The audit
The audit maps how work actually happens in your business — not how the org chart says it should. You leave with a ranked list of automation opportunities: the hours each one eats, what those hours cost, a fixed price to fix it, and the payback period. You keep the roadmap either way.
The deliverable
Not a maturity matrix. Not a slide deck about AI readiness. A table your CFO can argue with — and should. These rows are from the sample report, a composite 34-person insurance agency:
| Opportunity | Hours today | Labor cost / yr | Automatable | Fixed quote | Payback |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Certificate of insurance (COI) issuance | 17 hrs/wk | $26,112 | 80% | $12,000 | ~7 months |
| Renewal prep & remarketing | 24 hrs/wk | $36,864 | 60% | $15,000 | ~8 months |
| Carrier-portal re-keying into the AMS | 10 hrs/wk | $15,360 | 85% | $8,000 | ~7 months |
The sample is an illustrative composite built from published industry benchmarks — not a client. It exists so you can see exactly what you would receive before paying anyone.
How it works
Your team's total time cost: 15–25 minutes per person, plus about two and a half hours of the owner's.
Sixty minutes with the owner or ops lead: what you sell, how money and work move, which systems you run, what's been tried. We agree the scope and the interview list.
Every employee gets a private, 15–25 minute conversation with our AI interviewer — from a link, on their own schedule, inside a normal work week. It asks what they actually do: which systems, what gets re-keyed, where work stalls, what they'd hand off tomorrow.
We read every transcript, cross-check reported volumes against your systems where we can, and score each candidate on cost today, feasibility, risk of a wrong answer, and payback. No number goes in the report that can't survive a challenge.
Ninety minutes: a ranked roadmap with a build, buy, or wait call on every candidate — and a fixed quote for each one we recommend building.
Pricing
Same scoring, same roadmap, same honesty. The difference is coverage.
Founder-led working sessions with the two to five people closest to the work. The original audit, right-sized for smaller teams.
Every employee interviewed, individually. This is the version that finds what working sessions can't: the workarounds, the spreadsheet nobody admits to, the process that exists only in one person's head.
If the full-team audit doesn't identify at least three times its fee in annualized addressable savings — $28,500, by math you can challenge line by line — we refund it. We can afford that promise for the same reason the ROI calculator shows its formula: every number in the report exposes its assumptions.
For your team
An audit is only as good as what people are willing to say in it. So the interviews are designed — and contractually bound — to be safe to answer honestly:
Founding terms
The full-team audit is new — we are launching it now, and saying so plainly beats pretending otherwise. The first three companies through it get $5,000 instead of $9,500, the same three-times guarantee — at the founding price that means $15,000 in identified annualized savings, or we refund it — and priority scheduling. In exchange we ask for two things: a written case study (anonymized if you prefer) and permission to measure results after implementation, so the next client sees measured numbers instead of projections. When the three slots are taken, this section comes down.
FAQ
Fifteen to twenty-five minutes per employee, on their own schedule, inside a normal work week. The owner gives sixty minutes at kickoff and ninety at the readout. Nobody prepares anything.
The interviewer asks about workflows and systems, not personal matters. Transcripts are stored encrypted, deleted on a schedule you set, and never used to train models — the same written data-handling terms as every Cerebrum One engagement. A human reviews every conclusion before it reaches your report.
At smaller companies it happens, and we say so — that is what the guarantee is for. You still keep the workflow map and the ranked list, which usually includes at least one process fix or an unused feature in software you already pay for. Worth having at zero build cost.
No. The roadmap is written so any competent builder can execute it, and you own it outright. If you do build with us, every build is a fixed quote — and the full-team audit fee comes off the first one.
A free assessment has to end in a pitch — that is how it gets paid for. A paid audit can end in "wait," or "buy the $89/month tool," or "fix the process, no AI needed." Charging for the audit is what keeps it honest →
Three weeks, a fixed price, and a roadmap you keep either way.
From $2,500 · Guarantee in writing · Founding pricing for the first three full-team audits