Strategy · The $2,500 Business Audit
Stop guessing what to automate.
A two-week strategy engagement that ends in a written deliverable: a full audit of your workflows and a prioritized automation roadmap — which processes, in what order, with what tools, and how many hours each one returns per week. Yours to keep, whoever builds it.
Fee
$2,500 · One-time
Duration
Two weeks
Deliverable
Written roadmap
Ownership
Yours, vendor-agnostic
Why strategy first
The problem isn't knowing. It's knowing where to start.
Two months in, nothing's faster.
The usual story, skipped strategy.
Most owners already know AI could carry part of the week. Without a strategy, they automate the wrong things first: tools bought and never used, systems that don't connect, operations more fragmented than before the project started.
The Business Audit is the fix. Not a consultation — a deliverable. A written strategy document that gives you a clear, prioritized action plan before a single dollar goes to building anything.
What you get
A document you can act on.
Two weeks of analysis,
bound into one roadmap.
01
Your top automation opportunities
We map your operations and identify the workflows generating the most unnecessary manual work — ranked by impact, not by how easy they are to build.
02
Prioritized build sequence
Not everything should be automated first. The roadmap gives you the order that returns hours fastest, so payback starts in weeks, not quarters.
03
Tool recommendations
Open-source and BYOK first: tools you will own and control — n8n, NocoDB, Activepieces and peers — matched to your existing stack, not a reseller agreement.
04
Hours saved, per automation
Every recommendation carries an estimate of hours returned per week, so you know the ROI of each item before approving a single build.
05
Cost-to-build estimates
A realistic build-cost range for each opportunity. No surprises, no discovery fees buried in phase two — the numbers are in the document.
06
The session recordings
Discovery sessions are recorded and yours to keep. Use them to brief any vendor, developer, or internal team — not just us.
The two weeks
Booked to delivered in five steps.
Your time in: about three
hours across two weeks.
01
Book
Book the audit and complete a short intake on your operations, team, and tools. We schedule discovery within days.
02
Discover
Working sessions with your team — week one. We walk your workflows, your tools, and your biggest time drains. Come ready to talk specifics.
03
Analyze
We run your operations against our opportunity framework, research tools for your stack, and draft the roadmap — week two.
04
Deliver
You receive the written audit and roadmap, walked through on a delivery call. Ask anything; leave with a plan.
05
Build — or don't
Build with us and the strategy work carries forward with no re-discovery. Or hand the document to any developer. It is vendor-agnostic and yours.
Who it's for
This is for you if—
Small and mid-sized owners,
usually 5–200 people.
$2,500
/ THE AUDIT, ONE-TIME
Two weeks, full workflow audit, written roadmap. Yours to keep.
3 hrs
/ YOUR TIME IN
Discovery sessions and the delivery call. We carry the rest.
$5,250
/ TYPICAL FIRST-WIN VALUE
One 3-hour-a-week automation, valued at a conservative $35/hour, over a year.
Questions
Strategy questions, answered
What exactly is the Business Audit?
A two-week, $2,500 strategy engagement that ends in a written deliverable: a full workflow audit of your operations plus a prioritized automation roadmap, with hours-saved and cost-to-build estimates for every opportunity. It is a document you act on, not a consultation you forget.
Why pay for strategy before building anything?
Because businesses that skip it automate the wrong things first — tools they don't use, systems that don't connect, more fragmentation than before. The audit makes sure the first dollar of build budget goes to the highest-payback workflow.
Do we have to build with AutomateNexus afterward?
No. The roadmap is vendor-agnostic and yours to keep — hand it to any developer or internal team. If you do build with us, the strategy work carries forward and you skip re-discovery.
How is this different from the free audit?
The free audit is a preview: a short look at your operations with the most obvious opportunity flagged. The Business Audit is the full engagement — every workflow mapped, every opportunity ranked, costs and hours quantified, in writing.
Does it pay for itself?
Usually before the first build ships. If the first automation identified saves your team three hours a week, that is roughly 150 hours a year — worth about $5,250 at a conservative $35 per hour, against a $2,500 audit.
Where we go from here
Start with the roadmap.
Book the $2,500 Business Audit and get a prioritized, costed automation plan in two weeks — build it with us, build it with anyone, or just stop guessing.
No subscription.
No lock-in.
No surprise invoices.