Your readiness report
An example readiness report, for an example business. Add your company’s website and it is made from yours.
- Tasks your people repeat
- A few thousandFor 250–1,000 people, assumed until you answer
- What the first 25 cost a year
- From £540kIllustrative
- To start, a Readiness Diagnostic
- £60k fixedDraft for review · subject to contract
01. What we would read on your website
Add your company’s website and we read its public pages: what it says it does, how it speaks, its register record and the social accounts it links to.
An example business
- In their own words
- Your homepage’s own line, quotedYour website
- What they do
- The services your website listsYour website
- How they speak
- How your website speaks, in a few wordsButterfly research
- Company register
- Your Companies House entry, with its activity codesCompanies House
- Social accounts
- The accounts your website links toYour website
- Pictures and posts
- Your homepage and your recent postsYour website
02. What we assumed, and what a Diagnostic would measure instead
Every figure in this report rests on these. A Readiness Diagnostic would replace each one with your own.
About how many people work at your company?
Assumed until you answer: 250–1,000 people. Your answer moves every range in this report.
A few thousand tasks
An organisation of 250–1,000 people has a few thousand tasks its people repeat, and new ones every week as the work changes.
- SizeYour own head count, team by team
- IndustryYour own areas and teams
- RatesYour own salaries and on-costs, by role
- TimeTimed with the people who do each task
- SoftwareYour own licences and running costs, shared over the work
- How oftenCounted in your own records
- Which tasks an agent could take onEach task tested on your own held-back cases, against the bar your task owner sets (Readiness, in Butterfly Tasks)
03. A first task set: 25 tasks
A first task set is the 25 tasks worth more to a business than the rest. The first is the task the film follows; the other 24 are likely ones for a business like this.
Matching a supplier invoice to its purchase order
- How often
- Hundreds a week
- A task
- about £7
- A year
- from £34k
Likely tasks, from public research on the work every business has
Example| Row | Task | How often | A task | A year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance operations | ||||
| 02 | Preparing the weekly cash forecast | Dozens a week | about £170 | from £220k |
| 03 | Answering a supplier’s query about a payment | Dozens a week | about £9 | from £11k |
| 04 | Setting up a new supplier and checking its bank details | Dozens a week | about £23 | from £28k |
| 05 | Reconciling a bank account | Dozens a week | about £3 | from £4,200 |
| Finance and accounting | ||||
| 06 | Explaining a reconciliation break | Dozens a week | about £9 | from £11k |
| 07 | Preparing a month-end accrual with its support | Dozens a week | about £9 | from £11k |
| IT service management | ||||
| 08 | Diagnosing and resolving a ticket from logs and runbooks | Dozens a week | about £9 | from £11k |
| 09 | Routing and prioritising incidents against service levels | Dozens a week | about £9 | from £11k |
| 10 | Deciding whether a change request is safe to approve | Dozens a week | about £9 | from £11k |
| Customer service | ||||
| 11 | Resolving an order or billing query across the CRM, order and payment systems within policy | Dozens a week | about £9 | from £11k |
| 12 | Deciding a refund or goodwill credit under the policy | Dozens a week | about £9 | from £11k |
| 13 | Routing and prioritising an escalation | Dozens a week | about £9 | from £11k |
| Procurement | ||||
| 14 | Choosing a supplier under policy and approval thresholds | Dozens a week | about £9 | from £11k |
| 15 | Checking a purchase request against budget and contract | Dozens a week | about £9 | from £11k |
| 16 | Deciding whether an invoice exception can be paid | Dozens a week | about £9 | from £11k |
| Sales and CRM | ||||
| 17 | Qualifying a lead and updating the pipeline | Dozens a week | about £9 | from £11k |
| 18 | Pricing a deal within the discount rules | Dozens a week | about £9 | from £11k |
| 19 | Forecasting the quarter from the pipeline | Dozens a week | about £9 | from £11k |
| Legal and contracts | ||||
| 20 | Reviewing a contract against the playbook | Dozens a week | about £23 | from £28k |
| 21 | Drafting the redline for a supplier agreement within the fallback positions | Dozens a week | about £23 | from £28k |
| Marketing operations | ||||
| 22 | Checking an advert against the brand and legal rules | Dozens a week | about £9 | from £11k |
| 23 | Setting up a campaign to the brief’s budget, audience and dates | Dozens a week | about £9 | from £11k |
| 24 | Reconciling campaign spend in the ad platforms with the plan and the invoices | Dozens a week | about £9 | from £11k |
| HR and people | ||||
| 25 | Answering an employee’s policy question from the handbook and records | Dozens a week | about £9 | from £11k |
Butterfly’s cost model: a person’s time at a loaded rate, plus software, by how often Illustrative
04. How it would run in your own cloud
Butterfly Tasks is the software Butterfly is building to run inside your own AWS account, so your records are read where they already are.
- 01Your security reviewBefore any access
- 02Set-upThe aim: an hour or two
- 03Your first task set8–12 weeks from data access
- 04The yearly plan25 tasks under test
- Where it runs
- Installed in your own AWS account, on your own Amazon Bedrock.
- Your sources
- Your systems and files connected read-only.
- Your records
- Every record read inside your account, its personal details masked before anyone sees it, with the keys in your own key store.
- Access
- Butterfly has no access to your account.
What may leave
Synthetic examples, approved procedures and evals, the shapes of your systems (never their addresses or keys) and scores, each with the approval of a person you name.
What never leaves
A record, a recording, a name or a held-back case.
Personal data about your customers never leaves your account.
05. What the 25 cost today
These 25 tasks cost from £540k a year in people’s time and software, at the rates we assumed.
The first 25, a year
From £540k
In people’s time and software, at the rates we assumed Illustrative
What you could save depends on which of them clear the bar, so this report counts no saving: a Diagnostic tests each task first.
- Readiness Diagnostic
- £60k fixed8–12 weeks from data access: we will map your tasks, cost the top ones, test the first agents on them and hand you blueprints and a roadmap.Draft for review · subject to contract
- Function plan, for 25 tasks
- £96k a yearUp to 25 tasks in one area under test, retested every week and fully each quarter, with the quarterly report.Draft for review · subject to contract
Draft for review · subject to contract
Model bills are inside your fee. Butterfly will pay them up front, as the tests run; you will never get a second bill.
06. Licensing to AI labs
If you agree, reviewed task sets, and synthetic datasets made from your records, can be licensed to AI labs.
- You approve every licence and earn royalties from each one.
- Your held-back cases and readiness tests are never licensed.
The licence fee and your royalties are set out on your call, under draft licence terms.
07. The films
The film, and its 30-second cut.
08. Register my interest
No signature here: every paper goes through Butterfly’s Deals room, after a video call.
- 01You register your interestYour name, your role and what interests you, with this report.
- 02A video callA person from Butterfly calls to book it, and talks it through with you.
- 03The papers, in the Deals roomThe NDA and every other paper go through Butterfly’s Deals room.
To register your interest, open this report online: the tick at its foot asks for your name, your role and what interests you.
Your readiness report, BF-BEFJ-261108. A readiness report made from the public website, 8 November 2026.