Stage two · align

Get your leadership teaminto one room, for one day.

£2,500. One day, on site. By the end of it your leadership team has one agreed view of where AI matters in this business, and a short list of what to do first.

The problem it solves

Too many ideas, no basis for choosing between them.

Most leadership teams do not have an AI shortage. They have a long list of possibilities, several enthusiastic people, a few pilots running quietly, and no agreed way to rank any of it.

So nothing gets properly resourced, everything stays small, and the board keeps asking the same question at the same point in every meeting. Left alone, it ends in technology without transformation — more licences, more pilots, and nothing anyone can put a number against.

A day in the room fixes that. Not with more ideas — with a decision.

What it is not

Worth being blunt about this.

Not AI awareness training. Not a technology workshop. Not a Copilot demonstration. Not a vendor presentation with your logo on the front.

It is a commercial decision session. If your team needs an introduction to what AI is, this is not the right thing to buy yet.

What happens on the day

We arrive with your industry, not a blank page.

You are not paying for a facilitator with sticky notes. We come in with a working view of how firms like yours make money and where AI tends to move the numbers.

01

What matters commercially

What the board is actually being judged on this year, and what would have to move for that to change.

02

Where value is created here

Your value chain in your own language, and the processes that carry the money through it.

03

Where AI could change it

Not where AI is technically possible. Where it moves revenue, margin, cost, capacity, cycle time, quality or risk.

04

What is realistic

Data, process maturity, appetite for change, and whether your people would actually work differently.

05

What we rule out

Often the most useful hour of the day. A short list only means something once the long list has been cut.

06

What we do first

One priority, agreed by the people in the room, with the reasoning written down.

How the day is structured

Six lenses on every opportunity.

Not six sessions. Six questions asked of the same handful of opportunities. An idea that looks strong through one lens and weak through another is the most useful conversation your leadership team can have.

01

Economics and customer

Which number on your management accounts would actually move.

02

Strategy

Whether it serves what the board has already committed to.

03

Process and operating model

Whether the work is repeatable enough, and what would have to change around it.

04

People and capability

What changes for the people doing the job, and whether that can be absorbed.

05

Systems and controls

What you already own, and what governs how it can be used.

06

Data

Whether it exists, can be trusted, can be reached, and should be seen.

How they get ranked

Two questions. Never one score.

Almost every AI readiness tool gives you a single percentage. That is how the most valuable opportunity in a business ends up ranked below something easy and trivial.

Do this first

Worth a lot, realistic to build. Usually one or two.

The prize, blocked

Worth a lot, hard. We name the dependency, cost it and sequence it — usually data.

Easy and trivial

Where most firms have already started, and why they have seen no return.

Neither

Declined on the day, with the reason written down.

You leave with a picture, not a percentage. The decision is yours.

How we score

And you score with us.

The scoring happens in the room, in front of you. You see what a 1, a 3 and a 5 mean on every lens before anything is scored, and if you disagree with a score you say so.

The anchors are visible

Six lenses, and what each score actually means on each one. Nothing is held back, because a room that cannot see the anchors cannot argue with the result.

We hold the pen, you hold the argument

Every candidate scored live. Where the room splits, both numbers get written down — the split is usually more useful than the average would have been.

The reason is always recorded

The number matters less than why. The reason is what gets carried into the Accelerator, and what stops the same argument restarting in six weeks.

Two rules we do not bend. Risk can veto: a risk score of 1 stops a candidate regardless of how valuable it is. And nothing is scored without a written reason. A score you helped set is one you will still defend on the drive home — a score you were handed is not.

What you leave with

Five things, all of them yours to keep.

An opportunity map

Where AI could create commercial value in your business, grouped and prioritised.

A value heat map

What each opportunity could be worth, set against how realistic it is right now.

Priority opportunity cards

A small number of areas worth deeper work, each with the reasoning attached.

A decision on record

What was prioritised, what was rejected, what was deferred — and why. This is the part that stops the argument restarting in six weeks.

An Accelerator brief

If it is warranted: what the next engagement would examine, and what it would need to prove.

Who should be in the room

The people who can act on it.

Chief Executive or Managing Director. Finance Director. Chief Operating Officer. Chief Information Officer or head of IT. Plus whoever runs the function under most pressure — operations, service, sales, or finance.

Six to eight people is the sweet spot. Fewer and the decision does not stick. More and it becomes a presentation.

If the Chief Executive or Finance Director cannot attend, we would rather move the date than run it without them.

Where it sits in your Microsoft estate

Most firms we meet already pay for Microsoft 365, often with Copilot, and have Power Platform or Dynamics somewhere in the business. The briefing works out which of that capability your priority actually needs.

We do not sell, resell or implement any of it. That stays with your technology partner — and so does the ongoing revenue.

What it costs to find out first

£2,500 to settle where a much larger decision should point. Cheap by comparison with an implementation aimed at the wrong process.

Where it fits

The assessment finds where to look. The briefing decides where to concentrate.

Before

Executive AI Opportunity Assessment

Complimentary, forty-five minutes. Establishes whether a briefing is justified at all.

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This

Executive AI Briefing

£2,500, one day. Your leadership team agrees where to act first, and records why.

After

AI Accelerator

From £15,000, four to eight weeks. The work redesigned, the case built, the critical piece proven.

See the Accelerator →

One day. One agreed view. One decision on record.

Most teams start with the complimentary assessment first, so we both know a briefing is worth booking.

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