Question 1

How long does the AI Automation Opportunity Map take to complete?

Accepted Answer

Under three minutes for almost everyone. Eight single-tap questions, no typing required, with one quick mid-flow moment where we calculate the estimated cost of waiting based on the hours you reported. Your progress is saved automatically in your browser, so you can step away and finish later from the same device. PerezCarreno & Coindreau built the assessment to feel less like a quiz and more like the first three minutes of a discovery call with Armando.

Question 2

Do I need to know AI tools or have AI experience to take it?

Accepted Answer

No. The AI Automation Opportunity Map is written in plain language for founders, COOs, operators, and managers — not engineers. Every question is about how work actually moves through your company, not about AI models or technical configuration. The questions are designed so any business owner can answer them honestly in under twenty seconds each.

Question 3

What kind of businesses is this assessment built for?

Accepted Answer

The Opportunity Map is built for US small and medium businesses with 5 to 200 employees. PerezCarreno & Coindreau has served over 100 businesses across 11 industries since 2008 — professional services, healthcare, e-commerce, education, hospitality, auto and home services, manufacturing, financial services, and nonprofits. Companies under 5 employees or with over 200 employees can still take it, but recommendations will lean toward simpler or more governance-heavy patterns respectively.

Question 4

What's actually in the Opportunity Map report?

Accepted Answer

Your workflow archetype (one of eight, like "The Leaky Pipeline" or "The Monday-Morning Scramble"), a readiness grade across four dimensions, the top 3 automations bucketed by time horizon (this week, this quarter, later), an adjustable cost-of-waiting model so you can tune the math yourself, hidden cost analysis with cited research from Harvard Business Review, IDC, SHRM, and Forrester, and a recommended next step. The map is a build-ready brief you can hand to your team, your engineers, or another vendor — or use as the agenda for a free 30-minute call with Armando.

Question 5

How accurate is the "cost of waiting" number?

Accepted Answer

It is an honest estimate, not a precision claim. The math is your weekly hours-lost bracket multiplied by $60 per hour (a conservative burdened SMB team rate) over 50 working weeks. The page shows the formula so you can sanity-check it. Most clients tell us the number lands within 20% of their actual cost once we do the deeper accounting on a discovery call.

Question 6

What happens if my process is messy or undocumented?

Accepted Answer

You will still get a useful report — and the report will be honest about what to do first. Low process clarity scores route to a recommendation to map the workflow before building, often through an AI Strategy & Audit. PerezCarreno & Coindreau will not recommend building automation on top of an undocumented process. The first step in that case is documentation and ownership, not code.

Question 7

Can PerezCarreno & Coindreau build the automation after the report?

Accepted Answer

Yes, that is what we do. PerezCarreno & Coindreau builds Custom AI Automation (starting at $8,500 per workflow), AI Integration & Development for larger systems ($15,000 to $60,000), and AI Speaking & Training for the team (starting at $4,000 per session). Most clients start with a free 30-minute call to walk through their Opportunity Map before scoping a sprint. We'll also tell you when AI isn't the right answer for the problem. Armando says "skip this one" almost as often as "let's build this."

Question 8

Where is my data stored and who sees my answers?

Accepted Answer

Submissions are stored privately by PerezCarreno & Coindreau on Cloudflare D1 and used only to generate your report and improve the assessment. Armando reads completed reports personally to keep tabs on patterns across submissions. Your answers are never shared with third parties, sold, or used for advertising. The assessment never asks for passwords, API keys, regulated personal data, or confidential customer information.

Question 9

What is the difference between this and the AI Readiness Quiz?

Accepted Answer

The AI Readiness Quiz at /assessment is a 2-minute, 6-question cost calculator that estimates the annual cost of all your manual work in aggregate. The AI Automation Opportunity Map is the focused diagnostic — eight questions about the one workflow piling up most, with a build-ready map for that workflow. Both are free. The Opportunity Map is the primary lead-capture and discovery tool at PerezCarreno & Coindreau.