Six-Week Flagship Engagement

Fireside AI Workflow Transformation Sprint

Redesign one high-value workflow and launch a governed AI-assisted pilot in six weeks—proving business value before a larger implementation.

Best Fit

A qualified workflow with an accountable operator

  • A COO, VP of Operations, or accountable business-unit leader owns the outcome
  • A recurring workflow crosses people, spreadsheets, email, SaaS tools, or internal systems
  • The workflow creates measurable delay, error, missed follow-up, risk, cost, or poor decision quality
  • One accountable owner can work with the Fireside team during the sprint
  • Representative or production-safe data is available for the pilot

Bounded Scope

Enough scope to prove value without hiding risk

  • One high-value workflow
  • One accountable business owner
  • Usually two or three important systems or data sources
  • One measurable business outcome
  • Human approval, evaluation, security, and governance built in
How It Works

Six connected phases from baseline to production decision

Fireside combines workflow strategy, implementation, integration, evaluation, governance, and practical change management throughout the engagement.

Outcome and baseline

Define the business outcome, baseline KPI, workflow owner, data boundary, and the decision the pilot must support.

Workflow and risk map

Map the current handoffs, responsibilities, source quality, exceptions, failure modes, and governance constraints.

Human-plus-AI redesign

Design the new operating path, including what AI can recommend or automate and where people must review or approve.

Working pilot

Build and run a focused pilot using representative or production-safe data, with visible evidence and controlled access.

Evaluation and controls

Test the pilot against agreed criteria and document approval, security, integration, and governance requirements.

Production decision

Deliver a 90-day roadmap and, when continuing is justified, a separately scoped fixed-fee implementation proposal.

Deliverables

What your team receives

  • Business outcome and baseline KPI
  • Current workflow, data, and responsibility map
  • AI opportunity and risk assessment
  • Redesigned human-plus-AI workflow
  • Working pilot using representative or production-safe data
  • Evaluation criteria and approval controls
  • Security, integration, and governance requirements
  • 90-day production roadmap
  • Fixed-scope implementation proposal when continuing is justified

Clear Boundaries

What the six-week promise does not imply

  • Not a promise of enterprise-wide production deployment in six weeks
  • Not a guaranteed ROI or performance outcome
  • Not an open-ended AI strategy engagement
  • Not autonomous control of sensitive decisions without human approval
  • Not a replacement for legal, compliance, or formal security review

Daily Ops Brain Method

Make the operating logic visible before adding autonomy.

Fireside’s broader Daily Ops Brain method keeps trusted sources, responsibilities, recommendations, exceptions, and approvals visible. The sprint applies that method to one workflow instead of attempting a broad transformation all at once.

Short Workflow Fit Call

Find out whether this workflow is ready for a paid sprint.

The call is designed to establish five things:

  • Which workflow is costly or slow enough to matter
  • Who owns the business outcome and can make decisions
  • What representative or production-safe data exists
  • Which security, governance, and approval constraints apply
  • Whether a six-week paid sprint is the right next step