Automation with AI without spending a fortune: where to start
AI does not need a two-year committee; it needs a repetitive process.
The word AI sounds like an expensive, drawn-out project. In practice, the best first step is to take a repetitive, boring process and automate it. You do not need to reinvent the company: you need to pick the first case well and measure it.
01 Start cheap, on purpose
An AI automation kickoff at dba.mx runs from USD $850 to $1,400 in setup and USD $170 to $280 a month. It is a range designed to prove value without straining the annual budget.
setup USD $850 to $1,400 + USD $170 to $280/month
02 Pick a case with volume
Classifying emails, extracting data from invoices, answering frequently asked questions. They pay off because they repeat often; that is where AI earns back its cost quickly.
03 Measure before and after
Count the person-hours the process takes today. If automating it frees up 15 hours a month, at USD $18 per hour that is USD $270 recovered monthly, on the order of the monthly fee.
04 Do not automate the exceptional
A case that happens twice a year does not justify the effort. AI pays off in the repetitive and high-volume; for the rare stuff, a person is still cheaper.
// A typical illustrative case
Picture automating the classification and capture of invoices that arrive by email: today it takes 12 person-hours a month. At USD $18 per hour, that is USD $216 a month. With a USD $1,000 setup and USD $200 a month, the project pays for itself within a few months and scales as volume grows. Illustrative figures.
Illustrative example with typical market figures, not a specific client.
// next step
Pick a repetitive process that eats up your team's time every week. With that case we tell you whether it pays off and we launch it at a fixed price, with no endless project.