What a 10-day AI Workflow Audit actually produces
A no-fluff breakdown of the six deliverables included in the Applied Ops AI Workflow Audit, and how each one ties back to your P&L.
"AI audit" means almost nothing in 2026. Every firm calls something an audit. Here is exactly what a 10-business-day engagement with Applied Ops AI puts on your COO's or CFO's desk, in order.
1. AI opportunity report
A short written document (not a 60-slide deck) listing every workflow we observed across the departments in scope, ranked by potential time saved and implementation difficulty. Your ops lead can hand it to an internal team or a future hire and they'll know exactly what to work on.
2. Workflow automation map
A one-page diagram of how the in-scope operation flows today, with the highest-ROI AI insertion points marked. Useful even if you never hire us for implementation, your IT and ops leaders can drive against it on their own.
3. ROI ranking
Each opportunity gets a rough hours-saved-per-month estimate, a confidence rating, and a P&L line it maps to. Your CFO or controller can defend the budget from this single page.
4. Tool recommendations
Specific tools, not "consider AI". We name the model, the wrapper, the integration vendor, and the monthly cost, and we flag what fits your existing ERP/CRM/data stack vs. what needs a new contract.
5. One working prototype
The single most-important deliverable. Before the audit ends, we ship one functional AI workflow against your real data. Your team can use it on day 11 whether or not you ever engage us again.
6. 30-day implementation plan
A week-by-week rollout if you want to keep going, written so an internal team or a different vendor could execute it.
Why scoped, not hourly
Hourly engagements reward slow consultants. A scoped engagement aligns incentives: we ship faster, you pay the same. The audit gives your COO and CFO a single artifact to align around before any pilot budget is committed.