The roadmap
The AI Roadmap
A written automation plan for your business, at a fixed $4,500. It maps how work actually moves through the company today, does the arithmetic on your own figures, ranks what is worth automating and in what order, and ends with a build specification and a fixed quote. The full $4,500 comes off the cost of the build if you start one with us within 90 days.
No cost, no obligation, and nothing to sign.
The plan is yours outright. Build it with us, hand it to your own developers, or take it to another firm and compare like for like. It is written so that any of those is a real option.
The roadmap
The full $4,500 comes off the cost of the build if you start one with us within 90 days.
What you receive
- A process map of how work really moves
- The arithmetic, done on your own figures
- A ranked plan of what to automate, and what to leave alone
- A build specification and a fixed quote
What you actually receive
A process map of how work really moves
Drawn from conversations with the people who actually do the job, not from an org chart. Where requests arrive, who touches them, what gets retyped, and where work sits waiting. Most owners find at least one step in this map they did not know still happened by hand.
The arithmetic, done on your own figures
What each of those processes absorbs today in hours and in money, using your numbers rather than an industry average. Where a figure cannot be established honestly, the plan says so instead of inventing one. This is the part that decides the order of everything else.
A ranked plan of what to automate, and what to leave alone
In order, with the reasoning written down. Some of what comes out of this is not software at all: if a change of process solves the problem for nothing, the plan says that, because the alternative is selling you a build you did not need.
A build specification and a fixed quote
Detailed enough to hand to any developer: what gets built, what it connects to, what happens when something goes wrong, and how you would know it is working. It comes with a fixed quote for building it with us, so you can compare like for like with anyone else you ask.
The price, and what happens to it
$4,500fixed
The full $4,500 comes off the cost of the build if you start one with us within 90 days.
- A process map of the workflows that matter, as they really run
- The costs and time each one is absorbing today, from your own figures
- A ranked shortlist of what to automate first, and what to leave alone
- A build specification detailed enough to hand to any developer
- A fixed quote for building it, if you want that quote
The fee is fixed and the same for everyone. It does not scale with the size of the build that might follow, and the build itself is quoted at a fixed figure inside the roadmap, so the number you agree is the number you pay. The pricing page sets out what the build work costs.
How it starts: the free call
Nobody buys the roadmap cold, and nobody is asked to. It starts with a free 30-minute call, on which you leave knowing the two or three processes in your business most worth automating and a rough sense of what they would cost and how quickly they would pay for themselves.
If the roadmap is the right next step after that conversation, you will know why. If it is not, you will be told so on the call, which happens more often than a consultancy site usually admits.
Questions people ask about the roadmap
What does the roadmap cost?
$4,500, fixed. It is the same price for everyone and it does not move with the size of the build that might follow. The full $4,500 comes off the cost of the build if you start one with us within 90 days.
How does the credit work?
If you go ahead with a build within 90 days, the roadmap fee comes off the quoted cost of that build in full. It is not a discount off a price raised to absorb it: the quote you are credited against is the fixed one written into the roadmap itself, before anybody knew whether you would go ahead.
How long does it take?
Two to three weeks in the usual case. Most of that is the interviews and the checking, because a plan written from assumptions about how the work happens is worth nothing. Nothing is asked of you beyond a few conversations and access to the figures the arithmetic needs.
What if I do not build anything?
Then you keep the plan, which is yours outright. It is written so that any competent developer can price and build from it, and plenty of people take it elsewhere or do it themselves. That is the point of buying the thinking separately from the building.
Do I have to buy this before you will build anything?
No. If you already know exactly what you want built and can describe it, the build can be scoped directly. The roadmap exists for the much more common case: knowing that something should be automated, without knowing which thing, or in what order.
How do I start?
With the free 30-minute call. It costs nothing, and you leave it knowing the two or three processes most worth automating and a rough sense of cost and payback. If the roadmap is the right next step after that, you will know why, and if it is not, you will be told so.
Would rather just ask a person?
Call, or send a note, and you get an answer from the person who does the work.