The Maturity & Roadmap — Patrick
01 — The AI Maturity & Roadmap Assessment · growth spend, not grudge spend

Find out where AI actually pays in your firm — before you spend another year piloting.

Your board wants an AI plan. Your teams have tools. What's missing is the middle: which workflows AI pays in, what each is worth, and the order to build. Patrick maps it against your real work — and prices every step in payback, not promise.

Not a workshop. Not a tool pitch. A ranked, sequenced plan you could hand to your board as-is.

Read a sample roadmap first What the assessment covers
The method is on the page — no forms, no email, no sales call
02 — If this sounds familiar

Everyone agrees AI matters. Nobody owns what happens next.

Stalled pilots aren't a failure of ambition. They're what happens when nobody has priced the options — so every AI conversation restarts from opinion.

Which workflow, worth what, in which order — that's an answerable question. It just needs looking at properly.

You've bought licenses. Usage is a mystery and the value is an argument.
The board asked for an AI strategy. The honest answer today is a list of experiments.
Two teams automated the same task two different ways. Neither is measured.
A pilot impressed everyone six months ago. It still runs for four people.
Competitors publish AI case studies. You have subscriptions.
03 — The engagement · fixed scope · weeks, not months

The AI Maturity & Roadmap Assessment.

A workshop can't tell you what a workflow is worth. So we work from evidence — real usage, real workflows, real numbers — and hand you a plan priced in paybacks.

01

AI Maturity Baseline

Where the org sits on the curve — scored against firms like yours, not against the hype.

02

Use-Case Inventory & Priority

Candidate workflows ranked by value and feasibility — seen in your operation, not brainstormed.

03

Value / ROI Business Case

Expected time and cost returned, payback per use case — the numbers the board asked for.

04

Workflow Redesign

How the core processes get rebuilt around AI — not bolted onto the side of them.

05

Tooling & Architecture Strategy

Which tools and models for which jobs — and where build, buy, or route is the right call.

06

Data Readiness

What data must be clean, accessible, and structured before each use case can work.

07

Capability & Upskilling Plan

Building real AI skill in the team — beyond the safe-use training.

08

Adoption & Change Plan

Champions, incentives, and the resistance plan — so usage survives the demo.

09

AI Deployment Roadmap

A sequenced 12–18-month plan from first pilots to scale — with decision gates, not faith.

10

Value Measurement Plan

The metrics that prove productivity and ROI over time — agreed before anything is built.

Every recommendation carries its expected payback. If a use case doesn't clear the bar, the roadmap says so — including "not yet" and "never."

Book the roadmap →
04 — What you actually receive

A plan you could hand to your board.

Ranked use cases with paybacks, a sequenced build order, and the measurement plan that keeps everyone honest. Two pages from a sample:

AI Roadmap — Prioritized Use Cases
Hartwell & Byrne LLP · after their exposure assessment · names changed, findings representative
Sample
Use caseWhere time goes todayPaybackCall
Client onboarding pack assembly ~11 hrs/week across the team, four systems ~3 months Build first
First-draft workpaper summaries ~7 hrs/week, senior staff, review-heavy ~5 months Next
Meeting-to-action pipeline Commitments lost between calls and systems ~6 months Next
Tax research assistant Diffuse gains, hard to verify, data not ready Unclear Not yet
Full-service client chatbot High risk to the client relationship, low verified demand Never

Each ranked use case carries its evidence, expected hours returned, cost to build, and what must be true for the payback to hold. "Not yet" and "never" are findings, not failures.

Sequenced Roadmap — later in the same plan
decision gates between phases · nothing advances on faith
Sample
Now · months 0–3

Build the first use case. Baseline its numbers.

Data cleanup only where the first build needs it. Measurement plan live from day one.

Next · months 3–9

Scale what measured well. Start use cases two and three.

Champions named per team. Upskilling tied to the tools actually deployed.

Later · months 9–18

Embed into core systems. Re-rank the inventory.

Integration into DMS, CRM, practice systems. The board sees returned hours, not demos.

Between every phase: a gate. Expand, pause, or stop — decided on the measured result. Who builds it →
One map feeds both

Already ran the AI Exposure Assessment? Its usage map seeds the use-case inventory — the same evidence, pointed at value instead of risk. If you haven't, the roadmap includes its own usage discovery.

05 — After the plan · who builds it

The roadmap is built to be executed. By us, or by whoever you choose.

Every use case in the plan is specified tightly enough to hand to any competent builder — your team, your vendor, or Patrick's build arm. The plan doesn't assume you hire us.

If you do: Patrick builds and operates one process at a time, each phase earning the next, measured against the roadmap's own numbers.

Proof-of-concept build Agents & automation in live processes Knowledge base & data pipelines Systems integration Guardrails & evaluation Co-build & skill transfer Managed operation

Know where AI pays.

Built for firms of 20–250 people where AI enthusiasm has outrun AI evidence — accounting, consulting, legal-adjacent, HR, risk advisory, engineering and design.

Start with the sample roadmap Free to read · no contact needed
How it works from here
1Read the sample roadmap and argue with it — free, no contact.
2Book a 30-minute call — bring the workflow everyone keeps proposing to automate.
3The assessment prices your options against evidence — in weeks, not months.