Three attempts, no owner. Half a day. One page.
For companies that don’t have an AI project yet, just a few things people tried: a chatbot, a vendor demo, two colleagues with ChatGPT, a budget line with a question mark. Before anyone calls it a strategy, it needs an owner and a decision about which one lives.
What you get
One page. The inventory first, every attempt on one line: what it was meant to prove, who started it, what it has cost so far, whether it still runs. Next to each line a name and a verdict: keep, stop, or fold into another.
Below the inventory, one project, the one with the healthiest prospects: what it has to prove, by when, against which number, who owns it, and what would make you stop it. What, not how. The how, the vendor, the architecture, the team, is a different job, and not mine.
Why an inventory and not a strategy
Two things are usually missing, and neither is technology. Clarity: nobody can list what has been tried and what each attempt has cost. Ownership: nobody’s name is next to any of it, so nothing gets stopped and nothing gets funded properly. The inventory fixes both in half a day. A strategy document fixes neither.
How it works
- A half-hour call, no charge. If what you have is one real project, I’ll say so, and we talk about the Verdict instead.
- You fill in one page, ten minutes: what was tried, who started it, what it cost, whether it still runs, what it was supposed to prove. Guesses are fine; the gaps are part of the result.
- Half a day with you and the people who started the attempts, three or four at most. Each of them describes what they started, in front of the others. Most of the value is in that hour.
- The page arrives within three working days.
- Half an hour on the phone once you’ve read it. Then I’m done.
Price
900 euros plus VAT, for up to four people. If within ninety days you bring the project from the page to a Verdict, the 900 come off the Verdict fee.
What this is not
Not a strategy, not a roadmap, not a vendor selection and not an implementation plan. One page, one project, one name.
Send the page
Three lines are enough: how many things have been tried, roughly what they cost, and who in the company knows about all of them. I answer within one working day, usually with two dates for a call.
Or write directly to stefan@myairadar.com.
Every line of the inventory gets the same question as the rest of this site: what would make you stop it? For small attempts the answer is usually that nobody has looked, and writing that down is most of the half day.
Thirty minutes, no charge, no slides. Nothing on the table yet? That is the cheapest moment to meet, before the decision has a date. An NDA first, if you prefer; it takes one sentence.