AI Strategy & Readiness
A structured assessment of your data, infrastructure and use cases, ending in a prioritized 12-month AI roadmap.
2–5 weeks
Typical timeline
$18k
Starting fee
Strategy
Practice
02 · Overview
How we approach it
Most AI programs fail before a single model ships, because nobody has answered three questions: which use cases actually pay for themselves, whether the data behind them is usable, and who owns the roadmap once the workshop ends. AI Strategy & Readiness answers all three.
We spend two to five weeks inside your organization — reviewing data infrastructure, interviewing the teams closest to the work, and stress-testing candidate use cases against effort, risk and payback. You leave with a prioritized roadmap your leadership team can fund with confidence, not a slide deck that gets filed away.
03 · What’s included
Every
AI Strategy & Readiness
engagement
includes:
Scoped precisely after a workflow walkthrough, then written into the statement of work. Nothing on this list is optional.
Data & infrastructure audit
Use-case prioritization matrix (effort, risk, payback)
Build-vs-buy recommendation per use case
12-month roadmap with budget bands
Governance & risk baseline
04 · What it typically delivers
5 weeks
average time from kickoff to a signed roadmap
3.2
average use cases prioritized for year-one build
92%
of roadmaps result in a funded pilot within 90 days
05 · Timeline
2–5 weeks
scoped after a walkthrough.
The exact plan is written after we walk the workflow with the people who do it today. These are the phases it usually runs through.
Discovery interviews
The people who run the workflow today
Wk 1–2
Data & systems audit
Access, quality, lineage
Wk 2–3
Use-case scoring
Effort, risk and payback on one matrix
Wk 3–4
Roadmap & budget
A plan you can fund, or a clear “not yet”
Wk 5
06 · In production
See it
running somewhere real.
08 · Questions about this service
Questions
about this service.
Anything else, ask on the call. We answer before you sign, not after.
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Do we need clean data before we start?
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What if the roadmap says a use case isn't worth building?
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Can this convert directly into a Pilot engagement?
09 · Start
Tell us the workflow.
We’ll scope the rest.
We’ll tell you what this service looks like for it, what it would take and what it would be worth.