Hours in one process
That's how much work one process eats up monthly — here, purchasing and cost invoices.
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Chaos Diagnosis
Find where time is being lost. An audit based on conversations with your team, data, and real measurements of activities. A way to learn where change should begin.
Ctrl+F for your company — finding work that needs no decisionfound: 11 points
What we usually find
What a typical audit reveals.
Your numbers will be different — but they'll be calculated the same way, using your data.
With no decision at all
Tasks where a person resolves nothing — these are where we start.
Different values for one figure
Depending on the system, the same figure has a different value.
Cases outside the pattern
Exceptions handled manually because the official process doesn't cover them. Is that percentage still an exception?
When it makes sense
What it looks like
Four weeks, four steps.
Choose a week to see what happens in it.
Week 1
Interviews
We talk to the people doing the work — not just management. We ask about specific situations from recent weeks, not opinions. That's when people say things that aren't in any procedure.
What is produced this week
- A list of the process's real steps and what they look like
- Points where the process waits on someone's response
- The roles that hold knowledge about the process
Order of magnitude
Calculate one of your processes.
Choose a process, enter how many people work on it and how many hours it takes them each week. See how much time technology could save.
Process
Reading invoice data, the approval flow and posting to the ERP can be automated almost entirely. A person stays on exceptions and amount decisions.
Recoverable each month
64h≈ 0.4 FTE
Technology typically removes around 62% of the work in this process. This is an order of magnitude, not a promise — measurement in your company gives the real number.
Let's check it against the evidenceWhat you keep
Four things that stay with you.
Not a presentation about the potential of AI. Documents you can take to any supplier.
Process map
The real flow, not the one in the manual. With manual-work points and places where someone waits for someone else clearly marked.
Calculated losses
Monthly hours in every step, based on a document sample rather than a survey. Decision work and non-decision work shown separately.
Directions for change
The places where technology can genuinely improve the process and a shortlist of solutions that integrate well. Including what you can do yourselves, without us.
What to watch for
What to check when selecting a solution: how it integrates, what it genuinely changes, and what it does not promise. The report is yours, whoever implements it.
The rule
The diagnosis is paid for and deliberately separate from implementation. If the report shows you don't need AI, we'll say so directly — that's often the reason the audit pays for itself.
- The report belongs to you
- No obligation to implement with us
- NDA before the first conversations
Questions
Five frequently asked questions.
ALT
Not seeing your question? ALT knows how we work and will answer straight away — including when the answer is “this is not a task for AI”.
Ask ALTHow much time will this take from my team?+
A few short conversations spread over four weeks, plus handing over a data sample. We don't ask you to fill in spreadsheets or prepare reports for our sake.
Do we have to share sensitive data?+
No. We can work on a data sample that can be anonymised — we're interested in the structure and volume of operations, not document content. We sign an NDA before the first conversation.
What if we decide not to implement anything after the diagnosis?+
The report is yours and includes pointers on what to look for when choosing a solution — including ours. You can act on it at any time: yourselves, with us, or with another vendor.
Isn't this just an IT audit?+
We check the technology layer — applications, work environments, data flow between systems. But we also assess the work of the people around those systems, because that is usually where the chaos lives.
We already have an ERP. Does that change anything?+
Usually for the better. The data exists, it just isn't always used. A common outcome is switching on what you already paid for.
Start with four minutes, not four weeks.
Chaos Scan will show whether a diagnosis makes sense for your company at all.
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