Quoted in writing before any work starts. The One-Workflow Review the assessment runs on is $3,500 fixed fee, with a written readout within ten business days after required access. No retainer and no subscription is attached to the assessment. If the findings turn into a build, the payment schedule and any credit are agreed in writing before work starts.

What do we get, and what is not included?

A one-page map of the workflow, a findings memo with three ranked fixes, and a fixed build quote. You own all three. The assessment does not build the software, run your ads or staff the workflow: it tells you what to fix, in what order, at what price.

How long does it take?

Readout within ten business days after required access. The clock starts when we can see the systems, not when the contract is signed, and the start date is written down before work begins.

How is this different from the free AI Readiness Assessment?

The free readiness assessment is a 30-minute conversation that leaves you with a first step and a 90-day direction. The paid assessment walks one real workflow inside your systems, times the manual steps and puts the findings, the ranked fixes and a price in writing.

We already have an AI vendor. Why pay for an assessment?

So their quote is measured against your own numbers. A proposal starts with technology; the memo starts with the hours your team loses, the ranked fixes and a fixed price, so you can compare the two on paper instead of on slides.

What do you do with our data?

We work from what you show us during the assessment and what is already public about your business. Access is granted by you and revocable by you, and the map, the memo and the quote are delivered to you rather than held by us.

Who is accountable when a check fails?

Mike Rodgers. The build quote carries a written definition of correct: every acceptance check is named and signed before work starts. If a check fails, the work stays open until it passes, the failure is written into the record, and it is retested before anything is called done.

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PAID AI ASSESSMENT, ONE WORKFLOW

Paid AI Assessment: What Breaks, What It Costs, What to Fix First

Monday morning: somebody re-types last week's bookings out of one system and into another, and nobody can say what that hour costs you. Vendors answer with a $5,000 to $15,000 strategy sprint and a deck (Layer3 Labs, 2026). The moment changes with the trade: a law firm re-types the intake into the case system, a dental practice reconciles two booking calendars by hand, a contractor re-enters the approved quote as the invoice. It happens to firms with one busy workflow, no owner for it and no number on it. Rodgers Intelligence Group runs one paid assessment on that workflow and hands you the findings in writing, working remotely across the United States from Denver.

Book a 15-minute call about one workflow Start with the free AI Readiness Assessment

What it costs when it slips

The workaround works. That is why nobody has measured it.

The re-typing, the chasing and the spreadsheet all still get done, so the cost sits inside ordinary overhead where no line item ever names it.
It hides in one person: the coordinator who fixes the export, the bookkeeper who reconciles it, the front desk that phones when the system is wrong.
Every AI proposal you have seen starts with technology. None arrived with the number this workflow costs you or the order the fixes belong in.
You may already be paying for advice: strategy sprints run $5,000 to $15,000, with $15,000 to $50,000 for a first implementation (Layer3 Labs, 2026).

What changes

What lands in your hands

The workflow, written down

Every step, system and handoff on one page you can read without us, with the step that stalls marked.

The cost, in your own numbers

Hours per week times your loaded hourly cost times 52, worked on your figures so you can check the arithmetic.

Fixes in order

Three ranked fixes, each with what it takes to build it and which one goes first.

A price to fix it

A fixed quote, dated before work starts, naming the acceptance checks the work will be judged against.

What buyers pay today

The line item you already have.

Two routes exist today. A paid AI assessment: about two hours of work for $999, and roughly half of those buyers go on to a retainer between $1,200 and $1,800 a month (Vendasta, How to sell AI services, 2026). A strategy sprint: $5,000 to $15,000, with $15,000 to $50,000 for a first implementation and four to eight weeks to build (Layer3 Labs, 2026). Your own cost of the gap: the hours your team spends on the manual step each week x their loaded hourly cost x 52 weeks. Our assessment is quoted in writing before work starts, and the One-Workflow Review it runs on is published at $3,500.

