The Engagement

The AI Strategy Assessment

A fixed-scope, fixed-fee engagement delivered over two weeks. It ends with a written assessment in three components: an embedded AI capabilities review, a revenue and productivity value mapping, and an execution playbook. The scope does not expand once it begins, and nothing in it depends on buying additional software.

How the two weeks run.

Week one — mapping.

Interviews with the people who do the work, a review of the systems your firm already licenses, and a written account of where the hours go across your revenue and reporting functions. The account is quantified rather than estimated, and it is reviewed with you before any recommendation is drafted.

Week one — mapping.

Interviews with the people who do the work, a review of the systems your firm already licenses, and a written account of where the hours go across your revenue and reporting functions. The account is quantified rather than estimated, and it is reviewed with you before any recommendation is drafted.

Week two — assessment.

Each mapped function is matched against the AI capability already available in the tools you license, and the recommendations are sequenced into the playbook. Nothing is installed or configured on your systems during the engagement.

Week two — assessment.

Each mapped function is matched against the AI capability already available in the tools you license, and the recommendations are sequenced into the playbook. Nothing is installed or configured on your systems during the engagement.

What arrives at the end.

The assessment arrives as a single written document rather than a slide deck — specific to your firm, and structured so that the people who own each function can act on their part of it. It has three components.

Embedded AI Capabilities Review

An inventory of the AI capability already embedded in the systems your firm licenses — what each feature does, what it does not do, and which sit dormant because no one mapped them to your work. Capability the firm is already paying for is separated from capability that would require buying something, and the latter is noted rather than recommended.

Embedded AI Capabilities Review

An inventory of the AI capability already embedded in the systems your firm licenses — what each feature does, what it does not do, and which sit dormant because no one mapped them to your work. Capability the firm is already paying for is separated from capability that would require buying something, and the latter is noted rather than recommended.

Revenue and Productivity Value Mapping

Where the hours go across your revenue and reporting functions, documented function by function, and which of those functions each capability actually serves. The mapping follows the processes specific to your type of firm — underwriting and diligence, client review and reporting, meeting preparation and follow-through.

Revenue and Productivity Value Mapping

Where the hours go across your revenue and reporting functions, documented function by function, and which of those functions each capability actually serves. The mapping follows the processes specific to your type of firm — underwriting and diligence, client review and reporting, meeting preparation and follow-through.

Strategic Recommendations: Execution Playbook

Which changes to make and in what order, who owns each one, and what has to be true before each begins. Sequenced by the time each is likely to return and the effort each requires, so the first move is obvious and the last is still written down.

Strategic Recommendations: Execution Playbook

Which changes to make and in what order, who owns each one, and what has to be true before each begins. Sequenced by the time each is likely to return and the effort each requires, so the first move is obvious and the last is still written down.

A condition, not a claim.

Every recommendation is written to what your client data permits: which categories may enter which system, which settings to review, and where a person signs off before anything reaches a client, a lender or a filing. Independent firms require that as a condition of doing business, and it is treated with the seriousness that implies. It is not what you are buying. You are buying the revenue and the hours the recommendations return.

Start with a conversation.

Thirty minutes, no materials required. Describe what is slow, and you will get a direct answer on whether there is anything here worth pursuing.

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