AI audit · paid separately from delivery

Before you deploy AI, someone has to tell youwhat not to deploy.

We come in, watch your processes as they actually run, and tell you which ones are worth automating and which are not. Every recommendation is checked against GDPR and the EU AI Act. The report stays with you, including when the conclusion is "leave this one alone".

  • Fixed price, agreed up front
  • Two weeks
  • A concrete report at the end

The audit is analysis only - any implementation is a separate, deliberate decision on your side.

5.0 / 5
Guaranteeon every system we deliver
45 minfree consultation, no obligation

What an AI audit is

An AI audit works out, before anything gets built, which processes in a company are genuinely worth automating, what they cost today, and how long the investment takes to return. It ends with a map of processes carrying real numbers and a recommendation that sometimes reads "leave this one alone". AppWave runs the audit as a separately paid service, so its conclusion does not depend on whether you buy anything afterwards.

Why

No buying a pig in a poke.No deploying blind.

The most expensive AI projects are the ones aimed at the wrong place. An audit costs a fraction of a misspent technology budget that never returns.

01

No buying a pig in a poke

You know what you're getting into before you sign anything for implementation - with concrete numbers, not a salesperson's promises.

02

No deploying blind

Numbers and priorities first, technology second. You start with what pays off the most.

03

No legal risk

Every recommendation passes a GDPR and EU AI Act filter before it ever reaches the plan.

How we work

Two weeks,from the first call to the report.

A clear, four-stage process with a concrete result at the end.

  1. Day 1

    Call and scope

    A short meeting where we learn your context and decide which processes we put under the lens.

  2. Week 1

    Visit and mapping

    We come to you, watch the work live and map the processes as they really are, not as the theory says.

  3. Week 2

    Analysis, quote, compliance

    We calculate savings, prioritise use cases, estimate cost and check every recommendation against GDPR and the EU AI Act.

  4. At the end

    Report and presentation

    You get a finished report and we walk through it live. You leave with a concrete plan, not a folder for the shelf.

What you get

Four concrete thingsat the end of the audit.

Not generalities - ready material you can make a decision on.

An AI process map

We come in, watch the process live and map out where you lose time.

  • The process seen on site
  • Bottlenecks named outright

A prioritised use-case list

Each idea scored for savings, cost and risk.

  • Ranked by fastest return
  • A clear "start here"

Return estimate and quote

An estimate together with the assumptions behind it, so you can check the reasoning, not just the number.

  • Assumptions written next to every figure
  • Implementation cost range
Built in

GDPR compliance review

Whether the planned solutions are legal, before you invest in them.

  • Legal risks flagged early
  • Recommendations ready for compliance

Terms

The terms you knowbefore you write to us.

No savings percentages pulled out of thin air. What follows holds regardless of what the audit finds.

Paid audit, detached from the sale
Separate
You pay for the answer, not for an introduction to a pitch. "Do not do this" is as legitimate a result as any other.
Free call before the audit
45 min
No strings. If it becomes clear you do not need an audit, we say so on that call.

We do not put savings percentages here, because they depend on the process. We work them out for you during the audit, together with the assumptions they rest on.

Why us

You know who is comingand why we are free to say no.

Four things that separate our audit from an online questionnaire.

We come to you

We don't audit by questionnaire. We watch what your working day really looks like, because the process on paper rarely matches reality.

Compliance isn't a footnote

GDPR and the EU AI Act are part of every recommendation from the start, not a paragraph tacked on at the end of the report.

Who sits down with you

The audit is run by AppWave's co-founders, each covering a different part: Jakub Dulas on backend architecture and agent systems, Mateusz Cieśliński on infrastructure and what survives in production, Antoni Łubisz on interfaces and integrations. Names, skills and profiles are on the team page, so you know who is coming before they arrive.

What we usually advise against

Three things we say out loud before anyone signs anything. Automating a process you run a dozen times a month rarely pays for the automation. Automating a broken process gives you a faster broken process. And a system with no maintenance budget dies within a year, so we ask about that budget on the first call, not after delivery.

Guarantee

The risk sits with us,not with you.

The Working Implementation Guarantee

If the audit finds no process that pays back within a sensible horizon, we will say so plainly and will not propose an implementation.

We can promise this because we do not earn on whatever rollout the review leads to. The review is paid for separately and ends in a report, including when the conclusion is: do not do this.

  • The report and the process map are yours. You can show them to another vendor and we will not ask who.
  • Scope and price are agreed before we start. We do not add line items along the way.
  • After the rollout you keep the same person you talked to at the beginning.

Let's start with a call,the audit is the second step.

We set the price after the first call, based on how many processes are in scope, and it does not change. Two weeks, a concrete report at the end. No obligation to implement.

Book a call about the audit

First call: 45 minutes · free · no obligation

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  • Uptime guarantee - if a system breaks, the fix is included, no extra charge.
  • You talk to the owner, not a salesperson

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FAQ

Common questionsabout the GDPR-compliant AI audit.

Most often those around data entry, report generation and customer service, plus any repetitive activities that eat up employees' time.

Four ways. The process is rare, meaning it runs a dozen times a month and the automation has nothing to pay itself back from. The process is unstable, meaning it looks different every time and cannot be described by a rule or by a set of examples. The data it would run on is scattered across inboxes and spreadsheets, so it has to be put in order first, which is separate work and a separate cost. Or the process is simply broken, and automating it gives you a faster broken process. Each of those four goes into the report by name.

A demo that answers somehow can be put together over a weekend. The difference comes down to three things a demo does not have: a knowledge base built on your own data, a human approving decisions at the points where risk sits, and logs and monitoring that show what the system answered and why. The audit checks whether those three can be stood up at your company before anyone starts building.

No. The audit is analysis first. When it's done you get recommendations that may include simple organisational changes as well as AI proposals where it genuinely pays off.

Yes. We run the audit with GDPR in mind - we analyse what data is processed, where it's stored and how it can be secured, and we build compliance into every recommendation.

The audit has a fixed price, set by the number of processes and the depth of analysis. After an initial call we give you a concrete quote - no surprises at the end.

It is the fairest question anyone asks about this service. That is why the audit is paid for separately and ends with a document that stays with you whatever you decide next. If the numbers say no process returns the cost of an implementation, that is the audit result, and we write it down as such.

With a process that hurts, not with a tool that was in the news. In EY’s 2026 study, 49 percent of Polish companies called their AI implementation disappointing and 17 percent would not repeat the decision. The usual cause is not technical: the company buys a tool before deciding what problem it should solve and how anyone would know it had.

Subscription tools generally run 200-2,000 PLN a month, while custom implementations on the Polish market start at 8,000-30,000 PLN of setup alone, with maintenance billed on top. With us, the build, the care and the fixes sit inside one figure from 3,875 PLN a month, with no setup fee. You can price your own scope in the calculator on this site.