Service 01 · Phase One
001 / 08
Advisory · diagnostic
2 weeks

Where you actually stand.

Two weeks. Four questions answered before you commit to anything: what AI is being used and where the risks are, what could realistically help, what should stay away from AI, and what needs to be fixed first.

Phase Phase one
Engagement Fixed scope · decision-ready
§ 01 · Overview
Service AI Readiness Diagnostic
Best for Businesses under pressure to act on AI
Phase Phase one
Duration Two weeks
Format Stakeholder interviews + staff survey + AI use audit
Team Principal consultant
Output Decision pack + Next-Step Recommendation

Most businesses are already using AI. Staff have adopted tools nobody approved, running on data nobody has verified, in workflows nobody has documented. The question is not whether AI is in the business. It is whether the business knows where it is, what it is doing, and what needs to change.

This diagnostic answers four questions before any commitment is made: where AI is already being used and where the risks sit, where AI could realistically help, what should not be automated or touched yet, and what needs to be fixed before any AI tool can safely do its job.

No implementation. No tool recommendations. No transformation language. The output is a decision pack and a specific next step, not a strategy deck, a technology audit, or a project plan.

§ 02 · Service map

Four questions.
One clear next step.

Every finding maps to a risk, an opportunity, or a fix-first item. If it does not change a decision, it does not go in the report.

Inputs · workflow · data
Outputs · decision · handover
Stakeholder interviews Up to 8
Duration 2 weeks
AI use cases mapped 3 to 5
Workflows sampled 2 to 3
§ 03 · Fit

Right for you if
the ground is unclear.

This layout is for explaining a service as a repeatable operating shape: who it is for, how the work moves, and what the client leaves with.

001

The mandate is real but vague.

Leadership has decided AI matters but the business has not translated that into a sequence of specific decisions, owners, and timelines. The pressure is real but the path is not.

002

Staff are already using tools.

AI tools are in use without approval, oversight, or any clarity on what data is being shared. You need to know what is happening before the risk compounds.

003

You need evidence for the board.

A board, CEO, or leadership team needs a defensible view of where to start, what to defer, and how the next phase will prove value.

§ 04 · How it works

Two weeks.
Four moves.

Move 01

Frame the scope.

Define the decision context, the sponsors, the constraints, and what a useful diagnostic must answer before any interviews are scheduled.

Day 01 to 02
Move 02

Map what is already happening.

Interview staff, leaders, and operators. Identify every AI tool in use, every workflow it touches, and every risk that is currently unmanaged.

Days 03 to 07
Move 03

Score the opportunities.

Assess where AI could genuinely help against value, feasibility, data condition, risk, and ownership readiness. Build the opportunity and risk map.

Days 08 to 10
Move 04

Deliver the decision pack.

Present the findings, the recommended next step, the fix-first items, and the specific Phase One path the business should take.

Days 11 to 14
§ 05 · Outputs

What the client
leaves with.

AI Use Snapshot

Which tools staff are using, where they are being used, whether leadership knows, and where the obvious risks sit.

Proof

Gives leadership visibility before risk compounds.

Business Readiness Map

The main blockers across systems, data, workflows, knowledge, governance, and staff capability.

Proof

Shows what must change before AI work can safely proceed.

Opportunity List

Three to five realistic AI use cases, ranked by usefulness, risk, and how ready the business actually is.

Proof

Separates usable opportunities from wishful thinking.

Do-Not-Start List

The ideas that are risky, premature, vague, or not worth the money.

Proof

Prevents the business from funding the wrong AI work first.

Next-Step Recommendation

One clear path forward: which service addresses the biggest gap, or whether the foundations need fixing before AI work begins at all.

Proof

Removes the "what do we do next" question entirely.