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AI Strategy & Logistics
Before anything gets built: which work is worth automating, which isn't, and what order to do it in. The plan you can hand to someone else and have them follow.
What's included
- Process map of how work actually moves through the business today
- Every repetitive task inventoried and ranked by hours it costs you
- Build, buy, or leave alone — a call on each one, with the reasoning
- Sequenced 90-day roadmap, cheapest reversible wins first
- Written SOPs for the processes worth keeping as-is
- Staff walkthrough — what changes, what doesn't, who owns what
- A short list of what to measure so you know if it worked
Why the strategy comes before the build
Most AI that lands in a small business gets bolted onto a process nobody mapped, doing a job nobody scoped. It works in the demo and quietly rots in month three, because the process it was attached to was never the bottleneck.
The map comes first. Half of what turns up in one is not an automation problem at all — it is a form with too many fields, a handoff between two people who never talk, or a report nobody reads. Those get fixed for free, and the things that genuinely deserve a system get built once.
What you walk away with
A document, not a subscription. It names the processes, what each one costs you in hours, what a fix looks like, and what order to do them in. If you take it to someone else to build, it still works. That is the test.
Common questions
What is an AI strategy for a small business?
A map of how work actually moves through the business, an inventory of every repetitive task ranked by the hours it costs, and a call on each one: build it, buy it, or leave it alone. It ends in a sequenced roadmap, cheapest reversible wins first.
How do I know which tasks are worth automating?
Rank by frequency times time. A ten-minute task done twenty times a week costs more than a two-hour task done monthly. Then subtract anything where the real problem is a bad form, a missing handoff, or a report nobody reads — those get fixed, not automated.
What do I get at the end?
A document, not a subscription. It names the processes, what each costs in hours, what a fix looks like, and what order to do them in. If you hand it to a different builder it still works — that is the test it has to pass.
Do I have to buy the build too?
No. Strategy stands on its own and is written so someone else can execute it. Plenty of businesses take the roadmap and do the first phase in-house.