JamesPratt.com/Practical AI Snapshot

  • $750

Practical AI Snapshot

Get a first map before choosing AI tools

AI decisions can get confusing when there is pressure to choose tools, train the team, automate workflows, or move because others are already moving.

The Practical AI Snapshot helps your organisation slow down, understand the mahi, identify safe AI opportunities, and name what needs care before moving further.

✅ Review current AI use

✅ Identify safe opportunities

✅ Name what needs care

✅ Choose one right-sized next step

Start with the mahi

Map first, choose tools later

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Practical AI Snapshot?

  • The Practical AI Snapshot is a focused first map to help your organisation decide what to do next with AI, safely and practically.

  • It helps clarify current AI use, safe opportunities, areas needing care, and first practical priorities before you commit to tools, training, automation, implementation, or a deeper diagnostic.

What do we get?

  • You get:

    • a pre-snapshot form

    • a 60 to 75 minute Snapshot kōrero / talanoa by Microsoft Teams

    • a short Practical AI Snapshot report

    • a suggested next pathway

    • an optional follow-up kōrero / talanoa to walk through the report

Who is this for?

  • This is for Māori, Pacific, and values-led organisations exploring AI carefully.

  • It is useful for small teams, charities, community organisations, purpose-led businesses, and leaders who want clarity before choosing tools, training, automation, implementation, or a full AI Health Check.

Is this an audit?

  • No. It is not an audit, compliance review, full diagnostic, proposal, or implementation plan.

  • It is a practical first map to help your organisation understand where things stand, what needs care, and what next step makes sense.

How is this different from the AI Health Check?

  • The Practical AI Snapshot is shorter, lighter, and high-level.

  • The AI Health Check is a fuller governance-grade diagnostic with deeper discovery, wider analysis, prioritised recommendations, and a 90-day roadmap.

Do we need to already be using AI?

  • No. The Snapshot is useful whether you are not using AI yet, using it informally, or starting to explore wider use.

  • It can also help identify whether now is the right time to pause, prepare, or get the basics right first.

Who should attend the Snapshot kōrero / talanoa?

  • For a small team, one to three people is usually enough.

  • For a larger organisation, two to four people is usually best.

  • A useful mix may include a senior leader, someone close to operations or admin, and someone close to delivery, reporting, communications, technology, privacy, or governance.

What should we prepare?

  • Please complete the pre-snapshot form and bring high-level notes on your main pressures, current systems, workflows, AI questions, and areas needing care.

  • General descriptions are enough.

Can we include sensitive client, staff, cultural, or governance information?

  • Not through the standard online form or cloud process.

  • Please do not share sensitive client information, private staff information, confidential documents, culturally protected material, Māori or Pacific IP, detailed governance material, passwords, or private records.

  • If sensitive material is central to the work, we will agree a safer process separately.

Will the session be recorded?

  • With your consent, and if it fits your organisation’s policies, I may record the kōrero / talanoa so I can prepare accurate notes.

  • The recording is only used to prepare the Snapshot report.

What do we receive afterwards?

  • You receive a short Practical AI Snapshot report summarising what I heard, where AI or digital systems may safely help, what needs care, and what the first useful priorities could be.

  • The report will also suggest the most suitable next pathway, if any.

Do we have to proceed with paid support afterwards?

  • No. No action yet is a valid outcome.

  • The Snapshot is designed to help you make a clearer decision, not pressure you into a larger project.

Can you implement the recommendations for us?

  • Possibly, if there is a clear fit and safe scope.

  • Implementation is not included in the Practical AI Snapshot. If support is useful, the next step may be an AI Systems Consult, AI Health Check, support block, or a separately scoped piece of work.

Do you offer refunds?

  • Refunds are not available once the Snapshot kōrero / talanoa has been delivered.

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