AI Ground Truth: Where AI Actually Meets Your Business
A rigorous, document-driven diagnostic that tells you exactly where AI will deliver value in your organization, what it takes to implement, and how it will affect your people. No surveys. No guesswork. Just actionable intelligence.
Your board wants an AI strategy. Your teams need clarity, not hype.
Every executive team is fielding the same question: Where should we be using AI? The pressure is real, but the path forward is murky. Generic maturity surveys produce generic answers. Internal teams lack the methodology to identify, score, and prioritize AI opportunities at scale. And most AI assessments ignore the hardest part entirely: the organizational change required to actually adopt what they recommend.
The result? Pilot projects that go nowhere. Initiatives that stall at the proof-of-concept stage. Investments that never reach the people they were designed to help.
The Ground Truth Approach
We analyze your actual process documentation, role descriptions, and operational data to surface exactly where AI fits, what it takes to implement, and how it will affect your workforce. Every opportunity is scored, ranked, and assessed for organizational readiness. You get a prioritized, actionable plan your leadership team can use immediately.
Not another maturity survey
Three principles set AI Ground Truth apart from every other AI assessment on the market.
Document-Native Analysis
We work from your actual process maps, role descriptions, and team objectives. No surveys to distribute. No workshops to schedule. We analyze how your organization actually operates, not how people think it does.
Change Management at the Core
Every opportunity is assessed for organizational readiness and change impact, not just technical feasibility. Because the technology is the easy part. Getting your people to adopt it is where most organizations fail.
Scored, Ranked, Presentation-Ready
You receive prioritized outputs ranked by ROI potential and implementation complexity. Every deliverable is designed to go directly into board presentations, leadership briefings, and strategic planning sessions.
Five phases. One clear outcome.
Every engagement follows the same proven methodology, scaled to your scope.
Intake & Scoping
We define the scope, identify the right functions and processes, and request the documentation we need.
Document Ingestion
Our team reviews your process maps, role descriptions, SOPs, and operational data in full.
Opportunity Analysis
We decompose every role and process, score each task for AI potential, and match opportunities to specific technologies.
Synthesis & Packaging
Findings are compiled into presentation-ready deliverables with executive narratives, roadmaps, and risk assessments.
Executive Debrief
We walk your leadership through the findings, answer questions, and align on priorities and next steps.
Three deliverables. Zero fluff.
Every engagement produces a curated package designed for immediate use with your leadership team, board, and implementation partners.
AI Opportunity Summary
A prioritized inventory of AI opportunities, ranked by business impact and implementation complexity.
- • Executive narrative (1-page)
- • Scored opportunity inventory
- • Opportunity heat map by function
- • 3-5 quick-win initiatives with ROI estimates
Organizational Implications
A clear-eyed assessment of how AI adoption will affect your workforce, with practical change management guidance.
- • Workforce impact assessment by role
- • Skills gap analysis (build, buy, or borrow)
- • Change readiness matrix
- • Risk register with mitigations
Roadmap & Next Steps
A phased implementation plan that moves from quick wins to strategic initiatives, grounded in your organizational reality.
- • 3-horizon phased roadmap
- • Prioritization decision framework
- • Resource and investment planning
- • Emergent engagement options for execution
Two tiers, scaled to your needs
Each tier is a complete, standalone engagement. Both can serve as Phase 1 of a larger initiative.
A La Carte
$1,500 – $2,500 per process
🕒 1-2 weeks
- Select one or more business processes
- AI Opportunity Summary
- Organizational & Change Implications
- Recommended Next Steps
- 30-minute executive debrief
- Cross-role pattern analysis
- Full phased implementation roadmap
Full Function
$20,000 – $35,000 per function
🕒 3-4 weeks
- All processes within a single function
- AI Opportunity Summary
- Organizational & Change Implications
- Cross-role pattern analysis
- Full 3-horizon phased roadmap
- Prioritization decision framework
- 2-hour executive debrief
12 business functions. 80+ processes.
Our analysis can cover the enterprise. Select the functions and processes that matter most to your organization.
Human Resources
Finance & Accounting
Procurement & Supply Chain
Sales & Revenue Ops
Customer Service
Information Technology
Legal & Compliance
Marketing
Operations
Risk Management
Corporate Comms
Product & R&D
What an engagement actually produces
Engagement summary, Tier 2 Full Function assessment
What clients ask before they start
What documentation do we need to provide?
At minimum: process documentation for the areas in scope and relevant role or job descriptions. Org charts, competency frameworks, and team OKRs strengthen the analysis. We provide a detailed intake checklist tailored to your engagement tier.
How is this different from what the big consulting firms offer?
Most large-firm AI assessments rely on interviews, workshops, and maturity models that produce broad, generic recommendations. We work directly from your operational documentation to produce organization-specific, scored, and ranked outputs. We also embed change management into every recommendation, which most assessments skip entirely.
Can we start with Tier 1 and expand later?
Absolutely. Many clients begin with a single process to validate the approach and the quality of the output, then expand to a full-function Tier 2 engagement. The Tier 1 work feeds directly into any subsequent engagement.
Who on our team needs to be involved?
Very few people. We need a project sponsor to coordinate document collection and a brief kick-off call. Unlike traditional assessments, we do not require workshops, interviews, or survey distribution. Your team’s time investment is minimal.
What if our documentation is incomplete?
Most organizations have more documentation than they realize. We work with what exists and flag any gaps that limit the analysis. Even partial documentation yields valuable, actionable findings. We will never pad the analysis with assumptions to fill gaps.
Do you help with implementation?
The AI Ground Truth is designed as a diagnostic engagement. However, every deliverable includes clear next steps and implementation guidance. For organizations that want hands-on execution support, Emergent offers follow-on engagement options outlined in the roadmap deliverable.
Ready to find your ground truth?
Let’s identify where AI will actually move the needle in your organization. Schedule a 30-minute consultation to discuss your scope and objectives.
Or reach out directly: jesse@emergentconsultants.com