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Our method

An AI agent at work in 60 days, not another pilot.

An AI agent does a task in place of your teams: the data entry, the chasing, the formatting. Three stages to get one to work: 10 days to put a figure on it, 40 to take it live, 10 per team for adoption. You may take only one. The point is not that you need us for a long time, it is that you stop needing us.

You are already doing the work. By hand.

Three situations that come back in almost every mid-sized company we meet. The third is the most expensive.

  • Prospecting runs on the partners' time

    A spreadsheet, copy and paste, and the follow-up living in two people's heads. Messages go out when someone finds an hour. The channel stops the moment the workload rises.

    Our answer

    We frame the target, we build the sourcing and campaign chain, and every send stays yours to approve.

  • Production is capped by document work

    A bid takes three days. A deliverable, a week. Paperwork is checked by eye and data is retyped from one tool into another. You handle no more volume than you manage to hire for.

    Our answer

    We measure what the process really costs, we put a figure on the gain, and we only build the cases that stand up to the arithmetic.

  • The AI pilot never landed

    A demo went down well in a meeting, then nothing. No real data, no screen, nobody to use it, and nobody whose job it was.

    Our answer

    We pick the pilot up where it stopped: the collection, the integration, the screen, the monitoring, and a first scope genuinely opened up.

Prioritization

We start with what pays off fast and costs little.

Every task is scored on two axes. We build the ones in the top left, and we rule the rest out in writing, with the reason.

  1. Volume

    How often the task repeats, per day, per week, per month.

  2. What one run costs

    The time spent and the money at stake each time it runs. A rare but costly task counts as much as a frequent one.

  3. Difficulty

    Access to the data, the state of the tools, the number of rules to write. This is what sets the timeline and the price.

Our six examples, from highest priority to lowest

  1. Chasing and collectionsWhat it brings in : 7 sur 10 · What it takes : 2 sur 10
  2. Answering tendersWhat it brings in : 9 sur 10 · What it takes : 5 sur 10
  3. Bookkeeping and reviewWhat it brings in : 7 sur 10 · What it takes : 4 sur 10
  4. Qualifying inbound enquiriesWhat it brings in : 6 sur 10 · What it takes : 3 sur 10
  5. Shortlisting applicationsWhat it brings in : 5 sur 10 · What it takes : 3 sur 10
  6. Producing the deliverablesWhat it brings in : 8 sur 10 · What it takes : 7 sur 10

A case whose gain does not cover the cost of building and maintaining it is ruled out, and the reason goes in the report.

What we measure

Measure before building.

Without a starting figure, a gain cannot be proven. Four indicators, recorded before and after.

  • Hours per month

    What the process really takes, measured with the team.

  • Turnaround time

    Between a file arriving and leaving, rush jobs included.

  • Share handled without rework

    How many files go all the way through without a human stepping in.

  • Rework rate

    How many results get redone by hand. The least watched, and the most expensive.

What one point of billable utilization is worth

A worked example, not a client result
  • Billable consultantsassumption: a 25-person firm25
  • Hours worked per year, eachreference assumption1 600 h
  • Share of time actually billedSPI Research, 202566 %
  • Gap to the sector targettarget 75 %9 pts
  • Billable hours at stake, per year25 x 1,600 x 9 %3 600 h
  • Value of the full gap3,600 h x €100/h, assumed rate360 000 €
  • Working target, one third of the gapwhat it is reasonable to aim for120 000 €
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Share of time actually billed

The same calculation at your company, with your figures. If the gain does not cover the cost of building and maintaining it, the case is dropped and the reason goes in the report. The last line is the only one that matters: recovering the whole gap does not happen, recovering a third of it is already a good result. This calculation promises no gain. It tells you whether a case is worth building.

The method

First AI agent at work in 60 days.

Three stages, and you may take only one. The scope and the dates are set at framing, and they do not move afterwards without written agreement.

  1. 01 — Temps 1

    10jours

    Understand and cost

    We look at how the work really gets done, and we calculate what it costs.

    What we do

    • Interviews with the teams who do the work
    • Processes recorded, workarounds included
    • Costing on value, effort and risk

    What you receive

    • Written diagnostic
    • Opportunity sheets
    • Prioritization
    • Roadmap
  2. 02 — Temps 2

    40jours

    Build and go live

    We go and get the data, we build the AI agent and its screen, then we open it up in stages.

    What we do

    • Collecting and shaping the data required
    • A prototype on your data within two weeks
    • AI agent, interface and connection to your tools
    • A staged opening, with the option to roll back

    What you receive

    • Testable prototype
    • AI agent live
    • Code and documentation
    • Monitoring plan
  3. 03 — Temps 3

    10jours

    Hand over

    We train your teams, then we leave. The point is that you no longer need us.

