AI Use-Case
Prioritisation.
Turn a long list of good ideas into a ranked shortlist your team agrees on, and a first move that builds momentum into the rest.
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Every idea judged on the value it moves
Revenue
Grow sales from the customers and markets you already serve.
Margin
Protect and expand margin, pricing and cost to serve.
Risk
See and act on risk before it reaches the P&L.
Automation
Take manual, repetitive work off the team.
criteria, scored one to five, and every idea gets the same seven. The point is not the arithmetic. Two people who disagree about which use case comes first usually disagree about only one or two of the seven, and the score sheet shows you which.
Value, strategic fit, and can we actually do it
Value
Value at stake, and impact type and breadth. Whether it moves a number a PE owner recognises, and whether it helps more than one team.
Strategic
Strategic alignment and expandability. Whether it serves a top objective, and whether solving it unlocks the next few use cases or dead-ends.
Feasibility
AI fit, data availability and quality, and speed to value. The three that most often move a favourite idea down the list.
Each idea rolls up into a total out of 35 plus two averages, which place it on a value-versus-ease view. The top-right zone is where you start.
“An idea that scores five on value and two on data is not a first move. It is a second one.”
Why the feasibility column decides the order
The framework (PDF)
Two pages. The four value drivers, the seven criteria with anchors for what a one and a five look like, how the composite scores work, and the five-step process for running it with your team.
The score sheet (Excel)
One row per use case, dropdowns for scoring, and the value score, ease score, total and quadrant calculated for you. Two worked example rows to overwrite.
A low score on data availability is not a reason to drop an idea, it is a reason to sequence it. We work on messy, fragmented data as it is, no cleanup programme in front of the timeline, which is what stops a data score of two from becoming a two-year wait. Our companion briefing note, Time to First Intelligence, covers how.
Want us to run it with your team?
We combine the scores, plot the ideas, and bring a ranked shortlist to the group with an obvious first move.
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