Lainge / Practical AI workflow consulting/For U.S. small and midsize businesses across industries
Find the one workflow worth automating first.
A self-guided map of one repetitive workflow, a fixed fee you see before the call, and hours given back on a measure you agreed to.
The assessment is self-guided. Any fit review is voluntary; completing it does not commit you to an engagement or guarantee a particular fit or result.
No account requiredNo sensitive records required
Assessment / 001
Start here
A low-friction way to start
Describe the work before you decide what to change.
Describe the pressure point
Name one repetitive, slow, or difficult-to-handoff workflow
Add enough context
Share industry, frequency, tools, constraints, and ownership
Receive a grounded next step
Decide whether a review or another step is worthwhile
Self-guided. Practical. No account or sensitive records required.
Founder
Larissa Way
I built Lainge to help businesses explore whether AI can save them time and money—without changing the work they’ve already done. Together, we’ll see where a little glitter and glue can make things work even better.
Lainge / A practical path
Start independently. Choose the next step that fits.
Lainge provides workflow consulting and implementation services.
01 / START
Complete the self-guided workflow assessment
Describe one workflow and its constraints. The assessment returns a prioritized workflow shortlist and a practical pilot starting point.
Start the assessment02 / IF YOU CHOOSE
Discuss the workflow fit with Lainge
Request a separate fit review to discuss the assessment findings and whether a next step is appropriate.
03 / WHEN APPROPRIATE
Consider a clearly scoped, fixed-fee pilot
When appropriate, the review may lead to a pilot for one agreed workflow. Before work begins, Lainge and your team agree the scope, inclusions, exclusions, and fixed fee.
Open the pilot request
Optional / AI workflow ROI estimate
Estimate the weekly time one repetitive workflow could return to your team.
Enter your weekly workflow time, the share that may suit automation, and an expected adoption rate. The result is an estimate based on those assumptions, not a promise about future outcomes.
Open the focused workflow ROI calculatorThree inputs, one estimate
Your workflow assumptions
Change any assumption to update the weekly estimate instantly.
Approximate staff hours currently spent on this repetitive workflow each week.
hours
%
Estimated share of the automated workflow the team will actually use.
%
Estimated weekly hours reclaimed: 8 hours/week
Estimated weekly hours reclaimed
8 hours/week
A directional estimate from the three assumptions you entered.
This estimate combines your entered weekly workflow hours, share suitable for automation, and expected adoption rate.
Free self-guided assessment
Map the workflow behind the estimate
The self-guided assessment helps you examine one workflow in its operating context.
Your calculator inputs stay in this page and are not submitted or stored.
Start the free workflow assessmentHow the estimate is calculated
Weekly time × automation share × expected adoption
Each assumption contributes to the estimated weekly hours reclaimed.
20 hours50%80%8 hours/week estimated
Estimate = weekly workflow time × share suitable for automation × expected adoption. Prefilled values are illustrative starting points, not Lainge benchmarks. Actual results depend on workflow fit, implementation, and adoption; this is not a promised outcome. Your entries stay in this page and are not submitted or stored.
If your workflow gives back even 3 hours a week, the Quick Start pays for itself in weeks - run the calculator above.
Optional / Fit review
Use the assessment findings to decide what to consider next.
Use a fit review to discuss your workflow and the completed assessment, then decide whether a next step is appropriate.
Next available action: complete the assessment first. If you have already completed it, use the pilot request to ask about a fit review.
What Lainge provides
A practical workflow path, grounded in your operating context.
01
Industry and workflow context
Share the broad industry context, where the workflow starts and ends, how often it runs, and where pressure, delay, repetition, or difficult handoffs show up.
02
Tools, sources, and boundaries
Name the current tools and sources, relevant constraints, and broad data boundaries. General descriptions are enough; do not send sensitive records, credentials, or account identifiers.
03
Human review and team adoption
Keep approval, correction, escalation, ownership, and the practical measure of improvement visible so the team can review, use, and maintain the workflow.
Lainge / Human review
Human review, in practice
Lainge’s practical AI workflow approach is designed to keep people in control through three principles:
Correction
Escalation
What Lainge reviews
A fit review grounded in how work moves today.
Lainge reviews the current process before suggesting a change. The aim is to make workflow fit, approved-tool and data boundaries, human review, team ownership, and measurement visible—not to assume that every workflow needs automation.
Current process and handoffs
Trace the trigger, steps, waiting, re-entry, decisions, and handoffs so the real pressure point and current owner are clear.
