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Technology advisory — AI Strategy

Get out of pilot purgatory.

Most organisations do not have an AI capability problem. They have a collection of pilots that each work and together add up to nothing, because no one has decided who owns AI decisions, which ones need a gate, and what counts as done.

The AI Operating Model illustration

The problem

What it looks like from the inside

Pilots multiply, each one succeeds on its own terms, and none of them becomes something the organisation can run, govern or scale.

01

Pilots without owners

Every team has an experiment; nobody owns the portfolio.

02

Gates in the wrong place

Low-risk ideas wait for review while high-risk ones ship unexamined.

03

No definition of done

Initiatives never finish — they just stop being funded.

The model

The AI Operating Model

Treat AI as an organisational capability: named owners, decision rights, proportionate gates and a clear path from pilot to production.

What you end up with

An operating model for AI: what gets built, who decides, which gates apply, and how you know an initiative is finished.

For: CTOs, heads of data and AI, and the leaders who fund AI initiatives.