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The Agent-Ready X-ray
A fixed-fee examination of up to three AI or agentic use cases, run on your own operational data. Where each one sits in the value stream, how much autonomy it holds, who owns the decision rights, and what is exposed if it acts wrongly.
You finish with a proceed, redesign, constrain or stop recommendation for each use case — with the reasoning, the value at stake and the value at risk written down.
It takes actions, in sequence, inside work that already carries owners, controls and consequences. Agent failures are operating-model failures that happen to involve a model.
The X-ray treats each use case the way we would treat a new participant in a process: the work it does, what it is permitted to touch, who answers for the outcome, the evidence it leaves behind, and how it is stopped.
It runs on the same engine as our Operations X-ray — your process reconstructed from your systems' own record — with an autonomy and control pass on top.
What we look for
We cap the use-case count deliberately. Three weeks is a promise, and three use cases examined properly carry more value than a dozen skimmed.
The use case mapped into the real value stream and the real process, as your systems recorded it.
Autonomy graded against what the system can do today.
A recommendation accepted automatically 98% of the time sits on the fourth rung, whatever the business case calls it.
Decision rights, accountable ownership and the points at which a person must be in the loop.
Data, model, supplier and operational dependencies — including the ones two steps removed.
Current controls mapped against what you will be asked to produce, with the gaps priced.
Both sides of the ledger
We price both sides, because a board weighs a dollar figure more readily than an amber square.
Illustrative — figures are realistic placeholders, not a client result.
Where AI is the wrong intervention for a use case, we say so. That is a normal outcome, and it is worth the fee on its own.
Six deliverables, short and evidenced, usable directly as inputs to the register and impact assessment you already owe.
We agree which use cases, the data path and the fixed fee. Sixty minutes, no obligation.
The minimised event log and the use-case documentation are prepared, in your environment or under NDA. The three-week clock starts here.
Process reconstruction, autonomy and impact classification, decision-rights mapping, dependency and control assessment.
A one-page recommendation per use case and a findings session with the people who can act on it. Three weeks, fixed.
In your environment, with data held inside your boundary. This is the default for defence and SOCI-regulated operators. Alternatively: a minimised, de-identified extract under NDA, held in Australia, processed onshore, destroyed on completion.
A minimised event log — timestamps, activity names and roles — plus your existing use-case documentation, model and vendor list, and any approvals already recorded.
Read-only access, isolated from live and OT systems. Every system stays as we found it, and agents remain untouched throughout the X-ray.
A single fixed fee, agreed on the scoping call and confirmed in writing. If you proceed to operating-model design or delivery within 90 days, the X-ray fee is credited in full.
The scope is up to three use cases and the duration is three weeks — a fixed price, on a fixed clock.
Sixty minutes to agree the use cases, the data path and the fee. Where your use cases are still too early to X-ray, we will tell you on that call.