Is It AI You Need? A 2-Minute Check

Six quick questions about one task. You get an honest answer on whether AI will help, or whether a simple automation, connected systems, clean data or a better report would fix it first.

AI is genuinely useful for some jobs: reading supplier invoices and dockets, sorting emails, pulling details out of forms and drafting summaries for someone to check. But a lot of the work people hope AI will fix is really something else: information retyped between systems that aren't connected, steps that a simple rule could do, data that can't be trusted, or a report nobody has built yet.

Pick one task you'd like help with and answer for that task. There's no sign-up, and your answers aren't sent to us.

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Where does the information for this task come from?

Think of one task you’d like help with, such as entering supplier invoices or putting the weekly report together.

The Five Possible Results

Common Questions

Each answer adds points to one or more of five results: AI, a simple automation, connecting systems, cleaning data, or a report. Each result is compared as a share of the most it could score, and the highest wins. If two are level, connecting systems and cleaning data come first, because AI and automation depend on them. You can see your points under the result.

No. The check runs in your browser and nothing you choose is sent to us. We only count that someone started and finished it, and which result came up, so we know whether the tool is useful.

That isn’t a bad result. Many tasks people want AI for are really a connection between systems, a rule-based automation, a data clean-up or a report, and those are usually quicker and cheaper to put in place. Once they are fixed, AI often fits better on the parts that are left.

Yes, for some tasks. Reading supplier invoices, dockets or emails can work on its own, with a person checking the result. But if the result then has to be retyped into another system, connecting the systems is usually the bigger win.

More free tools: the Admin Time Count and the Automation ROI Calculator.

Talk Through Your Result

Book a free 30-minute chat. Tell us about the task and we'll give you an honest view of what would fix it, whether that's AI, an automation, a connection between systems, a data clean-up or a report.

What happens next
  1. We read your message and reply within one business day.
  2. If it helps, we book a free chat (usually 30 minutes) about your systems and what you're trying to fix.
  3. You get an honest view: whether we can help, roughly what's involved, or who'd be a better fit.

Free initial chat. No sales pressure - if we're not the right fit, we'll say so.

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Part of our guide: Business Process Improvement Guide

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