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Possibilities Session
The client leaves a 90-minute working session with three AI opportunities taken from their own business, ranked by effort and impact, one recommended first move, and a two-page summary they can put in front of their leadership team. It carries no costing and no commitment.
Possibilities Session
Free
- Duration: 90 minutes
- Tier: Start
- Format: Working session
You leave withThree AI opportunities taken from your own business, ranked by effort and impact, one recommended first move, and a two-page summary
Book a free Possibilities SessionSound familiar?
Everyone tells us we should be doing something with AI. Our board asks about it, competitors say they are already doing it, and a few people on my team have tried ChatGPT. But I cannot tell which of the dozen ideas floating around are worth doing first, or what is realistic for a company our size. I do not want to pay a consultancy for a sixty-slide deck to find that out, and I do not want to start the wrong project because it was the loudest one.
What you leave with
Two-page summary
Format: PDF on the BigStep template, sent within two working days
How we know it’s acceptableThree opportunities each with a description, an effort and impact rating and one line of reasoning; one recommended first move; one ‘not yet’; a ‘what we did not assess’ note. The client replies confirming it matches what was discussed.
Follow-up email
Format: Plain text, one email, within five working days
How we know it’s acceptableNames the next programme and its published band. No attachments, no sequence.
Intake form responses
Format: Form export, held in the CRM
How we know it’s acceptableRequired fields complete before the session runs. Includes the client’s own before figure.
Also included
- Three AI opportunities specific to their business, each described in plain language: what it would do, for whom, and in which part of the business.
- An effort and impact read on each (low, medium or high, with one line of reasoning).
- One recommended first move, and what it would take to start it.
- One thing we advise them not to do yet, and why.
- A short ‘what we did not assess’ note covering data readiness, security, cost and governance, so the summary is not mistaken for a plan.
How it runs
90 minutes
Before the session
Qualify and book
Qualification checklist run, intake form sent.
OutAccepted or declined, and the completed intake form.
48 hours before
Prepare
Facilitator reads the intake and picks questions from the industry bank.
OutA one-page prep note with three or four hypotheses to test, not conclusions.
The session
90 minutes
10 minutes on goals and framing. 30 minutes mapping where time, errors and cost hurt. 30 minutes turning a long list into three. 20 minutes rating effort and impact and agreeing a first move. Hard stops on each block.
OutThree ranked opportunities and a first move agreed in the room.
Within two working days
Summary
OutThe two-page written summary.
Within five working days
Follow-up
One email naming the next programme and its band. No sequence.
Is this right for you?
This is for you if
- Buyerthe person who owns the business outcome AI would have to move, and who can spend 90 minutes without asking for budget.
- Also has to say yeswhoever owns the data and systems involved, because without them the intake answers will be guesses. In a larger company, the CTO or head of IT, who will want to know why a vendor is in the room.
- Also has to say yesWho is usually missing: the budget holder for whatever comes next. The session is free, so nobody blocks it, but a summary that never reaches the person with budget goes nowhere.
This is the wrong answer if
- A roadmap already exists. If an AI strategy from another firm or an internal team is in place, they need execution and the right door is the Agent Opportunity Blueprint or a build sprint, not this.
- Nobody in the room can act on the answer. If every attendee is a manager who will have to ‘take it upstairs’, the summary becomes shelf-ware and we have spent a senior person’s day on it.
- They want a quote, not a conversation. A prospect who wants a price for an idea they have already chosen is using the session as free scoping. That is the Agent Opportunity Blueprint, the AI Opportunity & Roadmap Sprint or a sprint, and the free session should not be allowed to become the first draft of a fixed-price proposal.
- They want to go deep on one pre-chosen use case. Ninety minutes spreads attention across several options. One use case examined in depth is a paid diagnostic.
- The attendee is evaluating us as a vendor, or is a competitor or a student. Qualification catches this before booking.
What’s included, and what isn’t
In scope
- one 90-minute remote session
- up to five client attendees
- one facilitator and one note-taker
- review of the intake form beforehand
- a two-page summary within two working days
- one follow-up email within five working days
Out of scope
- any costing, quote or proposal
- ROI figures
- review of client data, code or systems
- vendor or tool selection
- a governance, security or compliance assessment
- a second session
- a slide deck
- on-site delivery
- The summary names the next programme but does not scope it.
Before we start
Before day one
- The intake form is returned and complete on the required fields.
- A decision-maker, or someone who can speak for priorities, is attending, and the budget holder is attending or has agreed to read the summary.
- No more than five attendees, on a video call with screen share.
- The client has agreed in writing that the output is directional, not a quote.
- Consent for note-taking, and for recording if we record, is recorded.
What we’ll need from your team
- A decision-maker or budget holder: 90 minutes in the session and about 30 minutes to read the summary.
- One to three domain leads (operations, finance, customer service or similar): 90 minutes each in the session.
- One person to complete the intake form: about 45 minutes in total.
- Nothing across multiple weeks. No client person needs more than about three hours in total.
Pricing
Free
After we hand over
What we measure
- We measure: sessions run; share of sessions followed by a paid engagement within 90 days, and which programme; summary delivered within two working days; client rating of ‘would you share this with your leadership team’ (1 to 5); facilitator hours per session.
- The client measures: the hours per week their top process takes today, which they give us in the intake form. This is the before figure.
What comes next
- Agent Opportunity Blueprintif the first move is automating a named workflow.
- AI Opportunity & Roadmap Sprintif several opportunities span functions, or the client needs a board-ready case.
- AI Feature Sprintif the first move is a single feature in their product and it is already well defined. This is rare.
- Agent Reliability Scorecardif they already run something live.
- Nothing.If the client has no process clarity or no data, the honest answer is ‘come back when you do’. That is a finding and the summary should say it.
- Agent Prototype Sprintis not offered directly from this session, only after the Agent Opportunity Blueprint.
Questions buyers ask us
Partly, and we would like to work with you. But the summary is yours. You can give it to any vendor or use it in-house. If it is not useful without a second meeting with us, we have failed.
Correct, which is why it is directional and why we ask for an intake form first. We will not cost anything or promise a return. What 90 minutes can do is stop you funding the wrong first project.
Good, bring it. The value is ranking it against what is realistic and what we have seen work. If your list is already ranked and costed, you do not need this and we will tell you so.
This is a fair objection. Every summary must include one thing we advise against doing yet, and the recommended first move is allowed to be ‘fix the process first’ or ‘use an off-the-shelf tool’. If we cannot write one honest ‘not yet’, the facilitator has not done the job.
The session is free and the next-step programmes publish their bands on the website. The summary names the one it points to with its band, so there are no surprises.
Start with a free session.
We’ll tell you if this is the right programme.