Approved tools, sources, access, and data boundaries
Review the tools and reference sources already approved for the work, what access is needed, and what information should stay outside the workflow.
Human review, escalation, ownership, and measurement
Make approval, correction, escalation, maintenance ownership, and the way improvement could be measured explicit before a next step is chosen.
Trades guide / sample map
A trades service question, from intake to follow-up
Workflow sequence
- 01
Incoming request
Capture the service question and context.
- 02
Job context
Bring forward the details staff needs.
- 03
Documented outcome
Record the approved notes and next step.
- 04
Customer follow-up
Give staff a clear point to review and respond.
What the guide supports
- Trigger
- A service question comes in.
- Handoffs
- Capture its context, bring forward the job details staff needs, record approved notes and a next step, then give staff a point to review and respond.
- Tools / gap
- Specific tools are not named in the available trades-guide material.
- Owner / gap
- Staff review and technician notes are mentioned, but an accountable owner role is not specified.
- Measure / gap
- No measure or result is specified. Agree a measure with the workflow owner before evaluating a change.
Source and result gaps
The audit source was unavailable in this workspace, and no source-backed screenshot is present in the repo. This visual is composed from the written trades guide.
This illustrative sample is not a deployed workflow or a client result.
Possible workflow examples
The starting point depends on the work.
These possible workflows use the assessment’s industry choices and categories. They are prompts to consider, not Lainge client examples or promised outcomes.
Trades and field services
Possible workflow
Route a new service request into a reviewable handoff.
- Workflow context
- Operations
- Existing tools
Professional services
Possible workflow
Gather approved project notes into a draft client update for review.
- Internal documentation
- Existing tools
- Data handling
Healthcare and wellness
Possible workflow
Sort appointment questions and flag sensitive cases for staff review.
- Customer service
- Operations
- Data handling
Technology and software
Possible workflow
Group recurring support questions with product guidance for a teammate to check.
- Customer service
- Internal documentation
- Existing tools
Retail and hospitality
Possible workflow
Route order or booking questions using the relevant service guidance.
- Customer service
- Operations
- Existing tools
Manufacturing and distribution
Possible workflow
Surface order or inventory exceptions for an operations owner to review.
- Operations
- Existing tools
- Data handling
Start with your own workflow and decide what is worth examining before choosing a tool or pilot.
Use the self-guided assessmentLainge / First engagements
First engagements
Authentic Lainge client proof is not available yet. No client quote, name, business type, or measured outcome is published here.
To complete this proof update, the owner needs to supply three authentic client quotes, each with a first name, business type, and measured outcome.
Review the sourced case-study examplesReview before commitment
Keep the possible next step bounded and reviewable.
A fit review may lead to no build, a workflow plan, or—when appropriate—a clearly scoped, fixed-fee pilot for one agreed workflow. Nothing here assumes a subscription, guaranteed fit, engagement, or result.
One agreed workflow
Start with a specific workflow and an explicit in-scope boundary instead of an open-ended transformation.
Clear access and data limits
Name approved tools and sources, required permissions, excluded information, and the constraints that shape the work.
A human-reviewed loop
Keep approval, escalation, correction, and exception handling visible wherever context or judgment matters.
Documentation and ownership
Leave a reviewable implementation or operating loop, an owner, and an agreed way to measure whether the workflow is improving.
If a pilot is the right fit
Test one agreed workflow, then decide what it earned.
Set a clear workflow scope and data boundary, then review a documented loop with an owner, escalation path, and measure the team can inspect.
01 / SCOPE
Agree the boundary.
Name what is in and out, approved tools and sources, access and data boundaries, the owner, and the measure that matters.
02 / REVIEW
Run a measurable loop.
Implement or exercise the smallest useful path with human review, escalation, documentation, and a success measure your team can inspect.
03 / DECIDE
Adopt, adjust, expand, or stop.
Review what happened with the workflow owner and choose the next step.
If a pilot is the right fit
Test one agreed workflow, then decide what it earned.
Some reviews may end without a pilot. A pilot starts only after you approve a written scope for one workflow, with inclusions, exclusions, fixed fee, and confirmed timelines or deliverables; no particular result or ongoing engagement is promised.
Explore the fixed-fee pilotPrefer email? contact@laingeai.com
Share one workflow with Lainge.
A short form is a practical alternative to the assessment. General workflow details are enough; do not send sensitive records or credentials.