Know exactly where
you stand with AI.

Fixed-fee, AI-powered diagnostics that tell you exactly where your stack is — and isn't — ready for what's next. Built from the ground up by practitioners who use AI to deliver, not just to talk about it.

Investment From $12,000
Delivery 10 business days
Engagement Fixed-fee. No retainers.
Built for $10M–$200M operators

"Your board has been asking. Your competitors are claiming. Your vendors are pitching. We give you the answer."

AI-first by design

Most consulting firms are adding AI to a 20-year-old workflow.
We built the workflow around AI from day one.

01

Architected, not retrofitted

The intake form, synthesis engine, and report pipeline were designed end-to-end around Claude AI. Not bolted on. Not a plugin. Not a marketing claim.

02

By practitioners who ship

Led by a Salesforce-certified architect with ten years of enterprise consulting — using AI in production every day, not lecturing about it from the sidelines.

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Why this matters for you

One-fifth the cost. One-tenth the timeline. Same caliber of judgment. We pass the leverage on to you instead of staffing it with associates.

AI is a growth lever.
Not a layoff plan.

Every audit we write starts from the same position: the goal is to 10x what your team can do — not to eliminate the team that does it. The companies who win the next decade are the ones whose AI strategy makes their best people more powerful. Not the ones who tried to replace them.

i.

Growth, not headcount reduction.

AI should expand what your business can do — not contract the people who do it. The math on layoffs looks tidy for one quarter. The institutional knowledge you lose costs you for a decade.

ii.

Some things AI shouldn't touch.

Culture. Oversight. Tribal knowledge. Mentorship. The judgment built across twenty years of customer conversations. We name these explicitly in every audit — and route AI investment around them, not through them.

iii.

Executive alignment is non-negotiable.

This stance can't be a memo from HR. It has to be a stated position from the CEO and COO on day one of every initiative. Without it, the savings argument quietly wins by default. We give you the language for that conversation.

Cut waste. Grow capacity. In that order — and never in reverse. The audit surfaces real misallocated spend. But the prize isn't the savings. The prize is the growth those savings buy you when you reinvest them into people, products, and reach.

An AI strategy your board can actually read.

Most mid-market companies are being asked to have an "AI strategy" without the data, infrastructure, or framework to evaluate one. The AI Readiness Audit is a structured, fixed-scope engagement that produces the board-ready answer — in ten business days, for a fixed fee.

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AI Readiness Audit

A structured assessment that tells your board exactly where your technology stack is — and isn't — ready to adopt AI, what the prerequisites are, and a prioritized roadmap for moving forward. Built specifically for companies between $10M and $200M in revenue.

  • Executive AI Readiness Score across five dimensions — data, security, infrastructure, vendor, and organizational readiness.
  • Current-state assessment with gap analysis, capturing what is actually true about your stack today.
  • Prioritized opportunity roadmap with effort vs. impact ranking — what to do first, what to defer, what to ignore.
  • Vendor evaluation framework calibrated to your specific business problems, not to AI hype cycles.
  • Board-ready executive summary written in business language — usable on its own as a board document.
Begin an engagement

Three layers. Built for the operator's time.

We respect that your hours are not ours to spend. Every engagement follows the same rigorous, minimally-invasive process — designed to extract maximum signal with the minimum imposition on your team.

i.

Guided Intake

A 30-question intake form with conditional logic, completed by your team in 45–60 minutes. Writes directly to our secured system. Auto-synthesized by Claude into a preliminary assessment before we speak.

Your team · 45–60 min
ii.

Discovery Sessions

One to two working sessions — about an hour each — with our Salesforce-certified architect. We arrive with the preliminary assessment and a targeted gap list. You feel the preparation from minute one.

1–2 sessions · ~60 min each
iii.

Executive Deliverable

Claude drafts. The architect edits, validates, and signs. You receive a board-ready report with a scored assessment, prioritized roadmap, and a clear next-action framework.

Ships · 5–14 business days

The 2-minute AI Readiness Check.

Six diagnostic questions, no signup required. Get a directional readiness score across five dimensions — the same dimensions our full audit scores against. A useful starting point before you spend a dollar.

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A note on this score

This is a directional signal, not a diagnosis. Our full AI Readiness Audit scores you across 30+ inputs spanning data infrastructure, security posture, integration architecture, organizational fluency, and vendor risk — with prioritized remediation.

Signals it's time for the audit.

Most mid-market companies don't need another consultant. They need a structured diagnosis of the AI question before they spend any more time evaluating vendors. If two or more of these are true today, the audit is for you.

See the deliverable before you commit.

Every audit ships as a single executive document — board-ready, signed by a Salesforce-certified architect. Below is a redacted excerpt from a recent engagement. Request the full sample for the complete artifact.

Built for the operator who has 12 minutes.

