# Strategy: Put your AI budget where it pays off.

We find the AI opportunities worth your money, rule out the ones that aren't, and give you a plan and operating model your team can run.

## Right for you if

- You know AI matters but aren't sure where it fits.
- You're hearing pitches and want an independent view.
- You need a plan leadership will sign off on.

## What you get

- **Opportunity map**: Where AI could change your costs, revenue, or customer experience, ranked by value and effort.
- **Readiness review**: What your data, systems, and team can support today, and what's missing.
- **Decision memo**: Pursue, fix first, buy, build, wait, or stop, with the reasons. Written so you can share it internally.
- **Roadmap and operating model** (optional): Owners, decision rights, measures, and the order of work, ready for your team or any provider.

## How it works

1. **Discover**: Interviews and walkthroughs of how the work gets done today.
2. **Analyze**: Opportunities sized and checked against your data, systems, and team.
3. **Decide**: A review session and a written decision memo.
4. **Plan**: Optional: roadmap, owners, and measures for what comes next.

## Why it works

- **Useful on its own**: The decision and plan are yours, whether or not you hire us to build.
- **Independent**: We don't resell software, so the advice isn't steered.
- **Grounded in your business**: Every recommendation is checked against your data, systems, and team.

## Questions

**Do we have to hire you to build afterward?**

No. The decision memo and plan are yours. Your own team or another provider can carry them out.

**How long does it take?**

It depends on the size of the business and how many areas we look at. The proposal gives you a timeline before you commit.

**What do you need from us?**

Time with the people who do the work, and access to the processes and data involved.

**What if the answer is that AI isn't worth it yet?**

Then that's the recommendation, with what would need to change first.

## Next step

[Start a conversation about strategy](https://dag-ai.com/inquiry?interest=strategy)