How accurate are these figures?
The figures are indicative. They are modelled from the headcount, salary, and process inputs you provide, using a conservative automation-efficiency assumption. They do not account for implementation complexity, sector-specific constraints, or tool costs. A Dousatsu AI Opportunity Audit produces validated projections specific to your business, delivered in 5 working days.
What is an AI Opportunity Audit?
An AI Opportunity Audit — a structured assessment for organisations at the start of their AI journey. It maps your business processes, identifies where AI creates genuine value, flags governance and Shadow AI risks, and produces a prioritised roadmap and a board-ready summary. Shadow AI — AI tools used by staff without organisational visibility, policy, or oversight — is identified as part of the audit.
How long does an AI Opportunity Audit take?
Dousatsu delivers an AI Opportunity Audit within 5 working days of the discovery session. You receive a business process map, sector-specific tool recommendations, a risk and compliance overview, a prioritised roadmap, and a board-ready summary.
What does an AI Opportunity Audit cost?
The AI Opportunity Audit is from £995 + VAT. Scope depends on your organisation's size and process complexity, confirmed on a no-charge 30-minute discovery call. The audit is delivered within 5 working days. Governance services are separately priced — a Dousatsu Shadow AI Audit, for example, is from £2,500 + VAT for UK SMEs.
Which businesses benefit most from AI automation?
Organisations with significant repetitive, rules-based workload — document handling, data entry, reporting — and processes that are at least partly documented benefit most. UK SMEs in professional services, financial services, and property are typical. The benefit depends on process maturity and staff readiness, both of which an AI Opportunity Audit assesses directly. For firms with EU market exposure, documented AI literacy training also satisfies EU AI Act Article 4, in force since 2 February 2025 under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689; UK-only firms are governed instead by UK GDPR and their own regulator's expectations.
Written by Chris Hampson, founder of Dousatsu. Delivered through DIOS, Dousatsu's five-plane AI governance framework.