Paicer

AI Automation Audit

Find out where automation pays off before you spend a rand.

The AI Automation Audit maps your workflows, identifies the highest-impact opportunities, and gives you a 90-day roadmap with ROI estimates. Three tiers to match your business size and how deep you want to go.

Choose a tier

Three levels of depth

20-min call + 1-page report

Quick Survey

  • 20-minute structured interview via video call
  • Review of your top 3 most time-consuming processes
  • 1-page Automation Opportunity Summary with 3-5 ranked recommendations
  • Rough ROI estimates for the top opportunity
  • 20-minute follow-up call to walk through findings

Best for: Solo practitioners and micro businesses testing whether automation makes sense for them before committing to a larger engagement.

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1 week, 3-5 interviews

Medium Audit

  • 3-5 structured stakeholder interviews across departments
  • Process mapping of 5-8 key workflows
  • Friction-point inventory with time and cost estimates
  • AI Opportunity Matrix (ranked by impact and implementation effort)
  • Top 3 automation opportunity briefs with scoping detail
  • 90-day roadmap with milestones
  • 20-minute findings presentation

Best for: SMEs with 5 to 20 staff who know they have operational pain but have not yet mapped where it sits or what it costs.

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2-3 weeks, 9-12 interviews, full Ops Canvas

Deep Evaluation

  • 9-12 structured stakeholder interviews at department and leadership level
  • Full Ops Canvas mapping all major workflows end to end
  • Friction-point inventory with quantified time and cost data
  • Complete AI Opportunity Matrix across all departments
  • Detailed opportunity briefs for the top 5-7 automations
  • ROI summary with conservative, base, and stretch scenarios
  • Multi-quarter implementation roadmap with dependency mapping
  • 90-minute findings and roadmap presentation to leadership
  • One follow-up session 30 days after delivery

Best for: Established businesses with 20 or more staff who are ready to design and commit to a multi-quarter automation programme.

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If you build with Paicer after the audit, the audit fee is credited against the first build.

What you walk away with

The deliverables

  • Structured interviews with the people doing the work
  • Friction-point inventory with time and cost estimates
  • Automation opportunities ranked by impact and effort
  • Opportunity briefs with enough detail to scope a build
  • ROI estimates for the recommended builds
  • A findings walk-through with you and the people involved
  • Ops Canvas mapping every major workflow end to end Deep Evaluation only
  • Multi-quarter roadmap with dependency mapping Deep Evaluation only

The Ops Canvas and the multi-quarter roadmap are Deep Evaluation only. The Quick Survey condenses the rest into a one-page summary, and the Medium Audit delivers a 90-day roadmap.

How the audit thinks

Five steps, in this order

  1. Question

    Why does each step exist, and who needs the output? Most processes carry steps nobody has asked about in years.

  2. Delete

    Remove the steps that no longer earn their place. A wrong deletion is cheap to reverse. An unnecessary step is expensive forever.

  3. Simplify

    Straighten the workflow itself before reaching for any tool.

  4. Accelerate

    Shorten the cycle on what is left. Speeding up a process you have not questioned means doing the wrong thing faster.

  5. Automate

    Only now. Automation comes last, never first.

Every candidate process runs through these five steps in order. Some findings will recommend deleting or simplifying a process rather than building anything. That is what keeps the audit honest.

Book a discovery call

On the call we talk through where the hours go in your business and confirm which tier fits, if any.

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