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AI Strategy & Roadmap

Decide what to automate before you spend a dollar on it.

Most AI budgets get spent on the wrong thing first. We audit your operations, quantify where AI actually pays back in your organisation, and hand you a costed, sequenced roadmap you can take to the board.

The problem

Three quarters of AI pilots never reach production

Not because the technology fails. Because the pilot was chosen for how impressive it looked in a demo rather than what it was worth to the business.

A roadmap fixes that. It forces the awkward questions early — which process, whose budget, what data exists, who owns the outcome — while changing your mind is still free.

Automating a process nobody measured

You cannot prove savings on a baseline that was never recorded.

Buying tools before fixing the data

An agent trained on inconsistent records produces confident nonsense.

Starting with the hardest use case

Ambition first, credibility never. Early wins fund the difficult work.

No named owner after go-live

Unowned automation quietly degrades within a quarter.

Deliverables

What lands on your desk

Five documents, written in business language, that a finance director and an IT manager can both act on.

01

AI Readiness Assessment

A scored review of your data, systems, skills and governance — with the specific gaps that would block deployment.

02

Opportunity Register

Every candidate use case in your operation, sized by annual value, effort and risk. Usually 12–20 of them.

03

Prioritised Roadmap

A 12-month sequence: what to do this quarter, next quarter and what to deliberately postpone.

04

Business Case

Cost, expected return and payback period per initiative — formatted for board approval.

05

Governance Framework

Data handling, acceptable use, human oversight and escalation rules your policy team can adopt.

06

Executive Briefing

A live session where we walk your leadership through the findings and defend the recommendations.

Engagement

Three to five weeks, start to board pack

1

Week 1 — Discover

Interviews with process owners, a look at your systems and a data quality spot-check.

2

Week 2 — Quantify

We size each opportunity in hours and currency using your own volumes, not industry averages.

3

Week 3 — Sequence

Workshop with leadership to rank by value, feasibility and appetite for change.

4

Week 4–5 — Present

Final documents, business case and an executive session to secure the mandate.

Typical investment: US$3,500–9,500 depending on organisation size and number of functions in scope. Fixed price, quoted after the free discovery call.

Who this is for

You should book this if…

Your board has asked “what is our AI plan?”

And you would rather answer with evidence than a slide of buzzwords.

You have budget but no agreed priority

Several departments want different things and someone has to arbitrate.

A pilot already stalled

You need an honest post-mortem and a defensible route back.

You operate under regulation

Governance and audit trail matter as much as the technology.

FAQ

Questions we get asked

Only where they genuinely win. Several roadmaps we have delivered concluded that the client should fix reporting and data hygiene first and buy no AI at all that year. We would rather keep the relationship than sell you the wrong thing.
Roughly eight to twelve hours in total, spread across process owners. Two hours per interview, one workshop of three hours, and a two-hour final session with leadership.
For organisations under about 25 people we run a compressed two-week version at a lower fee. The output is shorter but the logic is identical.
Yes, before discovery begins. We handle commercial and operational detail on every engagement and treat it as confidential by default.
That is a separate engagement, quoted separately, and you are under no obligation. Clients who do proceed have the strategy fee credited against the first implementation invoice.
Get started

Get the plan before the invoice.

A free 30-minute readiness call will tell you whether a full roadmap is worth your money — and if it is not, we will say so.

No obligation · Response within one business day · NDA on request

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