How much does it cost to put AI on our own company data?

For a serious SMB, the first useful budget is not a six-month strategy programme. 48X starts with a 48-hour build tied to one metric. Larger rollouts depend on how many workflows, data sources, and security constraints are involved, but the first decision should be simple: can one working system prove value quickly?

Our Copilot rollout flopped. Why would this be different?

Treat it as a workflow problem, not a licence problem. Copilot usually fails when it is dropped into email and documents without being wired into the specific work that earns money. We pick one painful workflow, connect the relevant docs, email, CRM, and meetings, then ship a system your team can use by Friday.

What is the alternative to a Big 4 AI consulting project?

A smaller, outcome-tied build. Big consultancies are useful when you need broad governance, board alignment, or global change management. 48X is for teams that already know the workflow slowing them down and want working software in days, not a slide deck in months.

How do we build AI on company data without migrating everything?

We connect to the systems you already use, including Drive, SharePoint, email, CRM, Slack, meetings, Jira, and Linear, under your existing permissions. The 48X Brain sits on top of those sources and cites where each answer came from. No rip-and-replace, no data lake project.

What is the best AI implementation firm for a mid-market company?

The best partner is usually the one that can prove value on your actual data before asking for a large retainer. For mid-market teams, look for three things: a narrow first workflow, clear ownership of security and integrations, and a commercial model tied to the metric you want to move.

How long does it take to implement AI in a business?

The first useful system should take days, not quarters. 48X ships the first workflow in 48 hours so your team can test it on real data. Broader rollout takes longer, but the early proof should arrive before the budget gets serious.

How is this different from Microsoft Copilot / Glean / Notion AI?

Those are search products with a chat interface bolted on. We build the 48X Brain from your docs, email, meetings, and CRM, then wire it into outreach, reporting, onboarding, and internal Q&A. And we ship in 48 hours, customised to your business, instead of a generic SaaS subscription.

Do we have to move or migrate our data?

No. We sit on top of where it already lives: Google Drive, SharePoint, your CRM, your inbox. No migration, no data lake project, no two-year IT initiative.

Is our confidential data safe, and do you train models on it?

Yes. It stays inside your tenancy and we never copy it out. We do not train models on your data and we do not pool data across clients. Permissions from your source systems are inherited automatically, so people only see what they already had access to.

What is "the 48X Brain," actually?

It's the difference between a folder of PDFs and a structured database (technically, a knowledge graph of your business). We turn "the email Maria sent about pricing" into a fact: Maria · approved · 10% discount · for Account X · on April 12. Multiply that by every email, doc, and meeting in your business. That's the 48X Brain.

How do you keep it accurate when the business changes?

New emails, docs, and meetings flow in automatically. The Brain rebuilds the affected entities daily. You don't curate it; it stays current on its own.

Does outcome-based pricing apply forever?

No. The 48-hour build is paid only on outcome. That's the entry. Subsequent work (multi-workflow rollouts, ongoing partnership, advisory) uses conventional pricing: monthly retainer or fixed project fee, depending on scope. The outcome guarantee is the entry point. After the first build proves out, we operate like a normal partner.

Can we just build this ourselves instead of hiring someone?

You could. You're buried. We've spent two years building the connectors, the eval harness, and the security wiring so it's plug-in, not setup. Live in 48 hours, not 9 months.

Can you tell me if anything my team is already building has legs?

Yes. The 48X Brain sees the work in flight across docs, Slack, and Jira. We'll tell you straight which bets are pulling weight and which are quietly stalled.

Do I get to approve the plan before you build?

Yes. You pay first and you sign off the plan. We're not consultants handing you a deck telling you how to do it. We do the work, you approve the direction.

What if we switch from HubSpot to Salesforce later?

If you'd already planned the switch within 6 months of the build, we re-wire it for free. We're not trying to lock you in on the connectors.

How do you maintain it, and what does support cost?

We keep connectors and models current as the underlying tools change. Managed support and optional 24/7 cover are a small ongoing fee, sized on the call. Nothing to upgrade or re-license on your side.

Can we start small and see if 48X works before committing more budget?

Yes. That is the entire point of the 48-hour build. One workflow, one metric, one milestone. If the metric does not move, you do not pay the milestone and nothing else is committed. Most clients run the first workflow for a few weeks before scoping a second.

