£1,950
1 week
Discovery Lite
You know one thing is broken. What is fixing it worth?
- A half-day workshop, then the analysis
- One process mapped end to end and costed
- Three costed options and a recommended next step
DISCOVERY
Find out what it’s worth before you build it.
We map how your work actually happens, put a number on what it costs you, and tell you which fix is worth doing first. Fixed price, fixed scope, no obligation to build anything.
Discovery from £1,950. Your fee comes off your build.
THE PROBLEM
You know it’s slow. You don’t know what it costs
The cost is invisible.
The hours go somewhere, but nobody has ever added them up. So the case for fixing it never gets made, and the problem stays.
Everything looks equally urgent.
Ten things are broken. Without a ranking, you either fix the loudest one or you fix nothing at all.
The quotes arrive before the problem is understood.
You're asked to sign off a build when nobody has yet established what the problem is actually worth solving.
Discovery answers all three before you commit to spending anything.
HOW IT WORKS
The same method, whatever the size
1
Watch the work
We sit with the people doing it. Not the process documentation — the actual work, including the workarounds nobody has written down.
2
Quantify it
Hours, volumes, error rates, delays, and what those cost you in money. Where you have the data we use it. Where you don't, we use your team's estimates and mark them clearly as estimates.
3
Rank it
Every opportunity scored on effort against impact, so the cheap wins are visibly separate from the significant projects. You see the whole list, not just the parts we'd like to build.
4
Cost the top options
With a build estimate and a payback period for each, and a recommendation.
If the answer is a £30-a-month tool and an afternoon of setup, that’s what we’ll tell you.
CHOOSE YOUR STARTING POINT
Three ways in
The right one depends on how much of your operation is in question — not on how big your business is. Not sure? Book the call and we’ll tell you.
Not sure which?
Half an hour on a call and we’ll tell you which of the three fits — or whether none of them do right now. Or start with the free ten-minute assessment below, which points you at one of the three on its own.
£5,950
2 weeks
Discovery Sprint
You know there is waste, but not where. What should you fix first?
- Four sessions across two weeks
- Eight to twelve opportunities, ranked
- A costed business case for the top three
£14,500
4–5 weeks
Discovery Programme
The decision has to survive scrutiny. What is the whole picture?
- Up to twelve sessions across multiple functions
- Full business case with NPV and a risk register
- A board presentation and a twelve-month roadmap
All prices exclude VAT and travel. Fixed price agreed before we start.
THE FREE ASSESSMENT
Can you actually adopt this?
Most AI projects don’t fail because the technology doesn’t work. They fail because the data isn’t captured, the systems won’t talk to anything, the process only exists in someone’s head, nobody owns the thing after go-live, or governance says no six weeks after the build started.
A ten-minute, self-scored assessment tells you whether you’re in a position to fix any of that, and which starting point makes sense. It won’t tell you what your problems cost — that is what discovery is for.
Data & systems
Whether you can get a straight answer out of your systems, and whether they talk to each other.
Process
Whether the way the work gets done is written down, and whether it comes out the same way twice.
Skills & capacity
Whether anyone has done this before, and whether anyone has the time to own it.
Governance & sponsorship
Whether decisions get made, and whether anyone has agreed what acceptable use looks like.
Tooling & security
Whether what you run on can support the change, and whether data handling would allow it.
It is your own read of your own organisation — a useful starting point, and free. What it is not is verified: we have not seen your systems, your data or your process. That is the difference between it and Discovery Lite.
IN DETAIL
What each one actually involves
Discovery Lite
£1,9501 week
One process, mapped and costed
One week. A half-day workshop with the people who run the process, then we do the analysis.
- A map of the process end to end, as it actually runs
- What it costs you today, in hours and in pounds
- Three costed options, scored on effort against impact
- One recommended next step, with an indicative build cost
- A 45-minute call to talk it through
Delivered as a written findings document.
Best for A single, bounded process — quoting, invoicing, order entry, reporting, chasing.
