Before you spend a penny building anything, the honest first question is whether you should, where, and in what order. Most businesses do not need a grand AI strategy. They need someone trustworthy to look at how they actually work and tell them plainly: this is worth doing, this is not, start here.
An AI readiness review is a short, focused look at your business that answers three questions in plain English: which AI applications are actually worth doing for you, in what order to do them, and roughly what each one would cost and return. No buzzwords, no pressure to buy a platform.
If you already know exactly what you want, you can skip this and go straight to a build. The review is for the much more common situation: you can feel that AI should help somewhere, but you are not sure where to point it, and a wrong first move would be an expensive way to find out.
The most costly thing in this field is not the building. It is building the wrong thing first because nobody stopped to ask whether it was the right thing. This is the stop-and-ask, done properly.
You are comparing AI products with no real way to score them against your own business, so the decision keeps defaulting to whichever one was demoed most recently.
It is on the agenda, but the conversation is about tools and brand names rather than what it would actually do for the bottom line. The talk is stuck.
Different people are quietly using AI in different ways, and nobody can say whether it is helping, costing, or quietly creating a risk.
You are close to committing budget to a build and you want a second, honest opinion on whether it is the right first move before the cheque is written.
It is written for you to use, even if you never work with us again. Plain English, no padding.
How your business actually works today, where the time goes, and any AI already in use, written down clearly.
Three to six things worth doing, ranked by what they would return against how hard they are, with the reasoning shown.
Honest ranges for each, not a sales fantasy, so you can decide what is worth it before committing to anything.
Where your data would go, what to keep private, and where a human needs to stay in the loop.
If you do nothing else, do this. A single, specific recommendation for where to start, and why.
If the honest answer is that AI is not your priority right now, we will say so. That is worth knowing too.
The first call costs you nothing and tells us both whether a readiness review is even the right move for you. The review itself sits within our discovery pricing, from £250, and the fee goes towards any build you decide to do afterwards. You are never paying twice.
If your question is specifically about AI search and whether assistants recommend you, the Bot Readiness Audit is the more focused, lower-cost place to start.