Twenty pages, including a one-page executive summary that stands on its own as a board document. A scored readiness assessment across five dimensions. A prioritized roadmap framed in business terms — effort, impact, and sequence.

No technical jargon. No vendor logos. No "transformation journey" diagrams. A clear, defensible written answer to the question your board is asking.

Request the full sample
  • — Executive summary · 1 page
  • — Readiness score across five dimensions
  • — Current-state gap analysis
  • — Prioritized opportunity roadmap
  • — Vendor evaluation framework
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AI Readiness Audit · 2026 CONFIDENTIAL

Meridian Holdings — Executive Readiness Summary

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Data
52
Sec
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Infra
38
Vendor
59
Org
Prioritized Opportunities
CRM cleanup
Doc OCR pilot
Vendor consol.
SSO rollout

What's a quarter of unclear AI strategy costing you?

Most mid-market companies spend more on poorly-evaluated AI vendors and misallocated technology budget every quarter than the audit costs once. A directional estimate based on your scale.

$50M
4%
22%

Industry benchmark for mid-market: 20–40% of SaaS spend is redundant, unused, or sub-optimally allocated. Add poorly-evaluated AI pilots and the figure climbs.

Annual IT & software spend $2.0M
Estimated annual waste $440K
Per quarter $110K
Audit investment $12–18K
Implied payback ~ 8 weeks

Field notes from the mid-market AI question.

Short reads for operators — patterns we've seen across discovery calls, what the vendor pitches usually leave out, and how to think clearly before the next board meeting.

Subscribe via the contact form to receive new field notes · ~1–2 per month · No vendor pitches

What CEOs ask before signing.

Straight answers. If something isn't here, ask us directly — the discovery call is free.

Will the audit recommend layoffs or headcount cuts? +
No — and that's a position, not a hedge. Our audits are built to identify growth opportunities, not headcount reductions. We believe the companies that win the next decade are the ones whose AI strategy makes their best people more powerful, not the ones who tried to replace them. We will tell you where you are spending on the wrong tools; we will not tell you to fire the people who hold your tribal knowledge. If a consultant promises you both growth and a 30% headcount cut from AI in the same engagement, they're selling fiction.
What makes True Fix Advisory different from other AI consultants? +
We were built AI-first from the ground up, not retrofitted with it. Our intake, synthesis, and reporting pipeline were architected around Claude AI by a Salesforce-certified architect who uses AI in production every day. The leverage shows up in your engagement as one-fifth the cost and one-tenth the timeline of a traditional consulting firm — with the same caliber of human judgment on every deliverable.
What does the AI Readiness Audit actually deliver? +
A board-ready report with an executive AI Readiness Score across five dimensions (data, security, infrastructure, vendor, organization), a current-state assessment with gap analysis, a prioritized opportunity roadmap, and a vendor evaluation framework specific to your business. It is a strategy document your CFO and your board can read.
How is this different from hiring a "regular" consulting firm? +
Three differences. Fixed fee, fixed scope — no hourly meter, no surprise change orders. Fixed timeline — five to fourteen business days, not three to six months. AI-accelerated synthesis — Claude drafts the deliverable so an architect's time is spent on judgment, not formatting. Same caliber of output, one-fifth of the price and time.
How much access to our systems do you need? +
Less than you'd expect. Our intake is structured to elicit the right signal without requiring direct system access. We escalate access only when a specific finding requires it — under iron-clad NDAs and data handling agreements that we provide upfront. We never ask for more than the current phase requires.
What if we want help implementing what you find? +
We can — but we don't price the audit to push you there. Every engagement is profitable on its own terms. If you want to take our roadmap to another vendor, that is a fine outcome and the report is built to support it. If you'd like our team to lead the implementation, we'll scope it separately.
Who is on the other end of the AI? +
A Salesforce-certified architect with ten years of enterprise consulting experience. Claude accelerates synthesis and drafting; it does not replace judgment or quality control. Every deliverable that leaves this firm has been read, edited, and signed by an architect.
We are not really at the AI stage yet. Should we still talk? +
Yes — in fact, those are often our most useful engagements. "Not ready for AI" almost always means the data and integration foundation needs work first. The audit will tell you exactly what to fix and in what order, and frame it as a sequencing question your board can act on.
What happens after we sign? +
You receive credentials to our client portal — a secure Salesforce-hosted workspace where the intake form, working call notes, draft deliverable, and final report all live. One place. One source of truth. Your engagement letter, invoices, and any future work happen there too.

Start with the discovery call.

Tell us a little about your business. We'll come back within one business day with a few diagnostic questions and a proposed time to meet.

Email hello@truefixadvisory.com
Office hours Monday – Friday · 9am – 6pm CT
Response time Within one business day, always.

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Expect an email from us within one business day, with a few short diagnostic questions and a proposed time to meet. — Chris & Dan