Seven things, built with you over about three weeks. Here's what's in each one.

One UK services firm we worked with wins a third of the jobs it quotes. It wins under a tenth of the value. Over £400k of contracts from a single customer had never been quoted at all. The pipeline lived in a spreadsheet of more than 350 rows, and the managing director carried most of the admin.

Nobody could see the problem clearly. That's what a Blueprint is for.

A Blueprint is the first thing every FishTank client gets, before anything is built. It takes about three weeks. You end up with seven things, and one of them is a working demo.

Five stages, about three weeks

1. Kick-off. We agree the scope and book the sessions.
2. Deep dives. We sit with the people who do the work.
3. Map. We draw how it runs today and check it with you.
4. Prove. We build the working demo.
5. Present. We walk you through everything in one session.

Seven things you keep

A map of how it works today

We map each workflow step by step: who touches it, which system it lives in, how long it takes.

For that firm, the map showed one spreadsheet doing the job of a sales pipeline.

A map with AI in it

The same workflow, redrawn with AI doing the repetitive parts. Every point where a person approves or decides is marked.

People stay on the work that needs judgement: the site visit, the closing call, the relationship.

A ranked list of opportunities

Every workflow, ranked by what fixing it would return. That includes the ones where AI doesn't fit, and we'll say so.

At that firm, one of the biggest wins needed no AI at all. Someone just had to quote the contracts nobody had quoted.

A number to beat

What the problem costs today. What the fix should save or earn. The date it pays back.

It's the number we both measure the build against.

A working demo

A working demo, on sample data. You see it running before you decide whether to build it.

Rules for safe use

Three short lists in plain English: what's safe, what's safe with conditions, and what the AI never does. Plus what data goes where.

A fixed-price proposal

Your top priorities, turned into a fixed scope, timeline and price. Build starts within two weeks of signing. The Blueprint fee is credited against the build if you sign within 90 days. There's no obligation to proceed.

What happens next

A Blueprint won't fix everything. Some of what you tell us will turn out to be a job for a person, not AI. We'd rather tell you that now than after you've paid for a build.

If you can tell us where the hours go, we can show you what a Blueprint would look like for your business.

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