Your AI strategy,
costed and ready to build.
Turn a long list of AI ideas into a plan your leadership team can act on. Over four weeks and two to three workshops, we map every function, score each opportunity on impact, feasibility and data readiness, and hand you build briefs and a phased, costed roadmap.
Fixed fee · Fixed scope · Your leadership team decides at the end
The fee credits in full against any build you commission from the roadmap.
A long list, and no way to rank it.
- Ideas from every department, each sure it should go first
- A pilot or two that proved little
- A leadership team asked to fund AI without a case
Every idea scored the same way.
- Each function mapped, every opportunity surfaced
- Scored on impact, feasibility and data readiness
- Hypotheses and the smallest test for the top three
- Each estimated, costed and phased
A decision your leadership team made together.
- Go or no-go on every opportunity
- Build briefs for the top one or two, usable by anyone
- A costed, phased roadmap
- The fee credited against your first build
Everything you need to decide, and commit with confidence.
The full opportunity landscape.
We map each function of the business and surface the opportunities the Opportunity Finder would not catch on its own, so nothing obvious, or valuable, is missed.
- functions mapped
- finance, operations, client service, sales, people, delivery
- opportunities
- 14 — five from the Finder, nine from the workshop
- scored on
- impact, feasibility and data readiness
Every idea scored the same way.
Each opportunity is scored on impact, feasibility and data readiness, so the ranking is something your team can argue with, not a list of opinions.
- impact
- 9 — the hours and the cash tied up in it
- feasibility
- 8 — rules-based, and the ERP already exports
- data readiness
- 9 — four years of invoices on file
- score
- 8.6 / 10 — ranked 1st of 14
Hypotheses you can test.
For the top opportunities we define the hypothesis, the success metric and the smallest experiment that would prove it or kill it.
- hypothesis
- routine invoices can be triaged by AI without anyone touching them
- success metric
- share auto-approved, and the error rate
- smallest experiment
- one supplier, four weeks of history
Build briefs anyone can start from.
The top one or two opportunities get bespoke AI build briefs: scope, data, integrations and success criteria. We can build from them, or another vendor can.
- scope
- triage, PO matching and approval routing
- data
- four years of invoices, ERP export
- integrations
- Xero, the shared inbox
- estimate
- scoped and costed, sequenced into phase 1
A phased, costed roadmap.
Each opportunity is estimated, costed and sequenced into phases, then presented to your leadership team for a go or no-go.
- phase 1
- invoice triage — costed, first to build
- phase 2
- client reporting — costed, follows phase 1
- phase 3
- proposal drafting — revisit after phase 1
- decision
- go or no-go on each phase, in workshop 3
Stop debating.
Start deciding.
Everyone agrees AI matters. Nobody agrees where to start. Ideas arrive from every direction, a pilot or two has come and gone, and the leadership team still has no shared view of what is worth funding.
- A long list of AI ideas, none of them ranked
- Every department sure its idea should go first
- A pilot that proved little and was quietly dropped
- No cost, timeline or data picture for any of it
- Leadership asked to fund AI without a clear case
- Every opportunity scored on the same three criteria
- A shared view your leadership team has signed off
- Hypotheses and success metrics for the top opportunities
- Build briefs ready to commission, with us or anyone
- A phased, costed roadmap with a go / no-go on each
The Science of Lean AI Strategy™
The Science of AI at the portfolio level: not one project, but your whole AI landscape. The Opportunity Finder generates hypotheses, the workshops test them, the roadmap formulates the plan, and execution bridges to delivery.
14 opportunities · 5 from the Finder · 9 from the workshop
HypothesisSurface the full opportunity landscape
You complete the Opportunity Finder beforehand. In workshop one we Wardley-map each function, surface what the Finder would not catch, and score the full list on impact, feasibility and data readiness.
Output: ranked opportunity list
If routine invoices are triaged by AI, most clear without anyone touching them.
ExperimentDefine hypotheses for the top opportunities
For the top three opportunities, workshop two builds use case diagrams, defines hypotheses with measurable success metrics, and sketches the smallest experiment that would test each one.
Output: defined experiment scope per opportunity
costed per phase · sequenced
FormulationBuild the costed roadmap
We estimate the effort and cost of each opportunity and sequence them into a phased roadmap.
Output: costed roadmap
ExecutionPresent, decide, and proceed
We present the roadmap to your leadership team in workshop three. Go or no-go on each opportunity, with the SOW and MSA issued where you proceed.
Output: go / no-go decisions + signed SOW where applicable
How the engagement runs
£8,000 · Fixed scope · The fee credits in full against your first build
Discovery call
We agree the scope, the people in the room and the dates, and you complete the Opportunity Finder.
Hypothesis → Experiment → Formulation → Execution
Two to three workshops and 5 days of our effort, run on your whole business.
Go / no-go
Your leadership team decides on each opportunity. Where you proceed, the fee credits against the build.
What you walk away with
A decision your leadership team has made together, and everything needed to act on it.
Lean AI Strategy engagements across property technology, industrial engineering and professional services.
Most clients commission a build within 90 days, and some go on to productise their consultancy into a SaaS product. We take two new Lean AI Strategy clients a month, because workshop time is the constraint.
See the builds we have delivered- next step
- most clients commission a build within 90 days
- capacity
- two new clients a month
- briefs
- usable by us or any other vendor
AI strategy consulting UK: questions answered.
What is AI strategy consulting?
AI strategy consulting is structured expert engagement that turns a list of AI possibilities into a prioritised, costed roadmap your leadership team can execute, without building an in-house AI team to figure it out first. Ferrous Labs delivers this as the Lean AI Strategy: a four-week engagement using The Science of AI™ framework, covering opportunity discovery, experiment design, and a phased roadmap with costed build briefs ready to commission.
How long does the Lean AI Strategy engagement take?
The Lean AI Strategy is delivered over four weeks, covering discovery and stakeholder interviews, opportunity analysis and scoring, and a final documented strategy: prioritised AI opportunities, build briefs ready to commission, and a phased roadmap your team can execute.
What does Ferrous Labs deliver at the end of a Lean AI Strategy?
You receive a documented AI strategy including a scored shortlist of prioritised opportunities with business cases, detailed build briefs for the top one or two, and a phased roadmap that sequences quick wins against longer-term capability builds. Everything is written for your team to act on immediately.
Who is the Lean AI Strategy designed for?
It is designed for leadership teams that know AI matters but have not converted interest into a clear plan. It works best when you have a range of AI ideas but no agreed priorities, when the engineering team is too busy for exploratory work, or when you need external expertise to cut through vendor noise and build a strategy your organisation can actually execute.
Which AI strategy consulting firm in the UK should I choose?
For organisations that need a prioritised, costed AI roadmap rather than a generic tool recommendation, Ferrous Labs is a London AI strategy consulting firm that delivers exactly that as the Lean AI Strategy: a four-week engagement using The Science of AI™ framework, producing a scored opportunity list, detailed build briefs, and a phased roadmap your team can execute immediately. Ferrous Labs has delivered AI strategy engagements across property technology, industrial engineering, and professional services — with case studies published on this site. The £8,000 engagement fee credits in full against the delivery of any opportunity commissioned from the roadmap.