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What an AI Automation Company Should Do in Ninety Days
Every AI automation company promises hours saved. The useful question is what happens in the first ninety days: which process, measured how, reviewed by whom, and running where. Here is the plan GBCORP follows, so you can hold any supplier to it.
An AI automation company is judged on one thing: whether a process that used to take people hours now takes them minutes, safely, with the numbers to prove it. Demos do not show that. A ninety-day plan does. GBCORP runs the same plan for every client, and it is a fair test to put to anyone else.
The ninety-day plan
| Window | What happens | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Days 1–10 | Pick one process, map it, collect fifty to two hundred real examples | A brief and a measure |
| Days 11–30 | Build the automation into the existing console with a review step | Running on real work |
| Days 31–60 | One person reviews every output; accuracy and time saved measured weekly | Numbers, not impressions |
| Days 61–90 | Remove review where errors are harmless; keep it where they are not; pick the next process | A second automation scoped |
Which processes pay first
The ones with volume, repetition and a clear right answer. Inbound enquiries classified and drafted. Invoices and forms read into a system. Daily reports summarised. Orders checked against rules. Customer messages routed. Product descriptions written from specifications. The common thread is a queue that a person works through every day, where the AI can take the first pass and the person keeps the decision.
Review steps are not a weakness
A supplier who promises full automation on day one is selling the demo. GBCORP builds every automation with a review step first, because the review is how accuracy becomes a number. Where the consequence of a mistake is trivial, the review is removed after the numbers hold. Where it is not, the review stays and the person still saves most of the time, because reading a draft is faster than writing one.
Where it runs
Inside the tools the team already uses: the console, the inbox, the spreadsheet, the messaging channel. GBCORP builds the automation into the existing app or console with the same team that maintains it, connected through documented APIs, so nobody has to learn a new window. Models are chosen per task; data that must stay private runs on private infrastructure; nothing is locked to one vendor.
Checklist for choosing an AI automation company
- Ask for their ninety-day plan for your first process, in writing.
- Ask how accuracy is measured and where you will see it each week.
- Ask what stays with a person, and why.
- Ask where the data goes and which model is used, per task.
- Ask what the first automation costs as a fixed price, not a monthly retainer with no end.
- Ask to see an automation they run in their own business.
The numbers to expect
The first automation is priced as a fixed first release on the GBCORP e-shop, delivered within the ninety-day plan. A support plan keeps the evaluation running, the model current and the cost per request visible. Businesses that follow the plan typically retire the review step on the first process by day ninety and have the second automation in build.
A worked example
A trading company receives several hundred supplier documents a week: quotations, packing lists, invoices, in three formats and two languages. Two people spend their days re-typing them into the stock system. Days one to ten: the process is mapped and two hundred past documents are collected with the values that were entered for them. Days eleven to thirty: an extraction step reads each document into a draft record inside the existing console, with the fields highlighted for a person to confirm. Days thirty-one to sixty: the two people confirm rather than type, accuracy is measured per field each week, and the fields that never fail are marked. Days sixty-one to ninety: confirmed-safe fields post automatically; only exceptions reach a person; the second process, supplier e-mail routing, is scoped. The two people are still there, doing the work that needed them.
What the support plan keeps doing
Automation drifts: suppliers change their document layouts, a new product category appears, a model behind an API is updated. The evaluation set runs on every change and its score is watched weekly. New examples are added as the business changes. Cost per document is tracked beside accuracy. When a supplier changes a template, the person sees the exception, the example joins the set, and the next release handles it. This is ordinary maintenance for a component that happens to be a model, and it is why GBCORP prices it as a plan rather than leaving it to chance.
Pricing that matches the plan
An automation company that charges a monthly retainer with no defined outcome is selling attention. GBCORP prices the first process as a fixed release with the ninety-day plan attached, so the business knows what it pays and what it gets before day one. The support plan afterwards is a known monthly figure covering evaluation, model updates, cost reporting and small changes; each further process is a new fixed release. Cost per request from the models themselves is passed through at cost and shown on the same weekly report as accuracy, so the business sees the whole price of the automation, not only the invoice for building it.
Questions we hear first
Do we need our own data to start?
You need examples of the work done well, which every business already has in its inbox and files.
What about processes that change often?
The evaluation set grows with the change; the automation is re-checked against it on every release.
Does it work in more than one language?
Yes, with examples and evaluation per language.
What does it cost to run?
Cost per request is tracked from day one and reported beside accuracy; model choice keeps it predictable.
Where to start
The priced GBCORP AI Development and Automation product is the first release; the GBCORP AI development and machine learning hub lists the rest. For the tasks that pay first, read where AI automation saves hours.
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