A good doctor's first visit is mostly listening and measuring: history, vitals, a few tests, and only then a diagnosis. The first audit week is that visit. You map the client's experimental loop from idea to decision, inventory every data source (paper notebooks, instrument exports, spreadsheets, email), measure cycle time and data readiness, and run one instrument on their sample data to produce a first prototype. …
If you only do one thing this week: the loop map with cycle-time numbers