AI implementation for owner-led firms of 5–50 people
You've been experimenting with AI for six months. Monday still looks exactly the same.
We find the one workflow in your firm that's actually worth automating, build it into daily use on the tools you already pay for, and hand you the runbook. Fixed scope. Fixed fee. Five weeks.
Take the free assessment10–15 questions, about 10 minutes. Scored instantly. It will tell roughly six in ten firms they're not ready yet — including, possibly, yours.
The gap isn't knowledge. It's production.
Almost every firm we talk to has already tried. There's a ChatGPT tab open, a folder of prompts, maybe a Copilot licence. What there isn't is a single step of the actual business that runs differently than it did last year.
If one of these is you, the assessment is worth ten minutes:
The pilot-to-production gap. The experiment never became a step in the workflow.
Intake, data entry, first-draft documents, triage, chasing, status reporting — high volume, low judgment, still done by hand.
Decision paralysis dressed up as a shortlist.
Those are the three problems we work on. Not "AI transformation" — those three.
One workflow at a time, in a fixed order
1. Diagnose — free
The online assessment scores your firm on the four things that actually decide whether a build will stick: whether you have one clear bottleneck, a system of record, a named person to own it afterwards, and the authority to approve it. You get a written diagnosis either way.
2. Rank — $950
If you have real operational pain but four candidate problems and no ranking, the AI Opportunity Audit produces a ranked, costed shortlist of three candidates and a one-page build spec for the winner. The fee comes off the build if you start within 60 days — so if you proceed, the diagnosis cost you nothing.
3. Build — $4,500
The First Workflow Build: one workflow, running in daily use on your stack, with a written runbook covering the failure modes, a handover session, and two weeks of us fixing anything we built that breaks. At most three systems, at most ten steps, one trigger — bounded on purpose, because that's what makes five weeks real.
Then we stop. We don't start a second workflow until the first one is running.
We're new. So here's our thinking instead of our logos.
Neural Studio Lab is a new practice. We have no case studies to show you and we're not going to invent any — so we've published the actual work instead: the templates we fill in when you hire us, and full teardowns of the workflows we build. Read them and judge for yourself whether we know what we're doing. That's a harder test than a logo wall, and it's the one we'd rather be judged on.
The funnel you're using right now
The assessment you're about to take, the scoring, the routing, the write into the CRM, the follow-up — that is a working example of the kind of thing a build produces. Take it, and you've used our work before you've paid us anything.
Workflow teardowns
Full reference designs for the workflows we build most often — trigger, every step, the tools, the failure modes, roughly what it costs to build and roughly what it costs to keep doing by hand. Labelled reference design, not client work, because that's what they are.
Our method, published blank
The ranked-shortlist template and the build-spec template, empty and free. Nobody buys a template — so giving away the format costs us nothing and shows you exactly how rigorous the paid version is.
Worth being blunt about fit
This works when:
You're an owner-led professional services firm of 5–50 people. One person can approve a $3,000 decision without a committee. You have a CRM or some shared system of record — not just inboxes and spreadsheets. And there's someone who will own the workflow after we hand it over.
This doesn't work when:
Your core workload is regulated data — patient records, cardholder data, privileged discovery. You want a model built or fine-tuned. You want a strategy document rather than something running. Or you need it live in under a month — we're a small practice and we can't serve urgency honestly.
If that last list is you, we'll say so on the call instead of taking the engagement. Two of those are things we decline outright — the assessment will tell you which.
Find out which of the three problems you actually have
Ten minutes, 10–15 questions, scored the moment you finish. You get a written diagnosis whether or not you're a fit, and whether or not you ever talk to us.
Take the free assessment