AI Readiness Review · for businesses of 50 people or more
In about 2 weeks, you’ll know which 2 or 3 workflows are worth funding.
Your executive team answers a questionnaire and names the tasks that eat the most time. We write down the hours those tasks take and cost the 2 or 3 workflows worth funding. Then we say whether to start with the Decision Discipline Workshop or the Context Install.
From 50 people, we usually start with the Decision Discipline Workshop, and the Review is the smaller first step. Under 50, the Context Install is the first thing we build.
It takes about 2 weeks, from the questionnaire to the costed shortlist.
The questionnaire covers 6 areas, and each task you name gets its hours written down and dated. The costing and the recommendation sit with us.
What the questionnaire covers
- What the executive team has agreed about AI, and whether it’s written down
- Who owns AI work, and who can fund it
- The rules for using AI and client data, and whether you could explain your AI use to a client or a regulator
- How your people use AI today, and how a new tool gets approved
- Where AI already runs in the work, and what it returns
- How you decide what to keep and what to stop
Who we need
- Your executive team, to answer the questionnaire and name the tasks that eat the most time.
What we do on our side
- The baseline: the hours on each task you name, written down and dated, so whatever you fund has a starting number.
- The shortlist: the 2 or 3 workflows worth funding, each costed, and where we’d start, with the reason.
Hours on the tasks you named
Named by the executive team of a 90-person business. An example.
An example baseline for a 90-person business. Its tasks, teams, hours and dates are illustrative.
Hours on the tasks you named
Named by the executive team of a 90-person business. An example.
An example baseline for a 90-person business. Its tasks, teams, hours and dates are illustrative.
Each workflow on the shortlist shows its hours today and what it takes to fund.
Each workflow’s hours come from the tasks your executive team named, beside what it would take to fund. The shortlist ends with where we’d start, and why.
The shortlist
Prepared for the executive team of a 90-person business. An example.
Worth funding
| Workflow | Today | To fund it |
|---|---|---|
| New client setup, from signed proposal to first jobSales and client services | 18 hours a week | Context Install: the shared brain, set up for the 9 people who do it |
| Weekly job updates to clientsOperations | 8 hours a week | Context Install: set up for the 3 people who do it |
| Answering clients’ invoice questionsFinance | 6 hours a week | Context Install: set up for the 2 people who do it, and a connector for the billing system, quoted on its own |
- New client setup, from signed proposal to first jobSales and client servicesToday18 hours a weekTo fund itContext Install: the shared brain, set up for the 9 people who do it
- Weekly job updates to clientsOperationsToday8 hours a weekTo fund itContext Install: set up for the 3 people who do it
- Answering clients’ invoice questionsFinanceToday6 hours a weekTo fund itContext Install: set up for the 2 people who do it, and a connector for the billing system, quoted on its own
Where to startYour call
Decision Discipline WorkshopRecommended
New client setup runs across 2 departments, and the executive team hasn’t agreed who would own it.
Context Install
The first thing we build, once the room has decided what to fund.
An example shortlist for the same 90-person business. Its workflows, teams, hours, headcounts and dates are illustrative. Dollar amounts are left out, as they are across this site.
The Review is one fixed fee per business, and you get your number on the call.
The Review is priced per business, as one fixed fee, and the Decision Discipline Workshop and the Context Install each keep their own price. You get your number on the call.
- AI Readiness Review
- One fixed fee per business
- How long
- About 2 weeks
- The baseline
- Included, the hours on the tasks you name
- The shortlist
- Included, 2 or 3 workflows, costed, with where to start
The workshop is priced per firm, for one room. The Context Install is priced once per business for the shared brain, then per person by role.
After the Review, you start with the workshop or the Context Install.
From 50 people, we usually start with the Decision Discipline Workshop, so the executive team agrees where AI goes before anything is built. The Review is a smaller first step, and its shortlist says whether the workshop or the Context Install comes first.
Where the shortlist points
- Decision Discipline Workshop
- One room of 5 to 15 people who can fund a decision and kill one, and usually first from 50 people. Its fee includes interviews with your key decision makers and one anonymous question to your whole team, so the Review runs neither.See how the workshop runs
- Context Install
- Builds the brain and each person’s Claude, and is always the first build.See the Context Install
The shortlist says what’s worth funding. In the workshop, the room decides what gets funded, and each funded workflow leaves with an owner and the number it has to move.
Questions executive teams ask about the Review
Your executive team answers a questionnaire and names the tasks that eat the most time. The hours and the costing sit with us, and the Review runs about 2 weeks from start to finish.
Book a call with Joel
Joel and the MethodWorks team put AI into the daily work of Australian businesses in financial advice, retail, logistics, education and software. Bring your headcount and the AI tools your team uses today, and you’ll leave the call knowing whether to start with the Review or the workshop.