AI Audit for Companies | IDC AI Unit

AI Audit · Entry-level service

In 2 weeks you'll know where AI in your company makes sense.

The AI Audit covers your entire company — every department, every process. Afterwards you know where AI really pays off, what the solution would look like, what it costs and how much it saves per year. Time required from your staff: around 40 minutes per person.

2
weeks to the report
40
minutes per person
10x
guaranteed savings potential
0 €
for the initial consultation

Sound familiar?

Everyone feels the time drains — nobody can put a number on them

Accountant and consultant going through a printout

You know time is being lost. You just don't know where.

Everyone in the company agrees. But nobody can say in which process, how many hours it is and what it costs per year.

Warehouse manager leafing through a stack of delivery notes

Everything lands on your desk

Inbox, Teams messages, calls, forms from the website. Everything ends up somewhere, everyone sees only part of it — and things regularly slip through the cracks.

Shelf with old binders

The same manual work every month

Gathering figures, dumping them into a spreadsheet, fixing the layout. Every month all over again, and in the end someone still doubts the result.

The comparison

Why not just hire a consultant?

Because their time is expensive. So they talk to only a few people and in the end know one area well and the rest from hearsay.

On-site consultant
AI Audit
Duration
3 to 6 months
2 weeks to the finished report
Scope
One or two areas
Every department, even the small ones
Effort for your staff
Workshops, meetings, hours of explaining
Around 40 minutes per person, whenever it suits
Result
Report with recommendations
Roadmap with annual amount per measure
Price
Daily rate times months
Fixed price from EUR 1,500, with 10x guarantee

How it works

Seven steps. Two weeks. Little effort for you.

After the initial consultation, the audit runs largely without you. Your staff fill in a short questionnaire and take part in one phone call. Everything else happens in the background.

Step 01

Kickoff with management

We record your departments and contact persons and clarify what is in scope and what is not. An audit without backing from management achieves nothing — that's why this meeting comes first.

1 meeting, 60 minutes

Step 02

A short questionnaire for everyone

Everyone receives the same short questionnaire: What eats up your time? How many hours per week? What annoys you most? No expert knowledge needed, no preparation.

5 minutes per person

Step 03

The AI calls

Then the AI conducts the actual interview. It asks follow-up questions, digs deeper, understands the process. At a time that suits your staff — not according to our calendar. Recordings are made only with explicit consent.

Around 40 minutes per person

Step 04

The AI filters

Twelve conversations don't turn into a pile of minutes. Repetitions are merged, individual opinions separated from patterns, minor points dropped. What remains is what comes up repeatedly — and across several departments.

The essentials from everything that was said

Step 05

Findings instead of impressions

What remains becomes a list: which process, in which department, how many hours tied up, how well it can be automated. Every finding with the source it comes from.

Traceable back to the conversation

Step 06

Calculated, not estimated

Hours tied up times hourly rate times working weeks. We count 70 percent of the reported hours, not 100 — to allow for ramp-up and remaining work. At 6 hours per week and an hourly rate of EUR 65.00, that comes to around EUR 12,500 per year, for a single person. Every assumption is stated in the report and can be changed.

Verifiable, line by line

Step 07

Report and roadmap

What you get at the end is not a slide deck full of good intentions, but working material: the complete overview of your processes, the order by effort and impact, the amount per measure — and a roadmap that lets you decide on the same day.

Within 2 weeks at the latest

No risk

The initial consultation is free.

60 minutes with your management. Afterwards you'll know whether an AI Audit makes sense for you — and we'll tell you if it doesn't.

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The result

What you hold in your hands after 2 weeks

Consultant working on the report
At the end there's a report, not an impression.

No mood snapshot and no slides full of good intentions. Instead, exactly what you have been missing to be able to make a decision at all.

