Initial Assessments
and Proposals
We deliver comprehensive analytics and AI proposals through detailed
assessments and strategic outlines to ensure alignment with your business goals.
assessments and strategic outlines to ensure alignment with your business goals.
With “fully-baked embedded data teams as a service” being our most popular partnership model, our analytics proposals typically include:
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Data vision outline
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Identification of urgent work areas and base functionality needs
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Strategic data vision outline
04
Assessment of current statuses
a. Infrastructure, technical stability, process stability
b. Department-by-department data availability and practices level
a. Infrastructure, technical stability, process stability
b. Department-by-department data availability and practices level
05
Work estimates for initial stabilization/foundation work or other kickoff project
06
Menu of options for continuous resourcing after stabilization work
Getting to this proposal will typically require 3 to 8 half-hour meetings with
department heads, BI analysts, Data ICs (if applicable), and potentially relevant
engineers. A few subsequent rounds of Q/A may be helpful as well.
department heads, BI analysts, Data ICs (if applicable), and potentially relevant
engineers. A few subsequent rounds of Q/A may be helpful as well.
With AI proposals we want to get to
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A clear need, clear potential for meaningful cost reduction, or clear potential for customer delight
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A strong problem setup
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Depending on the problem: a menu of potential approaches, with outlooks for each one
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Estimates for any data collection/annotation work required, as well as other prerequisites
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Estimates for effort required to obtain a “first signal” for each approach
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Outline of what production deployment will look like, and what may be required of client software teams
Some clients may still be at early stages of brainstorming avenues for AI. In certain cases we can provide ideas immediately for consideration based on previous work, in others we may refer the client to product strategy partners.