    What we do

    • One workshop per team, on their own files
    • An internal lead trained per department
    • Usage indicators recorded

    What you receive

    • Adoption plan
    • User guides
    • Indicators
    • Improvement plan

This pace holds for a first use case whose data is accessible. That is the most common situation, not the only one.

What can stretch it, and we say so at framing

  • Data that has to be reworked before it can be used: archives to put back in order, duplicates, formats to unify.
  • A tool with no programmatic access, which needs a workaround or a vendor's agreement.
  • Several approvals to obtain on your side before each go-live.

Advisory work happens on site.

The first week is spent at your own desk. What we write afterwards, we have seen.

Network cables tidied and labelled one by one in a rack.On site

We start from the real work

The interviews are held with the people who do the work, not only with their managers. We describe the process as it actually runs, workarounds included.

A row of cooling fans on the back of a set of servers.At the costing

Every use case is costed

Volume handled, time per file, rework rate, regulatory constraints. A use case without those four figures does not go into the roadmap.

A tunnel of hexagonal mirrors multiplying the landscape at the far end.Live

We open one department after another

A first scope opened, watched, corrected, then widened. You can roll back at every step, and the rollback is documented before anything opens.

De la donnée jusqu’à l’écran

Five links. Most providers deliver only one.

Link 3 is the one everyone sells: the AI agent. On its own it stays a script nobody opens. That is the most common reason a pilot never goes into service.

  1. Collection

    Go and get the data where it lives.

    Your tools, your documents, your shared mailboxes, and public sources where they exist. Data that has to be retyped by hand to feed an AI agent does not last three weeks.

  2. Structuring

    Clean it and reconcile it before using it.

    Deduplication, one common format, matching by identifier. The rule we never work around: we match on an identifier or a domain, never on a name, because namesakes manufacture errors that make no noise.

  3. The AI agent

    The work itself, with a closed scope.

    Every AI agent says what it does and what it does not do, and points to the next one for the rest. An agent that does everything is an agent you can neither test nor correct.

  4. The application

    The screen your teams use it from.

    An AI agent with no interface stays a script only its author knows how to launch. Your teams have to be able to trigger it, see what it proposes, correct it and approve it, from a tool they already open.

  5. Monitoring

    Know what is running, what it costs, and how to stop it.

    A log per run, the cost per AI agent, and a documented rollback before go-live. That is the difference between a service and a demo.

Our commitments

Four commitments held on every engagement.

The scope is written before we start

And it does not change along the way without an amendment signed by you.

The AI agent stops and shows

Nothing is written into your tools or sent outside without your approval. The stopping point is in the specification.

What we produce belongs to you

Documents, code, documentation. You can carry on with another provider.

We tell you when the gain does not justify the project

A diagnostic that spares you a pointless project has paid for itself.

Price

Quoted, once the scope is framed.

We do not publish a rate because there is not one single rate: every scope is quoted once it is written down, and the quote is firm. Here are the three variables that move it, so you know which side you fall on.

Two ways to pay

Most chosen

The fixed price

A fixed price, agreed at signature. No variable share.

Payment schedule
50 %
on signature
50 %
on go-live

For you if you want a fixed budget and no surprises.

Shared risk

A reduced fixed share, and a share paid only if the agreed indicators move.

Payment schedule
40 %
on signature
20 %
on go-live
20 %
at three months, and only if the indicators move
20 %
at six months, and only if the indicators move

Solid: due whatever happens. Hatched: paid on results.

For you if you want us committed to the result, not to the delivery.

These are two standard schedules. Yours is set in the quote, at the same time as the scope, and it does not move afterwards without a signed amendment.

What moves the quote up or down

  1. How many processes are in scope

    One use case or five. This is the variable that weighs most, and you set it at framing.

  2. How many tools have to be connected

    An AI agent that reads a mailbox does not cost what an agent that writes into your ERP costs.

  3. The state of your data

    If the data is already clean and accessible, collecting it is quick. If not, it is half the work.

The quote is firm once the scope is written. No time and materials, no daily rate billing, no overrun without a signed amendment.

Once it is live

Your real volumes, not a sample.

Exceptions, duplicates, missing documents, month-end peaks: none of that shows up in a demo. All of it shows up the moment you open it. That is why we open it department by department.

Contact

A problem first. The tool after.

Describe a situation that costs you time. We will tell you honestly whether AI is the right answer.

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