Programme
AI Value Discovery
Turn your AI spend from a gamble into an investment
The status quo
Nearly every organisation we speak to is in the same position when the AI spending question comes up:
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AI money goes to whoever asks most convincingly.
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Every figure held on what AI is worth came from someone else's firm.
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Ask where AI would help and the ideas come back simple and shallow.
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None of the recurring work has a number on it.
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The question comes round each quarter and starts from the same place.
All five have one cause: nobody has counted.
So the first build is a guess, and it costs the money, the months and the credibility spent getting it approved.
Our philosophy on finding the value
Five things we hold to be true about where the value hides, and what AI Value Discovery does about each of them.
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The people doing the work are best placed to find the value
Leadership sees the process as it was designed. The person doing it sees where it actually goes — the exception, the rework, the third system nobody mentions in the diagram. That detail is where the hours are.
AI Value Discovery hands the finding to the people who spend the hours.
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Repeated work is where the value hides
A task that takes twenty minutes is invisible. The same task four times a day, across nine people, is most of a role. Frequency, not difficulty, is what makes work worth handing to an assistant.
AI Value Discovery asks people what they do over and over, and gets their actual week.
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Nothing counts until it has hours on it
"This takes ages" cannot be approved, compared or defended. A number can. Sizing turns a list of complaints into a set of candidates that can be ranked against everything else competing for the same budget.
AI Value Discovery puts a monthly hours figure on every candidate.
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A fifth of the list carries most of the return
Value is never spread evenly across the work. A small number of tasks account for most of the recoverable time, and finding them is what separates a first build that pays for itself from one that merely works.
AI Value Discovery makes the top fifth findable, so the first investment lands first.
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A case holds when its defenders own the figures first
A case assembled by an outside firm gets questioned in the room where it matters. One your own leaders have corrected line by line does not — they are no longer receiving the argument, they are making it.
AI Value Discovery has leadership correct every figure before they choose.
What is the programme?
A programme in which your own people find and size the recurring work where AI would give the most back.
- Format
- Self-paced on the AI Empowerment Hub, with two live sessions
- Duration
- Five weeks end to end, with a three-week discovery window
- Your people's time
- About seven hours each, alongside normal work
- Who takes part
- A cross-section of your workforce, up to fifty per cohort
- Guided by
- AI assistants working alongside each participant
- Investment
- A flat fee per cohort
What you end up with
A ranked list of the recurring work across your business where an AI assistant would give back the most time, each item sized in hours per month.
You see the scale before you spend
The list shows where capacity is recoverable and how much of it there is, before any money goes into building.
Finance gets numbers it can interrogate
Every figure traces to a person and the work beneath it, so the case survives scrutiny.
Your people direct where AI goes
They build the list themselves, so what emerges reflects the work as it really is.
We thought we knew where the time was going. The list came back and the item at the top was something none of us had ever discussed — spread so thinly across the team that nobody had counted it.
Where it sits
AI Value Discovery is available as an individual offering, or as part of the wider AI Empowerment Partnership, which spans all four stages.
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Align your leadership
- AI Empowerment for Business Leaders
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Find the value
- AI Value Discovery
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Learn to build with AI
- Staying Safe with AI Assistance
- AI Alignment
- AI Workflow Assistant Design
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Build it into the work
- Build with AI
Is this for you?
This programme is the wrong purchase for some organisations. These are the ones we turn away, and where we point them instead.
This is for you if
- Your people do recurring judgement work and nobody has measured how much of the week it takes.
- You need a figure finance can interrogate before you approve a build.
- You have people who could give seven hours each, and a coordinator to keep them moving.
This is not for you if
- You already know which recurring work costs you most, and by how much.
- You have one well-defined process and want it automated. (An automation partner will serve you better.)
- Your leadership is not yet agreed that AI is worth spending on. (AI Empowerment for Business Leaders)
Request the prospectus
The prospectus covers how the programme runs, what your people do, and how the figures are produced. A short conversation comes first, so what you receive fits your situation.
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