Know where AI actually helps your business. And where it doesn't.
A guided 15-minute conversation about how your business really runs. Within 48 hours, you get a report built around your business — what's slowing you down, where AI can actually help, what to fix first, and what you can safely ignore.
You've been told AI changes everything.Nobody told you which part applies to you.
Every week brings another tool, another agent, another confident claim. Most of it is irrelevant to your business. Some of it would genuinely change your month. Almost nobody will tell you the difference, because almost everybody selling AI advice is selling AI.
Six things, in one report.
It stands entirely on its own. No call required to make it worth having.
AI Readiness Snapshot
Where your business actually sits today — Emerging, Developing, Applied, Integrated or AI-Native — described honestly, not scored theatrically.
Priority Absences
Three to seven findings. Each one names what's missing, quotes your own words as evidence, explains the business consequence, and says whether AI is the right answer.
The Opportunity Map
Every opportunity sorted into Do Now, Plan Next, Watch — and Ignore For Now. The ignore list is the one most people find most valuable.
Capability Recommendations
What capability your business needs, first. Current tools shown only as examples, with real costs and setup effort. Capabilities last; vendors don't.
30/60/90 Plan
Opening with a Week One Quick Start — three or four actions of fifteen minutes each. Sometimes it says: add no AI yet, fix your process first.
AI Landscape Brief
A plain-language orientation to what's actually happening right now — models versus agents, reasoning versus execution, and why no single provider should own your strategy.
Fifteen minutes from you. Forty-eight hours from us.
A guided business conversation
Not a form. Around 25 to 35 questions, roughly 15 to 20 minutes, at your own pace. Some are quick selections about your stack and your team. The important ones are open: walk me through yesterday. What work do you dread? Where does everything pile up? What would you delete if you could?
Structured analysis
Your answers run through eight diagnostic lenses — executive clarity, structure, capability coverage, process maturity, data and systems, decision rights, accountability and institutional memory — plus a dedicated look at where your time and revenue leak.
Human quality review
Every early report is reviewed personally before it's sent. Recommendations get checked against your actual size, revenue and stack — nobody gets told to buy enterprise software for a four-person team.
Delivered in 48 hours
A report you can read in twenty minutes and act on this week. Yours to keep, act on, or hand to someone else — with no obligation to buy anything from us, ever.
"This understands my business."
That's the only review that counts. The failure condition is equally clear: if it reads like a generic list of AI ideas, we've failed — and every finding in your report has to trace back to something you actually told us.
"Use AI for lead follow-up."
"You said most leads arrive through Facebook Ads, your team responds manually during business hours, and follow-up after first contact is inconsistent. Automated first-response qualification is your clearest immediate opportunity."
One Audit. Three ways to get it.
Every option includes the complete Absence Audit and six-part report. Beta is limited launch pricing. Advisor adds a live review session.
Beta
The complete Absence Audit at founding launch pricing for the first 25 businesses, in exchange for candid feedback.
- Complete six-part report
- Human quality review
- 48-hour delivery
- Feedback requested
Core
The complete Absence Audit at standard pricing — built around your business, with clear priorities and a practical action plan.
- Complete six-part report
- Human quality review
- 48-hour delivery
- 30/60/90 action plan
Advisor
Everything in Core, plus a 30-minute review with an IYM team member to work through the findings and decide what happens first.
- Everything in Core
- 30-minute review session
- Priority sequencing for your business
- Direct questions answered
Our guarantee. If the audit doesn't surface at least three meaningful opportunities specific to your business, you get a full refund.The only thing you can lose is fifteen minutes.
Want the Absence Auditwhen it goes live?
Join the launch list now. We'll notify you as soon as purchasing opens in October, with everything you need to decide whether the Audit is right for your business.
No payment today. Joining the launch list does not obligate you to purchase.
Straight answers.
Is this a sales pitch for something else?
No. The Absence Audit is a standalone product with no obligation to recommend anything we sell. It's free to conclude that you need a process fix, a hire, better data discipline, an off-the-shelf tool, or nothing at all. If Orbit is genuinely the right answer for your business we'll say so — and if it isn't, we'll say that too.
Do you connect to my CRM, ads or accounting data?
Not in this version. The audit is a guided, self-reported diagnostic — which is why it takes fifteen minutes and costs what it does. Every finding is framed as "based on what you told us," and we never claim certainty we haven't earned. A deeper connected audit using live business-system data is something we may offer later.
What if my answer really is "you don't need AI yet"?
Then that's what the report says, in writing, with the reasoning. That verdict is a feature. Telling a business to fix its process and its data before adding anything clever is often the most valuable thing in the report.
Will you recommend specific tools?
We lead with the capability your business needs, then show one or two current tools as examples — with indicative cost, setup effort and time saved. Tools change every quarter; the capability doesn't. We have no vendor relationships influencing what appears in your report.
Who is this for?
Owners and operators of small businesses — roughly two to twenty people — who are AI-curious, AI-overwhelmed, or already using AI and unsure whether they're using it well. If you want a technical implementation plan for a fifty-person engineering org, this isn't it.