AI Strategy You Can Actually Ship
Most "AI strategy" decks read like LinkedIn posts. Ours read like buildable, scoped, prioritized roadmaps with cost estimates and success metrics — because we're also the team that ships them. We audit, prioritize, and write the 12-month plan that turns hype into measurable revenue or cost saved.
- AI maturity audit
- Use-case backlog
- ROI modeling
- Build-vs-buy framework
- 12-month roadmap
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The full deliverables list.
- 01
AI maturity audit
8-dimension scoring of your current state: data, infra, tooling, team, risk, governance, vendor lock-in, and capability gaps.
- 02
Use-case backlog
20–40 concrete AI opportunities mapped to your business, with effort, cost, risk, and ROI estimates for each.
- 03
ROI modeling
Spreadsheet-level financial models for each priority initiative. CFO-readable, defensible, ours to build, yours to own.
- 04
Build-vs-buy framework
For every initiative: build internally, buy a vendor, or contract us. Honest recommendations, including "do nothing."
- 05
12-month roadmap
Quarterly milestones, dependencies, headcount asks, and a clear sequencing rationale. The artifact you take to the board.
- 06
Vendor evaluation
You're considering 4 AI vendors? We'll evaluate them. We have no resale agreements with any of them — our recommendations are honest.
- 07
Risk + governance
Data residency, model usage policies, IP review, vendor security, jailbreak-resistance, hallucination tolerance. The boring slides matter.
- 08
Executive briefings
We brief your board, exec team, or specific function leads on AI in their lane. No slides full of dragons; just what matters and what to do.
If any of these feel familiar, we should talk.
CEO / Founder
“Every advisor tells you AI is the priority. Nobody tells you which one to pick.”
- Honest read on where AI moves your number
- Cut through vendor pitch decks
- Quarterly board-ready strategy
Board / PE operating partner
“You need a clear-eyed view on AI risk and opportunity across portcos.”
- Portfolio-wide AI maturity assessment
- Cross-portco playbook reuse
- Risk + investment cases for each portco
Functional lead (Marketing, Ops, Eng)
“You're responsible for "the AI plan" in your function and don't have time to figure it out.”
- Function-specific 6–12 month roadmap
- Vendor + build recommendations
- Team training and hiring plan
From kickoff to live in weeks.
- 01. Week 1
Listening tour
Interviews with 8–15 stakeholders across leadership, ops, marketing, sales, eng, finance, legal. We read what your team reads and listen to your calls.
- 02. Week 2
Audit + scoring
Maturity model scored. Use-case backlog drafted. Honest read on where you are vs. where peers are.
- 03. Week 3
Prioritization workshops
Working sessions with leadership to rank initiatives, gut-check ROI assumptions, and align on quarterly sequencing.
- 04. Week 4
Roadmap delivery
You get the artifact: full strategy doc, ROI model, vendor recs, risk/governance writeup, board-ready exec summary. We brief any audience you need.
Best-in-class. No vendor-lock religion.
We pick what fits — your stack, your scale, your risk profile. No resale kickbacks, no preferred vendors, no tools we'd never use ourselves.
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- Notion
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