The useful output of an AI audit is not a maturity score. It is a ranked list of workflows, the controls each would need and a clear answer on what to do first.
Clerq's two-week Diagnostic is exactly that: an AI readiness assessment for founder-led UK businesses with £1m to £20m revenue, priced from £2,500 and delivered as a document you keep.
From £2,500. No obligation to use Clerq for a later build.
The labels vary, but the buyer's question does not: where would AI genuinely help this business, can our data and systems support it, what controls would keep it safe, and what should we do first? A good audit answers all four with evidence from your own workflows. A weak one returns a generic maturity score and a recommendation to run a workshop. If the document could have been written without looking at your business, it was not an audit.
Whoever you commission, the review should produce evidence on each of these. This is the standard the Clerq Diagnostic is built to.
The Clerq Diagnostic delivers the audit as a decision pack. Each deliverable maps directly onto what buyers ask an AI audit to produce.
The audit's scope, made concrete: the relevant work, systems, hand-offs, owners, volumes and recurring exceptions documented in one view.
The readiness evidence: available data on time, delay, error, control exposure or decision friction, with assumptions stated where measurement is incomplete.
The audit's ranking: opportunities ordered by value, feasibility, risk, dependency and the strength of the available evidence.
The governance layer: required human review, ownership, access boundaries, exception routes and acceptance criteria for viable changes.
The audit's conclusion: the simplest suitable approach for each priority, including fixed-price Clerq build recommendations where a build is justified.
The findings presented: a 60-minute management walkthrough of the evidence, recommendations, dependencies and proposed next steps.
Pricing is published rather than revealed at proposal stage. The audit is a standalone engagement: you keep the full written roadmap and can implement it internally, take it to another builder or ask Clerq to quote for the work it recommends.
An audit is only worth the fee when the operating question is real. These are the situations where the Clerq Diagnostic is not a good fit, and a paid review from anyone else probably is not either.
How to pick the first workflow when everything looks like a candidate.
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