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What is quoting costing you?

About a minute. No account, no card, no email. Rough numbers are fine, and you can change any of them afterwards.

What comes through your door

Monthly counts, roughly. Leave anything you do not do at zero. Only the rows with a number get ranked.

WorkflowPer month Minutes eachWhy it is on this list
Inbound lead response and qualification
Marketing and sales · revenue side
 McKinsey puts marketing and sales top of the revenue-gain list. PwC has sales and marketing at 54% agent deployment intent, second only to customer service at 57%.
Quote and proposal drafting
Marketing and sales · revenue side
 Product and service development is second on McKinsey's revenue-gain list. BCG measured 20-30% content cost reduction and localisation time falling from two months to one day.
First-line customer support triage
Service operations · cost side
 Deloitte ranks customer support the highest-impact function for agentic AI. BCG measured 15-30% productivity improvement in customer service genAI.
Invoice and payables triage
Finance · cost side
 PwC names finance the recommended ROI starting point for private companies: invoice processing, PO matching, reconciliation, anomaly detection.
Scheduling and dispatch coordination
Service operations · cost side
 Service operations is on McKinsey's cost-reduction list. Value concentrates where volume is high and each decision is small.
Recurring reporting and knowledge retrieval
Knowledge management · cost side
 Deloitte ranks knowledge management fourth for agentic impact and names search and knowledge management the top genAI impact area.

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Optional · Will this actually work here? seven more questions, about four minutes

You can buy software tomorrow that promises to handle all of this. Plenty of businesses do, and most get nothing back. Not because the software was bad, but because of something that was already true about the business before it arrived.

These seven are the things that decide whether it pays. They are weighted by the gaps McKinsey measured between the companies that get value from AI and everyone else, and each one shows what other companies actually scored. Skip it and you still get your number; you just will not get a verdict on whether you can capture it.

Have you redesigned a workflow around AI, rather than adding AI to the workflow you already had?

Benchmark: 21% · Only 21% of enterprises rate business processes as prepared for agents, the lowest of seven dimensions. McKinsey: ~75% of AI high performers redesigned workflows vs ~25% of others.

Deloitte Agentic AI Readiness, Aug 2026 · McKinsey State of AI 2026

Did you capture a baseline before deploying, and can you state AI's dollar contribution today?

Benchmark: 40% · 60% of companies fail to define or monitor financial KPIs for AI. High performers are 2x as likely to have defined measurement processes. Only 37% can attribute any EBIT impact.

BCG AI Radar 2025 · McKinsey State of AI 2026

Do you have decision boundaries, live monitoring and audit trails for anything the AI does on your behalf?

Benchmark: 21% · Only 21% of organizations have a mature governance model for autonomous agents. 52% of department AI initiatives run with no formal oversight at all.

Deloitte State of AI 2026 · EY Tech Pulse, Feb 2026

Can an automated process reach the customer and job data it needs without someone exporting a spreadsheet?

Benchmark: 42% · 72% lack unified, accessible data. Bain found data access and integration to be the single biggest barrier, cited by 41%.

Deloitte Agentic AI Readiness, Aug 2026 · Bain Pathfinder 2026

Does an owner or principal personally drive this, with a named person accountable for the outcome?

Benchmark: 52% · High performers are 2x as likely to report visible senior leadership commitment. BCG: ~100% of 'future-built' firms have a deeply engaged C-suite versus 8% of laggards.

McKinsey State of AI 2026 · BCG Widening AI Value Gap, Sep 2025

Do you know what each AI run costs you, with a ceiling that stops a runaway?

Benchmark: 26% · Only 26% have real-time visibility into AI running costs and 36% have usage controls. Agentic tasks consume 5-30x the tokens of a chatbot query for equivalent work.

KPMG AI Pulse Q2 2026 · Gartner Inference Paradox, Mar 2026

Have the people who will use this been trained, and does it fit how they actually work?

Benchmark: 25% · Workforce readiness sits at 25%. 84% of companies have not redesigned jobs to fit AI. BCG puts 70% of AI value capture in people, process and culture, versus 10% in the model itself.

Deloitte 2026 · BCG 10-20-70 framework