AI audit and readiness assessment:
know where AI is worth it.
We assess your processes, data, and risk, then hand you a roadmap: what to start, what to skip, what to watch. A decision you can act on, not a sales pitch.
What we do.
We turn a vague 'we should do something with AI' into a prioritized, risk-weighted plan your team can execute.
An engagement runs through an AI-readiness assessment of your processes, data, and security posture; use-case discovery and prioritization scored on value, risk, and effort; build-versus-buy calls for each candidate; and EU AI Act risk classification where it applies.
The output is a sequenced roadmap with a clear go / no-go per initiative: the document you take into a board meeting and then hand to whoever executes it, including your own team.
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Quoted after a short scoping call.
The audit is a fixed-scope engagement, quoted after a short scoping call, so you know the price and the deliverables before it starts. No open-ended day rate.
What moves the quote
- How many processes and candidate use cases we assess
- The depth of the data- and security-readiness review
- Whether EU AI Act risk classification is in scope
- How many stakeholders we interview to ground the roadmap
What you walk away with.
- A prioritized use-case register, scored on value × risk × effort
- A risk register, including EU AI Act classification where relevant
- Data- and security-readiness findings
- Build-vs-buy recommendations per candidate use case
- A sequenced roadmap with go / no-go per initiative
- A board-ready recommendation
Who it's for.
Organizations with a budget and a sponsor who need a decision they can defend, not a generic deck. Horizontal: any sector, any size, anywhere.
Especially valuable after a stalled internal pilot, or when a board mandate ('we need an AI strategy') needs to become a concrete, sequenced plan.
Decided already? Skip to the brief.
Tell us where you are and we will come back with a scoped plan, not a sales deck.
How this makes you autonomous.
The roadmap is yours to execute with anyone, including your own engineers. We write it to be vendor-portable: no dependency on SDEN for the next phase is baked in.
If you then want help building, that's the Build & Run offer, but it's your call, made with full information, not because the audit locked you in.
The proof.
The scoping discipline behind the audit is the same one that opens every SDEN build: an architecture, a risk register, and a recommendation we stand behind.
We've made these calls on our own production AI and on client systems. The judgment in the roadmap comes from operating AI, not from reading about it.
Proof from real engagements.
B2B SaaS demand generation
Arrival-order prospecting gave way to ranked, explained leads for a B2B SaaS team once Lead Manager's predictive scoring landed, and reps booked 2.4× as many meetings per hour.
2.4×
more meetings booked per hour
Residential brokerage / valuations
Days of manual comparative market analysis became explainable estimate ranges at a residential brokerage, once Real Estate's AI-assisted valuation went in, cutting the time spent on each valuation by 70%.
70%
less time per valuation
What changes with
a real engineering partner.
Organizations that wanted software worthy of their ambition, and a partner that delivers what it says.
“SDEN took over a project that had gone off the rails, laid down a sound architecture, and shipped to production what others had been promising us for a year. The engineering is the real thing.”
“A partner that says no when it needs to and ships what it promises. The code is clean, documented, and holds up under load. That's rare.”
“From architecture to deployment, everything was scoped and delivered. SDEN worked like a genuine in-house engineering team, not like a vendor.”
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How we deliver this
Every engagement is scoped, built with evals and guardrails, then handed over to your team.
Questions about this offer.
Direct answers to the questions we get asked the most. If yours isn't covered, write to the team.
Not sure where AI fits?
We assess where AI is worth it for you, classify the risk, and hand you a roadmap you can act on.