Keep a stalled AI initiative honest and moving.

The Problem

The plan looks right on paper: committees, named owners, phased timelines. But the same managers who identified the pain points are the ones assigned to fix them, on top of their existing jobs. The person coordinating across all of it, usually a single senior sponsor, is also the organization's most constrained resource. This isn't a strategy gap. It's an execution and coordination gap, and it stays invisible from inside because naming it means naming which named owners aren't ready to move.

What We Do

• Reconcile the plan against reality: talk to every named owner, find where the deck and the operational truth diverge, and produce one honest view.
• Sharpen problem definition: turn a pain point into something precise enough to scope, vendor, and deploy against.
• Sequence under constraint: decide what moves first and what waits, with a defensible rationale.
• Filter the vendor market: hold the original problem definition against vendor pitches shaped by vendor capability, not organizational need.
• Build a measurement approach that survives scrutiny: a defensible baseline before vendors are engaged, so the business case can survive real questions later.

How It Works

A short discovery phase comes first: individual conversations with every named owner, confirmation of where the plan actually stands, and a first reconciliation document that shows the whole initiative in one honest view. From there, workstreams get sequenced with a clear rationale, vendor pitches get filtered against the real problem, and a baseline gets set before anyone builds anything.

Who It's For

• A written AI plan exists, with named owners, and the timeline is already slipping.
• A senior sponsor has real authority but not daily bandwidth.
• Vendor conversations are approaching or underway, without problem statements specific enough to evaluate them against.

Not a Fit

Still deciding whether to do AI at all? That's a strategy conversation, not this engagement. Plan already sound, resourced, and moving? You need delivery support, not this.

The Outcome

A named person whose full-time focus is making the initiative move: catching drift early, keeping the plan honest, and standing between the organization and a vendor market that will reshape the problem to fit its product if no one pushes back.