Opportunity Assessment

Automation Opportunity Assessment: Prioritise Value Before Choosing Tools

Most organisations have more automation ideas than implementation capacity. The challenge is deciding which opportunities are valuable, sufficiently standardised, technically feasible and safe to automate - and which processes should be redesigned first.

Contetra's assessment creates a structured portfolio of automation opportunities across functions, with a recommended sequence, business case, control requirements and proof-of-value candidates.

A practical automation roadmap based on process evidence - not a catalogue of AI features.

What we help you do

Process inventory and pain-point scan

Volume, effort, delays, errors, hand-offs, systems, controls and dependency on individual knowledge.

Opportunity scoring

Value, feasibility, data readiness, standardisation, risk, integration effort and change impact.

Solution options

Workflow, API integration, RPA, document processing, analytics, AI assistance or agentic automation.

Roadmap and governance

Priority waves, pilots, owners, architecture principles, benefit measures, controls and change governance.

How we work

Step 1Interview process owners and review representative work.

Step 2Quantify current effort, risk and performance.

Step 3Score opportunities and define target outcomes.

Step 4Select pilots and establish the implementation roadmap.

Choose the first automation with evidence

Assess processes across finance, sales, operations, marketing and projects before committing to a platform or enterprise programme.