second, shorter round with the people doing the work day to day. The gap between how leadership describes a process and how it actually runs is usually where the opportunity sits.

30–45 MIN, ROUND TWO

3

Deliver

A prioritized list of AI opportunities, ranked by impact and costed against effort, plus a roadmap of what to do first, what to defer, and what to stop.

WRITTEN ROADMAP

HOW LEADERSHIP DESCRIBES IT intakereview approvedeliver A CLEAN LINE THE GAP HOW IT ACTUALLY RUNS re-keyedchased re-checkedre-entered DETOURS, REWORK, RE-ENTRY

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WHAT STEP TWO IS LOOKING FOR
Fee
$8,000–$15,000, fixed, scoped by company size

What’s not included
No software is built in this engagement

After the assessment
Implementation, an advisory retainer, or a clean handoff to your team

Who it’s for
30–100 employees, process-heavy, regulated or compliance-driven

04

The alternative isn’t “no AI”

Do nothing

Competitors compound the advantage, and the shadow adoption already happening inside the business stays unmanaged.

Let staff experiment

Unaligned, ungoverned, and invisible on the P&L. A compliance exposure in a regulated business, not just wasted effort.

Hire a dev shop

They build what’s asked for. Nobody is checking whether it should be built at all.

A large consultancy

Priced for a business ten times this size, and the output is a strategy deck with no operator behind it.

Ordis Advisory

An operator’s judgment on which two things are worth doing, and which eight aren’t.