AI Tools Assessment · $999

The $999 AI Tools Assessment for Small Business Owners

The AI Tools Assessment is for small-business owners who don’t have time to research tools: one 45-minute call, then a written plan prescribing 3–7 off-the-shelf AI tools matched to how your business actually runs. If I can’t find you at least 5 reclaimed hours a week, you get 100% of your money back.

01The leak

The problem you actually have

You’re not short on AI options. You’re short on time to figure out which ones matter.

Every week there’s a new tool someone swears will change your business. You don’t have an afternoon to test any of them — you’re chasing invoices, answering the same client questions for the tenth time, and doing admin at 9 p.m. because that’s the only quiet hour you get. So nothing changes, and the hours keep leaking.

This assessment solves exactly that. You don’t have to research tools or learn technical jargon. You show me how your business runs, and I hand you a short list of tools worth your money — and a plan to get them working in four days.

What the AI Tools Assessment is

A flat-fee assessment that delivers a prescription plan: $999, no upsell required to get value from it.

  • 45 minutes of your time. One working call where we walk through a normal week in your business.
  • A written report prescribing 3–7 off-the-shelf tools. Not custom software. Not a 40-page strategy deck. Specific tools, matched to your specific bottlenecks, most costing $20–$100 a month.
  • A target of 5–10 reclaimed hours per week. That’s what the assessment is built to find — and the guarantee floor is 5.

It’s built for owner-led businesses with 2–20 employees doing roughly $500K–$5M in revenue. At that size, the owner’s hours are the constraint on everything, and they’re the cheapest thing to fix.

02The plan

How it works

  1. Book and answer a short intake. Ten minutes of questions about your team, your tools, and where your weeks go.
  2. In one 45-minute working call, I trace where your hours actually leak — the inbox, the quoting, the follow-ups, the meeting notes, the re-typing between systems.
  3. You get the report within five business days. Every prescription includes what it replaces, what it costs, how long setup takes, and the hours it should return — ranked so the biggest win comes first.
  4. You run the 4-day quick-start plan. The report opens with a day-by-day setup order, starting with the highest-payoff tool on day one. Follow it and you’ll feel the difference the first week.

The guarantee, in plain terms

If the assessment can’t identify at least 5 reclaimed hours per week in your business, you get 100% of the $999 back. No forms, no argument, no partial credit. Either the report shows you the hours — with the math — or you receive 100% of the $999 back.

I can offer that because the assessment isn’t a guess. It’s a structured review of where owner-led businesses lose time, and at your size, the hours are almost always there.

Why listen to me

Before this, I spent years finding wasted hours in places where mistakes cost real money. I built a data aggregation system for Stryker — a Fortune 500 medical device company — that eliminated 500+ hours of manual engineering work per year, worth an estimated $25,000+ annually. As an independent consultant I’ve closed multiple six-figure contracts with Edwards Lifesciences, Cook Medical, and Jabil (manufacturing for Johnson & Johnson) — every one won by scoping the problem, building the fix, and proving the value.

That’s the same discipline behind this assessment: find the hours, show the math, prescribe the fix.

Who it’s for

  • Home builders. Your project managers re-type the same change order three times — once in email, once in a spreadsheet, once for accounting — while subcontractor scheduling eats your evenings. There are tools that draft, track, and chase for you.
  • Personal-injury and immigration law firms. Intake follow-ups, document collection reminders, and the same twenty client questions consume paralegal hours daily — and a slow response to a new inquiry means that caller retains someone else.
  • Med spas. Your front desk spends hours on no-show reminders, pre-treatment questions, and manually rebooking lapsed clients — hours that should go to the people standing in front of them.

If you’re an owner in the 2–20 employee range and your week disappears into work a tool could do, this assessment will find it.

What you walk away with

A short, usable report — built to be acted on, not filed away:

  • 3–7 tool prescriptions, each mapped to a specific workflow in your business, with monthly cost and setup effort.
  • Hours-reclaimed estimates per tool and in total, with the assumptions shown so you can check my math.
  • ROI math in dollars: what the tools cost per month versus what your reclaimed hours are worth at your effective rate.
  • The 4-day quick-start plan: exactly what to set up each day, in payoff order.
  • A “don’t buy” list: popular tools that don’t fit your business, so you stop wondering about them.

03Questions owners ask

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to be technical?

No. Every prescribed tool is off-the-shelf and built for non-technical users. The quick-start plan is written in plain steps — if you can set up online banking, you can do this.

What kinds of tools do you recommend?

Ready-made tools you subscribe to, not custom software. My prescriptions are Claude-first — Claude handles drafting, summarizing, and answering from your documents remarkably well — plus category tools where they fit: meeting note-takers, email triage, scheduling, and follow-up automation. Only what maps to your actual bottlenecks.

I already use ChatGPT. Is this still worth it?

Usually, yes. Owning a chatbot subscription and having AI wired into your weekly workflows are different things. The assessment isn’t about which chatbot you use — it’s about which recurring tasks in your business can be handed off, and exactly how.

What if you can’t find 5 hours a week?

You get all $999 back. If the delivered report doesn’t identify at least 5 reclaimed hours per week, email me and I refund the full amount — no questions, no forms.

How much of my time does this take?

About an hour total: a 10-minute intake and one 45-minute call. I do the rest.

What happens after the assessment?

Three options. You can run the 4-day quick-start plan yourself — the report is designed for that. If you’d rather have it built for you, my AI implementation services start at $1,500 for simple automation builds. The $999 assessment fee credits in full toward any implementation project. And if you want ongoing help, the AI Concierge retainer gives you two working calls a month plus unlimited async messaging, from $1,200/month.

Is this a sales pitch for a bigger project?

The report stands entirely on its own — everything in it can be implemented without me, and it’s written so you can. If you’d rather have hands-on help, that’s available, and the report says exactly where it would apply. Either way, you leave with the full plan.

Get your assessment

One call. One report. At least 5 hours a week back — guaranteed, or you get 100% of the $999 back.

Not sure yet? Start with the free systems audit — a quick look that shows you where the hours are leaking. When you want the exact prescriptions, the assessment goes deep — and everything the audit found carries straight into it.

04Start here

Find your leak in 15 minutes.

Tell me how leads reach you today. I’ll show you where revenue is leaking, and you keep the findings whether or not we build anything together.

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