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Artificial Intelligence promises transformative value for enterprises, but achieving success requires more than technology alone.

The failure rate

7085%

of AI projects miss their expected outcomes

An estimated 70-85% of AI projects fail to meet their expected outcomes due to a rush to implement without fully appreciating internal and external limiters. Our pre-transformation analysis utilizes rigorous computational social science methodologies to systematically diagnose these constraints before deployment resources are allocated.

The paradigm

The Pre-Transformation Paradigm

Many corporate AI initiatives struggle due to a premature implementation focus that overlooks organizational readiness. As a human-AI native strategy partner, empakt applies The Sensemakers AI Strategy Framework to guide enterprise deployment. This quantitative approach balances qualitative insights with data-driven scoring to ensure that AI projects are treated as managed strategic initiatives rather than risky, speculative ventures.

Three concepts, one score.

The evaluation framework assesses three core concepts to prioritize areas where AI is most likely to succeed and add value.

The AI Scorecard Matrix

0/301AI Fitness0/402AI Readiness0/303AI ROI Likelihood

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01Is this the right fit?

AI Fitness

Evaluates an organization's environmental context against potential use cases to determine if a given business problem is suited for AI. By analyzing task complexity and data availability, executives gain a multi-parametric score to prioritize cases with the highest chance of success.

  • Data Availability
  • Task Complexity
  • AI Technique Maturity

Execution methodology

The DIVE methodology.

From initial analysis to execution, the framework offers an optional roadmap to accelerate learning and disciplined enterprise-wide adoption.

Step 01

D

Discovery

Identify and scope AI opportunities aligned with strategic goals.

Step 02

I

Insights

Deep-dive analysis of data, readiness, and feasibility factors.

Step 03

V

Validation

Rapid experimentation and hypothesis testing to prove value.

Step 04

E

Execution

Disciplined implementation tracked against measurable outcomes.

Under the hood

Robust scoring methodologies.

The AI Strategy Framework combines qualitative insights with quantitative data-driven scoring to guide decision-making.

Logarithmic Scaling

Uses logarithmic scales for certain metrics to normalise wide-ranging data (such as very large data volumes or user counts) so that one factor doesn't skew the overall results.

Probabilistic Scenario Modeling

Incorporates probabilistic models to account for uncertainty in projections. Rather than relying on single-point estimates, it evaluates scenarios across best-case, expected, and worst-case outcomes.

What you get

Strategic benefits.

01

Strategic Alignment

Ensures AI initiatives align directly with business strategy, so each project targets high-impact areas and solves meaningful problems.

02

Resource Optimisation

Enables better prioritization by focusing capital and engineering resources on initiatives that are technically feasible and likely to generate strong returns.

03

Risk Mitigation

Flags capability gaps, data weaknesses, and potential pitfalls early, helping to avoid underprepared projects and unrealistic expectations, thereby reducing the risk of failure.

The Sensemakers

Decision Making Clarity

AI Practice Powered by The Sensemakers

A concise yet comprehensive toolkit that turns AI from a risky venture into a managed strategic initiative.

Human-AI Native Strategy
Roop Bhadury

Roop Bhadury

The Sensemakers

The platform

Birbal AI

Providing enterprise knowledge and intelligence for business and IT delivery.

Birbal is Ai enabled tool which turns fragmented enterprise knowledge into connected, reusable intelligence - helping teams discover evidence, understand dependencies and make better decisions across the business and software development lifecycle.

From fragmented knowledge to reusable intelligence

Step 01

Connect

Business capabilities, architecture, processes and operational evidence.

Enterprise knowledge

Step 02

Understand

Relationships, dependencies, gaps and impacts.

Enterprise reasoning

Step 03

Act

Generate governed requirements, designs, processes and decisions.

Enterprise outcomes

Birbal enables discovery, quicker decisions and better-quality artefacts required to deliver projects, efficiently.

Birbal dashboard: businesses, searches, assistants and agents available across the workspace
Dashboard - connected knowledge across the estate

What makes Birbal different?

Evidence-driven

Decisions remain grounded in enterprise source material.

Context-aware

Knowledge and decisions persist across teams, projects and lifecycle stages.

Dependency-aware

Birbal connects business capabilities, processes, systems and architecture to expose downstream impact.

Reusable by design

Validated knowledge is structured once and reused instead of repeatedly reconstructed.

Context engineering

Intelligence without the context overhead.

Birbal manages context before the LLM call - retrieving, structuring and compressing only what is relevant.

  • Faster discovery
  • Less rework
  • Earlier risk visibility
  • 25-40% fewer tokens through knowledge reuse
Birbal usage overview: organisation-wide token consumption, LLM calls and knowledge metrics
Usage overview - token consumption tracked per organisation

Birbal tracks token usage so you stay in control and get maximum value from AI.

Birbal assistant viewer: an agentic requirements-analysis flow with human-in-the-loop run status
Assistant flow - governed, human-in-the-loop by design

How Birbal is different from other AI productivity tools.

Most AI assistants optimise individual tasks. Birbal optimises enterprise decisions, with outputs governed.

It connects knowledge across teams and projects, preserves enterprise context, surfaces hidden dependencies and governs how outputs are created and reused.

The Birbal advantage

Team collaborationEnterprise contextOutput governance

From faster individual work to better enterprise outcomes.

Birbal benefits

More productive teams. More predictable delivery.

Speed

~35%

faster discovery

Quality

~30%

less rework

Predictability

~20%

fewer milestone delays

Discover once. Connect once. Reuse continuously.

Birbal AI works alongside the human, and the human takes control as needed. Teams remain engaged and own the output - which is what makes AI adoption, and its benefits, actually stick.

Birbal transforms enterprise knowledge from passive documentation into an active decision-making asset.

Lokendra

Lokendra

Birbal AI

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