AI on your data · 14 July 2026 · 6 min read
Vendor workshops sell ambition. FC-07 AI Reality Check sells clarity — three prioritised use cases, risk boundaries, and a 90-day order with no product to upsell.
The board asked for an AI strategy. Microsoft sold Copilot seats. An agency pitched a custom chatbot. Nobody wrote down which problem AI solves first, what data it touches, or what happens if the pilot fails.
FC-07 AI Reality Check is a two-day fixed deliverable: three prioritised use cases (Copilot vs custom assistant vs workflow automation), explicit risk boundaries, and a 90-day adoption order.
Tenant readiness for Copilot. Document corpora suitable for RAG. Manual workflows with ROI for automation. Team capacity to adopt — not just licence capacity.
We do not sell licences or SaaS seats. Recommendations map to North Ark Fast Close SKUs only when they fit — you can take the memo to any partner.
Defer Copilot 90 days; fix M365 baseline and run FC-04. Pilot FC-26 on internal SOPs only. Automate invoice reconciliation before any AI chatbot.
Or: roll Copilot to exec team after FC-19; skip custom build; FC-06 automation scan for ops.
MDs and ops leads at 20–80 staff SEQ service businesses with Microsoft 365 and pressure to "do AI" without a qualified internal owner.
Pairs well with FC-27 if insurance and Copilot land the same quarter.
Execute one SKU at a time — readiness, sprint, or automation — with fixed price and milestone payments. See AI knowledge assistant and Microsoft packages for next steps.
