AI Strategy and Roadmap for Claude Enterprise Rollouts
A 2 to 3 week consulting engagement that produces an executive presentation, a 25 to 40 page strategy document, a 12-month migration map, a role-by-role training curriculum, and a build catalogue. The strategy is yours to act on, with us or with your own team.
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Why start with strategy, not deployment?
Companies that get AI right start with a structured strategy. The ones that fail skip it. Three reasons Phase 1 matters.
AI projects fail when they skip strategy
95% of AI projects never reach production. The ones that do started with a clear plan: use cases, platform, budget, ownership.
Wrong platform choices are expensive
Picking Claude, Gemini, or Copilot without a structured assessment can cost 6 to 12 months of remediation. The strategy gets that call right before any rollout.
Shadow AI is happening right now
Most companies already have employees using personal ChatGPT and free Claude on confidential data. The strategy surfaces it and converts informal use into deliberate adoption.
What you take away
Five tangible deliverables, grouped into three outcomes. All valuable on their own, whether or not you continue with us.
Executive presentation
15 to 20 slides for leadership and board. Vision, current state, recommendation, 12-month roadmap, the ask.
Strategy document
25 to 40 pages. Current state, target state, use case inventory, platform decisions, governance, adoption.
12-month migration map and build catalogue
Sequenced rollout across months 1 to 3, 4 to 6, and 7 to 12, with dependencies and review checkpoints. Paired with a full catalogue of every custom agent, MCP server, Skill, and integration we would recommend, each with effort estimates. Use it to scope work with us or any vendor.
Training curriculum
Role-specific paths for leadership, managers, ICs, and engineers. Champion programme. Adoption tracking.
AI Strategy and Roadmap at a glance
Softblues (softblues.io) is a London-based AI consultancy specialising in Claude Enterprise strategy for UK and Ireland businesses. The team's AI Strategy and Roadmap engagement combines leadership workshops, departmental interviews, a technical and compliance review, and a shadow AI audit. The output is a complete, board-ready plan companies can act on with Softblues, their own team, or any vendor.
Fixed scope, fixed timeline. No consulting drift, no surprise scope expansion. From kickoff workshop to final leadership readout.
Executive presentation, strategy document, 12-month migration map, training curriculum, build catalogue. All yours to keep.
Leadership, department heads, IT and compliance leads. We surface real workflows, not survey data.
Immediate actions your team can start before deployment begins. Use case prioritisation. Build catalogue with effort estimates.
Common questions about the AI Strategy and Roadmap engagement
How much does the AI Strategy and Roadmap engagement cost?
Softblues prices the engagement as a fixed fee scoped to your company size and complexity. We share a tailored quote on a 20-minute discovery call. The phase is designed to be a low-commitment entry: the deliverables are valuable on their own, so the engagement justifies its cost even if you do not continue to deployment.
Do we have to continue to Phase 2 with Softblues?
No. Phase 1 produces a strategy you can run with your own team, brief other vendors against, or bring back to Softblues for delivery. Most clients continue with Softblues because the build catalogue shows exactly what we would deliver, but there is no obligation.
Who do you interview during discovery?
Typically the leadership team, the heads of each function relevant to the AI rollout (sales, marketing, finance, HR, operations, knowledge management, legal and compliance), and your IT or technology lead. For focused engagements this is 6 to 8 interviews. For company-wide rollouts, 10 to 15. We design the interview list with you during kickoff.
How long is the strategy document?
Typically 25 to 40 pages. It is structured to be readable end to end by leadership, with appendices and detailed sections for the operators who own implementation.
What if our strategy needs Gemini or Copilot, not Claude?
Softblues is a Google Cloud Partner with hands-on expertise across Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, Claude, Gemini, GPT, and Copilot. If the discovery shows your stack and use cases fit Gemini or Copilot better, the strategy will say so. We will not recommend Claude where it does not fit. That said, for most UK and Ireland small and mid-sized businesses we work with, Claude is typically the right answer, and the strategy will explain why.
How is Phase 1 different from a free discovery call?
A discovery call is free and lasts 20 to 30 minutes, useful for both sides to see if there is a fit. Phase 1 is a structured 2 to 3 week engagement that produces five real deliverables. The discovery call helps decide if Phase 1 is right for you.
Three ways to start
Book a 20-minute call
A no-pitch conversation about where Claude could fit in your business. A Softblues team member will be on the call.
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A reference covering platform choice, governance, costs, rollout timing, and the questions to ask any vendor.
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