AI ideas are scattered across departments
Marketing has one, operations has another, finance has a third. Each was proposed on its own merits.
No shared priority, so the loudest team sets the order.AI readiness and opportunity assessment
Know where AI should start, and what to build first
You receive a map of how the work runs today, a readiness score across five areas, every AI opportunity ranked by how close it sits to money the business already counts, and a sequence for what to do first.
Why assessments get skipped, and what it costs
Most AI budgets are set before anyone has looked at the work
The decision to fund an AI project usually arrives before the process it will touch has been written down. Six patterns show up again and again in that gap.
The business case is missing
The value of a proposed build is described in general terms and never put against a number the business already tracks.
Budget stalls, or funds a pilot nobody adopts.Nobody has written down how the work runs
The process exists in the heads of the people doing it, and the documented version stopped matching reality years ago.
The wrong step gets automated first.There is no readiness baseline
Data quality, access rules, tool coverage and staff capability are assumed rather than measured.
Builds fail on gaps that were visible from the start.Vendors are setting the agenda
Three demos arrive, each scoped to what that vendor sells, and the comparison happens on their terms.
The decision follows the best demo, not the best fit.Pilots never reach production
Something gets built, works in a test, and stops when the person who championed it moves on.
Money spent, nothing operating.What you receive
Nine artifacts your leadership can decide from
Each one is a document or a map you keep, use in the next engagement, and hand to a vendor who is not us. The assessment ends with a decision, not a proposal.
- AI Direction Brief
- Your business priorities and what you want AI to do about them, written in one place and agreed by leadership.
- Readiness Scorecard
- Where you stand today on workflow clarity, data, governance, people and measurement, scored so you can see which gap is load-bearing.
- Current-State Process Map
- How the work actually flows, including the steps nobody documented and the handoffs where it stalls.
- Level 2 Workflow Map
- The priority process broken into triggers, owners, systems and handoffs. Detailed enough to build against.
- Workflow Opportunity Map
- Every point in that flow where AI removes friction or improves the result, marked on the map rather than listed apart from it.
- Value Map
- Each opportunity scored on value, risk, effort and adoption, and ranked by how close it sits to money the business already counts.
- Risk Heatmap
- The governance, data and operating risks that would stop a build, flagged before you fund one.
- AI Roadmap
- What to do first, second and third, and what each step depends on finishing before it starts.
- Executive Decision Brief
- One document your leadership decides from: govern, build, train, deploy, or wait.
Price and duration
Three depths. Same method, different reach
Every engagement is scoped before it starts, and the band you land in follows the number of processes in scope and how many people have to be interviewed to map them.
Snapshot
$2,000 to $3,000
About 2 weeks
A readiness baseline and a ranked shortlist, for a decision that has to be made before a deeper engagement can be justified.
- Readiness Scorecard
- Top opportunities, ranked
- Initial risk flags
- Executive Decision Brief
Blueprint
$3,500 to $5,000
About 4 weeks
The full assessment. Take this when the next step is a build or a governance engagement and you need evidence to scope it.
- Everything in Snapshot
- Current-State Process Map
- Workflow Opportunity Map
- Value Map and AI Roadmap
Build-Ready
$5,500 to $7,500
About 6 weeks
The assessment plus the specification. Take this when a build is already likely and you want it to start without a second discovery.
- Everything in Blueprint
- Level 2 Workflow Map
- Build-ready requirements
- Implementation sequence
Canadian small and medium businesses have used federal digital adoption funding to cover this work. Two of the engagements below were funded that way. We will tell you on the call whether you are likely to qualify.
Proof
Two assessments, and what they produced
Digital readiness assessment for a law clerk firm
A legal operations practice needed to know which parts of its filing and client intake work could be modernized, and in what order.
CDAP funded engagement 4 pillars transformation strategy
Read the case study Digital adoption plan for a specialty food manufacturer
Every department was interviewed before a single system was recommended. The plan that came out of it was approved and funded.
8 weeks start to approved plan All departments interviewed
Read the case study Fit
Whether this is the right first step
Start here if
- Your teams are already using AI informally and you want to know what to formalize
- You are considering AI spend and need a credible starting point to put in front of a board
- You have several AI ideas and no agreed order
- A build or a governance engagement is coming and you want it scoped on evidence
- You can give us a leadership sponsor and access to the people who run the process
Start somewhere else if
- Staff are already using AI on client or regulated data with no rules in place. Go to FusionGuard first.
- You have one clear workflow, a named owner and agreed success metrics. Go straight to FusionBuild.
- The blocker is capability rather than direction. Go to AI Systems Mastery.
- You want a free read on where you stand before paying for anything. Take the AI readiness assessment.
After the assessment
Where the findings usually send you
The assessment ends at a decision point. Which of these you take depends on what the readiness score and the risk heatmap turn up, and it is written into the decision brief.
Start with evidence
Thirty minutes on a call tells us whether an assessment is the right first spend, and which depth fits what you are trying to decide.