AI & Automation Discovery

Before you automate anything, let's work out what actually needs to change.

You know there are probably better ways to run parts of your business.

Maybe you're spending too much time on repetitive admin. Information lives in too many places. Processes have evolved as the business has grown. Your team has developed workarounds. Or you keep hearing about everything AI and automation can do, but you're not sure where it would genuinely make a difference in your business.

That's where I come in. My 90-minute Discovery Session is a deep dive into how your business works today — so we can uncover where AI, automation and better systems could save time, reduce friction and help your business run better.

No generic list of AI tools. No automating for the sake of automating.

Just your business, how it works and where the real opportunities are.

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Starts with the free audit — booking and pricing at the end.

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You don't need to know what you need.

In fact, that's the point.

You might know something isn't working quite as well as it could, without knowing why. Perhaps:

  • Too much still relies on you.
  • You're doing the same tasks over and over again.
  • Your team is copying information between different systems.
  • Things get forgotten unless somebody remembers to follow them up.
  • You're paying for technology you aren't using properly.
  • Customers or enquiries move through inconsistent processes.
  • You're curious about AI but don't know where it belongs in your business.
  • You've got lots of ideas for automations but don't know which are actually worth building.

You don't need to arrive with the solution.

We'll find the opportunities together.

My approach

BOSS

I don't start with technology. I start with your business.

It's the framework I use when helping businesses introduce AI, automation and better systems.

B

Brain

First, understand the business.

Your goals. Your customers. Your offers. Your knowledge. Your tools. Your people. What's important to you and how you want the business to work.

O

Observe

Then look at what actually happens.

The processes. The repetitive work. The bottlenecks. The handoffs. The workarounds. Where information moves. Where things get stuck.

S

Systemise

Comes later — once we know what's worth building.

S

Scale

And eventually, once the foundations hold.

Your Discovery Session focuses on those crucial first two stages:

Brain + Observe

Because before we decide what to build, automate or change, we need to understand what we're actually trying to improve.

Before our session

Complete my free Business AI & Automation Audit

Before we meet, you'll complete my free audit.

This gets you thinking about your business before we even get on the call — where your time goes, what's repetitive, where things feel clunky and what technology you're already using.

It also gives me context before our session. I'll review your responses in advance so we don't waste the first 30 minutes going through the basics.

Instead, we can get straight into the interesting stuff.

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What the audit covers

  • Where your time actually goes
  • What you're repeating week after week
  • Where things feel clunky or get stuck
  • The technology you're already paying for

Session details, pricing and booking come at the end of the audit.

The session

What happens during the 90 minutes?

This isn't a presentation and it isn't a sales call.

It's a working session.

I'll ask questions. Lots of them.

You'll walk me through your business and the areas that aren't working as well as you'd like.

Depending on what we uncover, we might map a customer journey, follow information through your systems, unpack a particularly time-consuming process or look at how work moves between different people in your team.

We'll explore questions like:

Where is your time actually going?

What are you doing repeatedly?

Where are you entering the same information more than once?

What relies on somebody remembering to do something?

Where are your customers waiting unnecessarily?

What could AI help with?

What could be automated?

What could simply be removed?

And importantly:

What should stay human?

You'll get observations and ideas from me throughout the session.

But I won't rush to give you a polished solution while we're still uncovering the problem.

After the call

Then I go away and do the thinking.

The call is only one part of Discovery. After our session, I'll take your audit responses, everything we've discussed and the processes we've explored and analyse the bigger picture.

I'll look for connections, opportunities and priorities that aren't always obvious while you're in the middle of running the business.

You'll receive your personalised

BOSS Discovery Report

Your report brings together what we've uncovered and turns it into clear, practical recommendations. It will include:

  • What I heard The key challenges, goals and context I've understood about your business.
  • Current state How the areas we've explored currently work.
  • Friction & bottlenecks Where time, effort or information is being lost.
  • AI opportunities Where AI could genuinely support you or your team.
  • Automation opportunities Tasks, handoffs or workflows that could potentially happen automatically.
  • Keep it human Areas where I wouldn't recommend introducing AI or automation.
  • Quick wins Changes you could potentially make relatively easily.
  • Bigger opportunities Areas that may require more substantial redesign or implementation.
  • Priorities What I believe is worth tackling first — and what can wait.
  • Recommended next steps A practical route forward.

