Veldi / the ai ops audit
Most AI consulting starts with a vague discovery call and ends with a proposal you can't evaluate. The AI Ops Audit is the opposite: a fixed fee, a fixed timeline, and a deliverable you can act on with or without us. Including working software.
You just don't know which something, what it costs, or whether it works on your actual data. So the decision keeps getting postponed, and the manual work keeps getting done by people you're paying to think.
Every platform looks incredible in a demo built to look incredible. None of them show you what happens when your messy exports, your naming conventions, and your exceptions hit it.
Slides about "AI readiness" and a maturity model. Nothing you can run on Monday. The recommendations are generic because nobody went deep enough into your systems to be specific.
Someone technical on your team starts building. It half works, it lives in their head, and it breaks the week they go on vacation. Now it's a liability instead of an asset.
One fee, agreed up front. No hourly billing, no change orders, no scope creep. If you start a build with us within 30 days, the entire $4,500 comes off the price.
Our guarantee: if we can't identify at least 10 hours a week of recoverable time in your operation, you don't pay. We have never had to write that check, and we'd rather tell you no than sell you an audit that finds nothing.
You'll spend roughly four hours of your team's time total. We do the rest.
Working sessions with the people doing the repetitive tasks, plus read-only access to the systems where the work lives.
We turn what we saw into a workflow map with real numbers attached: volume, time per task, error rate, cost.
We take the top-ranked opportunity and build it, running against your real data, so the estimate stops being a guess.
Final rankings, costed roadmap, live walkthrough with your team, and every artifact delivered to you to keep.
Veldi is run by Thomas Gulbrandsen, who also runs a Utah property management company. Every system Veldi sells has been run in a real business with real customers and real consequences for getting it wrong, before it was ever offered to a client.
That changes what the audit finds. Someone who has personally sat in the chair doing the repetitive work knows the difference between a task that looks automatable in a process diagram and one that actually is once you account for the exceptions. Most of the value in this engagement is in that distinction.
"We don't sell AI we wouldn't run ourselves. We run our own businesses on these systems, and bring what's proven to yours, leaving your team able to run it."
Veldi
You're an owner-operator running a business between roughly 5 and 150 people. Your team is doing work you know a machine should be doing. You have real software already (a CRM, an accounting system, a scheduling tool) and the data lives somewhere reachable. You want to make a decision this quarter, not build a committee.
You're looking for the cheapest possible option, you want someone to run your operation for you indefinitely, or you need a signed enterprise procurement process with six stakeholders. We're also the wrong call if you haven't got a process yet. Automate a process that doesn't exist and you get chaos, faster.
The Veldi AI Ops Audit is a flat $4,500 for two weeks of work. No hourly billing, no change orders. If you move forward with a build within 30 days, the full $4,500 is credited toward it, so the assessment effectively costs nothing if you proceed.
Four artifacts: a workflow map of where your team's hours go, a ranked opportunity list with estimated hours and dollars returned for each item, a working prototype of the single highest-value automation running on your data, and an implementation roadmap with fixed-price build quotes. Plus a recorded 90-minute walkthrough. All of it is yours to keep.
No, and the audit is deliberately built so you don't have to. You own every deliverable including the prototype source code. The roadmap is written clearly enough that another developer, or your own internal team, could execute it without us. We'd rather earn the build than lock you into it.
A free consultation is a sales call that ends in a proposal. This ends in working software and a costed plan. Charging for it is what makes it possible to spend two weeks inside your actual systems and data, which is the only way to say anything specific rather than generic.
Read-only access to the systems where the work lives, and a few hours with the people who do it. We sign an NDA before anything starts, we work read-only during discovery, and we never move your data anywhere you haven't approved.
That's common and it's usually one of two things: the tool was general-purpose when the problem was specific, or nobody was trained to run it so it quietly died. Both show up fast in the audit, and both are fixable. Knowing why the last attempt failed is genuinely useful input.
Yes. The engagement runs remotely by default, with on-site available in the Salt Lake City and Ogden area. Most of the work happens in your systems, not in your office.
Tell us what's eating your team's time. If the audit isn't the right call, we'll say so on the first conversation.