For owner-operators and lean teams who don't have a spare person to chase the newest AI trend. In 10 business days, fixed price, we tell you exactly where AI saves real time on the ops and admin work eating your week — no software pitch at the end.
Everyone has opinions about AI right now. What a small business actually has is a full week already, and no appetite for a tool that doesn't pay off immediately.
There is no dedicated ops team to experiment with AI tools on the side. Whatever gets tried has to work the first time or it gets abandoned by week two.
Scheduling, invoicing, follow-ups, and customer replies pile up around the work that actually makes money.
A wrong bet on the wrong tool is a bigger deal when there is no slack in the budget to absorb it.
Picture spending even 8 hours a week on manual admin that a well-built automation could handle — that's over 400 hours a year, more than ten work weeks, spent on work that doesn't grow the business. For a small team, that's the difference between hiring the next person and not. Gartner and other industry researchers have warned that a large share of AI projects get abandoned within their first year, most often because nobody had a clear picture of which process to target. This audit exists to give a small business that picture before spending a dollar on tooling.
Five concrete deliverables sized for a lean team — not a deck full of logos and arrows built for a company ten times your size.
Every deliverable is something you can open, act on, and keep — sized for a small business, not an enterprise procurement cycle.
A direct conversation with you and your key people to pin down the missed follow-ups, the manual scheduling, the invoice chasing, and the quick wins already sitting in plain sight. You walk away with a one-page snapshot naming the time wasters and the hours realistically recoverable.
We map your three to five highest-friction workflows — usually scheduling, customer service, or invoicing — step by step, flag every stall point, and price every bottleneck in actual dollars. You get maps with what the manual version costs you a year against what an automation or AI agent would cost instead.
What other small businesses in your space are already doing with AI, and what's actually affordable off the shelf for a team your size — not enterprise software you'd never sign a contract for. You get a two-page scan with rough pricing and the gaps worth caring about.
Every opportunity we found, scored on Impact, Effort, and Readiness, ranked and sequenced with a rough budget and expected payback attached. You get this as a working spreadsheet you own outright.
A document built for the owner who signs the checks: a 30-day sprint, a 90-day roadmap, a 12-month direction, budget ranges sized for a small business, and how you'll know it worked.
Not a strategist reading a framework. This audit is run by the person who actually builds AI agents and automations for a living — when the plan says something is buildable in three weeks, that estimate comes from someone who has built the equivalent.
$2,500. One number, sized for a small business budget, not an enterprise engagement. No scope creep, no surprise invoice.
The spreadsheet and the plan are yours outright. Take them to any developer, any agency, or back to Softosmith. Nothing requires a follow-on contract.
The recommendations favor what actually saves your team time this quarter, not whatever AI trend is loudest on LinkedIn this week.
30 minutes, free. We talk about your business and whether this audit is actually the right move for you right now. If it isn't, you'll hear that directly, no pitch.
10 business days, $2,500 fixed. Your side commits roughly 8 to 10 hours total across the two weeks — usually the owner plus one or two people closest to day-to-day operations. The heavy lifting is on us.
Day 11 onward, you run the plan yourself. If you'd rather have Softosmith build what it recommends, that work is scoped and billed separately at $60/hour. The audit stands on its own either way.
A good fit if:
You run a business with roughly 3 to 75 employees and a real decision pending about where AI actually fits.
You've tried ChatGPT or an automation tool already and couldn't tell whether it actually moved the needle.
You want a sequenced plan with real budget numbers, not another vendor demo pitching the newest thing.
You, or 1 to 3 people closest to operations, can spare a few hours of conversation across two weeks.
Probably not a fit if:
You're a business of one, where the audit overhead costs more than the manual work it would replace.
You already have a finished AI strategy and only need someone to build it — ask about a direct build engagement instead.
You want a free strategy session disguised as a sales call — this is a paid diagnostic with real deliverables.
Nobody on your side can spare even a few hours of input over two weeks.
No client logos or star ratings here — just the commitments this audit is held to.
You work directly with Amin Ali, the person actually running the audit — no account manager relaying messages back and forth.
The $2,500 we quote upfront is what you pay. No surprise invoice halfway through week two.
The spreadsheet and the Action Plan are yours outright, on day 11. Take them anywhere, including nowhere.
The same productized audit used across every client — just scoped to the workflows a small business actually runs on.
$2,500 fixed price
The same fixed-price, 10-business-day audit, scoped to the workflows a lean team actually runs on.
If you're weighing in-app AI features against internal ops automation, the SaaS-focused version of this audit covers that ground directly.
$2,500, fixed. No hourly billing, no line items that show up later — sized for a small business budget, not an enterprise engagement.
10 business days from kickoff to the final Action Plan in your inbox.
Roughly 8 to 10 hours total across two weeks, usually the owner plus one to three people closest to day-to-day operations. Most of the work happens on our end.
Often that's exactly when it matters most. Most small businesses that "tried AI" pointed it at the wrong process. The audit's job is finding the right one.
A one-page Operations Snapshot, Workflow Maps with a cost model, a Stack and Competitor Scan, a Prioritized Opportunity List as an editable spreadsheet, and a 3 to 5 page Action Plan covering 30, 90, and 365 days.
Yes, billed separately at $60 per hour and scoped to the specific recommendation. You are never required to use Softosmith for the build.
Book the free 30-minute discovery call. If it's a fit, the audit can usually begin within two weeks.
Or you can spend another quarter debating it in a group chat. Your call.