Make the AI bets with a 10-year practitioner in the room.
A 4-6 week engagement that takes you from "we should do AI" to a roadmap, an architecture, and a team plan you can defend in the next board meeting.
Why this engagement exists.
We put a decade of shipping clinical platforms (HIPAA-bound, behavioral health, real PHI) into the room, then hand you a strategy you can build against: a roadmap, architecture options with trade-offs, a team plan, and a budget envelope your VP of Eng will actually trust. It stands up because the people writing it have shipped what they're recommending.
Deliverables, not promises.
Every engagement ships these artefacts. Nothing here is fluff. Each item is something your team will hold in their hands at the end.
Current-state assessment
Stakeholder interviews, existing infrastructure read, organisational readiness map.
Opportunity mapping
Impact × effort grid scoring the candidate AI bets against business value.
Architecture options
2-3 architecture sketches with trade-offs explicit. ADRs for the major decisions.
Roadmap (Q1-Q4)
Phased roadmap with quarter-by-quarter milestones, dependencies, and risk register.
Team & vendor plan
Hire vs partner vs internal: recommended split with reasoning and cost ranges.
Executive presentation
Board-ready presentation deck, the artefact that gets the budget approved.
The process, step by step.
No mystery, no consultant theatre. This is how the work actually flows from kickoff to handover.
- Week 1
Discovery
Stakeholder interviews, current-state read, organisational readiness assessment.
- Week 2
Opportunity workshop
Group session: where is the real value? Scoring impact × effort with stakeholders in the room.
- Week 3
Architecture + tech
Architecture sketches, trade-off documentation, recommendation with rationale.
- Week 4
Roadmap + team plan
Quarter-by-quarter roadmap, hire vs partner recommendations, cost ranges.
- Week 5-6
Stakeholder reviews + final
Stakeholder reviews, revisions, final delivery, including the board presentation.
Most AI strategy decks are written by people who have never shipped the thing they recommend. Ours are scoped by the same engineers who would build it, so the trade-offs in the roadmap are the real ones, not the slide-deck version.
The questions that actually come up.
CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and Chief Digital Officers deciding where to invest in AI over the next 12-24 months. Less suited for teams that have already locked the roadmap.
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Ready to scope AI Strategy & Roadmap?
A 30-minute call. We map your situation against the engagement, give you a real estimate, and tell you honestly whether we are the right team for this.