The board wants a position. The audit committee wants the risks understood. The PE sponsor wants to know it's handled. Meanwhile the team is experimenting in ChatGPT, the inbox is full of vendor pitches, and nobody can say — with numbers — where AI would actually pay back for your business.
You're left with two bad options: spend £100k+ and months on a Big-4 strategy deck that never ships, or guess. The AI Pay-Back Sprint is the third option — a costed, defensible plan in two weeks, for a price you can sign off today.
In about ten working days, we map where AI will pay back fastest across your business, size the opportunities, flag the risks, and hand you a board-ready plan. Fixed scope, fixed price, no open-ended consulting. You come out knowing what to do first — and what to ignore.
One price, one timeline, one clear deliverable. No scoping call to book a scoping call.
Every opportunity comes with an estimated value and effort — so you can prioritise on evidence, not hype.
The plan is vendor-neutral. Build it with us, build it in-house, or sit on it. No lock-in.
One document your board can read in ten minutes and act on for twelve months.
Real outcomes, not slideware. If there's no honest pay-back, we'll tell you that too.
One accountable firm from first call to final readout. Nothing lost in translation.
A focused session with your leadership and a look at how the business actually runs — the real workflows, data and constraints.
We map and size the opportunities, pressure-test them against value, effort and risk, and shape the quick win.
We walk your team through the AI Pay-Back Map, answer the hard questions, and agree the next step — if there is one.
A single fixed fee — no scoping call, no day-rate creep. If you decide to work with us on what comes next (a BoardRoom AI subscription or a Bespoke build) within 60 days, the full £2,950 is credited against it. So at worst you get a costed AI plan for a fixed price; at best, it costs you nothing.
NowNext is the AI-focused arm of Craft Frame WORKS. Because the same firm that advises the board can also ship the software, the plan we hand you isn't theory — it's written by people who build and run this for a living. That's why our sprints end in decisions, not decks.
An e-commerce business was losing complex, high-value orders to a checkout that couldn't handle them. We designed a custom checkout that made complex consumer orders effortless — and lifted average order value.
A B2B company was running its entire delivery operation across five sprawling spreadsheets. We built a tailor-made, end-to-end system that automated the workflow and gave them a single source of truth.
Fifteen minutes tells us — and you — whether the AI Pay-Back Sprint is the right next step. No pitch, no pressure, no commitment.
A clear path to AI that pays back. Sprint first; bigger only if it earns it. The AI Pay-Back Sprint is operated by Craft Frame WORKS Ltd (registered in England & Wales, no. 16669774) under UK contract law and a mutual NDA.