A focused two-week engagement that maps your agency to the specific AI builds worth making, flags the ones to avoid, and hands you a decision-ready plan. No hype. No guesswork.
If you've taken our self-assessment, you already have a readiness band and a general sense of direction. That's the map at 30,000 feet.
The audit is where it gets specific — to your agency's mix of services, your systems, your data, and your client obligations. Two agencies of the same size can and should make very different AI choices, and the gap between a build that lifts margin and one that becomes expensive shelfware usually comes down to details a self-assessment can't see.
It's a paid, independent diagnostic. You're buying clarity, not a pitch. Over two weeks we examine your business against a clear framework and hand you a prioritized, costed plan for what's actually worth doing.
a rigorous, methodical look at where AI genuinely fits your business, scored against a consistent framework, delivered as a ranked and costed roadmap.
a disguised sales call, a generic "AI is the future" deck, or a nudge to buy tools you don't need. If the honest finding is that you should fix your foundations before spending anything on AI, that's what we'll tell you — and we'll show you how.
We examine every part of your agency where AI could help — and where it shouldn't. Seven operational areas, each looked at in detail.
How new work is won, and how much of it never lands.
Where a lot of concept time evaporates before any real thinking starts.
Where margin quietly leaves the room.
Your agency's IP — the thing that compounds if you organize it.
Where turnaround time and margin both live or die.
Not headline-grabbing — but the mistakes cost real money.
The plumbing that determines whether any of the above is even feasible.
Whatever the operational area, the same five questions decide whether AI works or fails. These are the questions most firms skip — and the ones we examine rigorously.
Where the information a build would need actually lives, how it's structured, and whether it can be connected — or whether it's scattered across systems and people's heads.
Whether the tools involved genuinely talk to each other today, or a human bridges every gap by copy-paste. The plumbing matters more than the intelligence.
The workflow as it *really* happens — exceptions and all — not the tidy version. You can't automate what you can't articulate.
Once a build exists, who owns it, notices when it drifts, and fixes it when it breaks. A tool with no owner quietly rots.
What happens if it gets something wrong, and how much human oversight that demands. Knowing exactly where a human must stay in the loop is what separates safe adoption from an expensive mistake.
A bounded engagement designed to demand as little of your team's time as possible.
A kickoff, focused interviews with a few key people, a review of your core systems and how your data is organized, and mapping of the workflows that matter most. The load is mostly on us; we need a few hours of the right people, not a standing commitment.
We score your readiness, identify and prioritize the opportunities that fit, model the effort and impact of each, and build your roadmap. We close with a findings session — a working conversation, not a document dump — where you can push back and leave with a clear decision.
Four tangible, productized deliverables — yours to keep and act on, with us or without us.
Your business scored across data, systems, process, people, and risk — so you can see exactly where you're ready and where you're not.
A prioritized shortlist of the AI builds that fit you, each mapped to effort, impact, and the part of your operation it improves — so "what should we do first?" has a clear answer.
A plain summary of your data-security and regulatory posture as it relates to AI, including the policies to put in place before you start.
A single, costed recommendation for where to begin, with the reasoning behind it — the difference between a plan and a nice idea.
This audit is built for creative and marketing agencies — typically 10 through around 100 people — whose founders and heads-of-ops want a straight answer about AI rather than a science project. Content-marketing, brand, digital, and production agencies fit the mould.
It's probably not for you if It's probably not for you if you're looking for a free opinion, you want someone to rubber-stamp a tool you've already bought, or you're not prepared to act on what you find.
Starting at $3,000
for the full two-week audit and all four deliverables. Exact scope is confirmed with you up front, so there are no surprises.
If you decide to move forward with a build, the full audit fee is credited toward your implementation — so if you build with us, the diagnosis effectively pays for itself.
Two weeks from now, you could know exactly where your agency stands with AI, what's worth building, and what to do first — instead of wondering whether that subscription you're paying for is doing anything at all.