Don't book this if
- 01 You already have a defined use case and need delivery: go to Rapid Secure AI POC.
- 02 You need a compliance-specific review: go to AI Governance Assessment.
- 03 You want a workshop without a recommendation: that isn't us.
ServiceScope
Find the problem. Then decide what AI has to do with it.
Most clients don't arrive with a clear problem statement; they arrive with a feeling. A one-week sprint names it, maps the top three friction points, and recommends a fix (AI, automation, neither, or both) with rough economics attached.
Terms Fixed fee, invoiced at kickoff. No scope creep, no day-rate surprises.
01 · Fit
Who it's for. Who it isn't.
Book this when
- 01 You suspect "we should be doing something with AI" but can't name the what.
- 02 Your team is carrying operational drag that hasn't been explicitly measured.
- 03 You want an independent read before committing to a platform decision.
02 · Deliverable
What lands on your desk.
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A short-form discovery report. Current state, top-3 friction map, candidate interventions per friction, indicative cost and effort, and a recommended first move.
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A recommended next engagement, or a recommendation to stop and wait. We say both out loud.
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A written summary you can take into a board meeting without translation.
03 · Phases
How it runs.
Phase 01
Day 1 · Kickoff + stakeholder interviews
Meet the operational owners, the budget holder, and anyone who has to live with the outcome.
Phase 02
Days 2–3 · Walkthroughs + desk research
Observe the workflows that hurt. Read what you already have. Compare against what peers publish.
Phase 03
Day 4 · Synthesis
Pull the friction points into a map. Score them by impact and effort. Draft the recommendation.
Phase 04
Day 5 · Readout + written report
Joint session with the people who were interviewed. The report lands the same day.
04 · Sample
What the output looks like.
Anonymised preview of a real Discovery Sprint deliverable. One page. Production ships as PDF + editable doc. The shape below is what your CFO sees on day five.
ALT HORIZON · DISCOVERY SPRINT
Top-3 friction map
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Inbound case triage takes 11 min / case
~640 cases / week routed manually. Bottleneck at the intake handover. Two FTE roughly half-occupied on classification, not advice.
Recommended · automation-first, with AI scoring layer · Score 9 / 10
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Knowledge lookups against legacy CRM
Advisers context-switch into a 1990s green-screen UI ~30× per shift. Each lookup ~45s.
Recommended · RAG over CRM exports · Score 7 / 10
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Quarterly compliance summary, hand-built
Compliance officer rebuilds the same 24-page deck quarterly from three source systems. ~6 days lost per quarter.
Recommended · structured prompts + templated export · Score 6 / 10
Impact × Effort · score map
Summary
"Most AI programmes fail because nobody stopped to ask what problem they were actually solving. This is the cheapest work we can do for you, and almost always the most valuable."
05 · Alternatives
Not the right fit? Try one of these.
06 · Next step
Bring a workload. Get the numbers back.
A real workload, two sentences. We price it across cloud, self-hosted, and hybrid, then tell you what we'd run — or tell you to wait.
No deckNo sales pressureWe'll tell you to wait if you should
Or email a workload to hello@althorizon.co.uk — one-page model back in 48h.
