AI Audit in Avignon: Find Where Your SME Wastes Time Before Automating

An agri-food trading SME around the Avignon wholesale market processes 250 to 300 purchase orders a week, received by email, phone or fax. Each order is re-entered by hand into the ERP, each supplier follow-up is noted on paper, each delivery dispute is settled without a trace. The result: 15 to 20 hours per employee per week spent on data entry, away from any added value.

The usual reflex is to overload the team or subscribe to a generic "AI" tool that ends up forgotten. The opposite reflex is to automate everything at once, with no priority, and end up with a dozen scripts running but serving nothing.

There is a third way, and it starts with an audit.

What an AI audit changes in Avignon

An AI audit is not a demo. It is fieldwork, done with you, on your real processes. In 45 minutes we look together at where your hours, your salespeople and your operations actually go, and we rank automation projects by real gain. For SMEs across Vaucluse, this means:

• 30 minutes to understand the most time-consuming flow: orders, quotes, follow-ups, invoicing, compliance. We identify the process that deserves to be automated first.
• A cost estimate before any commitment: recovered time translated into working days, then into euros.
• A zero-risk roadmap: automate first, keep manual, skip forever. AI is not the answer to everything, and the audit is there to say so too.

The AI agent does the repetitive, verifiable work: it logs email orders, updates the ERP, triggers supplier follow-ups, prepares invoices for human validation. It does not replace business expertise, negotiation, or customer relationships. It gives your team back time, and that is the whole point.

An expert on the team, not another tool

The audit is delivered through Fractional AI Direction: a senior AI expert works directly inside your company, 1 to 10 days a month, configuring, connecting and training your teams on real cases in your current tools.

Pricing is transparent and decreasing. From €990 excl. VAT/month for one day, down to €750/day at ten days a month. Cancellable with 30 days notice, no justification required. Tool accounts stay in your company's name, and everything built belongs to you.

How it starts

The 45-minute audit is free and non-binding. The first agent goes live within 30 days, starting with the simplest and most painful process, not the most impressive one.

The only extra costs once the audit is done: Claude Pro at about $20 per user per month, and sometimes an automation platform like n8n or Make at 20 to 50 € per month. Accounts opened in your name, no commission for us.

FAQ

Does the audit commit me to anything? No. The 45 minutes are free, non-binding, and the roadmap is yours regardless.

I already tried AI tools on my own. Is it the same? No. The audit does not sell an extra tool: it maps your processes and quantifies what a custom agent brings. You decide afterwards, with full knowledge.

Is my company too small for AI? A 10-employee SME spends as many hours on re-entry as an 80-employee one. The audit exists for that: we do not sell you a project, we show you one recovered hour per day.

What about peak season? Agents run continuously, including weekends. Avignon's agri-food and trading peaks are absorbed without seasonal hiring, and the audit makes that visible.

Hiring, agency, or outsourcing: the real cost

Hiring answers a permanent, full-time need with the risk of delay and departure. An agency bills days without transferring know-how. Fractional AI Direction brings a full function, adjustable from 1 to 10 days a month, cancellable with 30 days notice, keeping everything built in your name.

Grants to fund your audit and your agents

Across Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, several public programs cover up to 50% of these projects: the Plan SUD IA from the Sud Region, the European Move2Digital program (EDIH) and the Chèque Transition Numérique. Nationally, Bpifrance's Diagnostic IA covers 50% of an expertise mission of 3 to 10 days, exactly the format of an automation audit.

Using one of these channels, the net cost of a senior expert day drops below €500 excl. VAT. An SME hesitating on ROI receives a double signal: automation pays off, and public funding covers part of it.

This is exactly what we identify during the free 45-minute audit: the fastest channels to activate for your company, based on its sector, size and location in the region.