THE CLARITY MAP
Turn the AI mandate into one decision the business can execute.
We identify the first fundable action, highlight blockers, and provide leadership with a 90-day execution plan that includes ownership, evidence, and a clear continuation decision.
From $17,500 · 2–3 weeks · Fixed Scope
Starting fees are in USD and apply to the agreed assessment scope. Final scope and fees are confirmed before kickoff. Additional business units, systems, jurisdictions, and implementation work are scoped separately. Fees exclude applicable taxes.
First-week review: We review initial findings, identify blockers, and determine next steps to complete your assessment.
The backlog is not a strategy.
You may have an approved mandate, multiple pilots, vendor proposals, and numerous use cases. What is missing is a single decision that connects business value, feasibility, data, risk, ownership, and an actionable 90-day plan.
What success looks like
Leadership can fund, halt, or sequence the next step; the owner has clear next actions; and delivery does not begin on an ambiguous use case.
Scope
Available evidence
- Stakeholder and decision map;
- Current pilot/use-case and dependency inventory;
Decision screen
- Value, feasibility, data, adoption and risk screen;
- First-move recommendation and explicit stop/defer decisions;
Owned first move
- Named business owner and evidence standard;
- 90-day execution roadmap;
- Delivery options and leadership readout.
Distinction from AI Governance
AI Execution Readiness chooses the first move and its delivery path across the mandate.
AI Governance establishes and implements the decision rights, controls, and evidence needed to govern AI systems.
If the dominant blocker is regulatory or control ownership, route directly to AI Governance.
Delivery gates
Four decision points keep the engagement controlled from kickoff through handover. The Day 5 review is the second gate. Later approvals occur when their required evidence is ready, not on a universal calendar date. Completion and commercial terms are defined in the proposal.
- Before counted delivery begins
Access-ready kickoff
Confirm the sponsor, decision owner, scope, agreed inputs, legal and access authorization, stakeholder availability, and acceptance criteria. Record any missing prerequisites before counted delivery begins.
- Fifth project business day after the agreed kickoff
Scope and feasibility gate
Confirm or adjust the boundary, accessible evidence, main constraint, feasible outcome, and remaining risks. Record the decision to proceed, rescope, pause, or stop.
- During delivery, when the required evidence is ready
Service-specific approval gates
Apply any technical, security, regulatory, business acceptance, or release approvals required by the agreed scope. Each approval occurs when its required evidence is ready, not on a universal date.
- At the end of the scoped engagement
Completion and continuation gate
Accept the contracted outcome, record remaining decisions and risks, and decide whether to close, operate, extend, remediate, launch, or scale through a separately agreed next scope.
Fit
Best fit
Organizations with an approved AI mandate, stalled pilots, competing use cases, or vendor proposals, but no defensible first move. This engagement is designed for leadership teams that need one fundable recommendation, explicit stop or defer decisions, a named owner, and an actionable 90-day execution roadmap.
Not a fit
This is not the delivery engagement for a workflow that is already prioritized and ready to build. In that situation, begin with the 90-Day AI-to-Production Sprint. If the dominant blocker is regulatory applicability, governance ownership, or control evidence, begin with AI Governance & Regulatory Readiness. It is also not a generic AI trends workshop, a complete enterprise transformation plan, or free vendor selection.
The entry scope assumes
One mandate or business-unit boundary, a bounded pilot and use-case inventory, a limited stakeholder group, one first-move recommendation, one named business owner, a 90-day execution plan, a leadership readout, and the day-5 gate stated in the proposal. Multiple business units, large portfolios, extensive data analysis, onsite requirements, procurement-grade business cases, or accelerated executive scheduling require an expanded scope and fee.
Client responsibilities
The client names the sponsor, business owner, and relevant decision-makers; provides the agreed mandate, pilot and use-case information, dependencies, and supporting documents; makes the necessary stakeholders available; reviews assumptions and evidence at the agreed gates; and makes or escalates the leadership decisions required to complete the recommendation. Material additions or delays are handled through the agreed change-control process.