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Five decisions that turn an AI idea list into a plan
Decide & Govern


AI OpportunityPortfolio Assessment
Portfolio assessment fits when AI ideas compete for funding and each needs an evidence-backed pursue, test, park, or reject decision with an owner.


AI Business Case& ROI Modeling
Build the business case when strategy needs a finance-approved baseline, credible non-AI alternative, explicit assumptions, and downside-to-upside return scenarios.


AI TransformationRoadmap
The roadmap fits accepted priorities that still need dependency-ordered waves across data, governance, people, and delivery, each with an investment gate.


AI OperatingModel Design
Operating-model design fits when AI strategy stalls between funding, delivery, review, operation, and value ownership because decision rights and handoffs are unclear.


AI Vendor, Model& Platform Selection
Select vendors, models, or platforms when strategy has a real shortlist and needs representative tests, weighted constraints, unsupported-claim tracking, and accepted trade-offs.
Why it matters
A list of pilots leaves the hard choices undone
Scattered pilots compete for the same budget, often without a shared view of value, evidence, dependencies, or risk. We put the choices on the table, including the ideas that need to wait or stop.
How we work
Put the business decision before the technology
We work from the outcome, the current workflow, your constraints, and the strongest non-AI alternative. Every recommendation keeps its assumptions, evidence, owner, and next investment gate attached.
Scope and ownership
The business decision comes before the technology, and waiting is a legitimate answer
Every recommendation keeps its assumptions, evidence, owner, and next investment gate attached to it.
Business owners set out the outcomes, current AI activity, workflows, data and technology constraints, and who holds authority over the resulting choices; each candidate is then examined for value, feasibility, evidence, user impact, risk, and the strongest available non-AI alternative. Zeo orders the dependent work — pilots, data and integration work, governance controls, operating responsibilities, measurement plans — around the dependencies teams will actually face, and records for every pilot the evidence it must produce, the conditions for stopping or scaling, and the person who makes the next funding call. Ideas that should wait or stop are named as such rather than left on a list.
How the shortlist earns funding
Establish the decision context
Business owners show us the outcomes, current AI activity, workflows, data and technology constraints, and who has authority over the resulting choices.
Put the candidates side by side
Each use case is examined for value, feasibility, evidence, user impact, risk, and the strongest available non-AI alternative.
Order the dependent work
Pilots, data and integration work, governance controls, operating responsibilities, and measurement plans are arranged around the dependencies teams will actually face.
Agree what earns the next decision
For every pilot, we record the evidence it must produce, the conditions for stopping or scaling, and the person who makes the next funding call.
Inside our own team
Five Zeo consultants on what AI is changing in their work
Every operational consultant at Zeo has secure LLM access and training, and AI sits inside the daily work. Five of them came through our AI Bootcamp and wrote down what they expect it to change.
Selected AI sessions
Talks from Digitalzone
Three speakers look at the pace of AI change and what it means for e-commerce and content teams.
People who ship the AI systems they advise on
Agents, chatbots, and RAG systems at Zeo are built by senior engineers who keep operating them after launch. The consultants below are those builders, matched to the work this page covers.
Tools we use
The AI engineering stack behind the work
Models, retrieval, evaluation and observability are separate layers of a working system. These are the ones we build and operate on.
Models and cloud platforms
- OpenAIAI Vendor, Model & Platform Selection and AI Opportunity Portfolio Assessment both include OpenAI as a real candidate, not a recommendation by default, tested against the same business-value, feasibility, cost, and risk criteria the hero says each idea has to earn its place through.
- AnthropicAnthropic gives AI Vendor, Model & Platform Selection a materially different candidate from OpenAI on model behavior, safety posture, and context handling, which is what keeps the strategy from collapsing into a one-vendor assumption before the comparison has actually run.
- Google GeminiAI Vendor, Model & Platform Selection includes Gemini when the client's current Google stack or multimodal use case could change the platform decision, keeping the comparison tied to the organization's real environment rather than a generic leaderboard.
- Microsoft Azure AIAI Vendor, Model & Platform Selection compares Azure AI as a platform choice, not only a model endpoint, because an organization's existing identity, networking, procurement, and support path can outweigh a small benchmark advantage from another provider.
- Amazon Web ServicesFor an AWS-native client, AI Vendor, Model & Platform Selection and AI Operating Model Design both assess whether the best path is extending the existing environment rather than adding a separate platform the team has to procure, secure, and support from scratch.
- Meta LlamaAI Vendor, Model & Platform Selection includes Llama when ownership, self-hosting, or deeper customization matters enough to justify operating the model, giving the strategy a genuinely different path from another hosted API contract.
- NVIDIA AIWhen AI Vendor, Model & Platform Selection considers self-hosting, NVIDIA's serving stack is the cost and operating dependency AI Business Case & ROI Modeling has to put beside the model's apparent licensing advantage before recommending that path.
- Mistral AIAI Vendor, Model & Platform Selection includes Mistral when data residency, European procurement, or avoiding concentration in one US provider changes the decision, giving the strategy a candidate with both hosted and deployable model paths.
- CohereAI Vendor, Model & Platform Selection includes Cohere when the use-case portfolio leans toward enterprise retrieval and private knowledge systems, giving the comparison a specialist candidate rather than only general-purpose model providers.
- NotionAcross AI Opportunity Portfolio Assessment, AI Transformation Roadmap, and AI Operating Model Design, Notion is where the strategy's actual decision record lives: each candidate, assumption, dependency, owner, and condition for the next gate, kept open after the workshop ends.
- AirtableThe page's process step, put the candidates side by side, is implemented in Airtable: one row per use case with the same value, feasibility, evidence, risk, owner, and dependency columns, so the prioritization isn't a collection of incomparable slides.
Agent and automation frameworks
- Artificial AnalysisAI Vendor, Model & Platform Selection uses Artificial Analysis to narrow the candidate set against an independent market baseline before spending client time on custom tasks, while AI Business Case & ROI Modeling uses its price and latency data as a sanity check on the operating assumptions in the investment case.
Gateways and hosted inference
- OpenRouterAI Vendor, Model & Platform Selection uses OpenRouter to narrow a long model list with the client's own representative tasks before deeper diligence begins, avoiding a separate integration project for every provider considered.
Evaluation and observability
- BraintrustAI Vendor, Model & Platform Selection runs shortlisted candidates through Braintrust against one fixed set of representative tasks, which keeps the choice tied to comparable evidence instead of each vendor's strongest curated demo.
- HeliconeAI Business Case & ROI Modeling and AI Vendor, Model & Platform Selection both need the chosen model's real operating cost and latency, and Helicone supplies those measured inputs rather than a vendor's headline price alone.
Data, labeling and development
- JupyterAI Business Case & ROI Modeling uses Jupyter to keep the investment case's cost, adoption, and benefit assumptions explicit, then reruns the outcome under different scenarios so a leader can see what the recommendation depends on before funding it.
Next step
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