Automation Advisory

Most agents will not clear everything. We price what remains.

Aurelian advises operations leaders on automation, before the contract is signed. We price the exception cost that turns a persuasive payback into a defensible one.

Four engagements measured

336 hours returned monthly

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Whatever your team has already deployed

ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, n8n and eight more. The assessment is the same regardless of which you have chosen.

ChatGPT Generating
Claude Thinking
Copilot Suggesting
DeepSeek Processing
Gemini Loading
Hugging Face Uploading
Midjourney Rendering
Mistral Answering
n8n Automating
Ollama Running Locally
Perplexity Searching
Stability AI Diffusing
ChatGPT Generating
Claude Thinking
Copilot Suggesting
DeepSeek Processing
Gemini Loading
Hugging Face Uploading
Midjourney Rendering
Mistral Answering
n8n Automating
Ollama Running Locally
Perplexity Searching
Stability AI Diffusing
ChatGPT Generating
Claude Thinking
Copilot Suggesting
DeepSeek Processing
Gemini Loading
Hugging Face Uploading
Midjourney Rendering
Mistral Answering
n8n Automating
Ollama Running Locally
Perplexity Searching
Stability AI Diffusing
ChatGPT Generating
Claude Thinking
Copilot Suggesting
DeepSeek Processing
Gemini Loading
Hugging Face Uploading
Midjourney Rendering
Mistral Answering
n8n Automating
Ollama Running Locally
Perplexity Searching
Stability AI Diffusing
ChatGPT Generating
Claude Thinking
Copilot Suggesting
DeepSeek Processing
Gemini Loading
Hugging Face Uploading
Midjourney Rendering
Mistral Answering
n8n Automating
Ollama Running Locally
Perplexity Searching
Stability AI Diffusing
ChatGPT Generating
Claude Thinking
Copilot Suggesting
DeepSeek Processing
Gemini Loading
Hugging Face Uploading
Midjourney Rendering
Mistral Answering
n8n Automating
Ollama Running Locally
Perplexity Searching
Stability AI Diffusing

The figure every other estimate omits

Hours saved times hourly rate is the easy arithmetic, and your board has already been shown it twice. Price the tasks the agent does not clear, and the recommendation changes.

Your numbers
Honest payback
3.5 months
$1,290 saved per month, after exceptions
What the other calculators leave outAt 92% accuracy, 40 tasks a month still reach a human, and they take longer than the original job because someone is checking the agent. That is $280 a month, and $3,360 off the first-year headline.
Typical pitch2.9 months$14,340
With exceptions priced in3.5 months$10,980
Payback and net position after twelve months.

How we assess a case that survives month three

Most pilots pass their demonstration and quietly fail by month three. The difference is almost always whether anyone agreed, in advance, what the agent is permitted to get wrong.

Map the exception path before we build

Before any work begins we agree what the agent will not handle, and where that work goes instead. The escalation route exists on day one, not in month three.

Map the exception path before we build

Before any work begins we agree what the agent will not handle, and where that work goes instead. The escalation route exists on day one, not in month three.

Set an accuracy floor before launch

Every engagement runs against a confidence floor we agree in advance. Anything beneath it is routed to a person and logged as an exception, never guessed at.

Set an accuracy floor before launch

Every engagement runs against a confidence floor we agree in advance. Anything beneath it is routed to a person and logged as an exception, never guessed at.

Report the number that still holds later

You receive hours returned, exceptions handled and real payback every month. Not the figure shown once, on the day of the pitch.

Report the number that still holds later

You receive hours returned, exceptions handled and real payback every month. Not the figure shown once, on the day of the pitch.

Measured across four engagements

336

Hours returned monthly

Across four engagements

336

Hours returned monthly

Across four engagements

91.5%

Median agent accuracy

Measured over a full quarter

91.5%

Median agent accuracy

Measured over a full quarter

3.2

Median months to payback

After exception cost

3.2

Median months to payback

After exception cost

223

Exceptions handled monthly

Routed to a person by design

223

Exceptions handled monthly

Routed to a person by design

What clients say once the engagement ends

They were the only advisers who told us what the agent would fail at. Everyone else brought us a number with no exceptions in it.

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Rohini Balakrishnan

Head of Operations, Ardmore Provisions

They were the only advisers who told us what the agent would fail at. Everyone else brought us a number with no exceptions in it.

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Rohini Balakrishnan

Head of Operations, Ardmore Provisions

The confidence floor was the whole engagement. Claims beneath it never reach the agent, so nobody on my team had to trust a black box.

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Emil Straume

Claims Director, Caradoc Assurance

The confidence floor was the whole engagement. Claims beneath it never reach the agent, so nobody on my team had to trust a black box.

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Emil Straume

Claims Director, Caradoc Assurance

Our payback moved from 2.9 months to 3.4 once the exceptions were priced. I would rather have seen that number in the proposal, and with Aurelian I did.

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Folasade Bankole

Finance Lead, Portmayne Freight

Our payback moved from 2.9 months to 3.4 once the exceptions were priced. I would rather have seen that number in the proposal, and with Aurelian I did.

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Folasade Bankole

Finance Lead, Portmayne Freight

Bring us the case you cannot yet defend

The first conversation runs forty five minutes. You leave with an accuracy band, an exception count and a payback figure fit for your board, whether or not you retain us.

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