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Most of what's on this hub came out of client work. The 30-day quick-win cycle was built for an SME that needed a board-ready result in a single quarter. The readiness audit started because Simon found the same five gaps in every new engagement and wanted a repeatable way to surface them faster. If you're preparing an AI business case for a finance director or a board, start with the frameworks that have already been through that conversation.
Most AI programmes run into the same problem at roughly the same point. The organisation was further from ready than it thought, and nobody had been looking carefully enough to know. These resources exist because Simon built them during engagements, not for a website.
The readiness frameworks came out of the audit work. Simon kept finding the same five gaps in different organisations and wanted a faster way to surface them. The ROI tools came out of a recurring problem in finance director meetings — the numbers weren't structured in a way that would hold up under challenge. The governance resources came out of board sessions where everyone knew the risk was there somewhere but nobody had mapped it clearly enough for the board to act on. If you're not sure where to start, the AI Readiness Audit is the one that tells you where you actually are.
Resources in this hub
19 practical guides, templates and frameworks. Filter by audience or topic.
Strategy
2 resourcesAI Strategy Framework
The gap Simon finds most often at the start of a new engagement isn't budget or technology. It's the absence of a written strategy — a document the board has approved and that says what AI is supposed to achieve commercially. This is the framework he uses to produce that document, and it starts with the commercial case.
Quarterly AI Board Report
Simon writes these for UK clients every quarter. Most boards have been receiving AI updates without being asked to decide anything. The distinguishing feature of this format is the board ask that closes every report — something the board is being asked to approve, direct, or formally note. This guide explains the structure.
Readiness & audit
4 resourcesAI Readiness Audit
Most organisations that come to Simon with an AI problem didn't know they had one until something went wrong. This audit covers five readiness dimensions. For SMEs the output is a board-ready report within 48 hours, with a prioritised roadmap and ROI projections.
SME AI Readiness Framework
Before any client goes into implementation, Simon runs through this sequence first. Nine readiness checks across data, people, technology and governance. He's looking for the one gap that would surface at month six if it's not found now — and in most SMEs there is one. The output is a 90-day launch plan with the first quarter already costed.
SME AI Quick Audit
Six questions, six areas: strategy, data, people, technology, governance, execution. Takes twenty minutes and tells you whether to scale AI now or start small. No vendor pitch at the end.
20 AI-Readiness Questions
Most UK businesses buying AI tools aren't ready for them. The pattern that repeats is not bad technology — it's missing foundations. These twenty questions are what Simon uses before any client commits budget to AI. Score yourself honestly in under fifteen minutes.
ROI & business case
3 resourcesAI Business Case Template
Boards reject AI cases built on vendor productivity claims. This template builds the case on your own baseline: a financial model, a risk register, and a governance section the audit committee can scrutinise.
AI ROI Measurement
How do you actually measure what AI delivered? This framework runs through four steps, gives you a KPI library, and produces a monthly board report that finance directors can interrogate rather than just accept.
Cost of AI Project Failure
Why most SME AI projects fail and what they cost when they do. Direct costs, indirect costs and the four reasons projects underdeliver. Plain analysis.
Vendor & procurement
5 resourcesAI Tool Evaluation Criteria
Before committing budget to an AI tool, eight criteria decide whether it's worth it. Data security, integration depth, total cost of ownership, vendor stability — and the exit terms buried at the back of the contract.
Compare AI Vendors Properly
A five-step method to compare AI vendors on your data, your cost model and your operational risk — not on demo accuracy percentages designed to be won.
Sanity-Check Vendor ROI
Five questions and a simple formula to test AI vendor ROI claims before you sign. Written for UK directors who keep being quoted suspiciously round numbers.
AI Procurement Checklist
Six areas of due diligence to apply before signing an AI vendor contract: stability, security, model, legal, operations and cost. Built for UK SMEs.
Avoid AI Vendor Lock-In
What AI vendor lock-in is, how to identify lock-in clauses before you sign, and the contractual and architectural steps that keep your options open.
Implementation & training
5 resources30-Day AI Quick Wins
Four weeks. One working AI automation inside your own business. The framework breaks it into weekly stages — use case selection, manual proof, build, and live launch with ROI measurement from day one.
AI Engagement Framework
The structured methodology AI-Si.com uses with every client: strategic assessment first, then implementation, then optimisation as internal capability builds. Named deliverables, accountable timelines, no open-ended discovery phase.
Start an AI Pilot Properly
An eight-week structure for a UK SME AI pilot: executive sponsor, single use case, baseline measurement, shadow mode, gradual ramp and a defensible go/no-go.
Why AI Implementations Fail
73% of AI projects fail to reach production. Five preventable failure patterns and the success markers that distinguish projects that actually deliver.
AI Training & Champions
Board, staff and champion AI training for UK SMEs and councils. Build internal capability that drives adoption — not vendor demos that staff forget by Friday.
Want to apply this inside your organisation?
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