AI Assessment
Everyone’s telling you to use AI. We’ll tell you where it actually pays.
Two weeks. A straight answer about what’s worth doing in your business, what isn’t, and what it would take to do it.
A fixed price, agreed before we start. No hourly billing, no scope creep, no surprise number at the end.
The problem isn’t that you don’t know about AI.
You’ve read the articles. Someone on your team has already tried ChatGPT on something. A vendor has probably pitched you an AI feature you didn’t ask for and can’t evaluate.
The problem is that nobody has looked at your business and told you which parts of it would actually benefit, which parts would be a waste of money, and what the difference costs. That’s a specific question about your operation, and a general article can’t answer it.
Guessing wrong here is expensive in both directions. You either spend on something that never gets used, or you skip the one change that would have given your team back a day a week.
What you get
Three things, in two weeks, written in plain English.
A process inventory
What your team actually does all week, written down. Most owners have never seen this on one page, and it is usually the most useful part.
An opportunity map
Where AI would genuinely help, ranked by what it is worth against what it would cost. Including the places it would not help, and why.
A 90-day roadmap
What to do first, what to do next, and what to leave alone for now. With real numbers attached, not ranges wide enough to drive a truck through.
Why our answer is worth paying for
Michael Carico has been building software for over thirty years, and running AbleSpark since 2002. All of it shipping things that had to work on Monday morning.
We still build. Every week. So when we tell you something will work, it is not a guess from someone who has never had to ship it and live with it afterwards. And when we tell you something is a bad idea, it is usually because we have watched that exact idea fail.
And we keep up on purpose. This field moves fast enough that a fair amount of what was true eighteen months ago isn’t anymore, so staying current here is a standing process rather than something we get to when there’s time. We run our own tooling that pulls in and summarizes the newsletters, releases, and general industry noise every week. It is, not incidentally, a small working example of the kind of thing we would build for you.
You are not paying for a survey of the market. You are paying for a decision from someone who follows this closely and would have to build it.
Then it’s yours.
You get the roadmap. What you do with it is your business.
Some people take it in house. Some hand it to a developer they already work with. Some ask us to build it, and we are glad to, because building is the part we like most.
Nothing in the assessment obligates you to any of that. We would rather give you the honest answer than manufacture work for ourselves.
When not to buy this
- You already know what you want built. Skip the assessment and just talk to us about building it. Paying us to tell you something you already decided is a waste of your money.
- You need a document to show a board. We write these to be used, not presented. If the deliverable matters more than the decision, we are the wrong shop.
- You need the answer to be yes. Sometimes the honest finding is that AI is not your problem this year, and your money is better spent elsewhere. We will say so, and you will have paid to hear it.
Find out where it actually pays.
Start with a call. If the assessment isn’t the right thing for you, we’ll tell you that on the call, for free.