WHAT YOU GET
04 deliverables
01A ranked use-case listEvery candidate scored on value at risk, data readiness and how much of the process has to change. Three funded, the rest named and closed.
02A value case for each oneTied to a P&L line with a named owner, expressed in the numbers your finance function already reports.
03A data readiness readWhat exists, what can be trusted, and what has to be built before any model is worth training on it.
04A sequencing planWhat runs first, what it unblocks, and the point where the organisation runs out of capacity to absorb change.
HOW IT RUNS
Four weeks, run remotely, ending in one session with the people who can actually fund the work.
WEEK 01Interviews with the people who run it
Operators, supervisors and the finance owner. We map the process as it is run, not as it is documented.
WEEK 02–03Value and feasibility
Each candidate sized against a baseline pulled from your own systems, then tested against what your data can actually support.
WEEK 04The decision session
One room, the people who can fund and staff it. You leave with three use cases and a written case for each.
WHERE IT LANDS
OUTCOME
A shortlist your CFO recognises
Value expressed in the lines your finance function already reports, so the case survives its second reading.
OUTCOME
A build that can start on Monday
Scope, data access, owners and success measure written down before any engineering begins.
OUTCOME
Permission to stop
The candidates we recommend killing come with the reason, so they stop reappearing every quarter.
THE SHAPE
DURATIONTypically four weeks.
TEAMOne engagement lead, one senior engineer, a data engineer where the data is in question.
DELIVERYRemote. Weeks one and four are the heaviest on your team's time.
PREREQUISITESAccess to the operators, and read access to the systems behind the process.
LEADS INTOAI Engineering — or Data & Digital Transformation when the data is the blocker.
NOT A FIT WHENYou already know the use case and the baseline. Start at Prove instead.
PICK THE THREE WORTH FUNDING.
Four weeks to a ranked, costed list — and the reasons the rest are off the table.