The offer · Readiness Sprint

    AI Readiness Assessment: Find The First Job Worth Handing To AI

    In 2 weeks we rank the jobs AI can take in your firm, check your data and access, and set the rules on who can do what. You leave knowing what to build first.

    Get your free AI planWhat It Costs ↓
    1. 01 · Readiness Sprintfrom £3,500
    2. 02 · Buildfrom £15,0004 to 8 weeks, fixed price
    3. 03 · Scalefrom £3,000 a monthNo minimums. Cancel anytime.

    Every job AI could take in your firm, ranked.

    The Figure

    71%Name a lack of identified need

    71% of UK businesses name a lack of identified need as a barrier to adopting AI. It's the most common barrier in the government's survey of UK businesses, run from February to May 2025. An AI readiness assessment writes that need down as a ranked list of jobs.

    Source: AI Adoption Research, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

    How It Changes

    What Changes In 2 Weeks

    You leave knowing which job to build first, with its data checked and the rules written.
    1. 01

      TodayNo agreed first job

      Every team has an idea, nobody has ranked them, and nothing gets built.

      Jobs ranked

      We list the jobs AI could take in your firm and rank them, so the first build is the one worth doing.

    2. 02

      TodayData that isn't ready

      The job everyone wants needs numbers spread across several systems and a spreadsheet.

      A data and access check

      For the top jobs, we check where the data lives, who can reach it and what has to change before an agent can use it.

    3. 03

      TodayNo rules

      Nobody has decided what data AI may see or who approves what it does, so the safe answer is to wait.

      Rules on who can do what

      A short written policy covers what AI may see, what a person must approve and what gets logged.

    4. 04

      TodaySeats that don't do real work

      The firm pays for Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot, and people use it to tidy emails.

      A platform choice

      We recommend which of the AI seats you already pay for should run the first job.

    5. 05

      A leadership session

      Your leadership team sees the ranked list and picks the first build.

    Proof

    About 90% Of Orders In Known Formats Processed Straight Through

    Dataflos runs its own firm on agents built this way. Our March 2026 case study reported that the order processing agent we built for a UK greeting card and stationery wholesaler processed about 90% of orders in known formats straight through (the case study).

    What It Costs

    The readiness sprint takes 2 weeks at a fixed price, from £3,500. If you go on to build, a build is from £15,000 in 4 to 8 weeks, and Scale runs it from £3,000 a month.

    1. 01 · Readiness Sprintfrom£3,500
      • The jobs AI can take in your firm, ranked
      • Your data and access checked
      • The rules on who can do what
    2. 02 · Buildfrom£15,0004 to 8 weeks, fixed price
      • 1 agent on the first job
      • Your knowledge in files you own
      • Your team trained, and the rules in writing
    3. 03 · Scalefrom£3,000a month. No minimums. Cancel anytime.
      • Monitoring, with a log of what the agent did
      • Model and platform changes handled
      • A new skill or agent each month

    For comparison, a UK data contractor costs £490 to £575 a day.Source: ITJobsWatch, YunoJuno and Dataflos Contract Radar, read 22 September 2026.

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    Frequently Asked Questions

    Paying for AI that isn't doing real work yet?

    In a free 30 minute call we talk through the first job you could hand to AI and what it would take to build.

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