The Sentinel AI opportunity assessment shows where AI could create the most value in your business, with the hours and dollars behind each opportunity. You get a prioritized roadmap to keep, whether you build it with us, your own team, or another partner.
There is no pitch attached to the delivery and no obligation to purchase implementation afterward. If we think the honest answer is that nothing clears the bar yet, that is what the roadmap will say.
Discuss your assessment
Start with a founder conversation to define the scope. An opportunity assessment is typically about $1,000, credited toward your first purchase.
Book a conversationScope agreed first · You own the roadmap
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What you receive
Three to five places AI could create real value in your business, ranked rather than listed.
What the work costs you today, so every recommendation can be compared against doing nothing.
Where your team is already using AI off-book, which is usually a bigger exposure than anything we would build.
Tools and subscriptions that overlap, went unused, or solved a problem you no longer have.
What to do first, what to do after that, and what to leave alone for now.
How the assessment works
A session with you and whoever else should be in the room, to understand the business and what a good outcome would look like.
Short interviews with three or four people who actually do the day-to-day work. This is where the real answers come from.
A light look at the tools you run on and how information moves between them. Read-level access is enough.
A written roadmap and a working session where we walk you through what we found, including anything we think you should not build.
Who it’s for
Privately held businesses in the Cincinnati region, led by an owner, CEO, president or managing partner who is actively involved in improving how the company works. Usually AI-curious but not AI-native, often already paying for tools like Copilot, ChatGPT or Claude without getting much back from them.
Common questions
An opportunity assessment is typically about $1,000, credited toward your first purchase. Scope and pricing are agreed before we begin. Company-wide strategy assessments are scoped separately. You own the roadmap whoever implements it.
Timing depends on the scope agreed at kickoff. The time we need from you is a couple of hours from leadership plus short conversations with three or four people who do the work.
Read-level visibility into the systems where the work happens, and honest conversations with the people doing it. You do not need to prepare documentation or clean anything up first. Seeing the mess is useful.
Then we say so, and you have that in writing along with the reasoning. Not every business has an AI opportunity that clears the bar right now, and a clear no is more useful than a project that was never going to pay for itself.
The owner or an executive who can make a decision, plus a few people who do the operational work every day. The second group matters more than people expect, because the expensive work is usually invisible from the top.
You speak with a founder about the work you want to improve. We agree on scope and price before an assessment begins.