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description: Four tools that do real arithmetic on your own numbers. A department business case, a build capacity model, a governance sizer, and a scoper.
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# Work it out yourself before you call anyone.

Four tools written for operators. Each one gives you an answer rather than a download, and you are welcome to take any of it and run with it without ever speaking to us.

Work it out yourself

## Four tools that give you an answer, not a download.

### Scope it yourself

Six or seven plain questions about where you and your teams are, what is still open, and what you are attempting. It names the one or two things we would genuinely propose, in the order we would do them.

[Start the scoper](https://sterlingnorth.partners/scope?hsLang=en)

### Size the firepower

Six questions about the initiatives waiting to be built: what the queue is worth every month it sits there, how many builders your target rate needs, and the gap to what you have on it today.

[Size it](https://sterlingnorth.partners/go-faster#go-faster-firepower)

### Define your ambition

Eight questions on what you have proved so far, how AI is governed today, how far you want to take it and what you expect to spend getting there. It comes back with the distance between those two and the lightest structure that would carry it, including when that structure is nothing.

[Work it out](https://sterlingnorth.partners/stay-in-control#stay-in-control-ambition)

### The case for your department

Eight questions about one team, nine if the work follows a pattern, and a value case you could take into a budget conversation: the hours at stake, what they are worth a month, and how much more the company could take on if that department is the bottleneck.

[Build the case](https://sterlingnorth.partners/keep-up#keep-up-case)

## Or just talk it through.

Thirty minutes, and you leave with the situation named and a first step, whether or not you ever run one of the tools above.

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- [Scope it yourself](https://sterlingnorth.partners/scope?hsLang=en)
- [The case for your department](https://sterlingnorth.partners/keep-up#keep-up-case)
- [Size the firepower](https://sterlingnorth.partners/go-faster#go-faster-firepower)
- [Define your ambition](https://sterlingnorth.partners/stay-in-control#stay-in-control-ambition)

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