AI for Mid-Sized Businesses

AI Opportunity Assessment

From gut feeling to your first pilot in two weeks

"Something with AI" has been on the list in many companies for a year. There was a workshop, there are a few chatbot licences, and there is the question of where to actually start. Most companies that looked at AI and dropped it name a lack of knowledge about use cases as the reason – not the cost.

The opportunity assessment is our answer: a two-week format at a fixed price. We look at your processes, your systems and your data, and at the end there is one use case on the table that pays off – with a metric we will be measured against in the pilot. And an honest list of the ideas that do not pay off.

Checks 4/5

Two weeks, three meetings

How it works

Week 1 – Understand. We talk to the people who do the work: sales, order processing, accounting, production. We do not ask "Where could AI help?" but "What do you type twice every day?". In parallel we look at your system landscape – which interfaces exist, which exports, where the data lives.

Week 2 – Check and evaluate. For the three to five most promising cases we check the data basis: is there enough data, is it clean enough, may it be used? Then we assess effort, benefit and risk, and choose with you the case that gets built first.

Wrap-up. In a meeting with management we present the result: the pilot brief, the cost estimate, the timeline. You decide whether to go ahead.

Documents you can decide with

What you get

Pilot brief: the selected use case with goal, metric, baseline, systems involved and acceptance criteria.
Data source register: which data the case needs, where it lives, in what quality, and what data protection requires.
Scored idea list: every case we checked with effort, benefit and the reason why it is now, later or never.
Fixed-price offer for the pilot with a timeline.

The documents are yours – even if you build the pilot with someone else.

50 percent through the Hamburg Digital Check

Funding

The Hamburg Digital Check by IFB Hamburg funds consulting on digitalisation and AI with 50 percent of the cost, up to €7,500. The opportunity assessment is made for it.

We fill in the application with you. Companies outside Hamburg we support with their state's programmes.

Three online checks for a first impression

Free before you start

If you want to know where you stand before we talk: our AI Readiness Wheel rates in ten minutes how ready your company is for AI. The AI Pilot Check tests a concrete idea for feasibility. And the EU AI Act Check tells you whether and how the law applies to you. All three are free and need no sign-up – just bring the results along.

Request an opportunity assessment

Fixed price €3,900 net, two weeks, one meeting on your premises. We reply by the next working day.

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