You'll receive your report within 3 working days of our session.

Why it matters

Why is Discovery valuable?

Because the expensive mistake isn't usually failing to automate something.

It's automating the wrong thing.

Businesses can spend thousands implementing new software, building automations or adding AI without first asking whether the underlying process actually makes sense.

Sometimes the answer isn't an automation. Sometimes it's:

  • Removing a step.
  • Changing a process.
  • Using something you already pay for properly.
  • Connecting two existing systems.
  • Creating better information.
  • Or deciding that a particular interaction is valuable precisely because a human does it.

Discovery gives us the space to work that out before you invest in building anything.

The outcome

You'll leave with clarity — not another list of tools.

By the end of Discovery, you'll understand:

  • What's creating unnecessary work in your business
  • Where your biggest opportunities are
  • Where AI could genuinely help
  • What could be automated
  • What should remain human
  • What you could improve yourself
  • What may need a more substantial solution
  • What I'd prioritise first

And you'll have a written report you can come back to — rather than a notebook full of ideas from a call.

Afterwards

What happens next?

That depends on what we uncover.

You may discover there are several things you can change yourself straight away.

You might take the report to your team or an existing technology provider.

Or you might decide you'd like me to help you implement the recommendations. If that's the case, we can move into the next stage of BOSS:

S

Systemise

This is where we take the right opportunities and turn them into better processes, AI workflows, automations or systems.

If there's something I think I can help you build, I'll explain what I'd recommend and what working together could look like.

But there is no obligation to continue working with me.

Discovery is a standalone consulting product.

The report is yours.

Investment

90-minute BOSS Discovery

Your Discovery includes:

  • Pre-session Business AI & Automation Audit
  • My review of your audit before we meet
  • 90-minute 1:1 Discovery Session
  • BRAIN + OBSERVE analysis
  • Identification of AI, automation and systems opportunities
  • Personalised BOSS Discovery Report
  • Prioritised recommendations and next steps
  • Report delivered within 3 working days

Free audit first

Session details, pricing and booking at the end of the audit.

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What clients say

A fresh pair of eyes

"Marni identified a real business problem and used AI to build a tool that presents data to users in a way they can quickly and effectively understand."

"Marni blew me out of the water with her tips. I came in curious and left completely rethinking how I run my business."

"These tips are life-changing for me and will give me back hours and hours of time. I can't believe I've been doing this manually."

FAQ

Questions

No. You don't need to know what tools you need, what's possible or even exactly what needs fixing. That's what Discovery is designed to uncover.

No. This is a paid consulting session with a standalone deliverable. If you want me to help implement something afterwards, we can discuss that separately.

Yes. Your audit gives me important context before we meet and means we can use our 90 minutes for deeper Discovery rather than gathering basic information.

Absolutely. I'll share observations, challenge things and point out opportunities as we go. But I don't want to rush into recommendations before I've properly understood the problem. Your final prioritised recommendations come in your Discovery Report, after I've had time to analyse everything we've discussed.

No. Discovery is about deciding what is worth building before we build it. If we identify an obvious quick win, I'll tell you. But the purpose of this session isn't to start connecting software together on the call.

That's completely fine. Your audit will help us identify where the biggest opportunities might be, and we'll decide where to focus together.

Yes. If someone in your team is closely involved in the process we're exploring, having them there can be extremely valuable.

Discovery works best for established businesses that already have real processes to examine — enquiries, customers, marketing, delivery, administration, operations, finance or team workflows.

You don't need to be a huge business. You just need to have enough happening that you're starting to think: there has to be a better way of doing some of this.

Before you buy another tool, build another automation or ask AI to fix the problem…

Let's work out what the problem actually is.

90 minutes to understand your business.

A fresh pair of eyes on how you work.

A clear, prioritised plan for what to do next.

Book your BOSS Discovery

Starts with the free audit — booking and pricing at the end.