The audit and the proof of concept, answered in full.

An agent-readiness audit is a structured assessment of where AI agents can create measurable value in an organisation, where they are constrained by data, risk or regulation, and whether the workforce and culture are ready to adopt them. Tenhaw's version runs 6–8 weeks at a fixed price of £30,000–£90,000 and produces a sequenced, costed plan rather than a maturity score.

Tenhaw prices the Agent-Readiness Audit between £30,000 and £90,000 as a fixed fee, scaled to organisation size and the number of business units in scope. Large consultancies typically price equivalent assessments between £150,000 and £500,000. The fixed price means the scope is agreed before the work starts and does not expand mid-engagement.

Start with the audit if the question is where to invest across the organisation and you need a board-ready case. Start with a proof of concept if you already know which workflow you want to attack and the question is whether it can actually be done. Some clients run the proof of concept first because a working thing persuades internal sceptics that a plan does not.

James Rooney leads every audit personally. Where specialist input is needed, it comes from an associate he has already delivered alongside, screened to BS7858 standard before any client access, and the people on your engagement are not substituted without your written agreement. Tenhaw does not sell work that someone else then delivers, and there is no pyramid of junior consultants.

A permanent Head of AI search runs six to nine months, and the specification usually gets written from market narrative. The audit takes six to eight weeks at £30,000 to £90,000 and gives whoever you hire a sequenced, costed plan to arrive into rather than a blank page. If you have already made the hire, the audit is the fastest way to give them a defensible first hundred days. It is not a substitute for the permanent role.

It can tell you which of them are earning their keep. Weeks one and two inventory what is actually in use across the business, sanctioned or not, map each tool to the workflows it touches, and show where two or three of them cover the same job. That overlap, and what each costs to run, then sits in the sequenced plan alongside everything else, and consolidation decisions usually land on the do-not-do list. It is an assessment, not a procurement exercise: nothing on the ladder involves us selling you a licence.

Yes, scoped to the target or to the business unit under review, at the same fixed price over the same six to eight weeks. Two constraints worth raising on the first call: the method works by sitting with the people doing the work, so it needs access to them rather than to a data room alone, and six to eight weeks is longer than some exclusivity periods allow. It is an operational read on what is real, not legal, financial or regulatory due diligence, and it replaces none of those.