AI Operations Emergency Kit
Seven days. One process. One number you can defend.
A complete method for implementing AI in a small business: the 7-day roadmap, 50 prompts, 10 operating templates, an ROI calculator and 50 documented use cases.
With one difference: every saving figure in this kit is anchored to published studies with a control group, cited by author, year and URL. You can check them before you buy.
time on professional office writing, with assessed quality going up, not down
Noy & Zhang · MIT / Science, 2023
n = 444 professionals
productivity for novice customer-support staff, in a real operation
Brynjolfsson, Li & Raymond · NBER, 2023
n = 5,179 agents
accuracy when the task falls outside what AI does well: worse than not using it
Dell'Acqua et al. · Harvard / BCG, 2023
n = 758 consultants
of all hours worked across a whole economy: the real aggregate saving today
Bick, Blandin & Deming · NBER, 2024
US national survey
The problem
You don't have an AI problem. You have an implementation problem.
Almost every small business already knows AI can help. What they don't know is where to start without breaking something.
And it isn't a shortage of information: it's that the available information is written for companies with a data team, or it's a list of prompts with no method around it. The questions that actually stall an implementation are different ones.
- 01Which of my processes do I tackle first, and on what criterion do I decide?
- 02How do I measure whether it really improved, if I never measured how it was before?
- 03What information can I paste into an AI tool without creating a problem for myself?
- 04Where does human review have to stay, and who answers for it?
- 05How do I document the process so it doesn't depend on the person who built it?
- 06How do I explain to my partner, my board or my bank that this was worth it?
What this kit does
It gives you a seven-day method to answer those six questions about a real process in your business, with the templates, prompts and calculator that method needs. It doesn't teach you a specific tool and doesn't depend on one.
Why this kit is different
Every figure comes with its source.
Most AI products promise saving percentages nobody can trace. This one brings the whole table, with sample size and study, so you can verify it and cite it in front of your own management.
| What was measured | Result | Sample | Study |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professional office writing: announcements, short reports, delicate emails | Time −37% Quality +0.45 SD |
444 professionals | Noy & Zhang, MIT / Science, 2023 |
| Customer support: cases resolved per hour, in a real operation | +14% average +34% for novices |
5,179 agents | Brynjolfsson, Li & Raymond, NBER WP 31161, 2023 |
| Consulting tasks inside the AI capability frontier | −25% time +12% tasks |
758 consultants | Dell'Acqua et al., Harvard Business School WP 24-013, 2023 |
| The same tasks, designed to fall outside that frontier | −19 percentage points accuracy | 758 consultants | Dell'Acqua et al., Harvard Business School WP 24-013, 2023 |
| Exposure of administrative work to generative AI | 24% high 58% medium |
Global analysis by occupation | Gmyrek, Berg & Bescond, ILO WP 96, 2023 |
| AI adoption gap between large and small firms in the European Union | 17% small 55% large |
157,000 firms | Eurostat, ICT usage in enterprises survey, 2025 |
The uncomfortable finding that is in the kit
When the task falls outside what AI does well, the teams that used it were 19 percentage points less likely to reach the right answer than the teams that didn't. It isn't that AI doesn't help: it helps on some tasks and gets in the way on others, and the difference isn't obvious from the outside. That's why the kit devotes a whole document to deciding where not to use it.
What's inside
Six documents, used in order.
It isn't a folder of loose files. Each document produces the input for the next, and together they build the file of a pilot you can audit.
Quick Start Guide
The full 7-day roadmap: what happens each day, what the deliverable is, how long it takes and what that day's trap is. Plus the five rules and the five most expensive mistakes.
13 pages · editable Word
AI Operations Playbook
The ten-step operating model, the six AI patterns with their characteristic failure mode, and the information classification that decides what may be pasted into which tool.
11 pages · includes a workflow design canvas
50-Prompt Library
Fifty business prompts ready to copy. Each with the literal text, what information you have to paste, and the mandatory verification before using the output.
35 pages · 8 functional categories
Operating Templates
Process assessment, project charter, RACI, risk register, KPI sheet, weekly operating review, action tracker, SOP, experiment log and automation specification.
