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Scope your AI projectsbefore investing.

We help your teams turn AI ideas into clear decisions: prioritized use cases, technical feasibility, risks, costs, required data, and execution plan. By the end of the scoping, you know what to launch, what to postpone, and what to discard.

Scoping Methodology
2 – 4 weeks
01
UnderstandPain points, processes, costs
02
InventoryUse cases, groupings
03
AssessImpact, feasibility, data
04
PrioritizeLaunch, defer, abandon
05
Scope the PilotScope, budget, metrics
10+cases analyzed
4pilots selected
1 deliverablefor decision-making
Principles

Before launching an AI project.

A good AI project doesn’t start with choosing a model. It starts with a clear problem, available data, and a decision to be made.

01

Start with the business

We begin with tasks, pain points, volumes, costs, and business decisions. AI is only considered if it provides a tangible benefit over a simpler solution.

02

Assess feasibility

Available data, expected quality, IT constraints, security, costs, integration, and operations. Each use case is evaluated before being launched.

03

Prioritize without leniency

Some topics deserve a pilot. Others must be postponed or abandoned. The framework also helps avoid unnecessary AI projects.

Method

What we deploy.

AI framing must intersect business, product, technical, security, and operational aspects. Not just model comparison.

Business analysis

  • Business interviews
  • Process mapping
  • Volumes & pain points
  • Current costs
  • Success criteria

Product & UX

  • User journeys
  • Human validation
  • Rejection rules
  • User feedback
  • Internal adoption

AI engineering

  • Proprietary or open-source LLMs
  • RAG & augmented search
  • OCR & extraction
  • Agents & workflows
  • Quality evaluation

IT systems & compliance

  • Available data
  • Access rights
  • Hosting
  • GDPR & security
  • Runtime costs
The deliverable isn’t a vague presentation. It’s a decision-making foundation: which projects to launch, with what architecture, budget, risks, and success criteria.
Example

Example — AI use case portfolio.

A business unit comes with a dozen AI ideas: internal assistant, report generation, incoming request automation, document extraction, sales scoring. The scoping helps sort the topics, discard false good ideas, and define priority pilots.

Business unit · Mid-sized industrial companyScoping example

Cross-functional AI scoping

Business workshops, analysis of available data, impact/feasibility scoring, cost estimation, risk identification, architecture recommendations, and pilot plan.

WorkshopsPrioritizationArchitectureCostsRoadmap
18analyzed use cases
4prioritized pilots
3 weeksto obtain an actionable roadmap
7 topics discarded before any development.
Method

A project in five stages

A dedicated team from scoping to delivery with a dedicated project manager

01Understand

The real pain points.

Interviews, processes, repetitive tasks, current costs, tools used, breaking points. We start from the field, not from a list of abstract ideas.

02Inventory

The use cases.

Grouping ideas, clarifying objectives, removing duplicates, formulating testable use cases.

03Evaluate

Impact, feasibility, risks.

Each topic is scored using the same criteria: business value, available data, technical complexity, cost, security, adoption, operations.

04Prioritize

Launch, postpone, abandon.

We distinguish between quick wins, structural topics, high-risk projects, and false good ideas. Not everything deserves a pilot.

05Frame the pilot

Scope, cost, criteria.

For selected topics: target architecture, scope, timeline, budget, risks, success metrics, and next steps.

Why

Why frame before launching.

An AI project can fail for the wrong reasons: missing data, underestimated costs, vague use cases, overlooked security, or lack of metrics. Framing helps identify these issues before development.

01

Avoid false good subjects

Not all use cases justify AI. Some are better addressed with classic automation, UX improvements, or a better business tool.

02

Estimate the true cost

Cost isn’t limited to the prototype. It must include model integration, hosting, connectors, monitoring, maintenance, and usage volumes.

03

Verify the data

No good assistant without accessible, reliable, and properly governed data. Framing checks what truly exists.

04

Decide quickly

In the end, each topic gets a decision: launch a pilot, deepen the analysis, postpone, or abandon. Framing reduces uncertainty before investment.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

The most common questions we get during framing. If yours isn’t here, reach out to us!

Typically between two and four weeks, depending on the number of use cases, the teams involved, and the expected technical depth.

Prioritization of use cases, feasibility analysis, cost estimation, key risks, data prerequisites, and a pilot plan for selected topics.

No. The model selection comes after defining the use case, data, security constraints, and expected quality criteria.

Yes. That’s the point of framing: to compare several options using the same criteria to avoid pursuing the most appealing idea rather than the most useful one.

We assess business impact, technical feasibility, data availability, risk, cost, timeline, IT dependencies, and the ability to measure success.

Yes. That’s a valid and healthy conclusion. If a simple automation, business rule, or product improvement suffices, it’s better to identify that before launching an AI pilot.

Yes. The framing can lead to a pilot, an AI assistant, automation, or a RAG architecture. But the deliverable must remain actionable even if your teams take over afterward.

Business leaders, CIOs, innovation teams, product teams, or executives with multiple AI ideas who need to decide which ones deserve investment.
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Contact details
contact@agence-scroll.com
+33 6 48 03 90 27
20 Rue des Taillandiers
75011 Paris
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