The business kind, not the SEO kind.
We look at where AI fits across your business, where it does not, and how to roll it out without breaking anything. The audit runs as the front end of our Transformation Block and produces a prioritised opportunities list, a data protection review, a risk register, and a rollout plan you can hand to anyone, including yourself.
OpenKit is a UK AI consulting firm that runs AI audits and AI readiness assessments for SMEs and mid-market organisations. OpenKit delivers a structured assessment of where AI fits across your business, where it should not, and the rollout plan that gets it into production safely. OpenKit holds ISO 27001, ISO 9001, and Cyber Essentials certifications and works with UK clients from a base in Cambridge.
OpenKit is a UK AI consulting firm that runs AI audits and AI readiness assessments for SMEs and mid-market organisations. We map where AI fits across your business, where it should not, and the rollout plan that gets it into production safely.
An audit is most useful when it is independent of whoever builds the system, so the recommendations point at your priorities rather than ours. We hold ISO 27001, ISO 9001, and Cyber Essentials certifications and work with UK clients from a base in Cambridge.
Every OpenKit engagement begins with a Transformation Block. The audit is the discovery work inside it: five steps that take roughly the first half of the block. You can stop after the audit and hand the plan to an internal team, or continue into configuration and training in the second half.
Workshops with leadership and the teams whose work is in scope.
A walkthrough of in-scope functions and the data they touch.
Review against ISO 27001 controls and any sector-specific obligations.
A scored list of where AI fits, with effort, risk, and dependency for each.
A sequenced plan you can hand to anyone, including an internal team.
Five artefacts you can hold in your hand, hand to an internal team, or take to a board meeting. The audit is a finished deliverable on its own, not a sales conversation dressed as a discovery call.
A written document covering the current state of AI usage in the business, prioritised opportunities, scored risks, and recommended sequencing.
A review of every in-scope data source against ISO 27001 controls and any sector-specific obligations (UK GDPR, SRA, FCA, NHS DSP Toolkit).
A scored register of the things that could go wrong as AI gets introduced, with the mitigations we recommend for each.
A sequenced plan from low-risk quick wins through to the more involved workflows, with the dependencies for each.
A reference example of the audit output so you can see exactly what to expect before commissioning. No form, no email gate.
Download sample audit (PDF)Stating the constraint up front is more useful than implying we do everything. The audit has a deliberate edge. Knowing where it ends is part of why it works.
The audit is a fixed-fee engagement in the low five figures. Combined with the configuration and training half of the Transformation Block, the engagement sits in the high four to mid five figures, depending on scope. Pricing is fixed before kickoff so there are no surprises on the invoice.
A few engagements need a Bespoke Build on top — a custom retrieval system, a regulated-industry tool, a private LLM with audit logging. Those are scoped and quoted after the audit, since the scope depends on what the audit surfaces.
Audit Report, data protection review, risk register, rollout plan.
Audit plus configured workflows and team training.
Optional retainer after the Transformation Block. See How We Work →
A sample of recent audit engagements. Some clients are named with their permission; others stay anonymised. Outcomes are described without specific dates or internal artefacts.
The audit is a finished deliverable on its own. From there you can move into the configuration and training half of the Transformation Block, hand the plan to an internal team and stop, or commission a Bespoke Build for the systems the audit shows are worth building. There is no requirement to continue.
Configuration of the priority workflows and hands-on training for your team. Adds two more weeks to the engagement.
See phase 1 →The rollout plan is built to be implementable by an internal team. We’re available on a per-question basis if you need us, but you can take it from here.
No-commitment continuation →If the audit surfaces a system worth building — a private LLM, a retrieval engine, a regulated tool — we scope and quote after the audit.
See phase 3 →Two weeks. Fixed fee. Ends with a written AI Audit Report, a data protection review, a risk register, and a sequenced rollout plan you can take anywhere.
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