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Rapid Assessment
FireStart's Process Automation Audit – your automation potential analysis for your company, across every department and location.
An objective basis for decisions for management, finance and department leads: which processes cost time and money today, which are worth tackling first – and where a platform truly adds value.
A process automation audit is a structured analysis of your process landscape. It objectively reveals which processes, tools and system breaks cost time and money today, which two or three are worth automating first and where a platform adds value – from around one person-day of effort and within 2–3 weeks, scalable from a single department to the entire company.
You receive a prioritised shortlist of 5–8 processes, an effort and savings estimate, an implementation roadmap and a decision-ready management presentation.
20+ years of process know-how · Trusted by 220+ companies across the DACH region · Toolmasters 2021–2026 · GDPR-compliant · Made in Austria
Why an audit
Digitising one process creates transparency – but rarely enough justification for a larger platform decision. The bigger lever is to systematically examine which workflows across departments, teams and locations can be automated, standardised or steered better.
And it's not only about individual processes: our experience also covers the interplay of your tools and systems and closing system breaks – wherever data is moved by hand from one system to the next today. The audit shows neutrally where it's worth starting. What you make of it stays your decision – and because it scales, you start small, without a big bang.
The audit delivers an objective basis for decisions: where are the concrete automation opportunities, which processes cost time and money today – and where does a platform create real value?
The process in 5 steps
FireStart provides the methodical lead – preparation, workshop structure, analysis and results presentation. Your effort stays deliberately low.
Together we define the goal, focus and the relevant departments & locations – e.g. finance, accounting, HR, IT or procurement.
A short joint session: why we're running the audit, what we'll ask, what effort is involved and what result is planned.
We run structured workshops to understand the process reality – manual steps, pain points, system breaks and volumes.
Building on the workshops, we dig deeper and make the findings comparable and economically assessable.
We present what the processes cost and what potential exists – and hand over a concrete action plan with prioritised next steps.
The decision logic
These two or three processes are worth doing first; here automation pays off – and this one is better handled with existing means. In the audit we don't sell you a tool, but clarity and 20+ years of process expertise – so you know the right order before you invest. We're happy to support the implementation afterwards.
Improvable in the short term with manageable effort – often without a big project.
Recurring, cross-departmental, traceable – a repeatable model for control.
Better handled with existing systems or in-house means – we'll tell you that honestly too.
What the result looks like
An anonymised example of what the core of your final report can look like – each process with estimated effort, savings potential and a clear classification. The shortlist is only one building block: it also includes an effort and savings estimate, an implementation roadmap and a management presentation.
* Estimated reduction in manual effort. Illustrative example – real figures come from the workshops and questionnaire of your audit.
From audit to implementation
The audit ends with a clear basis for decisions – and we're happy to support the implementation directly. This is how much potential typically sits in the first processes on your shortlist.
From the shortlist you pick the 2–3 processes with the biggest lever.
We implement the prioritised processes with you – typically around 3 processes in 3 months on the FireStart platform. The action plan provides the blueprint, whether with us or in-house.
Manual effort drops for good – then the next wave follows. More in our use cases.
On request, we implement these 3 processes with you in around 3 months – and these are just 3 of the 5–8 processes on your shortlist.
Illustrative example based on typical values (fully loaded cost ~€70/hr). The audit determines your specific figures.
From our customers
“We were able to automate complex approval processes ourselves within a few weeks thanks to the intuitive user interface – including integrations with APIs, SQL databases and SAP.”
“The integration into our existing systems and the clearly structured task distribution enable a consistently transparent and audit-proof workflow – with significantly reduced effort.”
FAQ
A short, no-obligation intro call is enough to clarify scope and next steps.
