| You spend more than 15 hours per week on data entry, categorisation, or manual reporting | High fit | |
| Customer enquiries follow repeatable patterns that staff handle one by one | High fit | |
| Your forecasting relies on spreadsheets and gut feeling rather than structured models | Medium fit | |
| You have at least six months of digital records (sales, tickets, logs, CRM entries) | Prerequisite | |
| Decision-makers want measurable return, not a technology showcase | Mindset check | |
| You can name at least one bottleneck that slows revenue or increases cost every month | Action ready |
"We ticked four of these. The diagnostic confirmed two of them were worth automating immediately." — Operations lead, logistics firm in Cardiff
Most AI projects fail because they start with technology. We start with your numbers, your bottlenecks, and your team's actual capacity. The diagnostic comes first. Implementation follows only when the business case is clear.
Each diagnostic engagement examines your organisation through four distinct lenses. We score each one independently so you know exactly where effort should go.
We audit your existing data sources, storage hygiene, and integration points. A company with clean CRM records and structured invoicing data is months ahead of one still running on email threads and paper forms. We grade this on a five-point scale and flag the two or three fixes that move the needle fastest.
Where do tasks pile up? Which handoffs between teams introduce delays? We map the top five friction points and estimate how many staff hours each one burns per month. This lens often reveals that a single workflow change, even before AI enters the picture, can recover meaningful time.
AI tools are only useful if people trust them. We interview key staff, gauge comfort with automation, and identify training gaps. A warehouse team accustomed to scanning barcodes adapts to predictive picking faster than one still using clipboards.
We model the cost of implementation against projected savings or revenue gain over 12 months. If the payback period exceeds 18 months for a given use case, we recommend deferring it. Honest arithmetic prevents expensive regret.
| AI capability | Typical application | Data requirement | Time to first result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natural language processing | Customer ticket routing, sentiment tracking, document summarisation | 6 months of text records | 4–6 weeks |
| Predictive analytics | Demand forecasting, churn prediction, inventory optimisation | 12 months of transactional data | 6–10 weeks |
| Computer vision | Quality inspection, shelf auditing, document digitisation | 1,000+ labelled images | 8–12 weeks |
| Conversational AI | Internal help desks, customer-facing chatbots, appointment scheduling | FAQ corpus + call transcripts | 3–5 weeks |
| Recommendation engines | Product cross-sell, content personalisation, next-best-action prompts | User interaction logs | 5–8 weeks |
| Process automation (AI-assisted RPA) | Invoice matching, compliance checks, data migration | Structured records + rule documentation | 3–6 weeks |
"The capability map made it obvious we should start with NLP for our support tickets. We saved the computer vision project for phase two." — CTO, e-commerce retailer, Swansea
A diagnostic costs a fraction of a failed pilot. We have seen companies invest five figures into chatbot platforms before discovering their FAQ data was contradictory and incomplete. The bot gave wrong answers. Customers complained. The project was shelved within two months.
Our diagnostic would have caught that in week one. We would have recommended cleaning the knowledge base first, testing with a small internal group, and only then rolling out to customers. The total cost of doing it right was lower than the wasted licence fees alone.
We work with businesses between 10 and 500 employees. Smaller firms benefit from focused, single-use-case diagnostics. Larger ones often need the full four-lens assessment across multiple departments.
If your use case is standard (ticket routing, basic chatbot, demand forecast), buy an existing tool and configure it. Custom-built models make sense only when your data or workflow is genuinely unique. We help you tell the difference.
Start with a single department or product line. Measure for 60 days. If the results hold, expand. Skipping the pilot is the most common and most expensive mistake we see.
If you have a data engineer on staff, in-house ownership is viable after initial setup. If your technical team is already stretched, a managed service with monthly reviews keeps the system healthy without hiring.
Not every AI opportunity is urgent. We score each one by impact and effort. High-impact, low-effort items go first. High-impact, high-effort items get scheduled. Low-impact items get parked.
"They told us to wait six months on the vision project and focus on automating our invoicing first. That advice alone paid for the diagnostic."Finance director, manufacturing company, Newport
Choose the depth that matches your stage. Each pathway builds on the previous one, but you can enter at any point.
A focused two-week assessment covering one department or one process. You receive a scored report, a shortlist of recommended tools, and a cost estimate. Best for businesses exploring AI for the first time or testing a specific hypothesis ("Can we automate returns processing?").
Deliverables: diagnostic scorecard, tool shortlist, 30-day quick-start plan. Typical investment: £2,400–£4,000.
The complete four-lens diagnostic across your organisation. We interview department leads, audit data infrastructure, map processes, and model financial outcomes for up to five use cases. Duration: three to four weeks. Suited to mid-size businesses with multiple potential AI applications.
Deliverables: comprehensive report, prioritised roadmap, vendor comparison matrix, 90-day action plan. Typical investment: £6,500–£12,000.
Full-lens assessment followed by hands-on deployment of the top-priority use case. We configure or build the solution, train your team, and run a 60-day monitored pilot. At the end, you have a working system and documented playbook for scaling further. Duration: eight to fourteen weeks.
Deliverables: everything in Pathway B, plus a live AI system, staff training, pilot performance report, and scaling guide. Typical investment: £15,000–£35,000 depending on complexity.
Week one is interviews and data access. We talk to the people who do the work, not just the people who approve the budget. A customer service agent knows which questions repeat daily. A warehouse picker knows which SKUs cause delays. That ground-level knowledge shapes the diagnostic more than any dashboard.
Week two is analysis. We score each lens, cross-reference findings, and draft recommendations. If the data is insufficient for a particular AI approach, we say so plainly and suggest what to collect before revisiting.
Week three (for full-lens engagements) is the financial model. We estimate implementation cost, ongoing running cost, and projected return. Every number comes with assumptions you can challenge.
The final deliverable is a document you can hand to your board, your IT team, or a third-party vendor. It stands on its own.
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