The gap between "we should be doing something with AI" and “we’re getting a return on our AI projects” can feel like a chasm. This toolkit is built to bridge that divide.
It's three worksheets designed to take business leaders from a vague sense that AI could help to a specific opportunity with a documented process and a business case they can defend. Each worksheet does a distinct job. Together, they give you the full picture.
AI Opportunity Planning Worksheet helps you surface and prioritize your best AI opportunities. It starts with your business priorities, works through the areas where AI tends to create the most value, and ends with your top three opportunities ranked by impact and feasibility.
Business Process Mapping Worksheet takes your top opportunity and documents how it actually works today: who does the work, where they get the information, what judgment calls they make, and where the data lives. This is the step that determines whether an AI project can even be built.
AI Project Definition and ROI Worksheet builds the business case. It defines the project in plain language, establishes your cost baseline, helps you quantify growth benefits, and calculates a first-year ROI estimate.
Work through all three in sequence and you'll walk out knowing exactly what to build, what it involves, and whether it's worth the investment.

"We anticipate a 50% time savings for our customer service staff — allowing them to focus on more critical and strategic tasks and scale to meet new business needs more quickly."

Fred White
Co-Founder, Rent Securely
"A task that once took 15 minutes of manual work per job is now automated and runs in under 30 seconds, positioning us to handle larger clients and increasing volumes with ease."

Brian Luskey
VP of Product, Design & Engineering, RealWork
"The business impact was immediate and significant. By partnering with Tech 42, we avoided the cost and time of building this capability in-house — a process that would have required significant research investment. The solution was delivered in a fraction of the time it would have taken us, representing a meaningful cost reduction. Just as importantly, this project directly enabled us to meet the contractual requirements of our client deployment, allowing us to deliver on what we promised."

Armando Monroy
Chief Information Security Officer, Treatment Technologies & Insights
This worksheet is part of Tech 42's free guide: How to Know That Your AI Initiative Will Actually Pay Off