AI CAPABILITY BASELINE™
You do not have an AI problem. You have a priority problem.
There are probably three things in your business where AI pays, and thirty where it does not. Nobody has told you which is which, because almost everyone who could is paid to blur the line.
In 48 hours, we will tell you.
Fixed fee. Credited in full if you continue. Built for companies between $5M and $50M.
What this is not
Not an assessment
You do not need to know your maturity score. You need to know what to do Monday.
Not a demo
We do not sell a platform, so we have no reason to point you at one.
Not a sixty-page report
If the answer needs sixty pages, we have not found it yet.
Not a commitment
The fee credits in full toward the work if you continue. If you do not, you keep the answer and we are square.
Everybody is using AI. Almost nobody is running on it.
You have looked at the tools. You are probably paying for a few. Somewhere in your company, people are running customer data through tools nobody approved, and you do not know which people, which tools, or what has left the building.
If your CFO asked which number moved because of any of it, you could not name one.
Your leadership team expects you to have a position on this. Right now you have opinions, and they can tell the difference.
That is not a discipline problem. It is what happens when tools get adopted and workflows do not change. Most companies your size are in exactly the same place. They just do not say it out loud.
WHAT YOU WALK OUT WITH
Three things, in order, each with a number and a name attached.
WHAT IS REAL
Where it actually pays
The two or three places in your operation where this moves something you already track. Pricing consistency across your reps. Margin by branch or crew. Estimator throughput. Quote turnaround. Not categories, your specific processes, with the number each one affects.
WHAT IS NOISE
What to skip and cancel
What to stop paying for. What to leave alone this year. What your competitor is bragging about publicly that will not help you. This list is usually longer than the first one, and it is the part nobody else will give you.
WHAT ORDER
Sequenced, and owned
So you are not doing six things badly at once. Each item has an owner on your leadership team who agreed to it in the room. The last thing like this that stalled did not stall for lack of budget. It stalled because two of your leaders never actually agreed it was the priority.
You have a leadership team. You still have nobody to think this through with.
Everyone in the building reports to you, so you cannot be uncertain in front of them. Your banker and your attorney are transactional. Your competitors are competitors. The vendors are selling.
What is missing is somebody who will think about this at the level you are actually operating at, who is not on your payroll and is not pointing you at a platform.
Sometimes the answer is that AI is not your priority this year.
Sometimes we tell businesses to wait. It happens more than you would expect.
I have 6 discqualifiers: If your reporting cannot tell you margin by service line, no AI project is measurable. If a process only exists in one person’s head, automating it just makes the chaos faster. If your leadership team is already carrying three initiatives, we would be adding a fourth that dies quietly.
When that is what we find, we say so, we tell you what comes first, and we do not take the larger engagement.
That is the whole reason this is worth 48 hours of your attention.
A company that runs on gut is worth less than one that runs on systems. Buyers are pricing that difference now, and the questions they ask about AI get harder every year.
This is not a purchase decision. It is a deposit on work you may not want to do.
The fee credits in full. What you are actually deciding is whether you want the answer.
Your real alternative is not a different firm. It is another six months of guessing while somebody in your market stops guessing.