Sample AI Opportunity Map
What a sample AI Opportunity Map looks like.
Every Piedmont IT Advisors engagement starts with a free AI evaluation. This page is the document it produces: a map of where a team’s hours go, where an agent can help, and what stays human. The company below is fictional — the format is real.
Sample — fictional company
Prepared for: Carolina Ridge Building Supply (sample company — fictional)
Business: Building-products distributor · 34 people · two locations (Rock Hill + satellite yard)
Prepared by: Piedmont IT Advisors — free AI evaluation deliverable
This is a sample map for a fictional company, written to show what an evaluation produces. Every figure below is an illustrative estimate based on the sample scenario — not a result, a case study, or a promise.
Where the hours go.
Order and invoice processingest. 9 hrs/week
Orders arrive by email and phone. The office manager re-keys them into the system, then matches invoices against them by hand at week’s end. Errors surface at delivery, when they’re expensive.
Agent support: an agent reads incoming order emails and drafts the entries for one-click review; a second pass matches invoices to orders and flags only the mismatches.
Your people keep: exception calls, pricing decisions, the customer relationship.
The Friday reportest. 4 hrs/week
The operations lead spends Friday afternoon pulling numbers from three spreadsheets into the weekly summary the owner reads Monday.
Agent support: an agent assembles the report from the same sources every week, same format, and flags anything that moved more than usual.
Your people keep: reading it, deciding what it means, acting on it.
Quote follow-ups that never get sentest. 5 hrs/week
Reps quote well, then the floor gets busy and follow-ups slip. Quotes go cold quietly — nobody decided to lose them.
Agent support: an agent drafts each follow-up on schedule and queues it for the rep to approve and send in one click.
Your people keep: the send button, the conversation, the close.
Documentation and onboarding paperworkest. 6 hrs/week (spiky)
How things are done lives in two veterans’ heads. New hires shadow for weeks; every departure takes knowledge with it.
Agent support: a documentation agent turns shadowing notes and marked-up examples into written procedures and checklists, and assembles onboarding packets from them.
Your people keep: verifying the procedures are right — they’re the experts being captured.
The shape of it
18–24 hours a week, handed back.
Across these four workflows, roughly 18–24 hours per week return to the team this business already has — the strongest people’s time, handed back to the work only they can do. No part of this plan needs a new hire.
Order-entry agent
Biggest pile, clearest rules — it builds first.
Friday report agent
Fast win; the owner sees it weekly.
Quote follow-up agent
Revenue-side; reps approve every send.
Documentation agent
Slower payoff, permanent value.
What stays human, always: approvals, exceptions, pricing, and every customer conversation that matters.
Why Piedmont IT Advisors
Three things nobody else has.
A human approves everything.
Agents do the work, but nothing leaves the building unreviewed. A person approves anything that goes out — every draft, every send, every time.
Prices in the open.
Every price we charge is published on this site. You don’t need a sales call to learn what something costs — it’s on the pricing page.
Your map starts with a free evaluation.
Equip the team you have with AI agents — not more hires. The evaluation looks at your workflows the same way this sample looks at Carolina Ridge’s — and the map is yours to keep either way.
Sample document. Carolina Ridge Building Supply is a fictional company, and every figure on this page is an illustrative estimate, not a result or a promise.