The Goal
A real AI assessment answers three questions:
1. What workflows in your business are suitable for automation?
2. Which one should you tackle first?
3. What would success actually look like and cost?
That's it. Not a 200-page strategic vision document. Not a roadmap for the next three years. Just those three things.
What Actually Happens
You sit down with someone who's built this before. They ask you to walk them through your typical week. How do you spend your time? What frustrates you? What takes longer than it should?
They're listening for the pattern. Not the one-off problem. The thing that happens every week that drains capacity.
Then they ask follow-up questions. "How many times a month does this happen? Who else is involved? Do you have the data in a system somewhere or does it live in someone's head?" Those answers determine whether something is ready for AI or whether it needs some groundwork first.
At Dig Solutions, we run this kind of assessment for ourselves constantly. Whenever someone says "I hate doing this," we ask the three questions above. Sometimes the answer is "not yet ready." More often it's "let's build an agent."
The Output (Not a Deck)
You get a simple document. It says:
"Here's what we think is automatable. Here's the one we'd start with. Here's what it would cost to build and deploy, what it would save, and how long it would take."
That's your actionable output. Everything else is just us explaining our thinking.
The Real Value
The assessment isn't about documentation. It's about clarity. Most business owners haven't sat down and actually mapped out their workflows in detail. They know things feel slow, but they haven't quantified it.
That quantification changes the conversation. Suddenly you know: "This is worth 40 hours of labor per month, at $75 an hour, that's $3,000 per month or $36,000 per year." Now you can evaluate whether the implementation cost makes sense.
Without that clarity, you're just guessing.
How Long Does It Take?
Start to finish: 2-4 weeks. Usually a couple of conversations with you and your team, maybe a week of us documenting our findings, then one final call to walk you through the results.
Not a six-month engagement. Not a consulting marathon. Quick enough to validate the idea, thorough enough to be worth acting on.