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title: '5 Signs Your Business Is Ready for AI'
date: '07/10/2026 09:00'
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Most small and mid-sized businesses don't need a moonshot AI project — they need the two or three processes eating the most staff time fixed first. Here's how we tell if a client is actually ready to start.

## 1. You have data, even if it's messy

You don't need a perfect warehouse. Spreadsheets, a CRM export, and a shared drive full of PDFs are enough to start — as long as the data actually exists somewhere and someone can point to it.

## 2. The same manual task keeps coming up

If your team is re-typing the same information into two systems, manually sorting inbound leads, or hand-writing the same kind of report every month, that's usually the highest-ROI place to start.

## 3. Leadership is willing to change the process, not just add a tool

AI works best when it's allowed to change how a workflow runs — not just get bolted onto the existing one. If there's appetite to actually adjust a process, results come faster.

## 4. You can name a metric that matters

"Faster" and "smarter" aren't goals. Fewer hours spent on invoice matching, faster response time to new leads, or fewer data-entry errors are goals we can build toward and measure.

## 5. You're fine starting small

The businesses that get the most value are the ones willing to pilot on one workflow first, rather than trying to transform everything at once.

If two or more of these sound like where you're at, that's usually enough to have a productive first conversation. We offer 10 free consulting hours to figure out exactly where AI would help most in your business — no pressure, no sales pitch.
