AI & Technology Assessment
Know your options before you pick one.
Spend 45 minutes with an engineer who has spent thirty years building and operating production systems. We go through what you have, where the friction is, and what it is costing you. Afterwards you get a written report with our recommendations — where you would get the most value, where you could save money, what could be automated, and what to leave exactly as it is.
$1,000, one time. Start with a free 20-minute call — we will confirm it is the right thing for you before you pay for anything.
Already spoken to us and ready to start? Get in touch and we will send you everything you need.
The questions people bring us
- Are we overpaying for any of this?
- Should we be doing something with AI, or is that hype?
- Is that old system a risk we should be worried about?
- This quote we were given — is it reasonable?
- What should we fix first?
Bring the ones that have been sitting on your list. If it is something we cannot help with, we will tell you that too.
What you get
A written report, sent within two business days of the call. Four things, in plain language, that you keep and can act on with or without us.
What you have
A plain summary of your situation as you described it, so you can see it was understood — and so you have something to hand a partner or a board.
What we would do first
The two or three things that would make the biggest difference, in order, with the reasoning behind each.
What to leave alone
Named explicitly. The things not worth your money or attention right now, and why. This is the section nobody else gives you.
What each would take
The rough shape and effort involved, and who could do it — including when the honest answer is that it is not us.
How it works
- 1
A free 20-minute call
A short conversation to be sure this is the right thing for you. If something else fits better, we will point you at it instead.
- 2
The assessment
45 minutes, phone or video. You talk through what you have and what worries you. We ask a lot of questions, and give you our thinking as we go.
- 3
Your report
Written up and sent within two business days. Yours to act on, share, or hand to whoever does the work.
What we cover
Your systems
What you are running, what is holding together, and what is quietly creating risk.
Manual work worth automating
The repetitive tasks and workflow bottlenecks where automation or AI would actually pay for itself.
Whether AI makes sense for you
An honest read on whether it is worth doing in your business right now — and if so, where to start. No hype.
Spend and hosting
What you are paying for, whether it is the right shape, and where money is going without returning much.
Compliance exposure
For regulated work — HIPAA, PCI-DSS, state privacy law — where the obvious gaps are.
Not a checklist we work through. We go where your situation takes us — these are the areas it usually goes.
What this is not
- An audit. Nobody logs into your systems or interviews your team.
- A multi-week engagement. That exists, it is quoted separately, and most people do not need it.
- Implementation. Nothing gets built on this call.
- An AI pitch. AI is one of the things we talk about, not the frame.
What you are buying is judgment — knowing what matters and what does not — from someone who has operated production systems for thirty years.
Price
$1,000
One time. The conversation and the written report. No retainer, no commitment, and nothing owed afterwards.
Start with the free 20-minute call. If the assessment is not the right thing for you, we will say so then — before you have paid for anything.
This is for you if
- Your business depends on technology every day
- You have questions and nobody in-house with the time or the seniority to answer them
- You have had quotes or proposals and no way to judge whether they are reasonable
- You would rather find out first than pay for the wrong thing
It is not for you if
- You already know exactly what you want built. Ask us to quote it instead
- You want us to go through your systems and data hands-on — that is a larger engagement, quoted separately
- You need a formal audit document for a board or a regulator
Who you are getting an opinion from
Thirty years of building and operating systems that had to stay up. Not advising on them — operating them, including through the parts that went wrong.
That is what the recommendation is built on: knowing which problems actually matter, which ones quietly get worse if left, and which are perfectly fine as they are. Most of what we suggest is work you can do yourself or hand to whoever already looks after your systems.
Read how we rewrote a live system with zero downtime
Based in Southwest Florida. The assessment is remote, so we work with businesses anywhere in the US.
- 30 years
- building and operating production systems
- 250+ clients
- supported across 24/7 production operations
- 20+ years
- of continuous PCI-DSS compliance in production
Questions people ask first
Why would I pay for what other people call a free consultation?
A free consultation is usually run by a company that sells one thing, so the answer tends to be that thing — ask a hosting company about your hosting and you will hear about their hosting. This is wider and deeper: how you actually work, across everything you have, with no single product waiting at the end of it. You get the recommendation whether or not you hire us, including when it is to do nothing, or to use somebody else.
What can you actually tell me in 45 minutes?
Where to start, what to leave alone, and what is worth spending money on. Not an audit — that takes longer and costs more, and most people do not need one. What most people need is someone to tell them which of the things on their list actually matter, and to point out the ones they had not thought of.
We already have an IT company. How is this different?
They keep your systems running, and that is a different job. Most providers specialize in operating things rather than assessing them, and the ones who sell a product tend to recommend it. This answers the question none of them is well placed to answer: whether what you have is the right thing to have in the first place.
How is this different from your free call?
On the free call we listen to what is going on and point you in the right direction — including away from us, if that is the honest answer. Twenty minutes, and you get our read rather than our work. The assessment is 45 minutes going properly through what you have and how you are doing it — who does what, where the time goes, and where there is room to save money or automate. Afterwards you get a written report you keep.
What if the answer is that we do not need you?
Then that is what the report says. It is a perfectly normal outcome, and it is the reason the rest of the report is worth reading.
Stop guessing at it.
Start with a free 20-minute call. Tell us what is on your mind and we will tell you whether the assessment is the right next step.