Ways to start
Most first steps take days or weeks, not months. You know the price before any work begins, and you decide at the end of each step whether to go further.
Most first steps take days or weeks, not months. You know the price before any work begins, and you decide at the end of each step whether to go further.
The short answer
Most companies start with whatever hurts most this quarter. For many, that's results that swing with whoever is on shift. Our flagship, Multiply Your Best, builds your top performers' way of working into AI workflows the whole team uses. Others start smaller: five days to find out if a camera can catch a defect, or three weeks to fix one workflow that takes too many hours. If a step shows the idea won't pay, you stop there.
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The path, step by step
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A conversation with a founder
A small first step: your best people built into AI, a camera check, one workflow fixed, a software review, or your AI ideas ranked
Prove it for real: a camera trial on your line, or your AI pilot live with real users
Roll it out in stages, each one working before the next begins
Leadership AI Briefing
Spend half a day with both founders. Your chief executive and leadership team get a clear view of what AI, automation, vision and robots can and can't do for your business, where you're ready and where you're not, and the questions to ask before anyone signs off an AI budget. We don't need any of your data. Some teams stop there. Others go on to the AI Priorities Review and put real numbers behind that first view.
Commercial terms
Bigger programmes come after a first project has shown both sides it's worth doing.
The finance view
| Step | What it replaces | How it is judged |
|---|---|---|
| Vision Line Check | Letting a camera vendor run the trial and mark the result. | How many good parts it would throw out, and how many defects it would miss, at the defect rate you really have. |
| Camera Inspection Trial | A budget request built on a vendor's "99 per cent accurate". | Defects caught, good parts wrongly rejected, and the cost against your own scrap, rework and warranty bills. |
| Workflow Automation Sprint | Buying new software to fix a broken process. | Hours saved, time per case or errors, against the starting number your team agreed on day two. |
| AI Priorities Review | AI budgets won by whoever argues loudest. | Every funded project has an owner, a target and a point where it stops if it isn't working. |
| Multiply Your Best | Hoping new hires somehow pick up what your best people know. | Speed, errors and rework across the team, before and after, against numbers taken in week one. |
| Software Cost Check | Renewing every software subscription because nobody checked. | What you spend on software each year, and how much work still happens in spreadsheets. |
| Pilot to Production Sprint | An AI pilot with no end date. | Real users on it by week six, or a clear reason to stop spending. |
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