AI buying intelligence — professional services, manufacturing and distribution, and healthcare back-office, $50M to $500M revenue
You're probably about to buy the wrong AI tool.
Read the entire deliverable before you decide anything: a complete diagnostic, free and ungated, including the Do Not Buy section naming the purchases a company like yours should refuse this year. Nobody will call you.
No email required for the sample, or for your score.
The actual product
Every other AI readiness tool exists to generate a sales lead. This one exists to give you an answer.
Microsoft, EY, Salesforce, Accenture and every vendor with a free maturity quiz are not being generous. The assessment is the top of a funnel, the score is the pretext, and the report is the reason a salesperson has to call you. That is why those tools never tell you to buy less software.
- No sales call. There is no calendar link anywhere in this product.
- No SDR follow-up. Nobody is assigned to your account, because there are no accounts.
- No nurture sequence. Your email is used to send a receipt and your report link.
- No vendor sponsorship. No product in your report paid to be there.
- No upsell to an implementation practice. There isn't one to sell you.
- See the report free
Who this is for
Built for the company in the middle.
You are
- $50M to $500M in revenue, 100 to 2,000 employees
- Too small to get real attention from a top-tier consultancy
- Too large to trust a vendor's self-serve quiz
- Running lean: no AI function, no analyst subscription
- Being asked by a board or owner what the AI plan is
You have probably
- Already bought at least one AI tool nobody uses
- Sat through a demo that answered none of your questions
- Been quoted six figures for a readiness assessment
- Watched a pilot stall between IT and the business
- Had no single person accountable for AI spend
This is not for
- Fortune 100 companies with an internal AI office
- Startups with fewer than fifty people
- Anyone who wants a partner to run the program for them
- Anyone looking for a vendor shortlist they can rubber-stamp
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Data & Systems
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Process Maturity
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Team Readiness
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Regulatory & Risk Exposure
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AI Buying & Procurement Discipline
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Strategic Priority
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Production Risk
What the frameworks miss
This is not a readiness quiz. It is buying intelligence.
Established maturity models measure strategy, data, technology, organization and capabilities. They tell you whether the foundations are in place. They do not tell you whether your organization can evaluate a vendor beyond its marketing claims, whether it has already bought tools that now sit unused, or whether purchases are being approved by anyone with a view of the whole.
Readiness is only the input. The output is a buying decision: what to buy, what to build, what to delay, and what to refuse outright. An organization with no buying discipline does not have a tooling problem — it has a procurement problem, and adding tools makes it worse. When that category scores low, the plan fixes the buying process before it recommends a single new system.
In every report — Do Not Buy
A named list of what you should not buy this year.
Three to five specific purchases — platform categories, seat expansions, custom builds, readiness workshops — that your own answers say would not survive contact with how your company actually runs today. Each one states the likely wasted spend, what to do with that budget instead, and the exact condition that would make the purchase defensible later.
No vendor, analyst or consultancy will ever write this section for you, because every one of them is paid on the other side of the decision. It is the page most buyers forward internally.
See the Do Not Buy section in the sampleProfessional services
A firm-wide AI drafting suite on a three-year term
Do not buyTwo practice groups already pay for overlapping tools and neither has a measured baseline for time saved. You would be signing a multi-year contract against an unmeasured process.
Manufacturing & distribution
An agentic order-to-cash automation platform
Do not buyThe same records exist in the ERP and the CRM under different keys. The agents would automate a reconciliation nobody can audit — $180K to $400K with no baseline to prove against.
Healthcare admin & back-office
A patient-facing conversational assistant, this year
Do not buyGovernance scores low and no acceptable-use policy is published. The exposure sits in the data handling long before it sits in the model, and the first audit finding costs more than the licence.
Illustrative entries. The free sample report carries the full section.
Written by Corporate Training Labs
Built by people who have spent a decade on the buying side of the table.
Corporate Training Labs built Unconsultancy from the perspective of a corporate technology leader with more than ten years running evaluations, pilots and renewals inside operating companies — sitting through the demos, reading the contracts, and later explaining to a board why a purchased platform had a twelve-percent adoption rate.
Everything scored here comes from that vantage point: the questions that actually predicted whether a deployment landed, and the ones that vendors avoid asking because the honest answer is "you are not ready and you should not buy this yet." That sentence is one this product is free to write, because it has nothing to sell you afterwards.
The methodology, the sequencing rules and the full deliverable are all published in the sample. Judge it on the work rather than on a logo.
Read the sample reportThe decision engine
Three scores, one verdict. Not a maturity grade.
