The AI Reality Check
One stalled or underperforming AI project. Five business days. One written verdict you can hand to your owner, your board, or your bank without editing a word.
An independent verdict, not a sales pitch.
We assess one AI initiative and conclude with a single unambiguous recommendation: continue, restructure, replace, or terminate. DirectSourceAI does not implement AI and does not accept referral fees from anyone who does — which is exactly what makes the opinion worth paying for.
Five phases, five business days.
Intake
A 22-question structured form covering the original objective, spend to date, timeline, vendor, and internal owner.
Document Pull
Contract, statement of work, vendor decks, and invoices, shared to a private folder.
Interviews
Two 45-minute calls — the budget owner, and the person closest to daily use. They rarely tell the same story.
Analysis
Assessment against the six-point framework below, checked against public evidence and category norms.
Delivery
Written report, followed by a 60-minute readout call with the decision-maker.
The six-point assessment.
Was there a defined, measurable financial outcome before a dollar was spent?
Was the tool built into how work actually gets done, or bolted alongside it?
Genuine agentic capability, or automation rebranded as AI?
Proprietary advantage, or a thin wrapper any competitor could rebuild?
What does this cost at three times current usage?
Who is accountable when it produces a wrong answer — and is that written down?
Nine to twelve pages. Plain English. One verdict.
An executive verdict readable in ninety seconds, six-point findings rated red, amber, or green, a capital position statement, the decision with its financial consequence, and a 30-day action list with named owners.
The guarantee: if the report tells you nothing you didn't already know, the fee is refunded in full. No conditions.