SPRINKLING ACT
Sprinkling Act
Human In The Map (HITM) reconstructs how AI actually moves through your workflows, costs, and decisions, beyond what your teams see.
What the published record shows
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USD 186 per employee, per month
A colleague sends you an output produced by an AI tool. It looks finished. It takes close to two hours to see that it is not, find what is missing and redo it. That time is neither in the cost of the tool nor in the gain it was bought for.
BetterUp Labs and Stanford, 2025
The tools shipped. The teams are busy. The quarter looks like the last one.
Training was given to the whole company and fitted to no role. Every employee does a little. A little, without a limit, ends up being a lot of work that was never adapted to what it was applied to.
Skills, and some of the judgement with them. A case that was routine becomes sensitive halfway through, and the employee handling it is the one the tool answered fastest for, not the one whose role it is.
The gain was counted once, on the task. The cost spreads across the employees downstream, who were never asked to carry it, and it has no line of its own.
Not the decision to stop anything, but the decision to see. Until then the spend continues, the unlisted tools accumulate the records that will make them hard to leave, and the question of who answers for what stays open.
The cost is not invisible. It is covered over.
You see the workflow you name, and what you see is accurate. What settles on top of it is of another kind: a tool that decides produces work around itself, and nobody can promise to take it back out. The answer already exists, in pieces, across three or four of your employees who have never been asked together about the same output. That noise cannot be removed. It can be located.
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You do not buy hours, and you do not buy a file that grows for as long as it can be sold to you. A scope agreed before the work starts, a price fixed before it starts, and a document you can put in front of your lawyer or your board.
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No engine reads your tools and writes the finding for you. A person conducts the examination, dates what it establishes, and what it establishes holds afterwards, whether or not you take anything further with us.
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What you receive is not an interpretation of the law and does not stand in for one. It is a record of facts, dated, where every finding carries its evidence status. When you go to counsel, you arrive with a file they can read and act on, instead of a blank page and an hour spent describing your company.
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Compliance stays yours. Our role is a defensible starting point, not a certificate we have no power to issue.
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Nothing here covers a risk or absorbs one. Independence is not a guarantee on sale, it is a condition of the work: no finding is negotiable, wherever the request to soften it comes from.
FIRST ENTRY SCOPE
A single workflow, the one you name. The scope is set in writing and countersigned before anything starts. A framing conversation opens it, you then share your elements, a second conversation puts what was found against what you had described, and a sixty-minute readout closes the mission.
What you give us
What we deliver
The Full Map includes the Baseline: taken together it is one engagement, and if the Baseline was already delivered it is not redone and not billed twice. Periodic analysis requires a delivered Baseline. A check in their column means you have that line by then.
A finding whose source cannot be produced is withdrawn; if that withdrawal changes the report’s outcome, the engagement is refunded.
Tell us which decision is coming and what already runs. If there is no fit, we will say so in that first conversation.
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