Two minutes before you spend a dollar on AI.
Tell us what you run, tick the jobs that eat your week, and answer six honest questions. You get a straight read: whether your business is ready to put AI to work now, the free groundwork to do first if it is not, and the specific systems worth starting with. It runs in your browser, and nothing you click leaves this page unless you choose to email yourself the readout.
No score theater. "Not yet" is a real result here, and it comes with the free first steps.
What do you run?
One tap, and it changes what you get at the end. The repetition in a plumbing shop is not the repetition in an accounting firm, and a readout that does not know the difference is worth very little.
Where does the week actually go?
Tick every one you recognise and skip the rest. Each line is a job we have already built a working system for, so what you tick here is what the readout puts in front of you, in the order that usually pays back fastest.
Recognise none of them? Tick nothing and carry on. That is a real answer, and the readout will say so rather than invent one.
Could you actually run one?
Six questions, and the unflattering answer is the useful one. This is the half that decides whether a system sticks or gets quietly abandoned by the third month, which is why it carries the score on its own.
Question 1 of 6 · The target
Could you name the one task you would hand off tomorrow if you could?
"Automate everything" stalls. "Stop retyping supplier invoices" ships. Knowing your first target is readiness.
Question 2 of 6 · Records
Do your core records live in software rather than on paper or in heads?
Books in an accounting system, jobs and customers in something searchable. Systems build on records; they cannot build on memory.
Question 3 of 6 · The reviewer
Is there a person who could read machine drafts and approve them before they go out?
Everything we build ships through a human check. That person needs minutes, not hours, but they do need to exist.
Question 4 of 6 · The playbook
Is any of how you work written down, even roughly?
Checklists, templates, an onboarding email somebody reuses. Written-down process is fuel; systems learn your way of working from it.
Question 5 of 6 · The hour
Could leadership spare one hour a week for the first ninety days?
Not to build anything. To look at what the system produced and say "right" or "wrong." That hour is what makes the results trustworthy.
Question 6 of 6 · The trail
When work finishes, does anyone write down what happened?
Job notes, call notes, a closed ticket. A business that records outcomes can measure whether any system actually helped, which is the whole game.
The check runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you clicked was sent anywhere, and it will not be unless you use the email form above. How your data is handled.
A first read, not a verdict
Two minutes cannot see your margins, your systems, or your team. What they can see is the shape of readiness: repetition worth removing, records to build on, and a person with the time to stay in charge of it. That is enough to tell you whether to start and roughly where, which is more than most owners have when they buy their first tool.
What it cannot tell you is what any of it is worth in your business. Nothing on this page ranks one job against another in dollars, because ten clicks have no way to know.
The paid readiness audit is the full version. Two weeks inside your actual operation, every opportunity ranked by payback, and a 90-day roadmap you keep whether or not we build together. This page exists so you can decide whether that is worth your time, without handing anyone your email to find out.
Rather just talk it through?
Thirty minutes, free, in plain English. Bring your answers or bring nothing. We will tell you honestly whether systems can help your shop yet, and what we would do first if it were ours.
Book the free 30-minute callhello@clariqadvisory.com