Choose a first AI project
Compare the repeated tasks your teams want help with, using value, readiness and effort rather than enthusiasm for a tool.
Strategy & direction
AI strategy consulting.
Assess AI readiness. Plan your first useful project.
You have ideas for AI. The harder question is which one is worth doing first. We work through your processes, data and systems with you, then turn the options into a practical plan.
Work with your team to assess readiness, compare opportunities and shape a roadmap you can revisit as priorities change.
Illustrative assessment · Led by peopleHow we deliver this service
Turn your AI ideas into a delivery decision.
We review actual tasks with their owners, inspect the data and system access, and compare the possible approaches. Together we choose what to investigate or pilot first, with dependencies, ownership and success measures written into the plan.
Why work with us
We bring our founder’s operations, enterprise IT and automation experience into the assessment. That helps connect an attractive AI idea with practical constraints and a project your team can own. We consider existing software and ordinary automation alongside AI.
The experience behind our approachA good starting point if…
- You want to start with AI but need to prioritise the right use cases.
- Different teams are buying tools without a connected plan.
- A pilot looks promising, but the business case or next step is unclear.
See the work
Which of three AI ideas should come first?.
Illustrative example · sample data, not client results.
01 / The problem
Three ideas compete for attention
Operations wants order extraction, sales wants a CRM assistant and support wants document search. The team has not compared the work behind those requests.
02 / What we do
Compare the work behind the ideas
We walk through an order, a sales enquiry and a support question. For each, we check repetition, available data, system access and what a useful pilot would need to prove.
03 / What you get
A decision sheet and next scope
A decision sheet compares the three options, records missing evidence and defines the next assessment or pilot. A blocked integration might put a promising idea later in the sequence.
Step 1 of 3
No winner or return is assumed here. The recommendation follows your process evidence and investment priorities.
Where it helps
Different starting points. A clearer decision.
Make sense of existing pilots
Review what has been tried, what the evidence shows and what must change before further investment.
Give teams a shared direction
Agree priorities, owners and a sequence when separate departments are exploring AI in different ways.
What’s included
A roadmap built from the work, not assumptions.
An opportunity assessment, readiness findings and a phased roadmap your team can use to make a delivery decision.
Understand the work
Walk through real tasks with the people doing them. Identify repeated effort, delays and the exceptions hidden by a neat process chart.
Check readiness
Review documents, data and system access. Separate usable inputs from gaps that would block a pilot.
Compare the options
Compare likely value, feasibility and effort. Consider existing software, ordinary automation or a process change alongside AI.
Define the next investment
Document a first project, its owner, dependencies and success measures, with later opportunities in a prioritised roadmap.
What you receive
The delivery
and the checks.
What needs to work
A stakeholder can explain why the first pilot was chosen, what it needs, who owns it and how the pilot will be evaluated.
- Current-process and system map
- Prioritised opportunity backlog
- Data and access readiness findings
- Pilot scope and acceptance measures
- Phased implementation roadmap
The first conversation
Bring the investment decision you face.
We’ll discuss the competing ideas, what your team knows and what needs checking before you choose a project.
Useful things to share
- The decision and the people involved
- Examples of the work behind your AI ideas
- Existing pilots, constraints or process measures
The next decision: whether a focused assessment is useful and which questions it must answer.
Useful answers
Before you
commit.
Do we need a technical brief?
No. Bring the business decision and examples of the work. We help identify the questions an assessment needs to answer.
Can you review an existing roadmap?
Yes. We can check a particular use case, a stalled proposal or the assumptions behind the current plan.
Is implementation included?
The assessment produces recommendations and a next scope. Building and rolling out a solution is a separate engagement.
How do you estimate value?
Use current volumes, handling effort, delays and error costs where available. Those estimates remain assumptions until a pilot provides evidence.
Let’s talk about your work
Choose a useful place to start.
Map your AI opportunitiesBring your ideas, including the ones you are unsure about.
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