Consulting
Know where AI pays off, and in what order.
Cadent's strategy engagement starts with structured interviews across your organisation, mapping the real pain points, your values, and where you want to be over the next few years. You walk away with a prioritised roadmap of AI initiatives, each with the expected return worked out, so leadership can decide on evidence. Led personally by our founder and AI strategist.
- Engagement AI Strategy
- Method Stakeholder interviews
- Output Prioritised roadmap
- Typical $12k-$18k + GST
What you get
One roadmap, ready to act on.
A single, detailed AI roadmap your leadership can take to the board, to funders, or straight into a build.
Initiatives, ranked
A ranked list of AI initiatives, filtered for value, effort, and risk, so you start with the moves that matter and leave the rest for later.
Expected ROI
Each initiative comes with the expected return worked out, so the roadmap stands up to scrutiny from your board and your funders.
Built around your mission
The roadmap is shaped around your values and strategic direction, so AI serves the mission and gives agency to the people who use it.
Four steps from conversation to compounding ROI
How it works
Every engagement starts the same way: an honest look at what's worth doing. Then we prove it works small, deliver it for real, and stay involved for as long as it earns its place.
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Interview
Structured interviews across leadership and teams surface the real process pain points, your organisational values, and your direction over a one to four year horizon.
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Diagnose
We turn what we hear into a clear picture of where AI can remove friction, cut cost, or unlock capacity, and just as importantly where it should not be used.
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Prioritise
Every candidate initiative is weighed on value, effort, and risk, so the highest-return, lowest-risk moves rise to the top of the list.
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Roadmap
You receive a prioritised roadmap of AI initiatives, each with expected ROI, sequenced so one project sets up the next.
The first conversation is the same whether you end up with a full engagement or just a clearer plan.
Pricing
Start with an assessment, or the full engagement.
A short, fixed-price readiness assessment for organisations testing the water, or the full strategy engagement for a board-ready roadmap. Trusted across aged care, government, universities and peak bodies.
AI Readiness Assessment
$5,990fixed + GST
A scoped diagnostic and the natural first step: we review where you are today, scan for opportunity, and hand back a clear summary. Most organisations move straight into the strategy engagement from here.
- A current-state review of how AI is used or planned
- An opportunity scan across your operations
- A concise summary report with clear next steps
The first step into the AI Strategy Engagement. Third-party API and compute costs not included.
Book a discovery callAI Strategy Engagement
$12,000-$18,000fixed + GST
The full engagement: structured interviews turned into a prioritised, ROI-backed roadmap your leadership can take to the board. Priced by organisation size, from SMB and not-for-profit through to enterprise and government.
- Structured stakeholder interviews across leadership and teams
- A clear diagnosis of where AI fits, and where it does not
- Initiatives prioritised by value, effort, and risk
- A prioritised AI roadmap with expected ROI for each initiative
- A board-ready readout, ready to take to your board or funders
Third-party API and compute costs not included.
Book a discovery callBook a discovery call
Get a roadmap you can act on.
Start with a short discovery call. We will talk through your goals, confirm the scope, and map out your AI strategy engagement.