Decision Sprint for AIKeep it, scale it,
or stop it.
Your team is using AI, vendors are pitching more of it, and someone has asked what it is all returning. A Decision Sprint for AI gives you an independent answer in three weeks: what is working, what is not, and where the next dollar should go.
Book a 30 minute decision review How the Decision Sprint worksThe problem is rarely the technology
Most mid-market companies are already using AI. Far fewer can show what it is worth. In McKinsey's State of AI 2026 survey, only 37% of respondents attributed any EBIT impact to AI. In RSM's 2026 Middle Market AI Survey, 86% of companies had partly or fully integrated AI, but only 17% were pursuing enterprise wide transformation.
The gap is not a shortage of tools. It is a shortage of decisions: which use cases deserve money, who owns them, how the return will be measured, and which pilots should quietly end.
Questions a Decision Sprint for AI answers
- Which of our AI pilots are worth scaling, and which should stop?
- Is this vendor's AI proposal worth the price, compared with what we already own?
- Where is AI already being used without guardrails, and what is the real risk?
- What will AI cost us next year, and can we forecast it?
- What do we tell the owner or the board about our AI return?
What you receive
The same five deliverables as every Decision Sprint, focused on AI: leadership interviews, a review of current AI spend, contracts and proposals, options compared on three year cost, risk and effort, a decision memo with clear keep, scale and stop calls, and a 90 day plan presented in a 60 minute readout.
Fixed fee, three weeks, agreed in writing before work starts.
Sources: McKinsey, The State of AI in 2026 (opens in a new tab) · RSM US Middle Market AI Survey 2026 (opens in a new tab)
Common questions
Is this an AI strategy roadmap?
It replaces one. A long roadmap tends to become a list of pilots. We start from what you are already spending and the decision in front of you, and finish with a short list of what to keep, what to scale and what to stop.
We have barely started with AI. Is this still useful?
Often more so. If you are about to fund your first serious AI project, or a vendor is pitching one, a sprint makes sure the money goes to the use case that will actually pay back. If your team needs a shared starting point first, an executive working session may be the better first step.
Do you build AI solutions?
We advise; we do not build. When the decision calls for hands to build, we will work with your team or your chosen vendor, or introduce a vetted implementation partner if you ask. Any partner relationship is disclosed in writing before you decide, and we never resell or mark up implementation work.
What about our board?
For larger companies and boards, the same work can be delivered as an AI Board Brief: a short, board ready view of AI spend, risk, guardrails and return.
Not sure what your AI spend is returning?
Tell us what is running and what is being pitched. We will tell you on a 30 minute call whether a sprint would change the answer.
Book a 30 minute decision review