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The AI assessment that watches your team work.

An AI assessment usually means a questionnaire. The Shadow Day is different: we spend a day inside your real workflows and end with a ranked map of where AI pays off first.

Duration
1 day
Method
Observation, not a questionnaire
You get
A ranked opportunity map
Observing a team at work

The premise

Most companies don't need an AI strategy deck. They need to know which three workflows are worth fixing, what each is worth, and which one to start with. That takes specificity, and specificity comes from watching the work, not surveying it. People describe their process the way it's supposed to run. The waste lives in the way it actually runs.

How the day runs

The assessment starts before we arrive.

1

The baseline

The week before

A public-data baseline covering your stack, your team shape, and the signals your industry leaves in the open.

2

The Shadow Day

One day, on site

Shadowing either the leader or two to four team members through real work: the meetings, the handoffs, the copy-paste between systems.

3

The debrief

Same day

The day closes with a live debrief, and you get a one-page bottom line the same day. The full report follows within two business days.

Why we call it the Shadow Day

Because that's what it is: an AI shadow day, spent beside the people who do the work. The name keeps us honest about the method. No questionnaire reconstructs the friction a day of observation surfaces, and no vendor demo tells you which workflow your team will actually adopt.

What you walk away with

Three to five specific calls, each framed as buy, build, automate, agent, or delegate, ranked by value and lift, plus the one we'd start with first. The report is specific enough to act on without us. The Shadow Day is a fixed fee, and if you do continue, the full fee credits toward a workshop or sprint within 30 days.

What it is not

The assessment doesn't install tools, build automations, write SOPs, or train your team. Those are workshop and sprint scope, and mixing them into a diagnostic is how diagnostics go soft. One day, one job: find where AI pays off first, and say so plainly. Not ready yet? Take the free AI audit and bring your score to the call.

FAQ

An AI assessment is a structured look at where AI would pay off in your business, and where it wouldn't. Most are run by questionnaire. Ours runs by observation, because people describe their workflows the way they're supposed to work, not the way they do.
The free AI audit is the self-serve version: a quick AI maturity assessment in about five minutes. The AI Assessment is a paid day inside your real workflows, and it tells you what to do. Take the free audit first and bring your score to the call.
You get a ranked opportunity map: each workflow worth automating, what it's worth, what it would take, and what to do first. Think of it as an AI opportunity assessment with evidence behind every line, specific enough to act on without us.
The people doing the work we're shadowing need to be there, plus one decision-maker for the wrap-up. The day splits between team observation and an executive session.
If the assessment says you're not ready, it tells you that directly, along with what to fix first. An honest no after one day costs far less than a pilot that was never going to stick, and it preserves your team's trust in the next attempt.

Related services

AI Sprint Ships the workflow the assessment ranks first.AI Adoption Workshop Trains the team once the map says where to start.

Specificity before commitment.

One day, one fixed fee. A ranked opportunity map. An honest go or no-go. Continue within 30 days and the fee credits toward your next step.