Your AI strategy, measured in one working day. £1,500.
A working day with the founder. We run the Define and Measure stages of Lean Six Sigma's DMAIC method on your AI workflows, the same method that separates the 5% of businesses capturing AI ROI from the 95% who aren't. You walk out with a cost-per-output baseline and a 12-month build plan.
95%of enterprise AI investment shows no measurable P&L impact.
That's MIT NANDA's headline finding from their 2025 State of AI in Business report. $30 to $40 billion of enterprise AI spend, 95% with nothing measurable to show for it. MIT's diagnosis is direct: the barrier isn't infrastructure, regulation, or talent. It's learning. The 5% who do see returns are running a disciplined Define → Measure → Analyse cycle on their AI investments. The 95% are staring at the gauge — “what's our ROI on AI?” — and waiting for it to move. It doesn't.
There's a second problem most leadership teams haven't priced in. Most UK SMEs are running their AI on flat-rate subscriptions — ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Cursor. The subscription model hides the meter. You can't compute cost per AI-generated output from a $200-a-month seat. That's not a procurement choice. It's a measurement blackout. Which means even if you wanted to instrument the learning loop MIT identifies as the differentiator, the subscription stack is actively working against you.
The fix isn't another tool. It's a method. And the method has a name.
The Method
The Strategy Day applies Lean Six Sigma's DMAIC to your AI workflows.
DMAIC — Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control — is the operational backbone of Lean Six Sigma. It's the same method process-driven businesses have used for thirty years to move from “we think this is working” to “we measure what we can move.” Jeff Thomas's recent work on AI ROI identifies DMAIC as the operational pattern the 5% are using to capture returns. The 95% aren't applying it.
Define
Strategy Day
Measure
Strategy Day
Analyse
In Blueprint
Improve
In Blueprint
Control
In Blueprint
Stage 1
Define
What AI is being used in your business, what outputs it's producing, what outcomes those outputs are supposed to drive, and what impact those outcomes are supposed to compound into. Most businesses have never written this down. Without it, every measurement that follows is measuring the wrong thing.
Stage 2
Measure
Your first cost-per-output baseline, lifted out from under the subscription model. We map the AI spend across your business, attribute it to specific workflows, and produce the V1 input metric that lets you see what's actually moving.
Analyse / Improve / Control
Delivered in your BlueprintYou leave with these phases fully scoped, sequenced, and ready to execute. The Blueprint documents the root-cause analysis framework, implementation priorities, and governance controls — everything you need to run the remaining stages.
Execute with us, or without us. The plan is yours.
You leave with both — and with the Analyse / Improve / Control plan written, so the next phases are scoped, sequenced, and ready to execute. The plan is yours.
Who the Strategy Day is built for.
The Strategy Day is designed for UK SMEs in the AI Adopting tier — the most common position in UK business right now, and the segment most exposed to MIT's 95% finding.
You probably recognise yourselves here:
If that's you, the Strategy Day is the right next step. At your readiness level, DORA's 2025 research shows realistic Year 1 ROI of £30,000–£80,000 in recovered capacity once strategy and measurement are in place — versus negative or marginal returns on uncoordinated AI spend.
Not sure if you're AI Adopting? Take the 3-minute Scorecard first. It'll tell you which tier you're in and whether a Strategy Day is the right next step — or whether you should start somewhere else.
Take the AI Strategy Scorecard →What the Strategy Day is.
A single, structured working day with Jon Miles, founder of Agentic Engineering. You bring two or three of your senior team. We work through your business end-to-end using the Define and Measure stages of DMAIC.
You walk out with a concrete plan — not advice, a plan.
Every recommendation traces back to:
Commission the 10-Day Workforce Build within 30 days? The Strategy Day costs nothing.
Investment
£1,500 + VAT
Attendees
You + 2–3 senior team members
Format
Remote by default. In-person available (UK, travel at cost).
Credit mechanic
£1,500 credited in full against the 10-Day Workforce Build if you proceed within 30 days.
Method
Lean Six Sigma DMAIC — Define and Measure stages
Credentials
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (founder)
The Solution Blueprint. Structured around DMAIC.
Within five working days of the session, you receive a written Solution Blueprint. Roughly twelve pages. This is a build plan. You can take it to us, build in-house, or hand it to another vendor. The Blueprint is yours either way.
The Blueprint is structured as a complete DMAIC walkthrough — the Define and Measure work we completed in the session, followed by the Analyse, Improve, and Control plan ready to execute.
Define
Completed in session
Measure
Completed in session
Analyse
Plan to execute
Improve
Plan to execute
Control
Plan to execute
1 · Define
Completed in session
Your AI thesis on one page: what outcome, which workflow, what measure of success. Plus your Ranked Process Map — every workflow in your business that could be automated, scored on repetition, rule-clarity, and ROI potential.
2 · Measure
Completed in session
Your cost-per-output baseline. Mapped across your existing AI stack, with subscription spend attributed to specific workflows. Most clients have never seen this number. Walking out with it is rare.
3 · Analyse
Plan to execute
The diagnostic plan for the top three opportunities. Where the variance comes from. Why one workflow is 5× the cost of another. Where the highest-ROI interventions sit.
4 · Improve
Plan to execute
Agent Team Design for the top three opportunities, with org-chart-style role mapping. Make-vs-Buy Analysis (assistive tool, productised agent, or custom build). Fixed-price quotes for each option.
5 · Control
Plan to execute
Governance Model — approval gates, audit logging, budget ceilings, kill-switch rules. The "no surprises" controls derived from DORA's governance findings, plus the measurement infrastructure to sustain the cost-per-output discipline as you scale.
Plus a 12-Month Sequence
For build, deploy, and scale — with fixed pricing on every component.
Hour by hour.
