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AI adoption intelligence
Turn AI into measurable business advantage.
We help leaders identify where AI can drive growth, expand capacity and improve service, then build the business case, prepare their people and select the right delivery partners.
63%
63% of organizations cannot point to any effect on profit from AI.
McKinsey, The State of AI, 2026. 1,719 respondents.Most companies know AI is the future, and they keep spending on it. Few can show the board an actual return, and the board has started to ask.
84%
84% of mid-sized companies still plan to spend more on AI next year.
RSM Middle Market AI Survey, 2026. 1,030 companies already using AI.The money is not the problem. The budgets are approved, and they are growing. The problem is what the money is buying.
70%
70% of the people a tool was bought for have not changed how they work.
Wavestone Global AI Survey, 2025. Leaders' average estimate across 500 organizations.The tools arrived, and the work stayed the same. A licence sits beside the old process instead of inside a new one, so there is nothing for the money to come back through.
AI will not make you money without a measurable plan.
Most companies have a plan. Few can say whether it is working.
Where it goes wrong.
None of it is careless. Each is what happens when a tool arrives before a plan does. The companies that got the order right are already pulling away.
- 01
Buying before setting the return.
56% of chief executives say AI has brought their company neither higher revenue nor lower costs.
PwC, 4,454 CEOs, 2026 - 02
Laying AI on top of the old process.
Three in four companies outside the top performers have not redesigned a single workflow around AI.
McKinsey, The State of AI, 2026 - 03
Running trials that never go into use.
42% of companies abandoned most of their AI initiatives in a year, up from 17% the year before.
S&P Global Market Intelligence, 2025 - 04
Betting on agents before the use case.
More than 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027 for cost, unclear value or weak controls.
Gartner, 2025 - 05
AI in use that nobody approved.
57% of employees hide their use of AI at work, and almost half use it in ways that break company policy.
University of Melbourne and KPMG, 48,340 people, 2025
What we do.
Whether you started years ago or last month.
We value the return in the AI you already own.
We set the return each effort should produce before anything is purchased.
We rebuild the work around the tool, instead of laying the tool on top of the work.
We put the projects in order of return, considering risk, complexity, and what each asks of your people.
We show the math behind every target, so finance can sign off on it.
We introduce partners evaluated against your objectives and your stack, not their sales decks.
FlightPlan™
A plan your board will say yes to.
Every target on it is a range you can measure against. Your board can hold the plan to it, and so can you.
- Starts with a 30-minute conversation
- 6-week engagement
- Fixed fee
What the board sees.
The companies pulling ahead have already done this. Efficiency is the first result. Reinvestment is the point.
- 01
Capacity moves to growth.
Hours that went to administrative work go to the work that grows the business. Staff expense sits where the company is going, not where it has been.
- 02
Money moves faster.
Customers acquired, onboarded, and kept with less friction. Revenue flows, collections close sooner, and there is room to price differently.
- 03
Quality rises with output.
A workforce whose capability grew with the tools. More produced, better made, delivered faster.
- 04
The next decision is easier.
Each initiative approved on a measured benefit and reported on the same one. The board stops asking whether AI pays and starts asking what is next.
The people who built it.
Micah and Jeff built FlightPlan™ and Radar™ from what they learned as a CIO and a partner on the vendor side. They set the scope on every engagement and stand behind every partner introduced, because AI adoption still needs people who have done it before.
This is not a demo.
The first conversation is about your business, not technology. Thirty minutes of operating context is enough to name the problem we’d go after first, and why.
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