Your answers produce three independent scores. Together they resolve to one of five decision states — the actual answer to "should we buy this AI, and what should we do first?"
Readiness
Whether your data, processes, people and governance can actually absorb an AI deployment without it quietly dying.
Buying discipline
How you evaluate, negotiate, pilot and kill AI purchases — the strongest predictor of whether spend turns into shelf-ware.
Opportunity
How much value is genuinely on the table given your size, manual workload and current AI spend. High opportunity with low discipline is the expensive quadrant.
Fundamental readiness or governance gaps. Fix infrastructure, process and governance before any significant AI purchase.
There is real opportunity here, but specific deficiencies would cause implementation — or purchasing — to fail. Close those first.
You are ready for controlled experimentation with clear kill criteria, not enterprise-wide commitments.
You can responsibly expand what already works. The constraint is sequencing, not capability.
Adoption is real and widespread. The remaining value is in ROI, consolidation and removing what is not used.
New in Enterprise
Should we buy this? — send us the vendor proposal and get a verdict before you sign.
BUY, PILOT, WAIT or DO NOT BUY, judged against your own readiness and buying discipline scores rather than a generic rubric. One review credit comes with Executive + Department at $499; Enterprise includes unlimited reviews at a flat $6,000 a year.
See how a purchase review worksRecommendation: WAIT
Your organization scores 41/100 on AI buying discipline. The proposed platform overlaps with two existing tools and requires data integration capabilities you currently score low on.
Recommended action: Do not sign a multi-year agreement. Run a 60-day pilot with one department first.
How it works
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Read the sample report first
The whole deliverable is published free, unredacted in structure and ungated. Decide whether it is any good before you spend a cent.
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Answer 24 questions
Five minutes. No preparation, no data export, no discovery call. One question per screen, written for an executive rather than an engineer.
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See your score, then unlock the plan
Your weighted score out of 100 is free and needs no email. The full diagnostic and remediation plan is a one-time $149.
Pricing
Priced to be an obvious decision, not a procurement exercise. The diagnostic is a one-time $149. Ongoing decision support is sold as Enterprise, at a flat $6,000 a year.
Free
$0
- The complete sample report
- Full 24-question assessment
- Decision state and three scores
- No email required
Executive diagnostic
$149one-time
- Category breakdown across all six dimensions
- Benchmark estimate and radar profile
- A prescriptive plan of 10 to 15 actions
- Capabilities first, then build-vs-buy
- A Do Not Buy list: what to refuse, and what to do instead
- Downloadable PDF and a permanent link
Executive + department
$499one-time
- Everything in the executive diagnostic
- Department-specific breakdown you can circulate
- One AI Purchase Review credit
- Run a vendor proposal before you sign
Enterprise
$6,000per year, flat
Your company's AI decision system.
- Flat annual rate — no per-seat pricing
- Re-assessment on your cadence, with a trend line
- Unlimited AI Purchase Reviews
- A standing record of every AI decision
A guarantee on the $149 diagnostic: the sample report is the full format, published free, so you already know what you are buying. If it somehow disappoints, email us and we refund it. No conditions, no call.
Questions
Can I see the report before buying?
Yes — the entire sample report is published free, with no email gate. If it is not obviously worth $149 after reading it, do not buy it.
Will someone contact me?
No. That is the actual product. Microsoft, EY, Salesforce and every vendor readiness quiz exists to generate a lead for a sales team. This one takes $149 and goes away. The only email you receive is your receipt and your report link.
Who is this for?
Mid-market companies, roughly $50M to $500M in revenue: too small to command real attention from a top-tier consultancy, too large to trust a vendor's self-serve quiz. Especially those who have already bought AI tooling that nobody uses.
How is this different from a maturity framework?
Standard frameworks measure internal maturity. They do not ask whether your organization knows how to buy AI correctly — how you evaluate vendors, how you avoid shelf-ware, and whether purchases are driven by a business case or by optics. That is a full sixth of this diagnostic.
What makes the plan specific to us?
It is generated from your actual answers, your organization size and your industry. Two organizations with the same total score receive different recommendations, different AI capability matches and different build-versus-buy guidance. No recommendation requires hiring anyone.
What does the Enterprise plan add?
It turns the diagnostic into a standing decision system: re-assessment on your cadence with a trend line for every dimension, and unlimited AI Purchase Reviews — paste a vendor proposal and get strategic fit, duplication with tools you already own, adoption risk, data and security concerns, expected ROI, build-vs-buy, and the questions to ask before signing. A flat $6,000 a year.