Discovery and Roadmap

What is not using AI costing you?

Discovery puts a dollar figure on the work your team is doing by hand.

Takes about three minutes.

You already know what you want

Take on more work without adding headcount.

Your senior people back on the work clients pay for.

One set of numbers instead of rebuilding the same report by hand every month.

Return on the AI you already pay for.

To stop being the bottleneck.

What you do not have is a number.

Illustration of work piling up faster than it can be cleared

You have already tried the obvious things

You hired. Four months later, the new person joined the same chain.

You bought software. Now there is one more place to type.

You worked nights and weekends. That bought one season.

You bought AI seats. Nobody built them into the work.

Each of those adds capacity to a chain that needs a person to carry information from one step to the next. Information does not move through your business on its own. People move it. Until that changes, every fix is one more person or one more system.

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Nobody has put a number on the manual work

Every owner we meet knows the manual work is expensive. Almost none can say what it costs.

You cannot make a decision about a cost you have never measured.

So we start with a count. Every recurring task that eats time, with the hours and the dollars beside it.

Once the tasks have numbers, the list ranks itself.

Illustration of totalling the hours and cost of recurring manual work

Why Inkyma

Audrey Kerchner

We help business owners cut through the noise and see what AI can do for them. The best part of this work is watching a team realize they do not have to keep fighting outdated processes. That shift, from uncertainty to confidence, is why we do this.

We ran this on our own company first. We cut Inkyma's expenses by 40% and grew 25% in a year without adding headcount. USA Today covered the story.

We talk to your team, not just to you. At a recent engineering client we interviewed 20 people before writing a single recommendation. The people doing the work already know where the problems are. Usually nobody has asked them.

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What happens in four to six weeks

We talk to your people

We interview the people doing the work, not just leadership. We inventory every system you run and every handoff between them.

We put a number on every task

Every recurring task gets written down: the hours, the frequency, and the cost in staff time.

We build the roadmap with you

We put the list in order by return. You decide what matters. We tell you what each fix takes and what it costs to build.

What you walk out with:

A spreadsheet of every task eating your team's time, with hours and dollars on each line.

A ranked roadmap: what to fix first, second, third, and why.

A fixed price to build the top item.

Yours to keep, whether you hire us to build or not.

How this works

Two ways in. We decide which one on the call.

Single Process Discovery. You already know which process is the problem. We go deep on that one, document how it runs today, and price the fix. Starts at $2,500, credited toward the build if you move forward within 90 days.

Company-Wide Discovery. Every department, every system, every handoff. Scoped on the call, because a 25 person shop and a 90 person shop are different amounts of work.

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FAQs

Are you going to tell me to lay people off?

No. If that is the goal, we are the wrong fit. This work gives capacity back to the people you already have.

Do we have to replace our software?

No. Your processes stay, your software stays, and your people keep doing their jobs the way they know how. No migration, no company-wide retraining.

We are slammed right now. Can we do this later?

You can, and most people do, which is why the list gets longer. Discovery costs your team a few hours of interviews across four to six weeks. The work keeps moving the entire time.

What if AI gets something wrong? We do regulated work.

Then we design for that. Some tasks need a person checking the output, and Discovery decides which ones. Our founder spent thirteen years in pharma marketing where every claim had to survive review.

We bought an AI tool last year and nobody used it. How is this different?

A seat license does not know your process. What we build follows how your work actually flows, gets tested with the people who use it, and is documented so it survives someone leaving.

What if we do the Discovery and decide not to build anything?

You keep the spreadsheet and the roadmap. Yours either way.

Who from our team do you need?

The people doing the work, for about 30 to 45 minutes each. Leadership for the kickoff and the roadmap meeting.

Do we own what gets built?

Yes. Accounts, infrastructure, and code are set up in your name and under your billing. Custom built, not a subscription somebody can reprice or shut off.

Share Your Bottleneck

Takes about three minutes.

Tell us what is wearing your team down. If it is a problem we can solve, you get a booking link within a day. If it is not, we will point you somewhere better.

Single Process Discovery starts at $2,500. Company-Wide Discovery is scoped on the call. Most of the companies we work with are doing $2M to $25M.

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