Free AI Value Sprint
Find the AI worth building first.Before anyone builds.
Your leaders agree the outcomes, rank the use cases and choose what to test first. tMinus1 pays for the sprint; you keep everything it produces.
Why it matters
Many AI pilots stall after the demo because no one agreed what value meant.
- Who attends
- The executive sponsor, process owners, finance and risk, and the engineering leads.
- Access
- None to your systems. Conversations, a survey and the figures you choose to share.
- Your effort
- A few hours of your leaders' time.
- Cost
- No fee. tMinus1 pays for the sprint, and you keep the outputs.
A facilitated strategy sprint, not a paid consulting engagement. Your leaders make the decisions.
How it works
Agree the value before anyone builds.
Three phases. We prepare with your leaders, run one decision workshop and hand over a plan your engineers can start on.
- Prepare
Talk to each leader
A short conversation with each sponsor and process owner, plus a survey. We collect how each leader sees value, what is already in motion and the volumes and costs behind each candidate use case. Each conversation takes about 45 minutes.
- Decide
Run the workshop
Executives, process owners and engineering leads meet for one facilitated workshop. They agree the outcomes that matter, score the long list on one rubric and choose the short list. The workshop runs for two hours. We facilitate; your leaders decide.
- Activate
Start the short list
Each short-listed idea gets an owner, a baseline agreed with finance, a budget, a time box and a stop rule. You can build it yourselves, run a Production Pilot with us, or stop.
Scope
One rubric. Every idea.
The sprint uses the same questions for every candidate, so the ranking compares like with like.
- Value
What does it change?
The measurable outcome, the baseline today and who in the business owns the number.
- Feasibility
Can it work on your data?
The data available, its quality and access, and the systems the use case must touch.
- Risk
What could go wrong?
Privacy, security, regulatory and reputational risks, and the controls each would need.
- Effort
What does it take?
A rough size for the first version, the team it needs and the dependencies to resolve.
What you take away
Deliverables your team keeps.
Everything we produce belongs to your team and lives in your accounts and repositories.
Yours to keepEverything we make is yours.
Every output stays in your accounts and repositories when we leave.
- 01 / Heatmap
A ranked use-case heatmap
Every idea scored on value, feasibility, risk and effort with one fixed rubric. You can see why each idea ranks where it does.
- 02 / Business cases
A short business case per idea
The decision, the economics and a go, pivot or stop rule. Each has an owner, a baseline, a budget and a time box.
- 03 / Roadmap
A sequenced roadmap
What to build first, next and later, with the measure of success for each step.
- 04 / Choice
An optional next step
Build the short list in-house, ask us to run a Production Pilot, or stop. The sprint does not commit you to anything.
Sample output
What the heatmap looks like.
Each candidate gets the same four scores, so leaders argue about evidence, not opinions.
| Use case | Value | Feasibility | Risk | Effort | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support reply drafting | High | High | Low | Medium | 1 |
| Invoice exception triage | High | Medium | Medium | Low | 2 |
| Policy document answers | Medium | High | Medium | Medium | 3 |
| Sales call summaries | Low | High | Low | Low | 4 |
Illustrative format. The use cases and scores are examples, not client data. Darker cells are more favourable. Your heatmap uses your own long list and the rubric your leaders agree.
Before we start.
Discuss anything specific to your team or environment.
You give us a few hours of your leaders' time and we learn whether we would be useful to each other. If the short list contains work you want help with, we will quote it. If not, you keep the outputs.
The executive sponsor, the owners of the processes in scope, someone from finance and risk, and the engineering leads who would build the first use case.
No. The sprint uses conversations, a survey and the volumes and costs your process owners choose to share. We will sign your NDA before we start if you want one.
You and us. We do not publish them, and we do not use your name in marketing without written permission.
The next step
Find your first use case.
Request your free sprintWe’ll confirm fit and the scope in writing before any work begins.
