What does a proper AI assessment of our operation cost, and what do we get in writing?
The Opportunity Map is a fixed-price written assessment for UK operations businesses running an ERP, WMS or bespoke system. In ten working days it says where AI fits, what each option costs and needs, and what to do first. It costs £4,500. It needs a sponsor, four to six people for an hour each, and read access.
What it costs and how long
- Price£4,500, fixed
- Durationten working days from access being granted
What it needs from your systems and people
- A sponsor
- Four to six people
- Read access
- No API is not a problem
What you get, and what you don't
- Discovery notes
- Systems and data pages
- The opportunity register
- The Map
What it does, and where the human sits
- IntakeA call with your sponsor to agree who to interview, and read access to the systems.day 0
- InterviewsFour to six people, for example the sponsor, finance, the operations lead, a supervisor, someone who does the work every day, and whoever owns the systems.days 1–3
- Systems and data walkThe real data, not the diagrams. Sample records. Finding the spreadsheet that actually runs the process.days 3–5
- Opportunity registerEvery candidate listed and scored from 1 to 5 on four factors: value, feasibility, data readiness and risk. Each score has a one-line reason. Weak candidates are removed, with reasons.days 5–7
- The MapThe top three to five opportunities in order. Each says what it does, what it needs, what it costs, how long it takes, the risk, and the first step.days 7–9
- Read-out45 minutes with your sponsor, and a written decision note the same day.day 10
These timings are the method as designed, not an average of Maps already delivered. Where a figure on this page is measured, it is shown with the date it was measured.
The working rule: the interviews tell you what people believe, and the data tells you what is true. Where they disagree, the Map says so.
Where the human sits. The Map recommends; your sponsor decides. For each opportunity, the Map says where a person would check the AI's work and what happens when the AI is wrong.
What it needs from your systems and people
- A sponsor, such as the owner, MD, FD or operations director, who attends the intake and the read-out.
- Four to six people for about an hour each.
- Read access to the systems involved, and a sample of real data. Nothing is changed in your systems.
- No API is not a problem for the Map. An export or a standard report is enough to see what the data can support.
- One decision-maker at the read-out.
Who does which part, and who checks it
The Map is led by Sam Naseem, and this section is in his words.
- Done by me: the intake, every interview, the systems and data walk using your read access, every score in the register, the Map and the read-out. Judgement about what you should do first is never delegated.
- Done by AI agents I have trained and direct, under my review: first drafts of discovery notes from my interview notes, desk research on products and vendors that come up, and first drafts of the systems and data pages.
- Who checks it: I review every page before you see it. Your sponsor decides what happens next.
- What AI agents are never allowed to touch: your systems. Read access is used by me, not by an agent.
- How your data is handled: Interview notes and data samples are kept on AI UVD's systems on AWS in London. Where an AI service helps, it is a business or API plan that has a data processing agreement and does not train on your data. Working material is deleted or returned within 30 days of the read-out.
What it costs and how long
- Price: £4,500, fixed. Half is invoiced when the Map starts and half when the Map is delivered. Prices exclude VAT.
- Duration: ten working days from access being granted.
Why the price can be fixed and the time kept to ten days: AI agents I have trained and direct do part of the preparation and drafting, under my review, so fewer hours go into each Map. The interviews, the scores and the judgement stay with me.
Not included: anything built. The full list is under "What you get, and what you don't".
The boundary, in plain words: the conversation is free. The written answer is the Map. Anything built afterwards is a separate, priced piece of work.
After the read-out, each opportunity's first step is scoped as its own piece of work, either an Agent Pilot or a data-preparation task, with a price band. If you want to go ahead, a written proposal follows the next day.
What can go wrong, and what we do about it
| What can go wrong | What we do about it |
|---|---|
| You want a quick look before committing | The first conversation is free. Looking at your systems is the Map. |
| What people say and what the data shows disagree | The Map says so. It can be the most useful finding. |
| Your top opportunity has no usable data yet | It moves down the list, and data preparation becomes its own first step, with a cost. |
| You expected something to be built | The Map ends at the first step, and the offer letter says so. Building is a separate, priced piece of work. |
| New ideas arrive in week two | Each one is logged in the register, not investigated, and offered as a follow-on. |
| The work drifts towards a prototype | It does not. Prototypes are build work, priced separately. |
| The read-out turns into a sales meeting | The read-out presents decisions. Any proposal for next steps comes in writing the following day. |
What you get, and what you don't
- Discovery notes for each person interviewed.
- Systems and data pages, one per system: what it holds, how it is accessed, the data quality seen, the integration route, and who owns it.
- The opportunity register, with four justified scores for every candidate, including the ones removed.
- The Map: the top three to five opportunities in order, each costed, with its risks and first step.
- A 45-minute read-out with your sponsor.
- A written decision note the same day.
You don't get: anything built, prototypes, vendor selection, a second round of interviews, or investigation of candidates raised after day five (they are logged and offered as a follow-on).
| Candidate | Value | Feasibility | Data | Risk | Decision |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Column headings only. Every candidate considered gets a row, including the ones removed, and each score has a one-line reason.
Who it is not for
- Businesses with their own data or AI team. They probably have most of this already.
- Anyone who wants a vendor selection only.
- Anyone looking for a free look.
- Anyone who wants something built in the first fortnight. The Map is the written answer, not the build.
Frequently asked questions
What's it going to cost me, really?
£4,500, fixed, for ten working days. The price does not grow if the work takes longer. What it costs your people is four to six hour-long interviews and granting read access. Anything the Map recommends is priced separately, and the Map gives a price band for each first step.
How long before we see anything?
Ten working days from access being granted, ending in a 45-minute read-out and a written decision note the same day. If you decide to act, a proposal for the first step follows in writing the next day.
What do you need from us? We don't have spare people.
A sponsor, four to six people for about an hour each, read access to the systems and a data sample, and one decision-maker at the read-out. That is four to six hours of interviews, plus the time your systems owner needs to grant read access.
Who else have you done this for?
No client is named or quoted on this site. What this page does instead is set out the method, the price, what the Map contains and what it excludes, so you can judge it before you buy it. Behind it is more than 20 years of connecting enterprise systems, and the first conversation is the place to test that against your kind of system.
Can you just take a quick look at our system first?
The conversation is free, and the reply says plainly whether a Map looks worthwhile for you. Looking at your systems and writing down what to do is the Map itself.
Ask about an Opportunity Map
£4,500, fixed, ten working days from access. Write with what the business does, the systems it runs, and the question you need answered.
Every engagement is architected by me, and I'm the person you deal with.
Sam Naseem
We take on a small number of clients at a time.