Finally, the overview. Every process in the company, visible in one place — including what used to exist only in individual people's heads.
  • Plain facts instead of gut feeling. For every finding, an annual amount and an assessment of how well it can be automated. With assumptions disclosed.
  • A sequence. What comes first, what comes next, what can wait — so you don't start everywhere at once.
  • A roadmap you can implement. With us, with your IT or with whoever you like. The report is yours, even if you do nothing further with us.
  • Focus. You stop talking about AI in general terms and start at a point that pays off.
  • In concrete terms

    What an audit typically brings to light

    Workshop with the team of a trades business

    01

    More manual work than you think

    In almost every company, processes have been done by hand for years because nobody ever questioned them. They only stand out once you add them up.

    Two colleagues arranging sticky notes on a glass wall

    02

    A large share that can be automated

    Not everything — but considerably more than expected. And usually exactly where it hurts most in day-to-day work.

    Presenting the results to management

    03

    Measures that pay for themselves in the first year

    We only recommend what pays off. Measures are scoped so that the investment is usually recouped within 6 to 9 months.

    Typical distribution of the processes examined done by hand already supported Until the first measure has paid for itself 6 to 9 months 0 3 6 9 12 months
    Benchmarks from our audits to date — your report shows your own figure

    Before / After

    What changes with an AI Audit

    Today

    • Everyone suspects where time is being lost. Nobody can put a number on it.
    • AI ideas circulate in the company, with no priority and no price tag.
    • Whoever shouts loudest gets heard — not where it hurts most.
    • Decisions are made on gut feeling, or not at all.

    With the AI Audit

    • Every finding with department, hours and annual amount.
    • A sequence based on effort and impact, not on volume.
    • Every department is heard, even the ones nobody usually asks.
    • You decide with the figures on the table — or decide against it.

    Scope & price

    Fixed price by company size — with a guarantee

    The price is fixed in advance. And so that you carry no risk, we guarantee the result: we find at least 10x your audit price in annual savings potential. If we find less, you get the full amount back.

    S · 1–10 employees

    1.500 €

    For small teams that want a first structured look.

    • Guarantee: at least EUR 15,000 in identified potential
    • Initial consultation with management
    • Questionnaire and AI interview for everyone
    • Report, roadmap and presentation
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    L · 26–50 employees

    4.900 €

    For organizations with many interlocking processes.

    • Guarantee: at least EUR 49,000 in identified potential
    • Everything in M
    • In-depth prioritization
    Request an AI Audit

    XL · 51–100 employees

    7.500 €

    For larger businesses with a complex system landscape.

    • Guarantee: at least EUR 75,000 in identified potential
    • Everything in L
    • Multiple locations and teams
    Request an AI Audit

    Enterprise · 100+

    custom

    Tailored to large organizations — scope by arrangement.

    • Guarantee by agreement
    • Coordination with IT and management
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    One-time fee, plus VAT. The initial consultation is free and non-binding.

    Frequently asked questions

    In brief

    How much of our time does this take?

    One initial consultation with management, 60 minutes. Then a 5-minute questionnaire and a call of about 40 minutes per person. That's it. No workshops, no preparation, no documents you have to gather beforehand.

    Why is this so much cheaper than a consultant?

    Because AI works alongside us at every step, from scheduling to the interview to the analysis. It runs around the clock, in parallel for all departments, and involves no travel time. And the interviews aren't short because we want to cut corners — they're short because our previous audits have taught us which questions get to the heart of things and what can be left out.

    And if we don't find anything at your company?

    Then you get your money back. We guarantee annual savings potential of at least 10x the audit price — for an audit at EUR 2,900, that's EUR 29,000. If we find less, we refund the full amount.

    Do we need to know in advance what we want to automate?

    No, that is exactly what the audit is for. The most interesting findings only surface during the interviews anyway, because they have become so routine that nobody questions them anymore.

    What happens to what our people tell you?

    Recordings are made only with explicit consent, and each person decides that individually. Data is processed in the EU and deleted on request. What goes into the report are processes and figures — no assessment of individual people. Details can be found in our Privacy policy.

    And afterwards?

    The decision is yours. The roadmap can turn into implementation — first AI agents for specific processes, later Helix as a personal assistant and, as a next stage, an AI operating system. But it doesn't have to. The report is yours either way.

    Next step

    Let's take stock.

    A short, non-binding initial consultation is enough to see whether an AI Audit makes sense for you. It costs nothing and commits you to nothing.