AI for Business · The 48X Brain

Your business already knows the answer. It's buried in 11 inboxes and 4 drives.

The 48X Brain: every doc, email, and meeting, wired into the workflows your team runs every day.

Live in 48 hours. No migration. No rip-and-replace.

Apply for a 48-hour build See an example

Where did we decide tier-3 pricing?|

48X · ASK

Gmail

Re: Q2 pricing approval

Acme · Apr 11

# SlackSlack

anyone remember tier-3?

@james · 2d ago

NotionNotion

Pricing Strategy v3

stale · Mar 8

CalendarCalendar

Pricing Review

Maria · James · Sarah

SFDCSFDC

Acme Corp

Tier 3 · 10% · won

NotionNotion

Maria Chen: “OK, tier-3 customers go with the 10% discount, formally approved.”

Outlook

Globex — same terms?

FW: from James · 3d

DriveDrive

Q2 Customer Promises

Sarah · 4 days ago

# SlackSlack

didn't we change Q1?

@sarah · 1w ago

SOURCED · APR 12

48X Brain · synced 2 min ago

scanned 47 docs · 312 emails · 18 meetings

60%

of employees spend 11+ hours a week chasing answers across disconnected tools.

48hours

from kickoff to working answers on your data.

2weeks

If after 2 weeks you'd happily go back to your old way of working, we'll give you the CEO CLI for free.

The problem

Your team spends a quarter of every workweek hunting for information they already have.

The information exists. Somebody knows the answer. But nobody can find it fast enough. Meanwhile the new hire spends three months learning what the senior team already knows. The industry has a name for it: tribal knowledge. It's the most expensive thing in your business. You've never seen it on a P&L.

59%

of employees spend 11+ hours a week chasing critical information across disconnected tools.

Quickbase Grey Work Report, 2025 (n=2,200) ↗

~20%

of the average knowledge worker's week is spent searching for internal information or tracking down colleagues who can help with a task.

McKinsey, 2012 (social technologies report) ↗

ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini don't fix this. They don't know your customers, your pipeline, or what you decided last Tuesday. They give average answers. You need answers that are specifically yours.

Every source

Every source where your decisions already live.

We connect under your access controls. Permissions preserved through the whole flow. If a user can't see a doc in SharePoint, they can't see it through the AI.

Source

What 48X extracts

Email (Gmail / Outlook / M365)

GmailOutlookM365

Decisions, commitments, customer context, internal threads, attachments.

Documents (Drive / SharePoint / OneDrive / Notion / Confluence)

DriveSharePointOneDriveNotionConfluence

Strategy docs, playbooks, contracts, decks, memos, meeting notes.

CRM (HubSpot / Salesforce / Close / Pipedrive)

HubSpotSalesforceClosePipedrive

Accounts, deals, contacts, activity history, custom fields.

Meetings (Fireflies / Otter / Granola / Zoom transcripts)

FirefliesOtterGranolaZoom

Decisions made, action items, who said what, customer quotes.

Chat (Slack / Teams)

SlackTeams

Project context, unresolved questions, institutional in-jokes that are actually decisions.

Tickets (Jira / Linear / Zendesk / Intercom)

JiraLinearZendeskIntercom

Bug history, customer issues, resolutions, patterns over time.

Internal databases & data warehouses

BigQuerySnowflakePostgres

Structured facts: revenue, usage, churn, anything in BigQuery / Snowflake / Postgres.

Usage is metered and capped. You set the ceiling. We size it with you on the first call.

Use cases

What we ship most often

48X Brainlive

ICP score 94

email · crm · docs

Use case 1

Outbound scorer — scores leads, drafts outreach in your voice

Pulls buyer signals from public sources. Scores leads against your closed-won history. Drafts personalised outreach grounded in past customer conversations.

50x outbound volume
ICP matching
Outreach drafts

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48X Brainlive

Sourced answer

email · crm · docs

Use case 2

Sourced internal Q&A — ask anything, get the answer cited

Every employee asks; the system answers, with the source. No more pinging the senior team for the same question 5x a week. New hires onboard in days, not months.

