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By Mendy Friedman, founder of Airu Labs · Updated

Short answer: AI strategy for a small or mid-size company is one decision: which job to hand to a system first, and whether that job is ready. Airu Labs makes that decision with you on a 30-minute call about one process, and says so if AI is the wrong answer. A five-question AI readiness assessment you can run yourself is below.

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  1. What we do
  2. Book this if
  3. AI readiness assessment
  4. After the call

Everyone is telling you to AI everything. The useful question is smaller: which job goes to a system first, and is it ready?

Airu Labs builds custom AI systems for small and mid-size companies, wired into the software they already use. A build starts with one call about one process.

What we do

01Find the jobWe find the process that costs you the most time.
02Hear how it runsYou walk us through how the job gets done today, and we ask questions.
03Say what we would buildIn the same words you used to describe the problem.
04Scope one systemIf it is worth building, we pick the smallest build that pays for itself and quote it as one fixed number.
05Say so if AI is wrongWe say so on the call, before anyone signs anything.
06Stay on after launchYour business changes, and the system changes with it.

Book this if

  • You know AI could help, and you cannot say where to start.
  • Your team retypes the same information every day.
  • You bought a tool, and the work is still done by hand.
  • You want to know if a job is worth building before you commit to one.

AI readiness assessment

Five questions about one job. A full AI readiness assessment scores a whole company; a first build needs one job.

DataDo the inputs already sit in a system or an inbox?An ERP, a spreadsheet or a shared inbox counts.
SoftwareCan another program read from it?And write to it, if the job needs that.
StepsDoes the job follow the same steps most of the time?The same steps each time make a job easy to hand over.
PeopleCan one person tell a right result from a wrong one?That person approves before anything is ordered or written back.
The numberIs there one figure you will judge it by?Hours a week, or dollars a year.
Your resultFive yeses make a good first job.A no shows what to sort out first.

After the call

A build comes next. Automation covers the work a system can take off your team. Engineering covers how a build runs and what you own. Finished systems are in the case studies.

Book the 30-minute call and bring the job nobody wants to do.

Mendy honestly blew me away with what he produced. The speed, attention to detail, follow-through, and the awesome product he delivered. And he’s honest about his limits, so he’s the full package. Would recommend to anyone, straight up.

Shalom GoodmanExecutive Director, Collective Kindness

FAQ

Questions people ask.

What is an AI readiness assessment?

A check of whether a company has what it needs to put AI to work: data, software, people and rules. Large firms score the whole company. A small company learns more from checking one process.

Does Airu Labs sell an AI readiness assessment?

No. Our first step is a 30-minute call about one process.

What happens if the answer is no?

We say so on the call and build nothing. Some problems are better fixed by changing a form, a habit or who does what.

Does my data have to be clean first?

Not across the company. We start with one process. If you can walk us through how the job gets done today, that is the whole requirement.

What we buildAI automationThe work your team does by hand becomes a system, and a person approves each result. What we buildAI engineeringCustom software for one company, built onto what it already runs. AnswerTen questions to ask before you hire an AI developerTen questions for the first call, with the answer to listen for and the red flag.