THE AI VALUE DIAGNOSTIC
Know where AI pays before you spend.
A four-week diagnostic that finds the AI opportunities worth funding in your business — and names the ones that aren't.
THE PROBLEM
Most companies have more AI ideas than they can fund, no reliable way to tell which ones will pay for themselves, and growing pressure to show a return on what they have already spent.
The hard part was never finding things AI could do. It is deciding which are worth doing — and having the arithmetic to defend that decision to a board.
Every advisor will tell you what you could do with AI.
We tell you what to stop pursuing — and show you the arithmetic
GO
DEVELOP
STOP
Clear the value threshold on all three criteria.
Enters the roadmap with an owner and a measurement definition.
High impact, blocked on something specific.
Named prerequisites and a date to revisit.
Fails the value test regardless of technical feasibility, or the organization won't adopt it. Documented with the reason.
WHAT YOU GET
i
A ranked portfolio of opportunities
Each one sized in a conservative and an aggressive case, with every assumption visible.
ii
An explicit no-go list
The initiatives we recommend you don't pursue, and the reasoning behind each.
iii
A work decomposition
Which tasks should be automated, which should be augmented, and which should stay human.
iv
A sequenced roadmap
Phased, with prerequisites, resource requirements, and a named owner for each initiative.
v
A one-page executive summary
Written so you can take it to your board or your sponsor without us in the room.
HOW IT WORKS
01
Frame the value
We start with your P&L and your operating model, not with technology — finding where cost and friction actually concentrate.
02
Decompose the work
Inside the functions that matter, we break roles and workflows down to the task level and classify each one.
03
Size what's at stake
We quantify the leading opportunities in conservative and aggressive cases, with every assumption exposed for you to challenge.
04
Rank them
Financial impact, feasibility, and speed to results: scored, compared, and ordered.
05
Decide and sequence
Every opportunity resolves to one of three verdicts, and the roadmap follows from there.
SCOPE AND TERMS
Duration — Four weeks
Kickoff to executive readout.
Scope — Three to five functions
Named before we begin, not discovered along the way.