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AI audit for business: what you get for €0 and for €600
Short answer
The free process analysis takes 30 minutes and ends with a written plan within 2 working days. The Audit costs from €600 net, takes 5 working days and gives you a process map, the architecture, the risks, acceptance criteria and a fixed price for the build. If Syntalith builds the system, we credit the Audit fee towards the rollout. The document stays with you.
How we workDetails ↓
- 01Call30 minutes with an engineer, free
- 02PrototypeA working system on your process and data, free
- 03ImplementationTarget and fixed price in the contract; 50% at signing
- 04Acceptance50% once the agreed target is met
- analysis with an engineer and a free prototype
- €0
- team in ChatGPT or Claude, up to 10 people
- from €1,150
- automation, agent or application for one process
- from €3,000
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Author: Syntalith · 3 min read
Statistics
AI projects in companies: statistics 2026
€600
net for the Audit, credited towards the build. That is about 3% to 20% of the price of the system it helps you price.
40%
According to Gartner (2025), over 40% of AI agent projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027 because of costs, unclear value or weak risk control.
50%
According to the European Commission (2026), half of EU SMEs and mid-caps name high investment costs as a barrier to AI.
Source: European Commission, Flash Eurobarometer 578 (2026) ↗
70.9%
According to Eurostat (2025), 70.9% of EU enterprises that considered AI and did not use it named a lack of relevant expertise.
52.5%
According to Eurostat (2025), 52.5% of EU enterprises that considered AI and did not use it named a lack of clarity about the legal consequences.
Figures checked: 22 October 2026
Two paths to a decision
The free analysis gives a short assessment of one problem. The Audit serves a bigger decision: it describes the process, the scope of the system, the data, the risks, the way of checking the result and a fixed price for the build.
Free process analysis
30 min, written plan within 2 working days
€0
Whether this process is worth testing and what information to gather.
Audit
5 working days
from €600
What exactly to build, how to check the result and how to compare proposals. Credited towards the build.
Staged analysis
in stages
from €600 a stage
A complex scope split into parts, each ending with a document.
System build
2–16 weeks
€3,000–17,500
An automation, an app or an agent, with a fixed price and acceptance on a test set.
The analysis is the first step on both paths. There is no obligation to order a build.
What the free analysis gives you
The analysis is 30 minutes with an engineer who asks about one process: who does the work, how many cases there are, where the data is, what happens on an error and which result would be useful. You need no presentation and no process map. One person who knows the work from the inside and a few example cases are enough.
- The process worth starting with
- The first version of the scope and the steps that stay with a person
- The systems and data needed for the test
- An indicative cost and the next step
- The situation in which a simpler tool or no build is the better decision
What the AI audit contains
The Audit is a document for the person who approves the budget, the process owner and the delivery team. It is written on real data and real agreements.
- 01Process mapToday's flow, the people doing the work, inputs, exceptions and systems.
- 02Goal and measureHow you will know it improved.
- 03Scope of the first versionAutomatic steps and the points where a person approves.
- 04Data and permissionsSources, access, storage and deletion.
- 05ArchitectureConnections to the company's systems.
- 06RisksQuality, security, law and responsibility.
- 07Trial and acceptance planAcceptance criteria and the order of work.
- 08Fixed priceThe price of the build or a recommendation of a simpler route.
The document stays with you. You can compare proposals against it, hand it to another supplier or carry out the plan yourself.
What an AI audit costs compared with the build
The Audit costs from €600 net. Building an automation, an app or an agent costs €3,000 to €17,500 net. So the Audit is about 3% to 20% of the price of the system it helps you price. If we build the system, we credit the fee towards the rollout.
When to order an Audit, and when the analysis is enough
One clear process with an owner and known data
the analysis and a direct proposal
€0
Several processes compete for the budget
Audit
from €600
The decision has to be justified to the board, finance or IT
Audit
from €600
The process joins data from several systems or touches personal data
Audit
from €600
You want to compare suppliers on the same scope
Audit
from €600
The analysis or the Audit may also show that a build is the wrong purchase for now: the process is one-off, the volume is small, the rules are not written down or nobody will answer for the system. Then the recommendation is to put the procedure in order, use a form or buy an off-the-shelf tool.
How we count whether a build makes sense
The starting point is the cost of today's work. We count it in full: volume times minutes times the cost of an hour, and after the change, the time a person spends checking, the model, maintenance and exception handling. An example of such a count is in the guide how much an AI agent costs.
Before the call, choose one process and prepare three numbers: the number of cases a month, the time of one case and the cost of an error. The scope of the paid analysis is described on the AI process audit page, and the AI implementation brief makes it easier to ask several suppliers.
Worked example · Scenario
How we count the payback: coding cost invoices
This count, worked out on your process, is part of the Audit and of the free analysis.
€1,745
a month for coding 1,000 cost invoices by hand
Payback: 2 mo.
3 minutes per invoice and checking in 15% of the old time are our assumptions. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat, for companies with 10 or more employees. We measured the model cost of €0.004 per invoice in our invoice coding system, converted at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026.
See the full calculation →
