Facilitation tool

Triage your AI use cases on one board.

Every organisation has a long, messy list of "things we could do with AI." This board cuts it down to a decision. Plot each candidate by the value it would create and the risk it would carry, and the room can see at a glance what to do now, what to pilot carefully, what to park, and what to kill. Nothing is saved — it's a thinking surface for the conversation in the room.

01 — How it works

Value up, risk across.

Two axes settle most arguments faster than a spreadsheet. Value — how much this would genuinely move the business — runs bottom to top. Risk — the cost of it going wrong, plus how hard it is to do safely — runs left to right. Where a use case lands tells you what to do with it.

Step · 01

Add your candidate use cases to the tray, or start from the examples already there.

Step · 02

Tap a use case to pick it up, then tap the board where the room agrees it belongs.

Step · 03

Argue about position, not principle. Moving a dot is how you surface what people really think.

02 — The board

Plot the candidates.

Tap a use case below to select it, then tap the board to place it.

Value →
Pilot with guardrails
High value · High risk
Do now
High value · Low risk
Kill / avoid
Low value · High risk
Park / fill-in
Low value · Low risk
Risk →
03 — The quadrants

What each corner means.

The point of triage isn't a tidy chart — it's a set of decisions the room will stand behind. Here's the action each quadrant implies, and the trap that comes with it.

High value · Low risk

Do now

Your no-regret moves. Resource them this quarter — and watch that "low risk" doesn't quietly creep up as you scale.

High value · High risk

Pilot with guardrails

The prizes worth chasing carefully. Contain them: small scope, human sign-off, clear kill criteria. Most failures live here when the guardrails are skipped.

Low value · Low risk

Park / fill-in

Harmless, easy, and rarely worth the attention. Do them if they're nearly free; never let them crowd out the "do now" work.

Low value · High risk

Kill / avoid

All downside, little upside. Say no explicitly — these are the ones that sneak back as someone's pet project if you don't.

Facilitate · 01

Place the obvious ones fast, then spend your time on the cluster near the centre — that's where the real disagreement is.

Facilitate · 02

Ask "what would have to be true to move this left?" Reducing risk is often cheaper than chasing more value.

Facilitate · 03

Leave with a shortlist: the two or three you'll actually start, and the ones you've consciously chosen to kill.

04 — Go deeper

A shortlist is a start, not a plan.

Once you know which AI use cases are worth pursuing, the work is turning them into funded pilots with real guardrails, owners, and success criteria — and saying no to the rest without losing the room. That's what our facilitated AI strategy sessions are built to do.

Talk to us about a facilitated session