Start from the question you need answered
Deciding what to do with AI
- AI Opportunity Audit: where AI is worth pursuing.
- AI Roadmap: what you will do, in what order, under whose ownership and controls.
Improving one workflow
Operational AI Audit: an audit of one workflow, then implementation in the same engagement.
Proving a chosen use case
90-Day AI Pilot: a bounded test on real cases, with the criteria for scaling or stopping agreed first.
Managing control and regulatory exposure
APP 1.7 Rapid Review: which decisions your privacy policy may need to describe from 10 December 2026.
Questions and outputs, from audit to implementation
| Engagement | Question | Output | What it does not duplicate |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Opportunity Audit | Where is AI worth pursuing? | Prioritised opportunities and a recommendation | The full execution and governance plan |
| AI Roadmap | What will we do, in what order, under whose ownership and controls? | Agreed priorities, sequencing, owners, controls and measures | Rediscovering opportunities already found |
| Operational AI Audit | What needs to change in this specific workflow? | Constraint, baseline and improvement pathway | A broad enterprise opportunity assessment |
| 90-Day AI Pilot | Can the change improve this workflow at an acceptable cost, quality and risk level? | Measured results against the baseline and a scale recommendation | The baseline and evidence an audit has already gathered |
| APP 1.7 Rapid Review | Which decisions may we need to disclose from 10 December 2026? | An initial view of exposure, a full decision register or a board-level risk summary | Your legal team's review of the final privacy policy wording |
| Implementation stage | How do we make the agreed change work? | A changed workflow or working solution, with measured results | Another diagnosis without execution |
Engagements do not repeat each other. A roadmap starts from the opportunities an audit has already found and checks them.
Measure AI by its effect on business performance
Four measures: revenue, cost, time and risk
- Revenue: where revenue can grow
- Cost: where operating cost falls
- Time: where work moves faster or capacity is freed
- Risk: where compliance or operating risk falls.
Where to start
If you are not sure which question applies, start with one of these routes.
The AI Readiness Assessment asks up to 20 questions across 5 areas: commercial intent, data and technology foundations, governance, people and delivery. It takes 8 to 12 minutes and ends with a decision brief you can take to the board.
In the first conversation, Ramon reviews the facts and tells you whether advisory work is the right next step. Ramon or his team replies within one business day.
If the question concerns software in decisions about people, start early. From 10 December 2026, Australian Privacy Principle (APP) 1.7 and APP 1.8 set privacy policy disclosure rules for some automated decisions. Our guide to what APP 1.7 requires sets out when they apply. Finding the decisions needs your legal, privacy, procurement and technology teams, and the operational teams that use the systems.
Whichever route you take, bring the business problem in your own words and the decision you need to make, with its date. Any evidence you already hold helps, such as proposals, vendor material, operating reports or a baseline.
What every engagement leaves you with
Every recommendation separates what the evidence shows, what we have assumed and what still needs testing. It also names who owns the next decision.
Frequently asked questions
Do the engagements have to run in order?
The engagements do not have to run in order. Start with the need you have now, and each engagement builds on work already done. The table above shows what each engagement does not repeat. Our guide to building an AI roadmap explains how the work is sequenced.
Who delivers the implementation?
Applied AI Australia advises and Acquire Intelligence™ delivers, as one engagement from diagnosis to working change. Ramon Rodriguez leads the advisory work. Each implementation stage has a named owner and measures, agreed before the stage begins.
Bring the business problem and the decision you need to make.