Question 1

What does it cost?

Accepted Answer

The assessment is $499, and that covers the discovery interview, the report, and the review call. Build work and monthly support are quoted separately, and we will always put a number against a defined scope before you have to decide anything.

Question 2

Do I have to buy anything else?

Accepted Answer

No, the assessment stands on its own. Plenty of people take the report and run with it themselves, and it is written to be useful that way. Roughly half do ask us to help with the build, which means roughly half do not.

Question 3

Are you building custom AI for us?

Accepted Answer

Often the answer is no, because what you need usually already exists off the shelf and sometimes you are already paying for it. That said, custom work is very much an option, and it is one of the things we can talk through under Build. If what you need is genuinely bespoke, strideUX offers a more robust set of engineering services and we can bring those in.

Question 4

How much of my time does this take?

Accepted Answer

It depends a little, but the assessment usually asks for about ninety minutes of your time in total, split between the discovery interview and the review call. The report itself takes us five to seven business days to put together. Build timelines depend on the scope of what we are implementing, and we will give you a realistic range before anything starts.

Question 5

Who is this for?

Accepted Answer

Owner-led businesses where the person feeling the problem is also the person who can decide to fix it, and department leads inside larger firms who need to make the case to somebody else. If you are not the one who signs, the report includes a page written for whoever does, covering the decision, the number, and the questions they are likely to ask.

Question 6

Who actually does the work?

Accepted Answer

A small team under strideUX with a lot of hands-on experience in the AI and automation space. The people who run your discovery interview are the same people who write your report.

Question 7

Where do your numbers come from?

Accepted Answer

Wherever we can, we start with yours. Usually that means a range or a ballpark for what an hour of someone's time costs, either from a salary or an hourly rate. If you would rather not share it, we will work from a sensible best guess instead, though even a rough range makes the numbers considerably more useful to you. Anything we cannot source honestly is shown as a range with the math alongside it, rather than one confident figure.

Question 8

What if the report says we do not need AI?

Accepted Answer

Then that is what it says. Sometimes the useful answer turns out to be a process with fewer steps and no new software at all. We would rather tell you that for $499 than sell you an automation that makes a slow process run faster.

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