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AI Strategy and Discovery

AI Strategy and Discovery starts before any build. We look at how your business works, where the repeated effort sits, and what data you actually hold. Then we say plainly which ideas are worth building, which provider suits them, and which are theatre.

Who it is for

Clear support for the point you are at now.

The service is scoped around the current site, product or process so the next step is useful rather than overbuilt.

  • Interiors brands, suppliers and makers being asked for an AI plan without a clear answer.
  • Design-led businesses with a specific problem: enquiries, product data, sourcing or admin.
  • Founders who have tried AI tools and are not sure what to trust.
  • Teams planning a larger platform build who want AI considered early, not bolted on.

Usually a conversation about the one process that costs the most time, followed by a workshop with your team.

Common problems

The practical issues this service is designed to clarify.

The work avoids broad promises and focuses on decisions, structure and code a business owner can act on.

Ideas for AI are arriving faster than anyone can judge them.

Nobody knows whether the data is good enough to build on.

Provider choice feels like guesswork, and lock-in is a worry.

Budget could go on a feature nobody would use.

Scope

What this can include, and what it does not include by default.

The exact scope is confirmed after an enquiry or audit. This keeps the work practical and avoids promises that need a larger brief.

Included

  • A discovery workshop with the people who do the work day to day.
  • A review of your data, systems and content, and what AI could reliably draw on.
  • Opportunity mapping: each idea assessed for usefulness, effort, risk and how we would verify it.
  • Provider and model recommendations, including where a fallback between providers matters.
  • A written assessment that says which ideas are theatre, and why.
  • A scoped next step with a plan, or a clear recommendation to do nothing yet.

Not included by default

  • Building anything. Delivery is scoped separately once the direction is agreed.
  • Vendor negotiation or procurement on your behalf.
  • Data cleaning or migration, although we will tell you what needs doing.
  • Guarantees about what any model will produce, or what it will cost to run over time.

AI Strategy and Discovery

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