Five classes structure AI automation. A seven-question decision tree, a costed comparison table, four observed anti-patterns, and a case applied to a 25-person SME.
Seven steps to isolate, in an SME, the first process whose cost is measurable, whose data is clean, whose gain is provable and whose risk is contained. Case applied to a fifteen-person SME.
A French SME with fifteen employees loses between EUR 5,500 and EUR 7,300 per month on automatable tasks. The public formula, the costed table, and the sources to run the numbers yourself.
Seven AI projects out of ten miss their promised ROI. The primary cause is not technical: it is excess complexity at scoping. Five root causes, four KISS principles, three dated composite cases, a seven-point decision tree.
Six operational risks of poorly deployed AI in an SME, a composite case costed at EUR 145,000 and a ten-point governance framework achievable without a CTO.