What people ask before we start

ALUD Consulting LLC is a business transformation firm serving Puerto Rico and the United States. We read an organization as seven connected engines — strategy, finance, leadership, operations, people, technology and growth — and work on what connects them rather than on each department in isolation. That is the difference between treating a problem where it hurts and treating it where it starts.

No. ALUD provides strategic and operational consulting. It is not a CPA firm and not a law firm, and it claims no public accounting, audit or legal authority. Work requiring a local licence or specific certification is delivered only within the applicable professional scope, or coordinated with qualified professionals. That limit is written into the professional scope page of this site.

Yes. We serve Puerto Rico and the United States. The seven-engine system does not depend on jurisdiction. What is specific to Puerto Rico is tax compliance — income tax returns, sales tax, the municipal licence, CRIM — because those obligations are local by definition.

Business 360™ is the entry point to the ALUD ecosystem. It is an assessment that helps an organization see itself as a connected system: it identifies maturity, exposes critical dependencies, and points to the next right action. It does not end at a score; it begins there.

The digital preliminary assessment takes fifteen to twenty minutes and returns your preliminary ALUD Enterprise Score along with the maturity stage the organization sits in. One question per screen, saved as you go, and you can pick it up later. An advisor can validate the result with you afterwards.

A questionnaire scores areas separately. Business 360™ looks at how they connect, which is usually where the real problems live: an operation that will not scale because the people structure cannot hold it, or finances that give no visibility because the process never records decisions when they happen. The assessment is the first rung of a progression, not an exam.

Through a four-rung ladder. Discover is the digital preliminary assessment and its initial results. Blueprint validates that result with an advisor, reviews the evidence and produces the roadmap. Execute is the implementation programmes and projects. Elevate is continuous monitoring and organizational evolution. You move one rung at a time, and at each one you decide whether to continue.

When growth starts creating complexity faster than the structure absorbs it. The signals tend to be the same: decisions that depend on one person, information that exists but never arrives in time, processes that worked with five people and break with fifteen. If you are not sure where you stand, the preliminary assessment gives that reading in twenty minutes at no cost.

ALUD OS™ is the platform that carries the work over time: roadmap, projects and indicators connected to the seven engines from your assessment. It is where a transformation stops being a report and becomes something you operate and review.

Yes. We prepare and file returns and declarations for individuals and businesses in Puerto Rico, within the applicable professional scope: income tax returns, information returns, employer filings, the municipal licence, CRIM and monthly sales tax. What we file and what gets coordinated with a licensed professional is put in writing before we start.

Yes, and it starts by measuring whether the organization can absorb it. The AI Readiness Scan is free, takes about ten minutes, and returns a readiness index along with the blockers that would sink any initiative. The specific questions about data security, replacing staff and timelines are answered on the applied artificial intelligence page.

It depends on scope, and we put it in writing before we start rather than at the end. What does carry a published price: the AI Readiness Scan is free, artificial intelligence services start from $497, and the books, kits and templates in the store list their price on each product page. For everything else, the conversation begins with understanding which decision you are trying to resolve.