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Phase 1 — Process Audit: Locating the Cost Leak
Phase one of the audit. I decompose acquisition, delivery and support flows into micro-tasks, then measure each one — volume,
frequency, time invested, cost per hour. What comes out is not an opinion about where AI could help; it's the arithmetic showing
where money is actually leaking.
This is the phase that kills bad AI ideas early. Most of what a team assumes is expensive isn't, and the real leak is usually
somewhere nobody was looking.
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3_JuMYdZbg
Skills: Business Analysis · Process Documentation · Cost Analysis · AI Consulting
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