AssessRubusArc Assess runs your discovery interviews for you, an AI interviewer under your brand that talks to every stakeholder in parallel and hands back quantified, evidence-linked findings. You keep the judgment, the relationship and the report.
[1]“We type every invoice in twice.” · Finance lead
See it in action
The same engagement as you run it, as your client’s team experiences it, and as it lands on the executive’s desk.
You configure the engagement, then watch every interview land, who’s done, who to chase, what’s ready to report.
Captured from the product itself, running. Northwind Foods, the people in it and every figure they produced are a fixture we run the pipeline against — not a customer.
Not a questionnaire
A form collects what people already know how to say. The number you need is one nobody has written down — and it only arrives on the third or fourth follow-up.
One answer, as anyone would give it
“We key them in off the PDFs. It’s a bit of a nightmare, honestly.”
What it asked next
What the report got
520 hours a year, keying in invoices
Quantified, and cited back to the sentence it started from — so the client can argue with the number instead of doubting it.
Turn it on and the eleventh conversation starts where the tenth finished: the interviewer follows up on what a colleague has already described, within a team or across the whole engagement. Off by default, your choice per engagement — and a team of one or two is held back, because “someone in finance” is a name when finance is one person.
Every question area of yours comes back covered, still open, or “not my remit” with the person’s own reason. The interviewer says so itself rather than leaving you to infer coverage from what it happened to collect, so you know which gaps are real before you write.
The exchange above is drawn, not captured — same fixture as the screenshots, and the same four follow-ups the interviewer is built to ask.
What it costs to run
One engagement, drawn against the same calendar both ways. Set it to the size of the client you are thinking of.
Two consultants, one interview at a time
5 weeks
Before the client has the reportTo the report
15–22 days*
Senior time it consumesSenior time
Every stakeholder at once, on their own time
3 weeks
Before the client has the reportTo the report
2–3 days*
Senior time it consumesSenior time
Same 12 conversations, and the same person deciding what they mean. The client has the report 2 weeks sooner, and the senior time it costs you falls from 15–22 days to 2–3.
* A model of a typical engagement, not a quoted price or a measured result. By hand assumes two consultants holding three interviews a week each, an hour per interview plus preparation and write-up, then synthesis and writing. On RubusArc assumes the interviews run in parallel inside one week and that you read every transcript back. Both day figures are shown as a band 20% either side of the model. Engagements vary.
How it works
You configure once; stakeholders interview on their own time; the evidence rolls up to you; and what the client agrees to stays on the record.
Set the client context, question areas and teams, add your brand, the interview agent drafts from your own methodology.
Each stakeholder gets a private link and talks to the agent for 20–30 minutes, no scheduling, no accounts, pause anytime.
Every opportunity, inefficiency and risk comes quantified and cited. You decide what makes the deliverable, then hand it over.
The client accepts, declines or defers each opportunity, with an owner and a date. Re-assess next round to measure what moved.
Built for independent consultants
Spend your senior hours on judgment and the report, not on scheduling, note-taking and chasing.
Stakeholders see your name, logo and colours. The practice is yours; RubusArc stays invisible.
Twenty stakeholders in the time one workshop takes, each on a private link on their own day, no calendars to wrangle.
Every opportunity is quantified, time, frequency, cost, and cites the exact words in the transcript.
Review every transcript, curate the findings, and decide what makes it into the report.
Each opportunity is accepted, declined or deferred with an owner, a date and who agreed it, in the client’s own hand or recorded by you.
Re-assess the same client later and the interviewer is briefed on what was agreed, so the follow-up costs you less than the first round did.
Questions
No. Each person gets a private link and starts talking, no accounts, no scheduling, and they can pause and resume anytime.
Yours. Your name, logo and colours brand every interview and the final report. RubusArc stays behind the scenes.
You bring your methodology and question areas; the interviewer drafts from them and probes for the specifics, systems, volumes, hours, cost.
Twenty to thirty minutes per stakeholder, on their own time. You can run the whole company at once.
Always. You review every transcript, curate the findings, and decide what makes it into the deliverable.
A quantified report where every figure links back to the transcript that supports it.
A form takes the first answer. The interviewer takes the fourth: it hears “it’s a nightmare” and asks how many, how long, who and what it costs when it goes wrong.
The plan is a working surface. You and the client accept, decline or defer each opportunity, with an owner and a date, and RubusArc records whether they said it themselves or you recorded it for them.
Set up your first engagement and send interview links today, free to start.