The free AI audit

The Sentinel AI audit is a free, roughly one-week review that 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 afterward. If we think the honest answer is that nothing clears the bar yet, that is what the roadmap will say.

Request your free audit

Two minutes to ask. A founder reads and answers every request within one business day.

This helps us tailor your audit to what will save you the most, fastest. All fields are optional.

No pitch, no obligation. Just the audit.

What you receive

What you walk away with.

  • A prioritized opportunity roadmap

    01

    Three to five places AI could create real value in your business, ranked rather than listed.

  • The hours and dollars behind each one

    02

    What the work costs you today, so every recommendation can be compared against doing nothing.

  • A shadow-AI review

    03

    Where your team is already using AI off-book, which is usually a bigger exposure than anything we would build.

  • A "stop paying for this" list

    04

    Tools and subscriptions that overlap, went unused, or solved a problem you no longer have.

  • A practical sequence

    05

    What to do first, what to do after that, and what to leave alone for now.

How the audit works

About a week, and a couple of hours of your time.

  1. Step 01

    Kickoff

    A session with you and whoever else should be in the room, to understand the business and what a good outcome would look like.

  2. Step 02

    Conversations

    Short interviews with three or four people who actually do the day-to-day work. This is where the real answers come from.

  3. Step 03

    Systems review

    A light look at the tools you run on and how information moves between them. Read-level access is enough.

  4. Step 04

    Delivery

    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

Owner-led companies, roughly 10 to 100 people.

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

Questions about the audit

Yes, with no obligation and no pitch attached to the delivery. We would rather prove the value before anyone spends money, and the roadmap is yours to keep whether you implement it with us, your own team, or another firm.

About a week from kickoff to the delivered roadmap. 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.

A founder reads it and replies within one business day, usually to ask a couple of questions and find a time. There is no sales sequence and nobody else will call you.