24 pages · with space for your logo and sign-off
ROI Calculator
Six Excel sheets: a calculator with status colours and an automatic verdict, an indicator dashboard with charts, and an assumptions sheet carrying the evidence behind them.
Excel · no macros, opens in Excel, Sheets and LibreOffice
50 AI Use Cases
Fifty cards by department with current pain, inputs, what the AI does, expected output, indicator and human control. Plus three cases worked through with the full calculation.
37 pages · 7 functional areas
What it looks like inside
Real pages from the kit.
No mockups, no renderings: this is what opens when you unzip the file.
One case, with the full calculation
Invoice reconciliation at a 40-person company.
One analyst spent 45 minutes on each reconciliation run, 60 times a month. Eight to ten invoices a month were paid with discrepancies caught only afterwards.
The error rate fell from 6% to 1.5%, because the prompt flags inconsistencies that used to slip through. Three low-quality scanned invoices had to be processed by hand and were documented as an exception.
It was scaled with two conditions written into the procedure: mandatory verification of every amount above $500 against the source document, and scanned invoices excluded from the flow. The documented exception is what made approval possible, not the saving.
The kit includes this case and two more worked the same way — among them one that was rejected, and why that is also a result. They are scenarios built with the kit's methodology to show the full calculation, not results measured at a specific company.
The method
Seven days, seven deliverables.
Between 45 and 90 minutes a day, one single person. If the day ends without its deliverable, you don't move on: you repeat the day.
One week. One process. One measurable improvement.
Then you repeat. The second process costs half the effort, because the method has already been proven inside your company and with your people.
Who it's for
Written for people who operate, not people who code.
It's for you if
- You run a small business and want to start with AI without hiring a consultant.
- You're an operations manager who wants to cut repetitive administrative work.
- You run projects and want to speed up reporting, documentation and control.
- You lead an administrative team that disappears into reports, emails and spreadsheets.
- You're a consultant or freelancer who wants a repeatable method for clients.
It's not for you if
- You want a technical course to become an AI engineer.
- You want theory about models, architectures or industry trends.
- You expect another giant prompt list with no method around it.
- You need someone to implement it for you: this is a method, not a service.
- You want a guaranteed saving: what you'll find here is how to measure it, not a promise.
Who wrote it
Price
Start this week.
One-time payment, no subscription. Secure checkout by Stripe. Price in US dollars.
- 6 documents · 120+ pages per language
- English and Spanish versions, at no extra cost
- Fully editable Word and Excel
- A single ZIP, instant download
- No subscription, no macros, no extra software
Digital product. Because it is delivered instantly, it is non-refundable once the file has been sent. Subscriptions to AI tools are not included and are not required to use the method: the kit works with any general-purpose conversational assistant.
Questions
What people ask before buying.
Do I need to know AI, or to code?
No. The kit is written for business users. None of the workflows require programming: you work with a conversational assistant, Word and Excel.
Which AI tool do I need?
Any serious general-purpose conversational assistant. The method is deliberately designed not to depend on a platform: what it teaches — which process to tackle, how to measure it, where to put human review — doesn't change when the tool changes.
Is it a course?
No. It's six working documents: guides, prompts, editable templates and a spreadsheet. There's no video and no platform to learn.
Are both languages really included?
Yes. The ZIP contains two folders, English and Spanish, each with all six documents. It isn't a partial translation or a summary: it's 120+ pages per language, with the example currency adjusted in each version.
Will it guarantee that I save money?
No — and be wary of anyone who guarantees it. The result depends on the process you choose, the quality of your data and how far your people adopt it. What the kit does is give you the method to identify it, test it on 20 real cases and measure it against a baseline, so that on day 7 you have a number rather than an impression.
Where do the saving figures come from?
From public studies with a control group, cited by author, year and URL inside the product. The reduction bands on each case are planning ranges built from those studies, not results measured at your company: the kit says so explicitly and teaches you to replace them with your own measurement.
Can I use it with my clients?
The licence is internal use for one company: you can adapt, customise and print the documents inside your organisation. It doesn't include resale or public redistribution of the kit or its components. If you're a consultant and want to use it with several clients, write to me before buying.
How do I receive it?
After payment you get the ZIP download link automatically. There's nothing to wait for and no platform to register with.