AI Advisory Board

Before you adopt AI

Before you adopt AI — see what your team actually does. In 7 days.

In a week we capture plan-vs-fact per role and hand you a map of real processes. Then automation decisions are made on data — not on slide decks.

Founder — Forbes · $1M+ startup exit · author of AI Implementation Pro

For B2B teams of 30–500 people

Apply for the 7-day diagnostic

We'll take ~30 min from you for an opening session. Then your team logs plan/fact in our format — we map the processes and return results by week's end.

Why AI rollouts fail

AI gets deployed on top of processes nobody can see

Top teams buy GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, hire AI consultants — and six months later have a Slack channel full of ChatGPT memes and zero impact on the P&L.

No baseline

Nobody knows how much time the team actually spends on repetitive work — so it's impossible to measure where AI helped.

Automating the imaginary

The workflow on the diagram ≠ the workflow in real life. AI optimises a process that exists only in the founder's head.

Silent sabotage

People keep working the old way. The dashboard shows 80% adoption; real usage is 12%.

Before automating anything — you need to see how the work is being done today. Without that step, every AI investment is a guess.

What we do in 7 days

Capture primary data on how the team actually works

Not an audit. Not a slide deck. A 7-day data-collection sprint from every workplace in your format — and a full process map at the end.

  1. 01

    Opening session (day 1, ~30 min with you)

    We align on roles, key processes, expected outcomes. We set up the data-collection channel (Telegram bot or Slack — your choice).

  2. 02

    Plan/fact capture (days 2-6, ~5 min/day per person)

    Each person logs daily: what they planned in the morning, what they actually did, what got in the way. AI helps make it specific — it won't accept «worked on project X».

  3. 03

    Process map + recommendations (day 7)

    You receive: a role × process × actual-time matrix, top-10 repetitive tasks (automation candidates), list of blockers that came up three or more times.

What you get

A real process map — not slides, a working artefact

Sample output after 7 days of capture in a 40-person team. Greyed cells were previously invisible to the executive.

RolePlan (stated)Fact (captured)Gap / automation candidate
Sales manager60% client calls32% calls, 28% manual CRM updatesCRM auto-fill from email/calendar
Customer successTicket response41% time spent searching across 6 sourcesAI knowledge base over Notion + Intercom
MarketingContent + campaigns55% — copy alignment in Slack threadsTemplates + AI-first draft
OperationsCEO reports3h/week — copy-paste from 4 dashboards into slidesAuto-summary from BI to MD/PDF

From this table you immediately see what to automate first — and how many hours/week it returns.

How we do it

Methodology — borrowed from sports teams and dispatch rooms

The «Plan → Fact → Gap» principle is not our invention. It's worked for a century where the cost of error is high: aviation, ops, pro sports. We adapted it for knowledge teams.

Low barrier for the human

5 min/day, via a bot in a messenger they already have open. No new interfaces, no «log in to the system».

AI makes the data clean

When a person writes «worked on project» — AI asks back: «which step? how many hours? what blocked you?». Without that, 80% of the data would be junk.

Anonymisation for the team, aggregation for the executive

Each person sees only their own log. You see role-level aggregation. This is not surveillance — it's telemetry.

Zero integrations in week one

We don't touch your CRM/ERP/Jira. The way we collect data: people briefly write what they did — and AI asks follow-up questions until the answer is concrete. This is intentional: we want the delta between what the systems say and what people actually do with their hands.

Who this is for

It fits if…

Good fit

  • B2B knowledge team, 30-500 people

    Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Ops, R&D, Product. Anything where the output is decisions and communication, not stamped widgets.

  • You've already thought about or tried AI adoption

    And you have the feeling «something is off — we invested but nothing moved». This pilot will show you why.

  • Ready for 30 min opening session + 5 min/day per team member

    For 7 days. Without that minimum time commitment from the team, the result won't be high-quality.

Not a fit

  • Manufacturing / line workers

    That requires different tooling (time sensors, MES, IoT). We work with knowledge work.

  • Team <10 people

    At that size you already know who does what. The pilot won't surface new information.

  • Looking for an «AI magic wand»

    We sell diagnostics, not a silver bullet. If you expect AI to replace people in a week — that's not what this is.

Who runs this

Yaroslav Maxymovych

Yaroslav Maxymovych

Founder of AI Advisory Board. I'm not a blogger, not a theorist, not a coach and not a programmer — I have a leader's mindset and have never worked for a salary.

50+ startups, 10 of them taken to profit, 4 sold. First in Ukraine to sell a startup for $1M+. That means I'm deep in the business — on the side of owners and executives, not outside consultants.

My first AI project took me 500 hours to build. The second — only 30. This pilot is a synthesis of what I learned to do right (and what not to) across dozens of real rollouts.

  • 50+ startups, 10 to profit, 4 sold
  • First in Ukraine to sell a startup for $1M+
  • 3,000 interviews, 300+ people managed
  • PhD candidate — applied math + economics
  • Forbes features: Auctioneer's Portfolio, Intellectual Owners

Pricing

Fixed price for the pilot

No subscriptions, no retainers. One payment — 7 days of work — your company's process map at the end.

7-day diagnostic

$1,500

one-time, VAT extra

  • Opening session (30 min) with all stakeholders
  • Telegram/Slack bot for plan/fact capture (we configure it)
  • Daily AI processing with normalisation
  • Process map (role × process × actual time) in Notion + PDF
  • Top-10 automation candidates with impact estimate
  • 1-hour result review and roadmap session
Apply for the pilot

Why now

This isn't a marketing trend — it's already happening

What this means for you

The bottom wants it. The top wants it. The window is open.

The top wants it

CEOs and owners see how AI has already changed their competitors — and are looking for how to roll it out internally. Top-down pressure is there.

The bottom wants it

Employees are already using AI despite the lack of training — because it simply makes the job easier. Bottom-up readiness is there too.

This is a rare window: the market is ready, the team is ready, and the structures for adoption haven't been built yet. Whoever captures the data first — outruns everyone.

Frequent questions

FAQ

Yes. Each person sees only their own log; the executive sees role-level aggregation, not per-person. We tell the team explicitly that this is telemetry, not surveillance, and the goal is to optimise processes, not evaluate people. If you want a human performance review, that's a different product.

Ready to see what your team actually does?

I review applications personally within a working day. If your case isn't a fit, I'll say so directly — I won't try to sell.

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