A structured day with clear outputs at each stage.
Process mapping
Your team walks me through how the business actually works today. We document every repetitive process, where humans get stuck, where work falls through cracks, and what gets done twice.
Bottleneck ranking
We rank every process by automation potential. Which are rule-bound and high-volume? Which require judgement that should stay human? Which are blocked by data-access problems before they're automation problems?
Lunch
A break to reset before the Measure session.
Cost-per-output baseline
We map your existing AI spend across subscriptions, API usage, and shadow AI. We attribute that spend to specific workflows. You walk out of this session with your first cost-per-output baseline number — the V1 input metric.
Agent team design
For the top three opportunities, we design the agent team, the make-vs-buy decision, and the governance model. We sequence the build.
Measurement infrastructure
The measurement infrastructure to sustain ROI visibility as you scale. Fixed pricing per build. The 12-month sequence.
Within 5 working days: Solution Blueprint delivered in writing.
Experience
20+ Years
Strategy Days/Week
Max 2
Certification
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Who runs the day.
Jon Miles — ex-CTO and engineer, founder of Agentic Engineering. Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. I've spent the last decade building production systems and the last two years deploying agent teams into UK SMEs. The DMAIC framework I apply in the Strategy Day isn't borrowed jargon — it's the same process discipline I've trained in, certified on, and applied in operational environments for years before AI made it relevant again.
Agentic Engineering is built on Paperclip, the open-source agent orchestration platform with 61,000+ stars on GitHub. AI-assisted software development is one of its named use cases — referenced in Google Cloud's DORA reports.
I run a maximum of two Strategy Days per week. Solo founder. Direct line to the person who'd be designing your build — not an account manager.
How the £1,500 works if you proceed.
The Strategy Day costs £1,500 + VAT, paid before the session. Here's what happens next.
You proceed within 30 days
Net cost: £0
£1,500 credited in full against the £10,000 Workforce Build. You've effectively pre-paid 15% of the build in exchange for a written DMAIC plan before committing more.
You don't proceed
Keep the Blueprint
The Strategy Day stands on its own. You keep the Solution Blueprint and can implement it however you like — yourself, with another vendor, or never. No clawback, no chase.
You proceed after 30 days
Credit no longer applies
The Strategy Day gets billed as a separate piece of work. The credit mechanic only applies within the 30-day window.
Credit breakdown · within 30 days
This isn't right for everyone.
Don't book a Strategy Day if:
You haven't taken the AI Strategy Scorecard yet
The Scorecard tells you which tier you're in. If you're scoring as AI Curious, a Strategy Day isn't the right next step yet — you need to build the foundation first. The Scorecard takes 3 minutes and is free.
Take the AI Strategy ScorecardYour business has under 10 staff
This is the other end of the scale. It's why we've developed delivery-ready services that pay back quickly at low cost.
Take a look at our servicesThe decision-maker can't be in the room
This is a working day, not a brief. If the person who can say yes isn't present, we'll spend half the session speculating.
You're looking for advice without intent to deploy or measure
I don't sell consulting reports. The Strategy Day exists to instrument your AI workflows and commit to building. If you want a deck, this isn't it.
You scored AI Strategic or AI Mature on the Scorecard
If you've already done the foundational work and you know what you want to build, the Strategy Day may be more diagnostic than you need. Consider going straight to a scoping conversation about the 10-Day Build or a Custom Agent Organisation.
Discuss a 10-Day BuildYou've got governance, instrumentation, and a working loop in place
The Strategy Day isn't your fit. You're past the Define stage. You need a scaling conversation, not a diagnostic one.
Book a Scaling Conversation insteadNot sure where you sit?
Take the 3-minute AI Maturity Scorecard — get a diagnosis and a routed next step.
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Frequently asked.
Both, in that order. The diagnostic method is Lean Six Sigma's DMAIC, which has been the operational backbone of process-driven businesses for thirty years. The AI-specific application is grounded in MIT NANDA's 2025 research on why enterprise AI investment fails, and DORA's 2025 AI Capabilities Model. The build sequencing draws on our own operational delivery work. Every recommendation in your Blueprint will trace back to one of those three sources.
Because DMAIC works, and bespoke frameworks usually exist to justify a consultant's fee. Lean Six Sigma is a thirty-year-old discipline with international certification standards. Applying it to AI isn't a stretch — it's the exact pattern Jeff Thomas's 2026 work identifies as the operational method the 5% of successful AI adopters are using.
The cost of producing one unit of output from your AI workflows — a merged pull request, a generated document, a completed support response, whatever your team actually ships. It's the V1 input metric Lean Six Sigma practitioners instrument first, and it's the metric Working Backwards (the Amazon principles book) identifies as the lever you can actually move. Most businesses can't compute this number today because their AI subscriptions hide the meter. We compute it with you.
No, but it helps. The Scorecard gives us a starting point — your tier, your biggest capability gap, your category scores. It saves us 30–60 minutes of diagnostic work on the day, which means more time spent on Measure and design. It's also free.
Yes. UK only, travel billed at cost (typically £150–£400 depending on location). Default is remote — it's faster to schedule and equally effective for the work.
Two or three. The decision-maker (founder, MD, COO) plus one or two operational leads who know how the work actually gets done. More than four turns it into a workshop instead of a working session.
The discovery call is qualification — we check if there's a fit. The Strategy Day is the work. We don't repeat the diagnosis in the call; we use it to decide if we're a match for each other.
Fine. The Solution Blueprint is yours. We've had Strategy Days where the client built in-house — the plan still holds. The credit mechanic only applies if you build with us.
Yes, mutual NDA signed before the session. Happy to use yours or ours.
Within 24 hours of booking, yes — full refund, no questions. After that, no, but rescheduling is free up to 48 hours before the session.