The AI Leverage Audit
In two weeks, you’ll know both numbers, in dollars: what AI saves in your business, and what it makes possible.
A fixed-scope, fixed-price diagnostic. It turns “we should probably do something about AI” into the Leverage Map: what AI takes off your payroll, what it lets you go get that you can’t today, and what to build first, plus a Tomorrow Win Kit you can test the next morning. It is not a sales call with a costume on.
Net unrefunded fee credited under the 30-day Sprint terms below. 10× Map Guarantee (details below).
Two weeks · Fixed price · 10× guarantee
Why an audit first
The expensive mistake is building the wrong thing.
You’ve seen the demos. You know AI can help somewhere. The hard part is knowing which of the hundred possible projects is your seven-figure lever and which one burns three months for nothing. Most owners either guess or stall. The audit exists so you can do neither.
Nearly every AI assessment stops at half the question. Most AI work makes the business you have cheaper to run. The interesting question is what it makes you able to do that you couldn’t do before. The audit answers both, in numbers that come out of your own books.
What happens
Two weeks. Four steps. One map.
Step 1: The deep dive (90 minutes).
A working session with you and your leadership. Brain-dump, think out loud, no prep required. I bring the questions, including the ones most owners have never been asked. What winnable work did you miss, decline, or lose last quarter? The jobs you didn’t bid, the inquiries that sat, the work you turned away because you couldn’t take it on. That’s usually where the bigger number lives, and it stays your number, because you’ll do that arithmetic out loud in your own figures. The day you book, the AI Leverage Audit Companion arrives: an optional hour of guided prep. Whatever you fill in becomes my intake before I walk in. Skip it entirely and nothing changes; I bring the questions either way.
Step 2: Your whole team, interviewed the same afternoon.
This is the part nobody else offers. My AI calls every employee for a short phone interview about their job and where it grinds. Twenty people or two hundred, same afternoon. One question is standard in every interview: if your bottleneck vanished, how much more could your area handle, and what do we currently turn away? Your team hears exactly what the interviews are: a search for friction and untapped capacity. They are not a headcount review, and individual answers are never used to evaluate anyone. Owners consistently tell me they’ve never seen this data about their own company. “18 of my 20 people say we should fix this” is a very different conversation than a hunch.
Step 3: Systems and tooling review.
What you run, what your team actually uses, and what your VAs are doing. The VA line item is usually the first dollar on the Floor: the checkable kind that pays for the audit before we get to the interesting part.
Step 4: The readout. Your Leverage Map.
Every opportunity goes on the map in one of two sections, and the two never get summed into one flattering number:
- The Floor: the margin moves. Payroll, VA, and hours arithmetic, all of it high confidence and checkable. These are the only dollars the 10× Map Guarantee counts.
- The Ceiling: the capacity moves. What AI would let you do that you can’t today, in scenarios built entirely from your own inputs (your bids per week, your win rate, your turned-away work). Each scenario names the constraint that binds next, whether that’s crews, working capital, or demand.
The Map also includes the Day-One Baseline: your bids per week, win rate, cycle time, declined work, and capacity utilization, recorded as you attest them and labeled by confidence. That way, anything we claim later has something honest to be measured against. Every opportunity carries a durability judgment (is this a compounding asset, a head start, or a defensive necessity?), a recommended build order, and tool recommendations from someone who doesn’t take vendor commissions. The readout closes with the Tomorrow Win Kit: a completed example, reusable input, checklist, guardrails, acceptance criteria, and a seven-day test refined under my judgment. If you arrived through the X-Ray, I validate, replace, or materially improve that Kit from the deeper evidence.
What you walk away with
- The Leverage Map. The Floor (checkable savings arithmetic) and the Ceiling (capacity scenarios in your own numbers, with the constraints named), kept in two sections that never get blended. Ranked, sequenced, and yours to keep and act on with anyone, including nobody.
- The Day-One Baseline. Where your business actually stands today (bids, win rate, cycle time, turned-away work), so a year from now “did it work?” is arithmetic instead of argument.
- The workforce-interview report. What your team actually said about where the friction is and what they could handle if it were gone.
- The Tomorrow Win Kit. A completed example, reusable input, checklist, guardrails, acceptance criteria, and a seven-day test: something concrete to run while the ink is still wet.
- A member seat in the Leverage Library. Everything in the X-Ray tier, refreshed from this deeper Map: the First Five Hours path, The $20-an-Hour Task Audit, and one Map-matched Leverage Path, plus the Audit Companion that arrives the day you book.
- A live demonstration. The AI that just interviewed your whole team is the same kind of system I’d help you build. There’s no better test drive.
Pricing
Fixed price. Eligible for Sprint credit.
Fee schedule
effective July 2026 · all figures USD
| Company size | Price |
|---|---|
Up to 25 employees |
$2,500 |
26 to 100 employees |
$3,500 |
The net unrefunded Audit fee credits toward the Sprint when you sign the Sprint agreement and pay its first invoice or pay-in-full balance, after the credit, within 30 days of your readout. Booking kickoff alone does not qualify. A refunded Audit fee is unavailable as credit. Walk away and you still own the map.
If you arrived through the AI Leverage X-Ray, that payment applies first to this Audit fee; the total Sprint credit is still the canonical Audit fee, not the two prices added together.
The 10× Map Guarantee
If the Leverage Map doesn’t identify at least ten times your audit fee in annualized opportunity, I refund the whole fee and you keep the map anyway. That count comes from the Floor alone; the conservative, checkable arithmetic clears the bar by itself. The guarantee never leans on a growth scenario, and the Ceiling rides on top of it without being counted or promised.
Objections
“Why isn’t this free? Everyone offers a free AI assessment.”
Because a free assessment is a sales call, and everybody knows it. This is a real diagnostic with real deliverables. I price it so I can do it properly, and the net unrefunded fee credits to the Sprint when its agreement is signed and its first invoice or pay-in-full balance is paid within 30 days of readout.
“Can’t my team figure this out themselves?”
Probably, eventually. Budget the five-hour learning hump per person, plus the odds of building the wrong thing first. What you’re buying is a shortcut past the expensive part, drawn by someone who does this every week.
“Are you promising growth?”
No, and be suspicious of anyone who does. AI can capture demand you can already see being missed: the jobs you didn’t bid, the inquiries that sat, the work you turned away. It does not manufacture customers. Selling that is the agency business, and you may have paid that tuition already. Every growth figure on your Leverage Map is your own arithmetic (your bids, your win rate, your turned-away work), shown with the constraint that binds next, and labeled as a scenario rather than a promise. One more piece of candor: I don’t have a published growth case study yet. The first one is in the ground now and lands this fall. Until your own numbers prove out, the Ceiling is the reason to do the work, and the Floor is what I guarantee.
“Is this a pitch for software you resell?”
No. I resell nothing and take no commissions. Part of the map’s job is telling you what not to buy.
“What do you do with our data?”
Interview transcripts and systems information stay confidential and are used only to produce your deliverables, under an agreement we sign before anything begins. If you’re in a regulated business, I’ll walk through your compliance questions before the audit starts.
The map is two weeks away.
Book the audit and the leadership deep dive goes on my calendar this week.
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