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AI consulting for small business: a written audit of where a system pays off first.
One call, a look at how enquiries, records, bookings and invoices move through your company today, and a short plan: the two or three places where automation pays off first, what each costs from our ladder, and what should stay manual. No obligation to build with us.
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where a system helps
where a system helps
reading the company
- Enquiries0/4How a customer reaches you and how long they wait
- Records0/4Where customer data lives and who can find it
- Calendar and bookings0/4What is booked by hand and what falls through
- Invoices and payments0/4What is typed twice and what is chased late
- Website0/4Whether it starts the enquiry or ends it
- Reports0/4What the owner compiles by hand on Friday
higher score = more manual work to removehover a tile to hold it
What you get
A map of how work moves today
Enquiries, records, bookings, invoices, reports: where each lives, who touches it, where it waits. On one page, in your words.
Two or three places to start
The processes where a system pays off first, each with a price from the ladder and a note on what stays manual and why.
A plan you can take anywhere
No lock-in: the plan is yours, priced against public numbers, and you can build it with us, with a ready-made tool, or with anyone else.
How it works
One call, one look, one plan
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- 01The call
About an hour with the person who knows how the work runs. We ask how a customer reaches you and what happens next.
- 02The look
Read-only access to the mailbox, calendar, spreadsheet or CRM. We look, we do not change anything.
- 03The scoring
Each area scored for manual work and waiting time; the highest scores are where a system pays off first.
- 04The plan
Two or three processes, priced from the ladder, with what stays manual. Within a week of the call.
- 05Your decision
Build with us, use a ready-made tool, or wait. The plan is yours either way.
Who this is for
Owners who suspect the work could run itself, and want the list
A company of three to thirty
Big enough that things fall through, small enough that one plan covers everything.
An owner who does the reports
Friday evenings spent compiling numbers that already exist in four tools.
A business that tried a tool and dropped it
The tool was not the problem; the process around it was. The audit finds which.
A company before hiring
Before adding a person to answer enquiries, see whether a system does the first half.
Proof
We audited ourselves first
The method was built on our own studio before it was offered to anyone. What it found, with sources.
Clinic websitesown research
272US clinic sites measured
92.4% show a booking button; 36.7% connect it to a system that can take the booking. The same audit method, applied to an industry. oris.agency research · Aug 2026
This websitebuilt on the plan
1 planthen one page at a time
The site you are reading was planned the same way: tree and priorities first, then pages, each accepted before the next. headpills.com · Sep 2026
No client deployment yet as a standalone consulting engagement. Audits so far were part of build projects; the first standalone one is priced after a call.
Price
Price after a short call. Fixed, and small next to a build.
Everything the plan proposes is priced on this site’s ladder, so you can check it before you agree.
Questions
Questions owners ask before an audit
What is an AI audit for a small business, and what do we get?
A short written plan: how your enquiries, records, bookings, invoices and reports move today, the two or three places where a system pays off first, what each would cost from our ladder, and what should stay manual. It takes one call and access to look, and it obliges you to nothing; you can build it with anyone.
Do you build custom AI solutions for small business, or only advise?
Both, in that order. The audit names the processes; if you want them built, each is a fixed-price project from the same ladder as every page on this site. If a ready-made tool does the job, the plan says so instead of proposing a build.
Do you offer data analytics consulting for a small business?
In the practical sense: which numbers you should see every week, where they already exist in your tools, and how to get them onto one screen without compiling them by hand. We do not run data-science projects; we connect what you have and make it readable.
Where does AI pay off first in a small company?
Almost always in the replies: enquiries answered within minutes with the right slot or price, follow-ups when somebody goes quiet, missed calls turned into callbacks. Second, in the handovers between people: the enquiry that reaches the right person with its history. Third, in the reports nobody wants to compile. Rarely in content, and almost never in “strategy”.
What does the audit need from our side?
One person who knows how the work runs, one call of about an hour, and read-only access to look at the tools: the mailbox, the calendar, the spreadsheet, the CRM if there is one. We sign an NDA first if you want one. The plan arrives within a week of the call.
How much does AI consulting cost?
The audit is priced after the first call, depending on how many tools and people are involved. What we can say now: it is a fixed price, it is small compared with a build, and the price of anything we propose is on this site’s ladder, so you can check it before you agree.
Tell us how the work runs today.
One call, one look, and a plan within a week.