Openers · AI Readiness Snapshot
Find where AI gives back hours, not minutes – before you spend on tools.
The four or five places where AI gives back hours of your specialists' time, each with a business case estimate, a readiness check and one first pilot with a kill condition.
- Forbusiness area owner, Head of IT, finance
- The questionWhere does AI give back hours, not minutes?
- You decidepilot, wait or drop – per opportunity
- Nexta Strategy Sprint for an AI portfolio
Sounds familiar?
Dozens of AI ideas. No idea which one pays.
“The board asks about AI, and I have nothing concrete to bring.”
“We pay for AI licences, and nobody can say what they return.”
“A vendor offered a free AI audit – deducted from the implementation.”
What you get
A ranked list you can act on next month.
Four or five opportunities
Ranked by the hours at stake, each with what it would take.
A business case for each
Value, cost, risk and cost of delay, in numbers your CFO can check.
One first pilot
With an owner, a measure and a kill condition – so you know when to stop.
What it looks like
An AI opportunity map, not a hype deck.
Each opportunity with the hours it gives back, its value, how ready your data, technology and governance are for it – and a decision. “Not now” is a valid one.
| Opportunity | Hours / week | Ready? | Decision |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ticket triage and first reply | 12 h | Implement | |
| Draft of the quote | 8 h | Test first | |
| Contract review checklist | 5 h | Test first | |
| Invoice matching | 6 h | Not now |
Ready? data · technology · governance – in place, partly, missing. An illustrative example.
How it works
From the first call to the ranked list in two to three weeks.
Day 1 · 30 minutes, async
Agree the scope
The area, the people, the tools you already pay for.
Week 1
Find where the hours go
Short sessions with the people who do the work – or fully asynchronous.
Week 2
Readiness and cases
Data, technology and governance for each opportunity; a business case.
Week 2–3
Report and review
The ranked list, the cases and the first pilot, with your decision makers.
Who should be involved
- the owner of the business area
- Head of IT or the person responsible for data
- someone from finance
- optional: two or three specialists who do the work
Price
Fixed before we start. Lite upfront, the rest when it's done.
Lite
€1,500
- You collect the input with my templates
- One day of analysis
- Findings call and report
- Paid upfront
Snapshot
from €5,000
- Sessions or async input
- Four or five opportunities with business cases
- Readiness check, guardrails and one pilot
Strategy Sprint
on scope
- Value streams behind the opportunities
- A prioritised AI portfolio and roadmap
- Governance when AI becomes a program
I don't implement and take no commission from who does – so the answer can be “use what you already pay for”, “one small pilot” or “not now”. The fee is credited against a Strategy Sprint.
Details
Most companies start with AI where it is easiest to switch on, not where it pays. Fifteen minutes a day saved on summarising e-mails does not show up anywhere in the P&L.
What we look at
| Area | The question |
|---|---|
| Work | Where do expensive people spend hours on reading, sorting, searching, rewriting or checking? |
| Data | Is the information those tasks need available, good enough, and allowed to be used? |
| Technology | What do you already own and pay for – licences, platforms, integrations – that could do the job? |
| Governance | Who decides, who owns the risk, and which rules (GDPR, the AI Act, your clients' contracts) apply? |
| Value | What is each opportunity worth, what does it cost, and what happens if you wait a year? |
Why it matters
AI spend is growing in most companies, but outcomes are rarely measured: no prioritisation, no guardrails, no ROI baseline. The companies that get value from AI start where the hours are, prove it on one case and only then scale. This Snapshot gives you that starting point – and the numbers to defend it.
How it differs from a free AI audit
An audit from an implementation partner maps your processes for automation and is usually deducted from the project the same company will sell you. I do not implement and take no commission from who does, so the recommendation can be “use what you already pay for”, “start with one small pilot” or “not now”.