ZECH
AI Development · Plan

AI strategy that ends in a funded first project, not a slide deck.

We assess where AI can change real work in your business, check feasibility against your data, systems and risk appetite, and hand over a prioritized roadmap with the first build scoped and ready to start.

What we deliver
  • Opportunity inventory and scoring
  • Data and systems readiness review
  • Feasibility spikes
  • Value and cost model
  • Sequenced roadmap
  • First project brief
Tools & platforms
Workshop and process-mapping toolsPython notebooks for feasibility spikesAnthropic, OpenAI and open-weight modelsSQL and your existing BI tools

Where this helps

Too many ideas, no way to rank them
Every department has a list of AI use cases. Without a shared way to compare value, effort and risk, the loudest request wins and the best opportunity waits.
Leadership wants an AI plan by next quarter
The board is asking what the company is doing with AI. A vendor pitch or a generic maturity model does not answer which workflows change, what it costs, or who owns it.
Pilots that prove nothing
A proof of concept runs on a clean sample, impresses in a demo, and then stalls because nobody defined what success meant or checked whether production data looks the same.

What we deliver

01
Opportunity inventory and scoring
A list of candidate use cases drawn from interviews with the people doing the work, each scored on value, feasibility, data readiness and risk using criteria you can reuse.
02
Data and systems readiness review
What data each priority use case needs, where it lives, who owns it, how clean it is, and which integrations or access changes are required before a build.
03
Feasibility spikes
Short, time-boxed technical tests on your real data for the riskiest assumptions, so the roadmap is based on evidence rather than vendor claims.
04
Value and cost model
For each priority use case, the baseline you will measure against, the expected change, and a realistic estimate of build and running costs, with the assumptions written down.
05
Sequenced roadmap
A 6–12 month plan that orders projects by dependency and payoff, names owners, and flags the platform, data and governance work that several projects share.
06
First project brief
A scoped statement of work for the first build, including success measures, human review points and an evaluation approach, ready for your team or ours to execute.

How it works

  1. 01

    Frame the goals

    We agree the business objectives, constraints and decision-makers, and gather existing plans, systems diagrams and prior AI attempts.

  2. 02

    Discover the work

    Structured interviews and workflow walkthroughs with front-line teams uncover where time, errors and delays actually occur.

  3. 03

    Assess and test

    We review data and systems for the shortlisted use cases and run feasibility spikes on the ones with the most uncertainty.

  4. 04

    Prioritize together

    A working session with your stakeholders scores and ranks the options, so the roadmap reflects your judgment and not just ours.

  5. 05

    Hand over the plan

    You receive the roadmap, value model and first project brief, walked through with the people who will fund and run the work.

Design decisions we make with you

  • Build, buy or wait

    Some use cases are best served by a feature already in software you own; some need custom work; some are not ready yet. We say which, and why.

  • Where value is measured

    Every recommended project comes with a baseline and a metric the business already trusts, so results can be checked after launch.

  • Risk appetite

    We map each use case to the level of human oversight, data sensitivity and regulatory exposure it carries, and recommend controls to match.

  • Platform versus point solutions

    If several projects need the same retrieval layer, model access or monitoring, we recommend building it once and say when that pays off.

  • Internal capability

    The roadmap names which skills you should build in-house, which to rent, and what a realistic hiring or training plan looks like.

Questions buyers ask

It depends on scope. A focused assessment of one function is shorter than a company-wide roadmap. We agree the scope, participants and outputs up front so the timeline is fixed before we start.

No. Some recommendations will be to buy an existing product, use a feature you already license, or not use AI at all for a given task. The roadmap is useful whoever builds it.

A sponsor who can make decisions, access to the people who do the work, and read access to the relevant systems or data samples. We keep time demands on your teams to structured sessions.

We set a baseline for each use case using metrics the business already tracks, then estimate the change and the cost. Our article on measuring AI value explains the approach.

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