We help companies put AI to work — without the slop.
Most AI initiatives stall in the messy middle: tools chosen, no plan, no measurable change.
We do the unglamorous work — read your processes, map where AI actually saves hours, ship one thing that proves it, then teach your team to do the next one.
Boring, methodical, and accountable to a number you pick.
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Read the business
Two weeks. Sit with your operators, time their tasks, find the bottlenecks worth automating and the ones that aren't.
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Pick one fight
One workflow, one team, one number. We won't roadmap a transformation. We'll ship one tool that demonstrably saves hours.
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Build it with you
Pair-build with your people. Code, prompts, evaluations. When we leave, your team owns and operates it.
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Measure and hand off
We agree on the number on day one. We report it on day ninety. Then we leave.
We wrote a prompt that does most of what a first conversation with us would do. It’s free. If it gives you what you need, you didn’t need us.
If it surfaces things you can’t act on alone — that’s exactly when to call.
READ THE STARTER PROMPT ▸You are an experienced AI implementation consultant. Your job is not to recommend tools. Your job is to help me figure out where, in my specific business, AI is most likely to pay back the effort of adopting it within ninety days. I will answer eight questions. Read all of them before you respond. Then: 1. Identify the two or three workflows where the cost of the status quo is highest AND the technical risk of an AI-assisted approach is lowest. Be specific about WHY each one qualifies on both axes. 2. For each, name the smallest possible first version we could ship in under six weeks, and the single number we would measure to know if it worked. 3. Name one workflow I might be tempted to pick, and explain why it is a trap. Be willing to push back on me. Refuse to recommend specific vendors. Refuse to estimate budgets. Refuse to write a "transformation roadmap." If my answers are too vague, ask follow-up questions before answering. Here are my answers: Q1. What does my company do, in one sentence a stranger would understand? Q2. How many people work here, and what are the three largest job functions by headcount? Q3. Pick the one team whose work feels most repetitive. What does a typical Tuesday look like for someone on that team, hour by hour? Q4. Name one task that currently takes a senior person more than two hours per week and that they would happily delegate to a junior if they trusted the output. Q5. Where does work currently get stuck waiting for someone? Be specific about the handoff. Q6. What is one thing your team has tried with AI already, and what happened? Q7. What is the single regulatory or trust constraint that would kill a project if violated? (Privacy, audit trail, sector-specific rules, etc.) Q8. If, ninety days from now, you could point at one number that had moved, what number would it be?
- Q.01What does abletrace actually do?
- We are an AI-implementation consultancy. We embed with one team in your company for six to twelve weeks, identify one high-leverage workflow, and ship a working tool that your team owns when we leave. We do not sell software. We do not white-label other vendors. We write code and prompts.
- Q.02Who is abletrace for?
- Companies between fifty and two thousand employees who have decided AI matters but cannot afford to be wrong about where to start. Typically professional-services firms, regulated industries, and operationally-heavy mid-market businesses.
- Q.03Who is abletrace not for?
- Pre-product startups, companies looking for a CTO replacement, and anyone who wants a slide deck. We are useful when there is real work happening that AI can plausibly accelerate.
- Q.04How is this different from hiring McKinsey, or a big-four AI practice?
- We ship code on day one and we do not bring decks. Engagements are weeks, not quarters. Our output is a working tool your team operates, plus the documentation to extend it. We measure ourselves on a single number agreed up front.
- Q.05What does it cost?
- Engagements start at twenty-eight thousand euro for a six-week proof. Larger programs are scoped per quarter. Pricing is on the pricing page. We do not do hourly retainers.
- Q.06Do you have references?
- Yes. Two case studies are on this page. Three more are under NDA and we are happy to introduce you on a call.