AI Automation Opportunity Scanner
Most businesses know something should be automated but not what. This scores the opportunity across six business functions and ranks what to tackle first — including telling you when the answer is nothing.
How do you identify which processes are worth automating?
A process is worth automating when four things are true at once: the volume is high enough that the time adds up, the rules are consistent enough to be encoded, the data needed to make the decision is reachable from a system rather than someone's memory, and the process is stable enough that it will still exist in two years. Volume alone is not enough — a high-volume process with inconsistent rules will produce a system nobody trusts. This scanner scores your answers against those four dimensions across support, calls, sales, operations, documents and ecommerce, and ranks the result.
Methodology
How this is calculated
Published in full, so you can disagree with it. A tool that hides its model is a lead form.
- Fifteen questions are scored across six categories. Each answer carries a 0–1 opportunity score and each question carries a weight reflecting how strongly it predicts a successful deployment.
- Category scores are the weighted average of their questions. The overall score is the weighted average of categories, with system readiness and customer support weighted highest — readiness because it decides cost, support because it is the most common first win.
- The priority list is the individual answers indicating the strongest opportunity, ranked. It is deliberately capped at six so it stays actionable.
- The bands are set conservatively. A "low opportunity" result is a real result, not a prompt to book a call.
Assumptions and limits
- Self-reported answers. Where you are unsure — particularly about system access and repetitive share — the real figures may change the picture materially.
- The scanner scores opportunity, not readiness to deliver. A high score with poor system access still means a longer, more expensive project.
- Weightings come from our own delivery experience, not from an industry standard. They are published above so you can disagree with them.
FAQ
Questions about this tool
Turn the number into a plan.
Send us the workflow behind your result. We will come back with how we would automate it, what stays human, and what it takes to build.