AI Readiness Assessment · AI Core Audit
An AI readiness assessment
for growing teams.
In two weeks, we map where your team's hours are going and hand you a prioritised AI roadmap. £1,500 flat fee. Money-back guarantee if we do not find 10+ hours a week of automation opportunity.
- ✓10+ hours/week found or full refund
- ✓Delivered in 2 weeks
- ✓Built for 5-20 person service businesses
2 weeks. No retainers.
Deliverables
- ✓3-5 team interview sessions covering owners, ops, finance, and front-line staff
- ✓Full workflow map across sales, operations, finance, and client communications
- ✓Tool stack review with gap analysis and integration opportunities
- ✓Prioritised AI automation roadmap scored by impact and effort
- ✓ROI model with time savings and cost projections per recommendation
- ✓60-minute findings presentation with live Q&A
Money-back guarantee. If we do not find 10+ hours a week of automatable admin, you pay nothing.
AI readiness
What is an AI readiness assessment?
An AI readiness assessment checks whether a business can put AI to work and where it should start. It looks at how work flows through the team, where your data lives, which tools you already pay for, and who would run the new systems once they are built.
The free readiness tools from Microsoft and Cisco are self-scored questionnaires built for companies with an IT department. They score cloud infrastructure and data science teams that a 12-person accountancy practice does not have. The AI Core Audit is the version for UK service businesses with 5 to 20 staff: we interview your team, map the workflows and turn what we find into a ranked, costed roadmap.
Workflows
Where your team's hours go, from first enquiry to invoice paid, mapped across sales, operations, finance and client communications.
People
Three to five interviews with owners, operations, finance and front-line staff, so the map reflects how the work is done, not how the handbook says it is.
Tools and data
Which systems hold your client information, which of them connect, and where staff copy data between them by hand.
Priorities and return
Every opportunity scored by impact and effort, with the hours saved and the cost of each build modelled before you spend anything.
Process
Two weeks from kickoff to roadmap
Week 1
Interviews + Mapping
We run 3-5 interviews with owners, ops, finance, and front-line staff. Map the full workflow from first client contact through to invoice paid. No prep required from your team.
Week 2
Analysis + Report
We score every task by impact and effort, model the ROI of each recommendation, and write the report. You are not involved this week — we do the thinking.
Week 3
Presentation
60-minute walkthrough with you and your senior team. Every recommendation on screen, every question answered. You leave with a decision, not a document.
Who it is for
Built for UK service businesses with 5-20 staff
Three verticals where we know the workflows inside out — but the audit works for any UK service business where admin is eating the week.
Letting Agency
12-person agency, 180 properties
Reading
Team was losing 22 hours a week across tenant queries, rent chasing, and maintenance triage. The audit mapped 7 automations that would recover 14 of those hours, with a 4-week implementation path.
Accountancy Practice
8-person practice, 210 clients
Birmingham
Fee earners were spending Fridays generating client reports and Monday mornings chasing missing documents. The audit identified 6 automations worth 18 hours a week, plus a Karbon workflow rebuild worth a further 4.
Construction Firm
15-person firm, 8 concurrent projects
Manchester
Office manager was the bottleneck on quotes, invoices, and subcontractor coordination. The audit surfaced 5 automations across Simpro and Xero plus a shared project dashboard, together worth 12 hours a week.
Example findings based on typical engagement scope. Not drawn from specific named clients.
Not sure which one
AI Core Audit vs £499 AI Assessment
Both are entry points to HeyBRB. They target different buyers and go to different depths.
| AI Assessment £499 | AI Core Audit £1,500 | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Solo operators (1-4 staff) | Growing teams (5-20 staff) |
| Format | 45-minute call + written report | 2-week engagement + presentation |
| Who we talk to | The owner | Owners, ops, finance, front-line staff |
| Workflow mapping | Top-level | Full — every stage from lead to cash |
| Tool stack review | Recommendations only | Full audit with gap analysis |
| ROI model | Hours saved estimate | Full model per recommendation |
| Final deliverable | 5-7 recommendations | Prioritised roadmap + presentation |
| Delivery time | 5 business days | 2 weeks + 1 week for presentation |
| Money-back guarantee | 5 hrs/week or full refund | 10 hrs/week or full refund |
Still unsure? See the AI Assessment → or email us and we will tell you which one fits.
Options
How much does an AI readiness assessment cost?
An AI readiness assessment costs nothing as a self-scored quiz and £499 to £5,000 when a consultant interviews your team and maps the work. Pick on team size and how much detail you need before you spend on a build.
| Option | Best for | What you get | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free AI Readiness Audit | A five-minute self-check for any business | Five-question online quiz with an instant score | Free |
| AI Assessment | Owners and teams of 1-4 | 45-minute call, written report in 5 business days | £499 |
| AI Core Audit | Teams of 5-20 | Team interviews, workflow map, tool review, costed roadmap in 2 weeks | £1,500 |
| Process optimisation | Businesses that want every workflow documented | Full workflow audit and implementation roadmap in 2-3 weeks | £3,000-£5,000 |
Prices exclude VAT. Larger firms past the pilot stage can score themselves on our free AI-adoption maturity assessment. Every fee we charge is on our AI consultancy page.
Questions
Common questions
What is an AI readiness assessment?+
An AI readiness assessment checks whether a business can put AI to work and where to start: how work flows through the team, where the data lives, which tools connect, and who will run the new systems. The AI Core Audit does this for UK service businesses with 5-20 staff in 2 weeks, ending with a ranked, costed roadmap.
How much does an AI readiness assessment cost?+
Self-scored quizzes are free. A consultant-led assessment for a UK small business costs £499 to £5,000. Ours are £499 for the AI Assessment (1-4 staff), £1,500 for the AI Core Audit (5-20 staff) and £3,000-£5,000 for a full process optimisation.
Is there a free AI readiness assessment?+
Yes. Our Free AI Readiness Audit is a five-question online quiz that takes about 5 minutes and gives an instant score. It tells you whether a paid assessment is worth doing; it does not map your workflows or cost the builds.
How does this differ from the £499 AI Assessment?+
The £499 AI Assessment is a 45-minute call for solo operators and very small teams. One person tells us how they work, we send a report. The AI Core Audit is a 2-week engagement for teams of 5-20. We interview the team, map the full workflow, review your tool stack, and deliver a prioritised roadmap with ROI projections. Different product, different buyer, different depth.
What do you need from our team during the audit?+
Three to five 45-minute interviews with people who actually do the work — the office manager, a senior fee earner, someone on the front line. We work around your schedule. No prep required, no homework, no spreadsheets to fill in.
What happens after the audit?+
You get a written roadmap and a 60-minute presentation walking through every finding. You own the output — there is no obligation to engage us for implementation. Clients who want us to build it for them progress to the AI Core Build, which can begin as soon as the audit is complete.
How does the money-back guarantee work?+
If we do not find at least 10 hours a week of automatable admin across your team, we refund the full £1,500 after the presentation. No questions asked.
Which industries do you work with?+
Our primary focus is letting agencies, accountancy practices, and construction or building firms with 5-20 staff. We also work with other UK service businesses if the workflow fits.
Book a discovery call
20 minutes to see if the audit fits your business
Pick a time that works. We explain the process, answer your questions, and confirm the Audit is the right fit before you commit to anything.
£1,500 flat fee · Money-back guarantee · Report in 2 weeks · 60-min presentation included