The offer

The Paid AI Assessment

The Step Map. Outcome: you see every step, system and handoff the workflow uses today. Accepted when the one-page map is in your hands with the stalling step marked.
The Findings Memo. Outcome: the answer is in writing, not on a call. Accepted when the memo names three ranked fixes, each with what it takes to build it.
The Cost of the Gap. Outcome: you can defend the number. Accepted when the memo runs your own hours and rates through the formula and you can rerun it yourself.
The Build Quote. Outcome: a fixed price, dated before anything starts. Accepted when the quote names the scope, the dates, the price and every acceptance check the work is judged against.
The Written Rulebook. Outcome: correct is written down before anything is checked. Accepted when the acceptance checks in the quote carry Mike Rodgers's signature, and a check that fails keeps the work open until it passes.
One spine, named for the workflow it runs on. Outcome: the memo reads like your business, not a template. The Intake Assessment for a law firm (intake into the case system), the Client-Flow Assessment for a CPA firm (client documents into the ledger), the Booking Assessment for a dental practice (booking into the chair), the Quote-to-Invoice Assessment for a contractor (quote into the invoice). Accepted when the step map uses your trade's own words, and the components above do not change, only the workflow name does.
Ownership. Outcome: nothing locks you to us. Accepted when the map, the memo and the quote sit in your own documents and you can take them to any vendor.
Out of scope in writing: we do not run ads, we do not build the software during the assessment, and we do not promise savings we cannot show on your own numbers.

Quoted before work. The One-Workflow Review is $3,500 fixed fee, with a written readout within ten business days after required access.

One fixed project fee, quoted and dated before work starts. No retainer is required to get the findings.

How it works

Three steps, one owner.

Name the workflow

A 30-minute call: you name the workflow that costs you the most patience, we write down what it does today and what access we need. The call is not charged.

We assess it

We walk the path end to end inside the systems you already use, time the manual steps and write down the workarounds your team built to keep it moving.

Findings in writing

The step map, the memo with three ranked fixes and a dated fixed quote land in your hands. Readout within ten business days after required access.

See it work

A worked demonstration.

Sample findings memo line, placeholder names only. Workflow: booking intake. Manual step: four hours a week re-typing confirmations. Ranked fix: sync the two calendars first, then the reminders. Build quote: fixed, dated, with two acceptance checks named. No client, no result and no savings claimed.

Demonstration, not a client result

Checkable facts

What you can verify yourself.

Vendasta (2026) reports a paid AI assessment at about two hours of work for $999, with roughly half of those buyers moving on to retainers between $1,200 and $1,800 a month.
Layer3 Labs (2026) publishes strategy sprints at $5,000 to $15,000 and first implementations at $15,000 to $50,000 over four to eight weeks.
This page states its own price and scope in words and in machine-readable form, so any engine can quote the same numbers.

Straight answers

What this does and does not promise.

What does it cost?: Quoted in writing before any work starts. The One-Workflow Review the assessment runs on is $3,500 fixed fee, with a written readout within ten business days after required access. No retainer and no subscription is attached to the assessment. If the findings turn into a build, the payment schedule and any credit are agreed in writing before work starts.
What do we get, and what is not included?: A one-page map of the workflow, a findings memo with three ranked fixes, and a fixed build quote. You own all three. The assessment does not build the software, run your ads or staff the workflow: it tells you what to fix, in what order, at what price.
How long does it take?: Readout within ten business days after required access. The clock starts when we can see the systems, not when the contract is signed, and the start date is written down before work begins.
How is this different from the free AI Readiness Assessment?: The free readiness assessment is a 30-minute conversation that leaves you with a first step and a 90-day direction. The paid assessment walks one real workflow inside your systems, times the manual steps and puts the findings, the ranked fixes and a price in writing.
We already have an AI vendor. Why pay for an assessment?: So their quote is measured against your own numbers. A proposal starts with technology; the memo starts with the hours your team loses, the ranked fixes and a fixed price, so you can compare the two on paper instead of on slides.
What do you do with our data?: We work from what you show us during the assessment and what is already public about your business. Access is granted by you and revocable by you, and the map, the memo and the quote are delivered to you rather than held by us.
Who is accountable when a check fails?: Mike Rodgers. The build quote carries a written definition of correct: every acceptance check is named and signed before work starts. If a check fails, the work stays open until it passes, the failure is written into the record, and it is retested before anything is called done.

Mike Rodgers, founder of Rodgers Intelligence Group

By the way

Who builds it.

Built and run by Rodgers Intelligence Group, Denver. Mike Rodgers leads every build.

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