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The SME AI Starter Kit
One printable kit for your first AI project. It takes you from "we know AI matters" to a workflow running in your business, starting with listing what hurts, because a scoring engine is useless without actual business problems to score.
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Inside the starter kit
The idea hunt
Where projects come from. Two brainstorm prompts help you and your team ideate problem statements, with rules for listing without filtering. A pen-ready grid captures up to eight pain points, and the one-line template clusters similar problem statements into one sharp problem statement, with worked examples such as cutting reconciliation from two days to two hours.
The 2×2 and the Decision Engine
From many problem statements to two ranked projects. You place each statement on the 2×2 decision matrix by impact and feasibility, and pick your two from DO THIS. Then the AIRI Decision Engine takes over: tick the level that fits on all five AIRI pillars, apply the ethics gate, and run the four-line calculation to a DE Score.
Build or buy and the checklist
Build it or buy it, then keep it on track. The buy path carries the eight questions to ask a provider before signing anything, plus the two actions to take before you sign. The build path lays out six steps from problem statement to shipping and measuring. The guide ends with the adoption checklist: eight stages with a box for every check.
The progress tracker
A workbook you fill on day one (the day of your first AIRI assessment) and at every six-month review: draw the readiness distribution against the standard bar, plot each leader’s icon on the spread chart, and run the project register, where each project’s AIRI DE scores sit beside the revenue or savings it achieved.