£22,000. Two to three weeks.
AI Strategy
Our core AI engagement, and the one most businesses need. A full, independent read on where AI creates real value for your business, and a prioritised plan to get it, without the hype.
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What it is
AI Strategy is a full, independent assessment of where and how AI should create value in your business, and a prioritised plan to make it happen.
It is the difference between doing things with AI and having a strategy for it.
Most businesses arrive here having tried a few tools, felt the pressure to "do AI", and found that experiments do not add up to a plan. This engagement gives you the plan: the opportunities worth pursuing, ranked by value and feasibility; the data and foundations that unlock them; the governance to adopt safely; and the honest view of what to ignore.
A senior AI leader spends two to three weeks with your business. They come back with a prioritised AI strategy written for leaders, and a debrief that answers the questions a document cannot.
None of this is about technology for its own sake. It is about business outcomes: which problems are worth solving with AI, which are not, and what sequence gets you there without wasting money. The role that delivers this inside a business is a fractional Chief AI Officer, and this is exactly the work they do.
When to use it
Take AI Strategy when you know AI matters and want a clear, honest plan rather than more experiments.
It fits a business ready to move on AI and wanting to do it properly, not as a science project. It fits a leadership team that needs to show a board a credible AI plan. It fits a company where AI tool use has spread informally and now needs direction, governance, and priority. And it fits any business that wants the value of AI without the waste that comes from chasing the hype.
If you are not yet sure there is real value to pursue, start with the AI Ready Review at £7,500.
If you will be executing this plan and want the roadmap to run it, look at AI Strategy + 90-Day Plan.
What we look at
- AI opportunities, mapped against your commercial goals. Not a list of tools, but where AI moves the numbers that matter to your business.
- Data foundations. The thing that most often blocks AI value. We assess whether your data can support what you want to do and what needs fixing first.
- Use-case prioritisation. The handful of applications worth pursuing, ranked by value and feasibility, and the many that are not worth your time.
- Governance, risk, and responsible AI. The controls a board and a regulator will expect, sized to your business.
- Skills and adoption. What has to change in capability and behaviour for AI to actually land and stick.
- Build, buy, or wait. An honest view on each opportunity, independent of any vendor.
What you receive
A prioritised AI strategy document, written for leaders, containing:
- Your AI opportunities, ranked by value and feasibility, tied to commercial goals
- An honest assessment of your data and readiness, and what to fix first
- The use cases to pursue, and the ones to leave
- A governance and responsible-AI framework, sized to your business
- The skills and adoption changes needed for AI to stick
- A clear view on build, buy, or wait for each opportunity
Plus a debrief with your leadership team.
The strategy is written for leaders. It is commercial, honest, and free of jargon and hype.
Three ways to buy it
Fixed prices, published, no hourly rates. You know what the work costs and what you get before you commission it, which is more than most of the deal process will offer you.
How it runs
Week one. Scoping and discovery. We agree your goals and constraints, then assess your data, systems, current AI use, and the opportunities in front of you.
Week two. Analysis and prioritisation. Opportunities ranked, foundations assessed, governance and adoption mapped.
Week two to three. Strategy delivered, debrief held. You have a plan your board can act on.
Where your data or foundations are clearly the first job, we say so early rather than at the end.
Who it is for?
- Businesses ready to move on AI and wanting a real plan, not experiments.
- Leadership teams that need to put a credible AI strategy in front of a board.
- Companies where informal AI tool use now needs direction and governance.
- Scaling businesses that want AI value without the waste.
What it does not cover
AI Strategy gives you the plan. It does not, on its own, deliver it, and it does not include the costed 90-day execution roadmap or the working session to kick delivery off.
If you will be executing the strategy and want the roadmap, the hires, the spend, and the first-quarter decisions, AI Strategy + 90-Day Plan covers all of it at £35,000.
Frequently asked questions.
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You get a personalised AI readiness result and a checklist of what to fix first.
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