Not a readiness assessment. Not a 200-page report. We come in, look at your data, your processes, and your team — and tell you which AI agent to deploy first and why.
Consultancies sell AI readiness assessments because the assessment is the product. Twelve weeks of interviews, workshops, and stakeholder alignment — billable hours disguised as discovery. The longer it takes, the more they earn.
The output is always the same: a 200-page report. Beautifully formatted. Covers every risk, dependency, and governance consideration. Gets presented to the board, filed in SharePoint, and never referenced again. Meanwhile, your competitors shipped their first AI agent three months ago.
We do not sell assessments. We are operators. The 5-day engagement exists because we need to understand your business before we can deploy agents into it. That is it. We are not trying to stretch it out — we are trying to get to the deployment as fast as possible, because that is where the value is.
Here is the uncomfortable truth: 80% of companies already have what they need to deploy production AI. The data exists. The infrastructure is sufficient. The team is capable. What is missing is not readiness — it is someone willing to build and run the thing.
We map your tech stack, data sources, and integration points. Not a theoretical assessment — a practical look at what is deployable now and what needs work. We identify the APIs, databases, and pipelines that will power your first AI agents.
We walk your operational workflows end-to-end. Every manual process, every spreadsheet handoff, every approval bottleneck. We score each on automation potential, business impact, and implementation complexity. The highest-value targets surface fast.
We figure out what is realistic in 90 days given your current team. Who can prompt engineer today? Who can manage AI agents? Where do you need our operators vs. training your people? This feeds directly into the deployment plan.
Everything from Days 1-3 feeds into a concrete plan. Prioritised use cases. Build-vs-buy decisions. Resource requirements. Timeline. Dependencies. ROI projections backed by your actual numbers, not industry averages.
We present the plan to your leadership team as a working document with clear owners, deadlines, and expected returns. We answer questions, handle objections, and get alignment in the room. You leave ready to move.
Five deliverables. Each one actionable next week.
Prioritised roadmap with specific use cases, timelines, resource requirements, and dependencies. Week-by-week execution plan with named owners. Not a wish list — a plan.
Current capabilities mapped against what is needed. Clear picture of where our operators fill the gaps and where your team can grow into the work.
For your top 5 use cases: build in-house, buy off-the-shelf, or have us build and operate. Total cost of ownership for each option over 12 months.
Financial projections for every initiative in the plan. Cost to implement, expected return, payback period. Built on your actual data, not benchmarks.
A clear document for leadership or investors. The business case for AI investment — with numbers to back it up.
The board wants AI. You need a plan that is technically sound and commercially justified. Five days gives you both — built by people who have actually deployed production AI agents, not people who have written reports about them.
Your competitors are deploying AI agents across customer service, operations, and finance. You need to know where to start and how fast you can move. We will tell you — honestly.
You have seen the demos. You have sat through the vendor pitches. But there is a gap between "this is impressive" and "this is running in production." That is exactly the gap we close.
You need to know which portfolio companies can deploy AI for margin improvement — and how much value is on the table. Our assessment gives you the data for investment decisions.
When we assessed and then operated for a major UK fashion retailer, the engagement created £6.4M in annualised value across 119 EBITDA-tracked initiatives. That engagement started with exactly this process — understanding what was possible, building the plan, then deploying and operating the agents.
The 5-day assessment is how every one of our engagements begins. It is not a separate product — it is the first step of the operator relationship. We figure out where to start, then we start.
That is the point. The 5 days tells us the shortest path to your first deployed AI agent. We are not grading you — we are building the roadmap from wherever you are right now.
In our experience, "not ready" usually means "don't know where to start." That is exactly what the 90-day plan solves.
They advise. We build and operate. Their assessment takes 12 weeks and produces a report. Ours takes 5 days and produces a deployment plan.
We have shipped production AI systems — agents handling real pricing decisions, real customer queries, real operational workflows. And we stay to run them. Our assessment is built by forward deployed engineers, not advisors.
No. We assess what you have and work with it. Most companies have more usable data than they think.
The assessment identifies what is ready to use now and what needs minimal preparation. If you need data engineering support, that goes into the plan with a clear scope and cost — and our team can do it.
You have a plan. If you want us to execute, we embed as your forward deployed engineers — building AI systems and running them on an ongoing basis with a base retainer plus performance fee tied to results.
Or your team can run with the plan independently. It is designed to be actionable either way. Every initiative has clear owners, timelines, and success criteria.
Fixed fee for the 5-day engagement. A fraction of what a 12-week Big Four assessment costs — and you leave with a deployment plan, not a PowerPoint.
Every client we have assessed has identified at least 10x the assessment cost in deployable AI value within the first 90 days. The ROI model we produce makes the business case obvious before you commit to anything further.
Average return: 14:1 on assessment investment within 12 months. Our flagship e-commerce engagement created £6.4M in value from a single operator relationship.
Five days from now, you will know exactly where to start, what it will cost, and what return to expect. Then we can build it and run it for you.