Is this workflow ready to automate?
Nine questions, about five minutes. Pick the one workflow you’d actually fix, not your whole business, and answer for that.
- A grade for this workflow, and a score on each of the five signals
- The one gap holding it back, named in plain language
- One number to measure it against for the next 30 days
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How the score works
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Five signals decide whether a workflow is worth automating. Each one scores one to five, for 25 total. Your grade comes from the total, but the number that matters most is your lowest one. That’s the gap to close first.
How often it happens
Work that happens twice a year is rarely worth automating. Work that happens twice a day usually is.
How writable the steps are
If you can't write the steps down, a tool can't follow them either.
How much it interrupts
Work that keeps someone waiting costs more than the time it takes.
How easily a mistake is undone
Some mistakes are a shrug. Others are a refund, a lost client, or a lawyer.
How clear of licensing and sign-off it is
The more a wrong answer costs, the more a human needs to stay in the loop.
Three of the results say fix it, close the gap first, or leave it alone. The third one is real. Plenty of work scores badly and should stay with a person, and we’d rather tell you that in five minutes than sell you something that won’t hold.
How this differs from an enterprise assessment
| Enterprise assessment | This one | |
|---|---|---|
| What it scores | Your whole organization | One workflow |
| How long | Weeks | About five minutes |
| What it costs | A fixed fee, after a scoping call | Free, no call |
| Can it tell you not to? | Rarely | Yes, and it does |
Common questions
What people ask before they start. Short answers, no gate.
- What is an AI readiness assessment?
- It's a structured check on whether AI is worth applying yet. Most versions score a whole organization across data, governance, infrastructure, and staffing, and take weeks. This one scores a single workflow in about five minutes, because that's the decision a small business actually faces first.
- What makes a workflow ready to automate?
- Five things decide it. How often the work happens. Whether the steps can be written down. Whether someone's kept waiting. What a mistake costs. And how consistent the inputs are. Score those five and you know whether to spend, without buying anything first.
- How do you score it?
- Each of the five signals gets one to five points, for 25 total. The grade comes from the total, but the useful part is the lowest single score. That's the gap holding the workflow back, and it's the thing to fix before you spend on tooling.
- What if my result says don't automate it?
- Then you've saved a budget cycle. Plenty of work scores badly and should stay with a person, and a third of small businesses have already decided AI isn't applicable to them. We'd rather tell you that in five minutes than sell you something that won't hold. Federal Reserve, 2026 Small Business Credit Survey
- How long does it take?
- About five minutes. Nine questions, all multiple choice, and nothing to look up beforehand. You'll answer three quick ones about where your hours go, then score a single workflow across the five signals. Your result appears on screen the moment you finish, and we email a copy.
- Do I need to book a call to get my result?
- No. Your grade, your score on each of the five signals, the gap to close first, and the number to measure all appear on screen as soon as you finish. We email a copy so you can keep it. Booking a call is optional and comes later, if at all.
- Is this a sales pitch?
- It's a lead magnet, and we'd rather say so. What keeps it honest is that one of the three results tells you not to automate the thing you scored. You get the full result either way, and nothing is gated behind a call.
- How is this different from an enterprise AI readiness assessment?
- Those score your organization: data governance, compliance, infrastructure, staffing. They're built for a CIO with a budget cycle and they take weeks. If you don't have a governance committee, that's the wrong size of question. This one scores the one workflow you'd actually fix.