The AI Implementation Audit.
A two-week diagnostic for teams told to "figure out AI." I interview the people doing the work, map how it actually gets done, & hand you a plan: what to implement, in what order, why that sequence, & what to skip.
Book a discovery call$3,500. The founding rate is $2,500, & four slots remain.
Two weeks start to delivery, & about two hours of your team's time.
You get four documents & a 30-day check-in call.
At least three actionable fixes inside 30 days, or the invoice is void.
The guarantee
At least three actionable fixes you can act on within 30 days, or you don't pay.
"Actionable" is defined on this page, not in marketing language: named against your specific workflows & tools, & executable by the team you already have, without new hires or new spend. That definition goes into the statement of work before you pay anything, so we're both looking at the same bar.
If the audit doesn't clear it, reply "no" to the delivery email & I void the invoice. You don't have to build a case or get on a call to argue about it.
The situation you're in
Someone above you bought licenses. Someone else forwarded a "10 AI tools your team should be using" listicle. Now you're the one expected to produce an AI strategy, with no budget line, no dev team, & a boss who keeps asking "where are we on AI." Every vendor demo looks great. None of those vendors have seen how your work actually happens at 4pm on a Thursday, when the documented process & the real process stop resembling each other. That gap is where AI rollouts die, & it's the one thing no tool can see from the outside.
What the audit is
Two weeks. About two hours of your team's time.
Week 1, diagnosis: intake form, three to four stakeholder interviews (30 min each, async-friendly), workflow doc review. End of week: a Compliance-Decay Scorecard showing where your current processes will quietly fall apart under AI, & where they'll hold.
Week 2, the plan: a decision-ready implementation plan & a 90-day roadmap, sequenced & justified. Plus a one-pager written for your boss, because a plan only counts if the person with the budget reads it.
Every audit includes a 30-day check-in call. If you book an Implementation Sprint within 60 days, the full audit fee credits toward it.
See a sample scorecard & a sample boss one-pager, built on a composite organization, at the level of specificity a real client gets.
Who it's for
Ops leads, PMs, team leads, workflow designers. The people told to make AI happen without being given anything to make it happen with.
Thirty days from now you're the credible AI voice in the room, executing a plan you can defend line by line, instead of drowning in tool sprawl & option overwhelm.
Two honest exclusions: I don't take healthcare engagements, & this isn't a dev shop. The audit tells you what to build & in what order; the Sprint helps your team build the first one.
Where the audit isn't the answer
If your team hasn't deployed anything yet, this is early. The audit diagnoses a rollout in contact with real work, & you don't have one yet. Read the notebook instead, pick one workflow, & come back when there's something to diagnose. I'd rather tell you that now than take $3,500 for a scorecard about a hypothetical.
I won't pick your vendor. I'll tell you what capability the workflow actually needs & what to test for in a trial, & I'll tell you when a tool you're already paying for covers it. The purchase decision stays yours, & it should: I'm not going to be the one living with it.
Sometimes the finding is the process, not the AI. More than once the honest answer has been that the workflow itself is broken & adding AI would make it faster & wrong. When that's the answer, that's what the scorecard says, & the fixes it hands you are process fixes. They still have to clear the three-actionable-fixes bar, & the guarantee still applies.
"Why would I pay for something AI should do for me?"
Fair question. Try it first: ask your favorite model for an AI roadmap for your team. You'll get something plausible & generic.
Here's what it can't do. It can't interview your team. It can't see the distance between the workflow doc & what people actually do under deadline. And it will happily write you something confident & wrong; I keep a public lab notebook of implementation failures, & Entry 002 is AI inventing a detailed work history that sounded exactly right.
The failure modes killing AI rollouts are produced by AI. You don't ask the fox to audit the henhouse.
The math behind the scorecard
This is a model, not a measurement of your team. Assume people follow each soft rule in a process about 90% of the time under pressure, which is generous. A process with six such rules runs fully clean roughly 53% of the time. Thirty rules: about 4%.
No single rule is being ignored. What collapses is the chance that any one run follows all of them. The scorecard finds where your workflows lean on that kind of compliance, because those are the exact places AI adoption quietly fails.
53.1% of runs follow every step
0.90^6 = 53.1%
quiet failure territory — no single step is the problem
at 30 steps: 4.2%
This is a model, not a measurement of your team. The audit finds where your real workflows lean on this kind of compliance.
Pricing
The Audit · $3,500
Two-week diagnostic. Compliance-Decay Scorecard in week one; implementation plan, 90-day roadmap, & boss one-pager in week two. About two hours of your team's time.
Audit + Sprint · $7,500
The audit rolls straight into building your #1 workflow with your team, 2 to 4 weeks. About $9,000 if you book them separately.
Founding rate · $2,500 for the first five audits.
The reduced rate buys me the right to publish what we find as a case study, anonymized if you prefer. Four slots remain.
An advisory retainer is available after an engagement.
Why me
I've done this before, at scale, with no budget.
I led an enterprise knowledge-management implementation at Mural Consulting: 14 months, 150+ employees, 8 departments, $0 spend, 99% adoption. The tools were different. The adoption problem was identical.
On the AI side: I built & ran Content Loop to production, a SaaS content system. 7 of 7 podcast episodes processed, 41 content pieces, 100% success after the QA cycle. The QA cycle exists because the early runs failed, which is the part worth knowing about anyone who tells you their system works.
I've shipped a custom MCP server, public on GitHub. I hold 4 Anthropic certifications, proctored & identity-verified. And I run my own business on the same methodology I audit against: an 11-agent production system, documented in a 26-entry Implementation Lab Notebook that feeds the newsletter.
How it works
01 · Book a discovery call.
30 minutes, no pressure, no pitch deck. If the audit isn't a fit, I'll tell you.
02 · We scope the audit.
A statement of work with the guarantee in writing, tied to your named workflows & tools.
03 · Two weeks later, you have the plan.
Scorecard, implementation plan, 90-day roadmap, & the one-pager for your boss.
FAQ
How long does the AI Implementation Audit take, & how much of my team's time does it cost?
The AI Implementation Audit runs two weeks from kickoff to delivery & costs your team about two hours total: one intake form, three to four stakeholder interviews at 30 minutes each (async-friendly), & a workflow document review I do on my own time.
What does the audit cost?
The audit is $3,500. The founding rate is $2,500 for the first five clients, & four of those slots remain. Audit + Sprint together is $7,500, which is about $1,500 less than booking them separately. There is no third tier & no “request pricing” form.
What do I actually receive at the end of the two weeks?
You receive four documents & a call: a Compliance-Decay Scorecard showing where your processes will fail under AI, a decision-ready implementation plan, a 90-day roadmap with the sequencing justified, a one-pager written for whoever controls the budget, & a 30-day check-in call after delivery.
What happens if the audit doesn't help?
If the audit doesn't hand you at least three actionable fixes you can act on within 30 days, you reply “no” to the delivery email & I void the invoice. “Actionable” means named against your specific workflows & tools & executable by your existing team, & that definition is written into the statement of work before you pay.
Capacity & response time
I run two audits at a time, maximum. That's the honest ceiling on doing the interviews myself, & it's why the founding slots have a real bottom.
Email me at amanda@theimplementationlane.com & I reply within one business day, personally. One sentence about your team & what "figure out AI" looks like from your seat is enough to start.
Ready to stop guessing?
30 minutes, no pressure, no pitch deck. We'll work out whether the audit fits your situation, & if it doesn't, I'll tell you & point you at what would.
Book a discovery callPrefer email? amanda@theimplementationlane.com
Cheers!
Amanda
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What actually works when you ship AI in real organizations. Nothing you could get from a press release.