Opportunity discovery
Function-level discovery inside real workflows, ending in a tiered opportunity portfolio with named owners and kill criteria, including the honest tier: "this is not an AI problem."
CONSULTING · EMBEDDED · VENDOR-NEUTRAL IN WRITING
Embedded, not bolted on.
From finding the AI opportunities hiding in real workflows, to designing and hiring the team that will own them, to the substrate decisions everything else stands on. Evidence first, including the verdict "don't do this with AI" when that's what the evidence says.
FOR ORGANISATIONS THAT ALREADY HAVE AI SOMEWHERE IN THE BUSINESS AND NEED IT INSIDE THE WORK THAT PAYS
01 · WHAT WE TAKE ON
AI-native team design
Squad shape, role definitions, and a run-ready structured hiring process for AI-native roles, with evidence-based screening and an explicit commitment: no AI ever scores or ranks a candidate.
Governance & substrate
The unglamorous layer AI initiatives die without: governance matched to the current EU regulatory reality, data readiness, and platform decisions made without a vendor's thumb on the scale.
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02 · HOW AN ENGAGEMENT RUNS
Every phase can be the last one.
Consulting goes wrong when the engagement is designed to continue. Ours is designed to stop: each phase produces something you can act on alone, and the next one only begins if the last one earned it.
1 two to three weeks
Discovery, fixed price
We sit inside the workflows, not above them: shadowing the work, reading the systems, talking to the people who do it. It ends in a tiered opportunity portfolio with named owners and kill criteria, including the tier that says this is not an AI problem.
2 scoped before it starts
A first piece of work
One opportunity from the portfolio, taken far enough to prove or kill it. Fixed scope, fixed price, a named outcome agreed before we begin. If the evidence says stop, we say stop and you have lost weeks rather than quarters.
3 only if the evidence earns it
Embedded, on a retainer
We stay inside the team, building and handing over, until your people own it without us. A retainer only ever follows evidence from phase two. We will not sell you one on the strength of a discovery deck.
03 · WHAT IT COSTS
No day rate, because a day rate rewards the wrong thing.
Discovery is fixed-price
Quoted as one number before it starts, from the scope of the workflows in question. It does not move because the work took longer than we thought.
Delivery is priced per outcome
A named result, agreed and priced before we begin. If we finish early you keep the difference, which is the opposite of what a day rate does.
Retainers follow evidence
Monthly, capped, and cancellable, and only offered after a delivery phase has shown the work pays. Never sold off the back of a discovery deck.
WE PUBLISH THE SHAPE, NOT A NUMBER, BECAUSE SCOPE DECIDES IT · TELL US THE WORKFLOW AND YOU GET A FIXED QUOTE BEFORE ANYTHING STARTS
N.B.
What this is not.
Not bodies on a time sheet: if you need capacity rather than judgment, an agency is cheaper and we will say so. Not a reseller: we hold no vendor agreements, and that is in writing in the contract. Not a strategy deck; the deliverable is work that runs in your systems, owned by your people, with us leaving. And not a place to send an AI mandate that has no business owner: we have watched that fail often enough to stop taking it on.
In one paragraph: VisionVolve's embedded consulting covers AI opportunity discovery inside real workflows, AI-native team design and hiring enablement, and the governance, data and platform decisions underneath, taken vendor-neutrally. Engagements start with a fixed-price discovery and continue on retainer only when the evidence earns it.
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