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Fixed scope and fixed price
Three weeks, agreed deliverables, agreed cost. The engagement cannot expand into a discovery phase, because the boundary is contractual.
AI-Ready BlueprintFixed scope
Know exactly what stands between
you and production AI
Three weeks, fixed scope, fixed price. Your data estate, technology, team capability and governance maturity scored against regulated-sector benchmarks, with the build sequence that follows from it.
3 wkskick-off to board-ready
4dimensions scored
1costed build sequence
The reality
What this looks like
in most firms today
- The board has approved AI investment and nobody can say which use case goes first.
- One programme has already been attempted, and the reason it stalled was never established.
- Every vendor conversation ends with a recommendation that happens to be that vendor.
The cost of guessing here is not the wasted pilot. It is the eighteen months of internal confidence that goes with it, which is much harder to rebuild than a budget.
Where the existing tools stop
Where tools stop
A readiness questionnaire produces a score. It does not produce a sequence, and the sequence is the entire value.
An open-ended discovery phase produces a sequence eventually, at a cost that makes the first use case unaffordable.
What it takes
What a board needs is a diagnostic that is time-boxed, priced up front, and honest enough to recommend against building.
How it delivers value
How AI-Ready Blueprint earns its place
in the workflow
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Four dimensions scored
Data estate, technology, team capability and governance maturity, each scored against regulated-sector benchmarks rather than against a generic maturity model.
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A sequence, not a score
The deliverable is a prioritised initiative list with a business case, a timeline and a named owner on each line — ordered by impact, readiness and regulatory risk.
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Yours to take anywhere
The Blueprint is written to be executed by whoever you choose, including your own team or another firm. No lock-in is designed into it.
Capabilities
The specification, without decoration
- Full inventory of data sources, quality issues and competing business definitions
- Technology and platform assessment against your regulatory constraints
- Team capability and operating model gap analysis
- Governance maturity scored against FCA, Lloyd’s, EU AI Act and UK GDPR obligations
- A sequenced, costed initiative roadmap with a named owner on every line
The approach
How it actually works
Written for the technical evaluator rather than the buyer. If you are going to put this in front of an architecture review board, this is the section they will read.
Week one — inventory
Source systems, data flows, existing AI use, platform estate and governance artefacts are catalogued. This is deliberately unglamorous and it is where most of the findings come from.
Week two — scoring and interviews
The four dimensions are scored against sector benchmarks, and the people who actually operate the estate are interviewed. The gap between the documented estate and the operated estate is usually the finding that matters.
Week three — sequencing
Use cases are prioritised by impact, readiness and regulatory risk, then sequenced so early returns fund the longer-term work. Every initiative gets a case, a timeline and an owner.
The honest-answer clause
Where the diagnostic shows the foundation is not ready, the Blueprint says so and sequences the data work first — even where that means we are recommending against the AI build we would otherwise have sold.
Handover in a form a board can read
The deliverable is written for an investment committee: findings, options, costs, sequence and risks. It is not a slide deck of the current state.
The breakthrough
What changes once it is running
Scope figures are contractual. The comparison range is modelled against the open-ended discovery phases this replaces.
3 wkskick-off to board-readyFixed scope, fixed price, defined deliverables
4dimensions scoredData, technology, capability and governance maturity
100%vendor-neutralPlatform choices follow your estate, not a preferred vendor
1sequence, with ownersA costed initiative list, not a maturity score