Discovery Sprint
£5,9502 weeks
One function, ranked and costed
Four sessions across two weeks with the people who run the function, plus analysis and a costed business case.
- A map across the whole function, including the handoffs where work stalls
- Eight to twelve opportunities, ranked on effort against impact
- A costed business case for the top three, with payback periods
- A picture of how the function would run once the changes are made
- A build proposal with phased delivery and pricing
- A 90-minute session to walk you and your team through it
Delivered as a presentation with a written appendix.
Best for One function with several related problems — finance, operations, sales admin, service delivery.
Discovery Programme
£14,5004–5 weeks
Multi-function, board-ready
Four to five weeks. Up to twelve sessions across multiple functions, with a formal business case and a phased roadmap.
- Everything in the Sprint, across every function in scope
- Cross-function mapping — where one team's fix becomes another team's problem
- An assessment of your data and systems landscape
- A full business case: costs, benefits, NPV, sensitivity analysis and a risk register
- A phased twelve-month roadmap
- A board presentation and a separate technical appendix
- Two readout sessions, one working level and one executive
Delivered as a board pack with a technical appendix.
Optional add-on — working prototype, £3,500. A functional build of the single highest-value opportunity, so the business case is backed by something you can use rather than something you have to imagine. Adds about a week.
Best for Organisations where the decision has to survive scrutiny — a board, a finance director, or a procurement panel.
Not sure whether you need Discovery Lite or Discovery Sprint? Book the call — that is the question it is for.
THE CREDIT-BACK
Your fee comes off your build
Commission a build with us within 90 days and the full fee is credited against it. So if it leads somewhere, it has cost you nothing.
And if it doesn’t, you keep everything — the maps, the numbers, the ranked list, the recommendation. You’re free to take them to anyone you like, including your own team.
The credit applies once, against your first build engagement, where that engagement is at least twice the fee. Credits apply one step at a time and don’t accumulate.
We don’t sell dependency. The point is that you can act without us if you want to.
WHAT DISCOVERY IS NOT
Being plain about it
What we don’t do
- We don't build anything during discovery. Any build is separate and separately priced.
- We don't deliver the change management, training or rollout.
- We don't negotiate with your existing suppliers on your behalf.
- We only look at what is named in the scope. Anything else we spot gets written down and handed to you, not quietly absorbed into the work.
What you keep
- The process maps, in full
- The cost baseline and the workings behind it
- The ranked opportunity list, including what we wouldn't build
- A costed recommendation you can act on, shelve, or take elsewhere
If we don’t find enough value to justify the next step, we’ll tell you that.
QUESTIONS
The things people usually ask
How quickly can you start?
Usually within two to three weeks of the first call. If you need something faster, ask — sometimes we can.
Do we need to have data ready?
No. Where you have it we'll use it; where you don't we'll work from your team's estimates and label them as estimates.
Who do you need access to?
The people who actually do the work, not just the people who manage it. That is usually the difference between a useful map and a tidy fiction.
What if you find we don’t need AI?
We say so. A fair number of the fixes we recommend are a change to a process, an off-the-shelf tool, or a spreadsheet done properly. We'd rather tell you that than sell you a build.
Can we do this remotely?
Yes, most of it. On-site tends to be better for the sessions where we watch the work. Travel is charged at cost and agreed in advance.
What happens if we go quiet halfway through?
We'll re-scope and re-quote if delay runs beyond about two weeks. Fifty per cent is invoiced on signature, so neither of us is exposed if things stall.
Do you sign an NDA?
Yes, a mutual one, before we start.
Who actually does the work?
The two of us. There is no delivery team behind us and no junior consultant doing the work while someone senior sells it. That is the whole proposition.
Start with a conversation, not a contract.
Half an hour, no charge, no obligation. We’ll ask what’s slow, what’s manual and what it’s costing you, then tell you honestly which option fits — or whether any of this is the wrong thing for you right now.