September 14, 2026
What Actually Happens on a Free Automation Audit Call
By Andrew Hendrich, a former Senior RBT who consulted BCBA leadership on clinical operations, now building Anomaly.
If you've never booked a call like this before, “free automation audit” probably sounds like one of two things. Either it's a disguised sales pitch where someone tries to close you on a $20,000 package by minute twenty, or it's a vague strategy session that ends with a PDF full of AI buzzwords and no actual plan. Neither of those is what this is, but you have no way of knowing that until someone tells you, so here's exactly what happens.
What we're actually doing on the call
We're mapping your day-to-day operations. Not your clinical work, not anything client-related, just the administrative and operational stuff that eats your team's time: hiring and onboarding RBTs, scheduling, supply ordering, credentialing tracking, the general busywork that keeps a clinic running underneath the actual therapy. Not sure how much that's actually costing you? Run the numbers on RBT turnover alone.
We ask specific questions. How many locations. How many RBTs. What's actually happening when someone gets hired, or when a certification is about to expire, or when the schedule falls apart because someone called in sick. We're trying to find the exact places where a person is doing something repetitive and rule-based that a piece of automation could be doing instead.
That's it. It's up to 45 minutes, and it's a conversation, not a presentation. We're not walking in with a deck of slides about “the future of AI in healthcare.” We're asking about your Tuesday.
What you walk away with
Two things, specifically.
First, a prioritized list of what's actually automatable in your operation, ranked by how much time or money it's costing you right now. Not everything is worth fixing first. Some things are a bigger drain than others, and we tell you which is which instead of pitching you on the biggest package we can sell.
Second, a real investment estimate. Not a “contact us for a custom quote” placeholder. An actual number, or a real range, based on what we just talked about, so you can decide whether it's worth doing before you've spent a dollar.
If nothing we find is worth automating yet, we say that too. That's a genuinely possible outcome of this call, not a hypothetical we throw in to sound humble.
What it isn't
It isn't a contract pressure session. Nobody's asking you to sign anything on the call, and there's no countdown timer or “you have to decide today” nonsense. If you want to think about it for a month, think about it for a month.
It isn't a generic AI-strategy deck, either. We're not showing up with a deck built for a hospital system or a Fortune 500 company and pretending it applies to your 20-person clinic. Everything we talk about is scoped to what a clinic your size can actually use and afford, not what sounds impressive in a sales presentation.
And it isn't billing or claims consulting. We stay on the administrative and operational side, full stop. If something we're discussing starts drifting toward client treatment data or billing automation, that's a line we won't cross, and we'll tell you why on the spot instead of quietly working around it.
Why we run it this way
We've been on the other end of vendor calls that oversold and underdelivered. That's most of what “book a free consultation” means to people right now, and we're not interested in adding to that pile. The call works better for both of us when you leave it actually knowing something you didn't know before, whether or not you ever become a client.
Where this fits
If you're not sure whether any of this applies to your clinic, that's exactly what the call is for. Tell us about your practice and we'll walk through it together.