Sourced answers
New-hire ramp
Support replies

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48X Brainlive

Brief ready

email · crm · docs

Use case 3

Morning ops brief — KPIs in plain English, in your Slack

Pulls revenue, pipeline, churn, and ops data overnight. Plain-English summary delivered to Slack at 7:30 AM. 45 minutes of dashboard-clicking saved every day.

7:30 AM Slack brief
KPI deltas
Risk flags

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48X Brainlive

Lead booked

email · crm · docs

Use case 4

Lead response in 60 seconds — acknowledge, qualify, book

Inbound lead form submission triggers immediate acknowledgment, 2 qualifying questions, and an auto-booked call slot. Conversion rates lift 20-40% with no change in marketing spend.

Instant acknowledgement
Qualification
Booked call slot

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48X Brainlive

Draft ready

email · crm · docs

Use case 5

Auto-generated reports — board decks, weekly digests, status emails

Pull data, populate template, email to the right stakeholder. 2+ hours per week reclaimed per recurring report. Your job becomes editing, not assembling.

Board decks
Weekly digests
Status emails

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48X Brainlive

email · crm · docs

Use case 6

What's actually going on with this account?

CRM, Slack, tickets, email, and meeting notes pulled into a 3-bullet status in 60 seconds. Kills the weekly status meeting.

Status digest
Source cited
60 seconds

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48X Brainlive

email · crm · docs

Use case 7

What's in this customer's contract?

Non-standard SLAs, terms, and get-out clauses across every contract, answered instantly with the source cited.

Contract scan
SLA flags
Source cited

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48X Brainlive

email · crm · docs

Use case 8

Have they paid?

Billing status (Xero, Stripe, your invoicing tool) surfaced before the meeting, so you know whether to commit to new work.

Billing status
Xero / Stripe
Pre-meeting

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48X Brainlive

email · crm · docs

Use case 9

What changed in the forecast, and what does it do to cash?

Turns HubSpot line-item moves into the cash-flow impact, in plain English, the moment they happen.

Forecast delta
Cash impact
Plain English

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48X Brainlive

email · crm · docs

Use case 10

What did this customer actually ask for?

Consolidated across the email thread, the meeting transcript, and the support ticket. One answer, every source cited.

Customer ask
Every source
One answer

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48X Brainlive

email · crm · docs

Use case 11

Where is this deliverable on the roadmap?

Built, tested, shipped, or stuck? Pulled live from Jira, Linear, and your engineering docs.

Roadmap status
Jira / Linear
Live pull

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Proof

AI for Business in production.

Leapfrog·Outbound scorer and drafted outreach

A pipeline machine that finds the buyer before you do

Leapfrog needed pipeline, fast. We built a system that pulls buyer signals, scores leads against their ICP, and pushes qualified ones into outreach automatically. Live in 48 hours. Refined over the next two weeks.

Result

50x the outreach volume of a manual SDR motion, with higher conversion because the timing is right.

Buyer signal scorerlive

Northwind Ops

Hiring SDRs, intent spike

sent

Mercury Field

New territory launch

sent

Atlas Revenue

Budget owner engaged

queued

Keystone AI

Competitor research

sent

Outbound volume

50x manual SDR

Conversion

higher (better timing)

Time to live

48 hours

“We went from one rep working a list to a system that finds the buyer before we do. Pipeline grew faster than we could hire.”

Leapfrog leadership

Security & Compliance

Secure by design. Compliant by default.

Every 48X system is built to operate in regulated environments. Audit trails, data isolation, and your tenancy by default. Enterprise security as the starting point, not an afterthought.

Choose your deployment. Managed Claude API for fastest setup. Private cloud in your AWS, Azure, or GCP for tenancy control. Fully self-hosted on OpenWebUI and Ollama for air-gapped environments.
Your data stays in your tenancy. Permissions are preserved end to end. If a user can't see a doc in SharePoint, they can't see it through the AI.
No third-party model training on your content. Ever.
SOC 2-aligned controls. Full audit log of every query and source used.
Choose your model. Anthropic, OpenAI, or open-source models on your hardware.

We compose and run the whole stack for you. You never manage tools, licences, or keys.

SOC 2 TYPE II

GDPR

ISO 27001

EU AI ACT

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FAQ

AI for Business questions

Stop losing the answers your team already has.

Working answers on your real data in 48 hours.

We take 3 new builds a month. Real application. Yes or no on the first call.

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