Make product and AI decisions that hold up in practice.
Set product priorities and AI plans around user needs, operating requirements, and measurable outcomes.
Discuss a challenge ↗What should the team build, buy, pilot, or stop?
BERGTEC ASSOCIATES / ADVISORY
Put a decision owner at every handoff.
A useful AI pilot defines the work, the system’s role, human review, and what happens when an output cannot be used as-is.
Work and data
Define the task, acceptable inputs, and intended user.
AI-supported task
Produce a draft, analysis, or recommendation within that scope.
Human judgment
Check quality, context, and whether the output supports a decision.
Action and feedback
Approve, revise, or stop. Record what the pilot teaches the team.
Uncertain, sensitive, or out-of-scope output goes to a named owner for review before use.
Illustrative workflow. Responsibilities and controls depend on the use case and pilot.
Which user problem should take priority?
Which requests belong in the product, and which should wait?
Where would AI change a real workflow, rather than only improve a demo?
What should be built internally, purchased, or handled with a partner?
What would make a pilot worth expanding, revising, or stopping?
What the work can involve
We examine user needs, product usage and feedback, technical architecture, workflow steps, information sources, and operating constraints. We can help define product positioning, set roadmap priorities, assess a solution approach, select AI use cases, and design a limited pilot.
For AI initiatives, the plan identifies data and access needs, review responsibilities, exceptions, success measures, and the decision at the end of the pilot.
What you can take away
- Product strategy or decision brief
- Prioritized roadmap and rationale
- Build-versus-buy assessment
- AI use-case assessment
- Pilot scope, measures, responsibilities, and review points
When this is useful
This work fits teams facing competing product requests, a new AI opportunity, a change in customer needs, or a pilot that has attracted interest but lacks a clear path to adoption.
From AI idea to operating value
Choose a use case, measure its place in the workflow, and assign responsibility.
Select work the team can operate and review.
Tie the pilot to a workflow owner and result.
Set review and decision rights before scaling.
Bring us the difficult decision.
Tell us what you are building and what needs to happen next.
