A $999 AI Audit for owners and senior leaders
Find where your week leaks into redundant, repeat, low-value work. Then get a short list of practical fixes, off-the-shelf first.
Where your time leaks
Most owners and senior leaders do not have a technology problem. They have a time problem. The hours go to grunt work that comes back every week.
- Inbox overload. Leads sit for hours or days, and slow replies cost deals.
- Calendar chaos. Back-to-back meetings end with no decision and no follow-up.
- Manual follow-up. Deals go cold because no one had time to chase them.
- Repeat work. The same reports, the same quotes, and the same answers, every week.
- Knowledge in one head. Only you know how things really work. Everyone else guesses.
- Blind reporting. You cannot see yesterday's numbers without an hour of digging.
You pay for it in hours, yours and your team's.
What the AI Audit is, and what it is not
The AI Audit is a paid working session. It finds where your week leaks time, then maps practical AI and process fixes to those bottlenecks. It is diagnosis before the cure. We find the real problem first. We look at off-the-shelf tools first, starting with the ones you already have, and we do not recommend custom builds until simple, proven options are used up. It is not a tool pitch, and it is not a months-long technology project. You do not need to become an AI expert. The tools take the grunt work. Your people keep the judgment.
How it works
- Prep survey (required, about 10 to 15 minutes). Before we talk, you fill out a short survey about your role, where your time goes, the processes you run, your tools and team, and what a win would look like. The audit conversation is booked once the survey is in.
- The 45-minute audit conversation. We talk about where your time leaks into redundant, repeat, low-value work. We do not prescribe tools on this call. We listen and ask questions, starting with your single biggest operational pain point.
- Analysis. After the call, we sort what we heard by impact and effort, and match each problem to proven tools.
- The 30-minute review call, within a week. We walk you through your written report and each recommendation by screen share.
What you get
A written report with 4 to 7 prioritized recommendations, each matched to a simple, proven tool. It includes an impact and effort map, a quick-wins plan, and an ROI roadmap that uses your numbers and covers bigger projects. Quick wins are high impact and low effort, so they come first.
Examples of quick wins
Problems an AI Audit often turns up, and tools that can fix them.
| Problem | Tool that can fix it |
|---|---|
| Slow replies to new leads | Inbox rules or an AI voice agent |
| Meetings with no usable notes | Microsoft Copilot or Fireflies |
| An inbox buried in low-value email | Microsoft Copilot or SaneBox |
| Quotes and proposals that take too long | A custom GPT plus templates |
| Follow-up that falls through the cracks | A simple CRM with automation |
| The same questions answered over and over | An internal knowledge base |
A real example
A Midwestern manufacturing shop prepped its daily job schedule by hand every morning. System data was exported into Excel, and copy-paste routines ran on a single PC. Only a few people understood or trusted those spreadsheets, so data prep became a daily bottleneck.
In a Tech Coach Quick Win, we mapped the scheduling routine from export to execution. We kept people in charge of picking jobs, material calls, and exceptions. We automated the routine data pulls using tools the shop already owned. Process optimization reengineering stripped about half of the steps out of the daily routine. The team got a written playbook and recorded video coaching, so they run the refresh themselves.
The new process was running in 15 calendar days, with no software upgrades.
"We stopped rebuilding our Job Schedule spreadsheet every single morning. Now the team runs a simple refresh recipe, and our human judgment stays focused on the schedule itself…"
Read the full story on the Results page
The math, as an illustration
Here is an illustration of how the math can work. It is not a promise, and your numbers will be different.
- 5 hours a week saved × $100 an hour = $2,000 a month
- Minus about $50 to $80 a month in tools = about $1,920 a month net
- That is about a 20 to 25x return on a $999 AI Audit, every month
The biggest variable is how fast you put the fixes in place.
Price and what happens next
The AI Audit is $999. No heavy sales pitch afterward. No obligation to implement. Run the plan yourself, hand it to your team, or ask for our help setting it up. If you want ongoing help later, the Fractional CIO & Tech Coach retainer is a separate conversation with its own terms.
Who it is for, and who runs it
The AI Audit is for owners and senior leaders of established US businesses who lose hours each week to inbox, meetings, quoting, reporting, and repeat manual work. It is delivered remotely across the United States.
Mike Kanning is a Fractional CIO & Tech Coach with more than 30 years in technology. He has led AI tool selection and proof-of-concept projects that evaluated more than 25 vendors, and he is IBM certified in Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals.
Frequently asked questions
What is included in the $999 AI Audit?
A required prep survey, a 45-minute audit conversation, and a written report with 4 to 7 prioritized recommendations, a quick-wins plan, and an ROI roadmap. A 30-minute review call within a week walks you through it.
What do I fill out before the call?
A prep survey of about 10 to 15 minutes. It covers your role, where your time goes, your processes, your tools and team, and what a win looks like. The conversation is booked once it is done.
Does paying for the AI Audit commit me to a build or a retainer?
No. The AI Audit stands on its own. What you do next is up to you.
Is this an AI workflow audit?
Yes. It looks at how work moves through your week and where it gets stuck, then matches a fix to each spot.
Book your AI Audit
Find your quick wins. Prep survey, 45-minute audit conversation, written report, 30-minute review call. $999.