A Quarter That Proves Value—Not Hype

A focused ninety-day cadence is long enough to deliver measurable outcomes and short enough to keep urgency high. Instead of chasing a grand redesign, you pick one workflow with real volume and a single business metric that matters—time to resolution, lead response time, error rate—and you ship a production pilot with guardrails. Credibility comes from rhythm: the same KPIs, shown weekly, with real examples and a clear cost-to-run.

What to do (Day 1–30: Discover):

• Shadow the real work; time steps and identify failure points and handoffs.

• Choose one high-volume process with a clear success metric.

• Fix obvious data hygiene issues (duplicates, missing fields) before automating.

• Define “Definition of Done” and the baseline you’ll beat.

What to do (Day 31–60: Pilot):

• Integrate with tools people already use (Slack, CRM, Calendar).

• Add guardrails: logging, human-in-the-loop for low confidence, escalation paths.

• Demo weekly; publish the same metric snapshot every time.

• Capture edge cases and label errors for fast iteration.

What to do (Day 61–90: Scale):

• Remove manual checkpoints that no longer add value.

• Harden integrations with retries, rate limits, and alerting.

• Document ownership, SLAs, and rollback steps.

• Present a one-page ROI: baseline vs. pilot, hours saved, cost to run, next steps.