Map the payoff
We map where AI genuinely pays off across the business: not where it’s fashionable, where it pays.
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AI strategy & roadmaps.
A plan you can fund and staff, built on proof.
Start with one job. Prove AI pays. Keep your clients’ data safe.
Your 12-month AI roadmap: what comes first, what waits, and why
A Korbai AI roadmap is a 12-month plan built on what the Audit finds: where AI pays first in your business, what waits and why, and what isn’t worth doing yet, with every step something you can fund and staff.
The Audit Start here
First move Best return for the effort
Next move Proven before the next
What waits And why
Review Revisited as the landscape moves
Not now The not-worth-it list: things we’d skip for now
- One proven step at a time
- Your clients’ data stays safe
- Where AI won’t pay, I’ll tell you
Who this is for
Who is an AI roadmap for?
An AI roadmap is for leadership teams being asked “what’s our AI plan?” in established Sydney construction, property and professional services firms with 5 to 100 staff, where the experiments are ad hoc, the opinions are plentiful, and nobody’s sequenced it into something the business can commit to. If governance is on the agenda too, we cover whether you still need AI governance.
“Paul spent a day with us, talking to the people who actually do each part of the job and looking at our real systems and cases on screen-share. The roadmap gave us a clear plan. It shows where AI should help first, what the tools we already pay for can do, and the fixes that don’t need AI at all, with every item priced on its own. It starts with the priority I’d named myself - Paul was an excellent listener and business strategist.”
What does an AI strategy involve?
Put a number on it
The best opportunities get a number each, so the roadmap is ordered by the evidence.
Sequence the roadmap
A 12-month roadmap ordered by return and effort: what comes first, what waits, and why.
Name what’s not worth it
And we’re straight about the other side: the list of things not worth doing yet.
Deliverables
What do you get from an AI roadmap?
The roadmap itself
Sequenced, staffed, fundable. A plan the business can genuinely commit to.
The business case behind each step
Every move on the roadmap carries its own reasoning, so funding decisions don’t rest on faith.
The not-worth-it list
The things we’d skip for now, and why. Knowing what to ignore is half the strategy.
A plan that gets reviewed
Revisited as the landscape moves. Not printed and forgotten.
One method
How does an AI strategy project run?
It starts with the Audit: fixed fee, fixed window. The Audit proves where AI pays first; the roadmap sequences what comes after into something you can fund and staff.
The Korbai Method is the path we follow together: Audit, Build, Train, Partner. This 12-month roadmap is the written plan you keep.
Paul Korber, ex-Microsoft AI, runs every engagement and stays your one point of contact. On the Audit, one of our technical partners, Nofil Khan or Lindsey Crowe, checks what’s buildable: technical feasibility and rough effort on the shortlisted workflows. Meet the team
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Audit: Find where AI pays first
Fixed fee, fixed window
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Build: Prove one workflow
First workflow live in weeks
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Train: Your team runs it
Checked again after 30 days
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Partner: Keep it on track
Ongoing, with regular check-ins
Questions we get asked
Do we need a strategy before automating anything?
No. That's backwards. Prove one workflow first, then sequence the rest. That's why a roadmap starts with the Audit. If you already know exactly what you want built, you may not need a roadmap yet.
Is an AI roadmap just consulting slideware?
No. A Korbai roadmap is built on the Audit's proven number, and every step on it is something you can fund and staff. You leave with decisions you can act on.
How far ahead does an AI roadmap plan?
About twelve months, reviewed as things move. A plan that can't flex when your business or the tools change isn't a plan.
We've already started with AI. Is that a problem?
Not at all. The roadmap starts from what you've already tried, then sorts what scales, what stays, and what stops.
Do you run an AI readiness assessment before the roadmap?
Yes, and there are two versions of it. The free one takes about three minutes: the AI Readiness Score rates your business across five dimensions and tells you which is weakest, which is usually enough to know whether an AI roadmap is your next step or whether something more basic is. The paid version is the Audit, which goes into your actual workflows and puts a number on where AI pays first. The roadmap is built on that number rather than on a questionnaire.
Can't we just use a free AI strategy template?
You can, and it's a reasonable place to start. A template gives you the headings, but it can't tell you which jobs in your business pay first, or what to leave alone. That takes someone looking at how your business actually runs and putting a number on the best opportunities. That's what the Audit does, and the roadmap is built on what it finds.
Get started
Not sure where to begin?
Book a discovery call. Bring the state of play, and we’ll tell you honestly whether a roadmap is the right next step.