The AI Alignment Check is a focused two-week assessment that identifies where AI could improve the way your business operates, which opportunities deserve priority, and what needs to be in place before you act.
You leave with a clear view of the opportunities, practical barriers and priorities - plus a focused 90-day roadmap for what to do next.
AI Alignment Check · £4,500 · Two-week fixed-price engagement
Book a free 15-minute Clarity CallA short initial conversation to establish whether the Alignment Check is the right fit.
This engagement is for founder-led businesses and professional service firms that are ready to make a clear decision before time, money, or people get committed in the wrong place.
This is the inward-looking pathway: where could AI create meaningful value inside the business, and what should happen first? If your question is instead about how clearly customers and AI platforms can find, understand and recommend your business, explore AI Visibility.
If you are not sure which applies, the free Clarity Call is a good place to start.
AI Alignment Check
£4,500
Two-week fixed-price engagement
Book a free 15-minute Clarity CallThe Clarity Call is a short diagnostic conversation. If the Alignment Check is not the right fit right now, I will point you in the right direction instead.
The challenge is rarely finding things AI could potentially do.
The challenge is deciding which opportunities are commercially worthwhile, practical for your business, and ready to be acted on.
The Alignment Check identifies where AI can create genuine value, what should be ignored for now, what could prevent the right opportunity from succeeding, and what should happen next before time, money or people are committed in the wrong direction.
The expensive mistake is not doing nothing. It is spending on the wrong thing first.
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It is a short conversation to understand why AI is on the agenda, what is happening inside the business, and whether there is a genuine reason to explore things further.
We look briefly at where the business is today, what is creating the pressure to act, and whether the problem appears to be one the Alignment Check is designed to solve.
If it is not the right fit, I will say so.
If there is a genuine reason to go further, we look more closely at the business, the workflows involved, current AI activity, friction, priorities and what you are trying to improve.
This gives me the context needed to determine whether the full Alignment Check is justified.
If you decide to move forward, the investment is £4,500 for the full two-week engagement.
The assessment begins once that is confirmed.
I assess the business across the areas that matter to the decision:
You receive the findings, prioritised recommendations and 90-day roadmap in plain English.
We then work through everything together so you understand what has been identified, why it matters, and what a sensible next move looks like.
Not a generic AI report. A basis for making better decisions.
At the end of the engagement, the findings are brought together into a clear written assessment.
Where the business stands today, including relevant AI activity, operational context and readiness.
Practical opportunities grounded in how the business actually operates.
The opportunity with the strongest combination of likely value, feasibility and readiness.
Smaller opportunities that may be worth considering now.
The issues that could reduce value, delay progress or prevent an initiative from succeeding.
Areas where investment should be delayed, deprioritised or avoided.
What deserves attention now, what should come later, and why.
A practical sequence for moving forward: what happens first, what follows and what needs validating.
A walkthrough of the findings so we can challenge assumptions, answer questions and make sure the next decision is clear.
By the end of the Alignment Check, you should have much clearer answers to:
Not more AI possibilities. Fewer, better decisions.
AI tool implementation
Automation building
Staff training
Technical deployment
Ongoing project management
The Alignment Check comes before implementation.
That separation is deliberate.
The purpose of this engagement is to establish what should be implemented before significant resources are committed to implementing it.
Once that is clear, the roadmap can be taken forward by the appropriate internal team, technology partner, developer or specialist provider.
The business requirement comes first.
That is still a useful outcome.
The Alignment Check is not designed to manufacture an AI project.
Sometimes the right answer will be:
Do this now.
Sometimes:
Do this later.
And sometimes:
Do not spend money on this yet.
If an opportunity does not have a strong enough business case, I will not recommend it simply because AI is involved.
If the business is not ready, it is better to understand what needs to change before implementation begins.
And if something already works well without AI, there may be no sensible reason to change it.
Knowing what not to do can be just as valuable as knowing what to do.
It is an honest assessment of how prepared your business is to use AI in a way that creates meaningful value. I look at relevant workflows, your current use of AI, where operational friction exists, where worthwhile opportunities may sit, and what could prevent those opportunities from succeeding. Readiness is not simply “Do we use AI?” It is: Are the right conditions in place for this particular AI opportunity to work?
By looking at likely business impact relative to effort, alongside practical feasibility, your processes, readiness and appetite for change. The goal is not to find the most impressive AI use case. It is to find the opportunity most likely to make a meaningful difference without creating more work or complexity than it removes.
Often more so. AI frequently enters a business organically. Different people begin using different tools for different purposes, but nobody has stepped back to ask whether that activity forms a coherent direction. The Alignment Check helps identify what appears useful, what may be fragmented, where further opportunities exist and what deserves attention next.
They are short of an honest, independent view of what those possibilities mean for their specific business.
The Alignment Check does not begin with a tool. It begins with the business.
What is happening now? Where is the friction? Where could AI create meaningful value? What would need to be true for it to work? And which opportunity deserves attention first?
The approach is deliberately straightforward: Diagnose → Prioritise → Roadmap → Decide
Because the most valuable moment in an AI initiative is not when something gets built. It is when the right thing gets chosen.
AI is moving quickly. That does not mean your business needs to move blindly. It needs to move deliberately.
Understand the opportunity. Understand the readiness. Understand the risks. Prioritise what matters. Then act.
Two weeks. One clear priority. A practical route forward.
AI Alignment Check — £4,500