The AI ops audit
An AI ops audit from O'Donnell AI costs $2,500 flat and takes about two weeks. You get a written map of the automatable work in your business with the time savings put in dollars, plus one quick win built and running before the report lands. The first three clients pay $1,000, openly because we are building our public case-study bench.
What happens in the two weeks
We spend about two weeks inside your actual work. Not a survey, not a slide deck about AI strategy. We sit with the people who do the quoting, the follow-up, and the paperwork, and we trace where the hours actually go. We are based in Charleston, so for businesses in South Carolina and the Southeast that can mean showing up in person.
While we map, we build. One quick win gets implemented and running before the report lands. You get something working out of the audit itself, not just a recommendation to go build something.
What you walk away with
The deliverable is a written map of the automatable work in your business, with the time savings put in dollars. Specific tasks, what each one costs you now, and what it would take to hand each one to software. The kind of work that usually shows up on the map:
If you want to judge the work before buying it, a full sample report is public, filled in for a fictional shop with the exact structure yours would have.
- Quoting and estimates that get rebuilt from scratch every time
- Follow-up that goes quiet because nobody owns it
- Reports someone assembles by hand every week
- Pipeline hygiene, the CRM updates everyone skips
- Content operations, the posts and pages that never get written
- Back-office paperwork that eats afternoons
Who this is for
Owners and managers who suspect AI could take real work off their plate but do not want a big consulting engagement or another software subscription to babysit. If your business runs on quotes, follow-up, reports, and paperwork, there is almost certainly something on the map.
O'Donnell AI is one person. The engineer who audits your business is a licensed P.E. who built and operated industrial gas systems, including a commercial CO2 recovery plant, and he is also the one who answers your email. Industrial and plant engagements are quoted separately, but the audit is often the right first conversation there too.
Why the first three clients pay $1,000
The audit is $2,500 flat. The first three clients pay $1,000, and the reason is not generosity. We are a new firm building a public case-study bench, and discounting openly beats inventing testimonials.
The discipline behind the audit is not new, though. The founder started building his personal automation fleet in February 2026. About 135 days later it runs 70 scheduled jobs with more than 10,000 logged runs, and its failure rate came down from 23.7% in May 2026 to 2.0% in June 2026. The telemetry is published publicly, and that is the standard your work gets held to.
The risk is meant to feel small because it is. Fixed price, about two weeks, one working automation delivered either way, and everything produced is yours: accounts, keys, data, and the build. If you walk away after the report, it all keeps working.
What happens when you reach out
Four steps, no surprises.
- Send the one job you dread, through the form or by email.
- You get an honest read within one business day, including that it is not worth automating when that is true.
- If an audit makes sense, we schedule the two weeks.
- The report and one working automation land. You decide what happens next.
Questions we hear
How much does an AI audit cost?
$2,500 flat for about two weeks of work. The first three clients pay $1,000 because we are building our public case-study bench, and we would rather discount openly than pad a testimonials page.
What if the audit finds nothing worth automating?
Then the report says so, in dollars. We put every finding in dollar terms precisely so you can see when the honest answer is small. You still keep the quick win we implemented along the way, and it keeps working whether or not you ever hire us again.
Do we need to be near Charleston?
No. We are based in Charleston and serve South Carolina and the Southeast, and on-site visits are available when sitting with your team beats a video call. Most of the audit work happens inside your systems either way.
What happens after the audit?
Whatever you want. Findings worth building become fixed-scope, fixed-price systems at $5,000 to $15,000, built on accounts you own. If you want them watched and improved, managed operations runs $1,500 to $2,000 per month, month to month, no long-term contract. Or you take the map and act on it yourself. It is yours.
Who actually does the work?
Jake O'Donnell, a licensed professional engineer who built and operated industrial gas systems, including a commercial CO2 recovery plant. O'Donnell AI is a one-person firm, so the person who audits your business is the person who does the work.
Book the audit, or just ask
If you are not sure there is enough repeatable work in your business to fill two weeks, email a description of your messiest recurring task and we will tell you straight whether an audit makes sense, free either way. If you are ready, the first three slots are $1,000.