In three weeks, know exactly what AI is worth to you.
A fixed-scope diagnosis of your operations and your team. You leave with five written deliverables: your workflows mapped, your use cases ranked by expected return, the no-gos in writing, a budgeted roadmap, and a session with your leadership team to decide on it.
A free 30-minute call to take an objective read of where you stand on AI today. If this is the wrong moment for you, we say so.
fixed scope
deliverables
across your teams
costed in full
You go from "AI should help"
to a plan you can act on.
You decide on evidence
Every use case comes back with a number attached: expected return, cost to build, and what it needs from your team. You choose between options that have been measured, rather than pitched.
You know where the money goes first
The roadmap is ordered, so you know which project earns its keep soonest and which ones wait. The weak candidates are named as such, in writing, with the reasoning behind each one.
You know your team can run it
We read your team's readiness alongside the technical fit, because a system nobody adopts returns nothing. Each surviving use case comes with the skills gap it opens and how to close it.
Everyone diagnoses the tech.
We diagnose the tech and the team.
The build is 20%, adoption is 80%. A system your team never picks up returns nothing, however good the technology, so readiness belongs in the diagnosis rather than in the post-mortem.
- Lists tools and use cases
- Assumes the team will figure it out
- Hands you a slide deck of possibilities
- Ends when the report is delivered
- Success measured by the length of the list
- Ranks use cases by expected return, with the weak ones named in writing
- Reads your team's readiness and skills gap as part of the diagnosis
- Hands you a budgeted roadmap you can take to your board
- Points to the next step: upskill, build, or wait
- Success measured by the right decision
It starts with an honest look
at where you stand.
Nobody should commit to a three-week engagement off a first conversation. So we start with two short sessions, and neither of them commits you to anything.
The fit call
An objective read of your situation: what you have already tried, where your teams lose time, how ready they are, and what is realistically within reach. You leave with a clearer picture whether or not you ever work with us.
The scoping session
If the Sprint is the right move, we go deeper on the operational detail: the scope to cover, the teams involved, access and timing. That is what turns a conversation into a firm, precise proposal you can approve or decline.
Nothing begins until you have seen and approved the full proposal, with the scope and the price fixed in it.
A fixed method,
not a black box.
Map
We get inside how your teams actually work and where the hours go.
- Interviews with the teams and the sponsor
- Workflows and time sinks mapped
- A first read of your team's readiness
Rank
Each candidate is costed and scored one by one, and the ranking is built from the numbers.
- Expected return and effort scored per use case
- Prerequisites and adoption conditions named
- The skills gap attached to each surviving case
Decide
We hand you a decision you can act on, in order, with the budget attached.
- A prioritised roadmap with a budget range per solution
- The upskilling your team needs, mapped
- A working session with your leadership team
Five deliverables to decide
your AI spending on.
Each one answers a question you have to answer anyway: where the time goes, what is worth building, what is not, in what order, and who signs off.
The process map
Where your teams actually lose time today, agreed with the people who do the work. The baseline every number in the report is measured against.
The ranking
Five use cases costed in full and ordered by expected return, each with its prerequisites and adoption conditions. Everything else we find is listed.
The no-go list
What does not earn its cost, named in writing with the reasoning. The document you use to close a debate internally, delivered whatever the verdict.
The roadmap
The sequence, the budget range per solution, the internal resources required and the milestones. Built to be defended in front of a board.
The decision session
One working session with your leadership team to take the decision, with the supporting pack you keep.
You own 100% of what we produce. The roadmap is written so that another provider, or your own team, could execute it without us.
Fixed boundaries.
Published, not buried.
A three-week diagnosis works because it is bounded. Here is exactly what is inside the engagement and what sits outside it, so the proposal holds no surprises.
| Duration | 3 weeks |
| Interviews | 10 sessions, one hour each |
| Scope | Fixed at the scoping session, before any proposal |
| Use cases costed | 5 in full, the rest listed |
| Report revisions | 1 round of comments, then final |
| Decision session | 1 with your leadership team |
- Development, prototypes or proof of concept
- Data cleaning or migration
- Vendor selection or negotiation
- Team training and programme delivery
- Implementation of the roadmap
- Supplier specification documents
Three weeks is short.
It works if you are in it.
One point of contact
A single named person who can open doors, book the interviews and chase the documents. Committee coordination costs days we do not have.
Your time, twice
The sponsor sits in at the start and at the decision session. A diagnosis conducted without the decision maker produces a report nobody acts on.
Documents within 48 hours
Process documentation, tool inventories and volume data as we ask for them. The clock keeps running while we wait.
If nothing is worth building,
you pay half.
If the Sprint finds no use case worth the investment, that verdict is written into the final report and the second half of the fee is waived. The no-go list is delivered either way. You still leave with your processes mapped and a documented reason to hold your budget, which is worth more than a project that quietly fails eighteen months from now.
waived if the verdict is that nothing on the list earns its cost. Written into the report, not negotiated afterwards.
The roadmap names
the next move.
Two of our practices can execute what the Sprint ranked. Which one the roadmap points to depends on whether the gap is in your team's skills or in your systems. Often it is both, in a stated order.
Training & AI Adoption
We build your team's AI skills on the real use cases the Sprint surfaced, and hand you the programmes and internal academies you keep.
See Training & Adoption →AI Automation
We build the systems the Sprint ranked highest, on your data, documented and handed over. Your team is trained to run them.
See AI Automation →Neither is a condition of the Sprint. The roadmap is written so you could execute it with your own team, or with anyone else.
The honest questions,
answered honestly.
How much does the Verdict Sprint cost?
Why five use cases and not everything you find?
Does the Sprint give me a detailed automation budget?
What happens if the scope needs to grow mid-Sprint?
What is the difference with a free consultation elsewhere?
Do I have to run the Sprint before working with you?
Do I have to commit to a bigger project afterwards?
Get an objective read on where you stand.
- A free 30-minute fit call with the founder, no commitment
- An honest assessment of your situation, your teams, and what is realistic
- A second session scopes the Sprint properly, if it is the right move
- A firm proposal with the scope and the price fixed, before anything starts
NB: The Sprint is built for mid-market operations. The fit call decides together whether it fits.
30 minutes. Directly with the founder.
An honest answer either way.
Book my fit call Usually available within the week.