The six-week sprint.

Everything an AI decision needs. In six weeks.

1. 1 · Find
2. 2 · Numbers
3. 3 · Decide
4. 4 · Build
5. 5 · Checks
6. 6 · Readout

1. Week 1 of 6

   Find the workflow

   Workflow shortlistExample

   Workflow	Volume per month	Minutes each	Candidate
   Invoice exceptions	4,000	11	First
   Support ticket triage	9,000	2	Yes
   Vendor onboarding checks	300	25	No
   Contract clause lookup	150	40	No
   Expense report coding	1,200	3	No

   Example data. Candidate: value at least 3 times run cost, on the calculator's numbers.

   Five candidates on one page. One goes first.

2. Week 2 of 6

   Put the two numbers on it

   Sample output

   From the calculator

   What it is worth

   $28,600 per month

   What it costs to run each month

   $2,432

   Value and monthly run cost, from the week 1 row. Before anything is built.

3. Week 3 of 6

   Decide

   One-page business caseExample

   Workflow

   Invoice exceptions

   Value$28,600per month

   Run cost$2,432per month

   Fund

   Example. The week 2 numbers, on one page. Fund: value at least 3 times run cost. An estimate, not a quote.

   One page. Two numbers. The stamp.

4. Week 4 of 6

   Build the first version

   Run logExample

   Date	Items processed	Exceptions	Cost that day	Checks
   Mon	176	9	$19.01
   Tue	191	12	$20.63
   Wed	184	7	$19.87
   Thu	203	14	$21.92
   Fri	188	8	$20.30

   • Audit trail written
   • Evals passed
   • Data stayed in tenant
   • Exceptions sent to a person

   Example week. Cost that day is tokens at the calculator's defaults.

   Every day logged: items, exceptions, cost. Checks visible.

5. Week 5 of 6

   Build the first version: the checks

   Handover checklistExample

   • Eval suitehow we know it works, run before and after every change
   • Model cardwhat the system does, what it must not do, and its limits
   • Control mappingeach control traced to the policy or framework it satisfies
   • Rollback planhow to turn it off in minutes without losing data
   • Runbookthe finance or ops team runs it without us
   • Software bill of materialsevery dependency pinned and listed

   The list is real: it ships with every engagement. The ticks are the example.

   Six checks ship with the build. Your team runs them.

6. Week 6 of 6

   Readout

   Monthly readoutExample

   Value promised

   $28,600

   Value measured

   $26,741

   94% of the promise, on 3,740 items that month.

   Run cost: $2,432 promised, $2,404 measured.

   Example month. Measured figures run the same model on the items that arrived.

   The number the board sees each month: promised against measured.