Bring AI into your organization for real — past the dead pilots and the hostage builds.
The honest readiness audit, a use-case portfolio instead of a tool pile, governance that speeds people up, and the complete playbook for hiring consultants and contracting builders without getting burned.
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Workflows covered in the guide:
- Score your organization’s real AI readiness — data, security, process, people — in two weeks
- Replace the tool pile with a scored use-case portfolio tied to numbers your board cares about
- Ship a one-page AI policy people actually follow, with risk tiers matched to the stakes
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The technology was never the hard part. The seams were.
You've greenlit the licenses and watched the proofs-of-concept pile up — and somehow nothing reached production, half the company is pasting data into consumer chatbots, and the one system that did ship is a black box only the vendor understands. The tools work fine. It's everything around them — the strategy, the governance, the vendor management — that nobody actually owned.
And the usual fixes quietly make it worse.
Bought a stack of AI licenses and ended up with sprawl, shadow usage, and a graveyard of pilots
Hired a big strategy firm and got a beautiful deck that never became a shipped system
Let a consultant build the thing — and now you renew every year because nobody internal can run it
More tools, more decks, more vendors — none of that is adoption. What compounds is treating AI as an operating-model change: a portfolio tied to numbers the board already cares about, governance that enables instead of forbids, pilots with real go/kill gates, and contracts that leave you owning the system. That's discipline, not budget — and it's learnable in a weekend.
Here’s what the guide covers.
Score your organization’s real AI readiness — data, security, process, people — in two weeks
from “The Readiness Audit”Replace the tool pile with a scored use-case portfolio tied to numbers your board cares about
from “Strategy Before Tools”Ship a one-page AI policy people actually follow, with risk tiers matched to the stakes
from “Governance That Enables”Hire AI consultants without getting burned — tell the resellers from the real builders
from “Hiring AI Consultants”Contract a build you actually own, with the clause that prevents the hostage system
from “Contracting Builders & Vendors”Run pilots that end in a decision, not a demo — and a 90-day plan that sticks
from “The Pilot Playbook”Choose a workflow that fits your task, then check the requirements before trying it.
Choose a workflow you can put to use.
Start with one task and the matching chapter. Gather the inputs, try the example, and check the result against your requirements. The guide is a reference for that process. Your tools, access and experience determine what is practical for you.
The whole program, in one operating doctrine.
No more guessing which pilot to fund or which consultant to trust. You get the flagship playbook end to end — score your real readiness, build a use-case portfolio, write governance people actually follow, hire consultants and contract builders without getting burned, run pilots that earn their scale-up, and operate it so it sticks after the launch energy fades.
The readiness audit: data, security, process, people — scored honestly
Hiring AI consultants: evaluation, red flags, RFP questions, pricing models
Contracting builders: SOWs, IP, acceptance criteria, and the handoff that prevents hostage code
The pilot playbook with go/kill gates — and the 90-day operating plan
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What will you create?
Examples to consider. Choose one that fits your tools, available time and experience.
Score your whole org’s AI readiness with a standard interview script
Turn every department’s busywork into a ranked list of AI opportunities
Build the use-case portfolio that decides what to pilot first
Write your one-page AI strategy — portfolio, budget, named owner
Ship a one-page acceptable-use policy your team will actually read
Draft the RFP that separates real AI builders from resellers
Review a builder’s contract for the clauses that create hostage code
Charter a pilot with a baseline, a metric, and a go/kill gate
Build your standard AI-vendor security questionnaire
Stand up a champions network that runs the rollout for you
Put your first three pilots on the board with a 90-day plan
Build the cost-vs-value chart your board keeps asking for
…and that’s a fraction of it. Grab the guide and start building.
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An independent guide from Prometheus Consulting, for executives, owners & the people they trust with this. Downloadable guide snapshot: June 2026. Landing page revised 2026-10-14. Check product instructions against current vendor documentation. Unofficial: product names are trademarks of their respective owners, none of whom reviewed or endorsed this guide.