AIRI Discovery & Prioritisation

You measured your AI readiness. Now what?

The AIRI Decision Engine takes your organisation from scores to action, identifying, evaluating, and ranking your top AI projects in a single 40-minute workshop.

Eighty-five to eighty-seven per cent of AI projects fail, not because the technology fails, but because organisations pick the wrong projects, underestimate change management, or lack data readiness. The Decision Engine exists to fix that.

Pipeline

The 3-step pipeline

Data driven, not ego. The Decision Engine replaces subjective debates with a single transparent formula that weights what actually matters in AI project success:

1. 1

   Discover

   Gut feel · 2×2 matrix

2. 2

   Score & decide

   5-pillar scoring · AIRI DE formula

3. 3

   Prioritise

   Strategic judgement · Dot voting

Step 1 · Discovery matrix

Start with discovery

Before scoring anything, teams brainstorm real pain points and place project ideas on a simple 2×2 Impact × Feasibility matrix. This is a 1-minute gut-feel exercise. No rubrics, no arithmetic. Selection rule: each team picks 2 from Do This. If fewer than 2, pull from Moonshot first, Quick Win second. Never from Drop.

Step 2 · The AIRI Decision Engine

One formula, five pillars, complete clarity.

The ethics gate

Ethics is not optional. It is a multiplier.

P2 adds nothing to the score. It multiplies the entire result. An organisation with no ethics framework gets zero, regardless of how strong everything else is.

The same gate runs the assessments themselves: your pAIRI and oAIRI overall levels are capped at your P2 level (STOP, CONDITIONS, GO). One ladder, one gate.

See it in action

Worked example

A mid-sized company evaluates deploying an AI chatbot to handle tier-1 customer queries.

A moderate candidate. Proceed with caution on weak pillars. P4 (Data Foundation at L2) is the bottleneck. Improving data access would push the score significantly higher.

Reading the score

What the AIRI Decision Engine tells you

The theoretical maximum is 20. How to interpret where a project lands:

0

Ethics-killed

<25%

Very low. Drop.

25–50%

Weak. Significant gaps.

50–75%

Moderate. Go! But watch out for weak pillars.

75–100%

Strong. High confidence! Prioritise and resource.

“It is not a rejection. It is a roadmap.”

Step 3 · Strategic judgement

Prioritise. The team decides what to champion.

After each team’s picks are scored and presented, every participant votes silently across three strategic lenses. No discussion, no lobbying, just stickers on worksheets mounted on the wall. This is deliberate. The Decision Engine removes politics from evaluation. The dot vote adds back strategic intent, what leadership actually wants to invest in, knowing the readiness data. Rules: 2 stickers per round per person. Both stickers on one project = OK (signals conviction). No tallying between rounds. Anchoring on the leader biases subsequent votes. Count everything at the end.

Tiebreakers: highest Impact count → highest DE Score → 3-minute discussion + show of hands.