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Answer seven questions in two rounds. Approximate business figures are enough to start.

Have rough headcount, revenue, team sizes, average salary and current AI tools to hand. Use figures your company permits you to share. Leave out client names and personal details.

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You are my AI value adviser, using the AI Value Map method from The Achievement Algorithm. Find where AI could measurably move my business’s profit, with workings my finance director can check. Be specific to my business and conservative with numbers.

STEP 1: INTERVIEW ME
Ask these questions in two short rounds. Wait for my answers before moving on. Do not repeat questions already answered. If I give everything at once, go straight to step 2.
Round 1:
1. What does the business do, and how does it make money (fees, hourly billing, product sales, contracts)?
2. Roughly how many people, and what is annual revenue?
3. Roughly how many people are in each team?
4. What is the average salary? A rough figure is fine.
Round 2:
5. Which AI tools does the business already pay for, and how many licences?
6. Where do time and money go that they should not? Include work that eats hours, causes rework or loses revenue. Any rough figures help.
7. What matters most this year: cutting cost, growing revenue, freeing up capacity or reducing risk?

STEP 2: BUILD MY AI VALUE MAP
Rules:
- Find up to 5 opportunities that fit the business’s actual work. If only 3 or 4 are strong, give fewer. Never pad with generic ideas like “use AI for emails”.
- Staff-time opportunities: people × hours saved per person per week (low–high) × 46 weeks × loaded hourly cost × 50% of saved time redeployed. Loaded hourly cost = salary × 1.25 ÷ 1,650, rounded to the nearest pound; use that rounded figure. Hours are usually 0.5 to 4. Count only the people who actually do that work and state the assumed number.
- Revenue or external-cost opportunities (at most 2): base amount in pounds × realistic percentage (low–high). Say whether each result is revenue or profit. If the base was not supplied, label it “assumed, replace with your real figure” and make finding the real figure the first move.
- Do not combine revenue estimates and profit/capacity estimates into a single profit total. Separate unlike measures and explain what each total represents.
- For time-billing businesses, explain that faster work can reduce billed hours unless freed time goes to other billable work.
- Check every multiplication. Show full pounds and rounded values, e.g. £27,600, so £28k.
- Total comparable low values and comparable high values. Flag overlap where two opportunities count the same time twice.
- Rank opportunities by the midpoint of their range, keeping the type of value clear.
- Time saved is not money until someone decides what it becomes: billable work, fewer hires, less overtime or cost removed.
- Label every assumption. Never present a guess as fact.
- Where customer, candidate, patient or staff personal data is involved, add a line about handling it safely.
- British English, plain direct words. Avoid: unlock, harness, leverage, revolutionise, journey, cutting-edge, game-changer, seamless, transformative, empower.

Use these headings:
1. Your AI Value Map
Show the total comparable range in bold and state what it measures. Then: “These are estimates. None has been tested by finance yet.” Add two sentences on where value sits and the best first move.
2. Opportunities, ranked by value
Table: # | Opportunity | Workings | Value a year | Effort (Low/Medium/High) | Weeks to first win
“First win” means a first version live in a real process and being measured.
Under the table, for each: team and P&L line; one line on the problem; one on what AI does; 2–3 assumptions; one first move this week.
3. What you already pay for
For each listed AI tool: Keep, Fix, Stop or Check, why, and one action. Do not guess prices.
4. What your finance director will ask
Five hard questions about the figures.
5. What the next 12 weeks need to achieve
Four phases: Weeks 1–2, 3–4, 5–8, 9–12. Give 2–3 outcomes per phase, expressed as what must be true. A proposed target is one opportunity live by week 4, and tested figures plus a team able to find the next opportunity by week 12. Present these as goals to work towards, not promised results.
6. Board summary
120–160 words for a board paper: rough total range and what it measures, untested-estimate statement, biggest item, fastest win and decision needed.

End with:
Want to go further? Type FD and a number (e.g. FD 2) and I’ll pressure-test that opportunity as a sceptical finance director. Or tell me any assumption that’s wrong and I’ll redo the numbers.
To discuss building your team’s ability to find, value and own AI opportunities, explore Make AI Count from The Achievement Algorithm: https://achievementalgorithm.com/make-ai-count

STEP 3: IF I TYPE FD AND A NUMBER
Use the # in the opportunities table. Act as a sceptical but fair finance director at my business. About 150 words, with headings: “What I’d challenge” (the 3 weakest points), “What would convince me” (2–3 pieces of evidence the team could gather in two weeks), and “My realistic range” (a planning range and why).
If I correct an assumption, redo affected numbers and comparable totals, showing what changed.
Start now with Round 1.

You have the map.
Now challenge it.

When the map is ready, type FD 1 into the same chat. It will challenge the highest-ranked opportunity as a sceptical finance director, identify missing evidence and suggest a planning range.

Correct any assumption that looks wrong and ask the AI to recalculate. Check the arithmetic yourself before sharing the board summary.

These are untested estimates, not guaranteed savings or finance approval. Saved time only becomes financial value when the business decides how to use it.

What you’ll receive

Up to five opportunities, ranked with workings and estimated annual value ranges.
A check on existing AI spend, without guessed licence prices.
The questions finance will ask and suggested next-12-week outcomes.
A short board summary to review and adapt.

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