Find out what is worth automating before you spend a dollar building
Two weeks, a written plan with real numbers, and a priority list of what to do first and what to skip. The audit fee comes off your build, so an honest answer costs you nothing.
Written roadmap
ROI estimates
Fee credited to build
An AI and process audit is a structured review of how work currently moves through a business, producing a ranked list of automation opportunities with estimated return for each. DAvision runs these over roughly two weeks: mapping processes, interviewing the people doing the work, estimating hours saved per opportunity, and delivering a written roadmap and budget. It starts at $2,000 for one department, and the fee is credited against any build that follows.
Most automation budgets are spent in the wrong place
The loudest process is rarely the costliest
Teams point at what annoys them. The real money is usually in something nobody complains about because they have stopped noticing it.
Vendors scope what they sell
Ask a chatbot company what you need and the answer is a chatbot. An audit that is not tied to a build is the only version worth trusting.
Nobody has counted the hours
Without a baseline there is no way to tell whether an automation paid for itself. Most projects never find out.
What you get
A process map of how work actually flows
Not the org chart version — the real one, built from watching and asking the people who do it.
Ranked opportunities with hour estimates
Each one carries an estimate of time recovered and the effort to build it, so the order is obvious.
An explicit skip list
The things not worth automating, and why. Usually the most useful page in the document.
Tool and vendor recommendations
Including where existing software you already pay for would do the job.
A phased roadmap and budget
What to do in the first quarter, what waits, and what it costs.
Risk review of data handling
Where sensitive data moves, who can reach it, and what would need to change before automating around it.
How it works
Four steps, no surprises. You see a working version before you pay the balance.
Kickoff and scope
Which departments, which processes, who we need to talk to.
Observation and interviews
We watch the work happen and talk to the people doing it, not only the people managing it.
Analysis and modelling
Hours counted, opportunities estimated, options compared.
Roadmap walkthrough
The written document plus a live session with your team to work through it.
Packages & pricing
Fixed-price builds in Canadian dollars. Ongoing support is quoted separately from $750 per month.
- One department, up to 5 processes mapped
- 5–10 automation opportunities with ROI estimates
- Priority list: what to do first, what to skip
- Written roadmap and budget
- Audit fee credited toward your build
- Up to 3 departments
- Process map plus data flow diagram
- Tool and vendor recommendations
- 12-month phased roadmap
- 90-minute walkthrough with your team
- Audit fee credited toward your build
- Company-wide review
- Interviews with up to 10 stakeholders
- Systems and integration audit
- Build vs buy analysis for each opportunity
- Data handling and access risk review
- Quarterly review calls for 12 months
Why an audit that is not tied to a build is the only one worth buying
Ask a chatbot company what your business needs and you will be told a chatbot. This is not dishonesty; it is scope blindness, and every vendor has it. The audit exists to produce an answer before anyone has an interest in a particular shape of project — which is also why we credit the fee against a build rather than treating it as a profit centre. If the honest conclusion is that your best return comes from fixing a spreadsheet and buying nothing, that is what the document will say.
The method is deliberately unglamorous. We watch the work happen and talk to the people doing it, not only to the people managing it. Managers describe the documented process. The people executing it describe the real one, including the workarounds that exist because a system does not do something it was supposed to. The gap between those two accounts is usually where the largest opportunities sit, because nobody has looked at it in years.
Then everything gets counted. Hours per week on each step, error rates where they can be established, the cost of the rework each error causes. Opportunities are ranked by estimated hours recovered against effort to build, which produces an order that is usually different from what anyone expected walking in. The process that generates the most complaints is rarely the one that costs the most money.
The skip list is the deliverable clients tell us they value most. Automating something low-volume, highly variable, or already fast is a way to spend real money for no return, and there is always at least one candidate on the initial wish list that falls into that category. Naming it early is worth more than the audit fee on its own.
What changes after launch
Concrete, measurable, and checkable against the baseline we take before we start.
A ranked list, not a wish list
Every opportunity carries an hours-saved estimate and a build cost, so the sequence is arithmetic rather than opinion.
A baseline you can measure against
Because the hours are counted before anything is built, you can tell afterwards whether it worked.
Fewer wrong purchases
The skip list and the build-versus-buy analysis routinely save more than the audit costs.
Who this is for
Companies that know automation is coming but not where to start. Operations leaders who have been quoted three wildly different numbers by three vendors. Anyone who has already bought software that did not get used.
We work with dental clinics, construction, energy, real estate, and commercial businesses across Calgary and Canada.
Frequently asked questions
What does a process audit cost?
One department with up to five processes mapped starts at $2,000. Three departments with a data flow diagram and a twelve-month roadmap is $4,500. A company-wide review with stakeholder interviews and build-versus-buy analysis starts at $9,000.
Is the fee really credited toward the build?
Yes, on Basic and Pro. If you proceed with a build, the audit fee comes off the project price. The audit is how we scope work properly, so it is not a separate profit centre.
What if the audit says not to automate anything?
Then it says that, and you have saved considerably more than the fee. The skip list is a deliverable, not a failure state.
How much of our team's time does it take?
A few hours per person across two weeks — a conversation about their work and a follow-up to check we understood it. We work around your schedule, not the other way round.
Do you need access to our systems?
Read access helps but is not required for Basic. Pro and Enterprise benefit from seeing the actual data flows; we sign an NDA before anything is shared.
Can we take the roadmap to another vendor?
Yes. It is your document and it is written to be actionable by anyone. We would rather be chosen on the work than by lock-in.
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Thirty minutes, no pitch
We map out exactly what you need and what it would cost. If automation is not the answer, we will say so.
