Stage three · accelerate

Thirty days to know whatchanges, what it’s worth,and whether it works.

From £15,000. Four to eight weeks. Our main engagement. You end it with the work redesigned, a business case in your own numbers, a working demonstration your board has watched, and a specification your technology partner can start building from. One product in three sizes, because a firm examining one process and a firm asking where AI belongs across the company are not buying the same thing.

Why boards buy it

You stop approving AI investment on faith.

Most AI business cases ask a board to believe a vendor and a hypothesis. That is how firms end up with technology without transformation — the tools live, the work unchanged, the return unprovable. This asks the board to approve something they have already seen working.

The work

How the job is done today, and how it would be done instead. Where people act, where agents act, and what changes for the team.

The operating model

Roles, responsibilities, decision rights, controls, handovers and exceptions once the process changes.

The case

Where you are now, what good looks like, the expected benefit, the assumptions behind it, and how it gets measured.

The proof

The critical piece demonstrated in your own context, in front of the board — enough to support the investment decision.

Why four to eight weeks is enough

We are not starting from nothing.

By the time an Accelerator starts, two layers are already established. Those weeks buy the third — the one that needs access to your business.

Already established

The economics of your sector, its value chain, and the processes that carry the money. Brought to the first conversation and corrected by you since.

Assessment and Briefing

What those weeks buy

How the work actually runs here. The variants, the exceptions and the workarounds nobody documented. Then the redesign, the case and the proof.

The AI Accelerator

Where we stop

Detailed technical design, architecture and build. Your technology partner’s work — and their revenue.

Your chosen partner
How the weeks run

Discover. Redesign. Prove.

Three stages you will see. Eight steps we follow. Note the third word: we do not deploy — your technology partner does.

Stage one

Discover

We start with your sector view, then test it against how your business actually runs. Interviews with the leadership team. Walking the process with the people who do the work.

You get: a scored opportunity map and the real current state, not the version in the process document.

Stage two

Redesign

The heart of it. How should this work be done if AI capability exists? Not “where can we insert a tool” — the process redrawn, and the operating model that has to change with it.

You get: future-state processes and an operating model blueprint.

Stage three

Prove

The business case in your numbers, the critical piece demonstrated, the measures set, and everything your technology partner needs to begin.

You get: the case, the proof, the specification and the measurement plan.

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Executive discovery

02

Process discovery

03

Business process redesign

04

Operating model redesign

05

Commercial business case

06

Proof

07

Implementation definition

08

Value measurement definition

What you receive

The AI Transformation Pack.

Everything your board needs to make the investment decision, and the commercial specification your technology partner needs to begin technical design.

Executive discovery findings

Current-state process map

Future-state AI-enabled process

Target operating model

Prioritised AI use case

Commercial business case

Value baseline

Proof of concept

Edge cases and controls

High-level solution architecture

Implementation blueprint

Value measurement plan

Executive decision pack

Your board stops approving technology spend on vendor capability and a hypothesis. It approves a change it can see, costed in its own numbers, already demonstrated.

One product, three sizes

The method does not change. How much of the business we examine does.

A firm that knows exactly where it wants to look is not buying the same engagement as a firm asking where AI belongs across the company. Same approach, same deliverables — different amount of ground covered.

£15,000

Small

One defined business area or problem. You already know where you want to concentrate — quoting, invoice processing, service enquiries, document-heavy client work.

Narrow and deep. Around four weeks.

£30,000

Medium

Several connected business areas. Sales, marketing and service together. Or procurement, supply chain and finance. The opportunity crosses boundaries, so examining one part alone would miss it.

Broader, with depth where the case is strongest. Around six weeks, scoped before we start.

From £50,000

Large

The major functions across the company. For boards asking where AI should be used across the business, and in what order.

Company-wide discovery, then detailed work on what warrants it. Around eight weeks. You get a prioritised portfolio rather than a single case.

Small looks deeply at one part of the business. Medium covers several connected areas. Large looks across the company.

Small · 7–9 interviews

Your leadership team, and three to five of the people who actually do the work.

Medium · 12–16 interviews

The same, plus the head of each connected function.

Large · 20–28 interviews

The same again, plus function leads across the major areas.

Individual conversations, forty-five minutes each, never attributed. Discovery is the cheapest part of the engagement and everything else rests on it, so it scales with the size rather than staying fixed.

How we size it

One question: how much of the business do you want us to examine? You do not need to diagnose your own processes or work out how many days it takes. That is our job, and we do it in the conversation.

If it is genuinely complex

Multiple countries, divisions, sites or operating companies, with materially different processes between them — we confirm the scope before quoting rather than guessing. Simple requirement, standard product. Complex requirement, we scope it.

What Large does not mean: every process in the company mapped and redesigned. That is a different piece of work and it is priced separately. Large means we look across the major functions, then concentrate the detailed work where the commercial case justifies it.

Being straight about scope

What the Accelerator does and does not buy.

The proof we build is a commercial proof. It is there to answer one question: is this worth investing in? It runs in your context, with your kind of data, in front of your board.

It is not a production system. It is not a full technical solution design, and it is not built to be deployed as-is. Your technology partner turns our commercial specification into technical architecture and a delivery plan. That is their job, and they are better at it than we would be.

Size does not change that boundary. A larger Accelerator examines more of the business. It does not begin the implementation.

Not included

Production-grade build. Technical solution architecture. Configuration, integration or security work. Technical testing. Deployment. Managed services.

All of that sits with your chosen technology partner — along with the revenue for it.

The handover

Your partner starts from an agreed specification, not a conversation.

This is where most of the cost and delay in AI projects is created — and avoided.

What we hand over
The redesigned process, agreed by the people who do the work
The operating model it needs to run inside
The business case and the value baseline
Edge cases and controls, written down before the build
The measures that make the return provable later
What your partner does with it
Technical architecture and platform decisions
Build, configuration and integration
Security, testing and deployment
Technical project management
Ongoing support and managed services

Successful AI transformation needs both. We work alongside your existing technology partner rather than replacing them — and they usually welcome a brief that has already been agreed commercially.

Your Microsoft estate

Usually you already own most of what the case needs.

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Worth something once the work around it is redesigned. Otherwise it speeds up the same meetings.

Copilot Studio and agents

For handing over defined parts of a process. The value comes from the design, not the agent.

Power Platform and Dynamics 365

Where the workflow has to change because the operating model changed.

Azure and your data

Where the data has to be right before anything downstream can be trusted.

We sell none of these and take nothing from their sale. The Accelerator works out which of them your case actually needs.

Thirty days is short. Getting this wrong is not.

Most clients reach the Accelerator through the free assessment and a briefing. Start there, and we will both know whether it is warranted.

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