Automation that pays for itself.
Most companies have 5–10 processes silently burning money every week. We find them, scope the AI fix, and deploy it — usually in under 6 weeks per automation.
Audit-then-build ROI measured from day one Production, not prototypes
What "AI automation consulting" really delivers
Automation consulting without AI is just mapping processes. Automation consulting with AI is identifying where judgment — not just rules — is currently done by humans at high cost, and handing that judgment to a model.
Examples: invoice line-item extraction, customer email classification, quote generation from RFP PDFs, renewal anomaly detection. All things that used to require a human reading unstructured input.
We audit, score by cost, and ship the top 1–3 automations per engagement.
Our automation consulting process
Cost-mapping audit
Map current manual processes by hours and cost. Score AI viability.
Shortlist & scope
Pick the top 1–3 by ROI. Write a tight scope and success metric for each.
Build & deploy
Ship into production in 4–6 week sprints per automation.
Operate & retune
Monthly retainer for monitoring, retraining, and next-wave scoping.
Ideal if you have
Good fit
- €10K+/month of manual operational work
- Repetitive unstructured input (emails, PDFs, messages) processed by humans
- Capacity for one stakeholder to co-design with us for 2 weeks
Not a good fit
- Purely rule-based automation (Zapier/n8n alone may suffice)
- No stomach for change management with the affected team
Questions we hear all the time
How do you measure ROI?
We calculate hours saved × fully-loaded cost per hour, net of our fees, over 12 months. That's the number we commit to beating.
Do you replace people?
We redeploy people. Typically the team whose work we automate moves onto higher-value tasks (vendor negotiations, customer success, strategic analysis). We don't do layoffs consulting.
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Let's see if we're the right fit.
30-minute call. We'll tell you honestly whether we can help — or if someone else is a better fit.
Or email us at contact@unlockmanagement.com