They cut IT costs in half. First, they found out where the money was going.
A large agribusiness company had spent years adding systems and workarounds. With AI, it mapped every system, manual process and overlap in 3 months instead of 9, and decided on facts what to cut.
Agribusiness and food processing · 20,000+ people · 9 business areas · 60 interviews
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These are the hidden costs the map uncovered. Most mid-size and large companies have all of them.
- Every area bought its own tools, and nobody has the full list.228systems in use, most of them chosen area by area
- You pay twice for systems that do the same job.163overlaps between systems
- The numbers that matter live in someone's spreadsheet.15 areasrunning parallel controls in Excel
- Requests and approvals arrive by WhatsApp and email.7 areaswhere demand bypasses any system
- People spend hours re-typing and reconciling data.776processes done manually
There was more work happening outside the systems than inside all specialist systems combined. Every one of those hours, licences and integrations was a cost nobody could see.
The same project, with and without AI
| Without AI | With AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to a complete map | 9 months | 3 months |
| Effort | 1,000 hours | 150 hours |
| Project cost | 6× more expensive | 6× less expensive |
| Level of detail | A summary of the main systems | Every system, manual process and overlap |
How it worked
Listen
60 interviews across 9 business areas. The team asked; AI captured and organized every answer.
Map
AI sorted and cross-checked thousands of data points into one clickable map, every box tied to its source.
Decide
Leadership saw where the money and the hours went, and chose what to consolidate and what to redesign.
AI handled the volume. The method, the interviews and every decision stayed with people.
Big, complex work. Done in a fraction of the time.
Bello & Bel helps companies take on complex tasks with the support of AI, so your team delivers in weeks what used to take months.
- AI Readiness Assessment: where you stand and what to do first
- Tailor-made AI tools that remove the manual work