AI Use Case Discovery Consulting

Pick the workflow that is bounded, has a metric, has permissionable data, and has a process owner who will attend the weekly 45-minute review. ReinforcedX scores the rest and publishes a kill list. The winner enters the four-week path: discovery is week one, not a separate project. Bring the candidate list to /demo; we will not workshop slogans.

It is week one of delivery: inventory, score, kill, brief the first case, then build it in your cloud if it is bounded. You own weights, datasets, eval suites, and runbooks on what ships. Pricing is a platform subscription plus a fixed-scope fee quoted before that week. We do not sell a quarter of sticky-note discovery with no implementation.

Anything without an owner, anything that requires a new data platform first, anything that is a regulated decision you cannot validate, and anything a vendor copilot already does. “Company-wide knowledge chat” with no entitlements is the usual failure. Discovery exists to say no. If week one cannot bound the work, we stop — the same rule as /faq.

One week inside the standard four-week implementation when the list is honest. A standalone multi-month discovery is how companies avoid shipping. Financial-services governed cases still need 8–12 weeks to a pilot, healthcare 10–14, ecommerce 6–10 — but that extra time is governance on a chosen workflow, not more ideation.

Only if entitlements, fallback, and evals are ready. Internal policy Q&A or a single operations workflow is usually the honest first ship. Customer-facing work is a later row once traces and golden sets exist. We will not pick a brand-risking chatbot as case one to win a steering committee. Evaluation habits from /ai-systems should exist before the public path.

No. If the workflow, metric, sources, and owner are named, skip to implementation. Discovery is for portfolios that are actually piles. Pretending you need six weeks of facilitation when the case is obvious is how consultancies bill. Tell us the case at /demo and we will say whether week one is a brief or a fight.

One. Parallel unsponsored pilots are how you get no production systems and three vendors. Staffing is one process owner plus one engineer on the work we run. After handover and 30 days on-call, the next sequenced case reuses evals and permissions. If your team wants to run later cases internally, /how-to is there.

The scorecard, the kill list, the first-case brief, and — if we proceed — the system artifacts: weights, datasets, eval suites, and runbooks. Data stays in your cloud and is not used to train shared models. Inference is billed by you to the provider; no token markup. Those ownership terms are quoted before week one, identical to the rest of the site.