Know where the company stands, where AI can create value, and what to do next.
When tools, pilots, hiring plans, and vendor proposals compete for attention, leadership needs one evidence-backed basis for deciding what to fund, validate, defer, or decline. The Sextant AI Value Map turns operating evidence into a prioritized value-creation agenda and a practical route to action.
AI opportunity and readiness diagnostic
Representative Sextant output — fictional company and modeled assumptions.
Every company, number, and respondent shown in this demonstration is synthetic. It illustrates the shape of the decision experience Sextant produces, not a real client outcome.
Where Sextant fits
Sextant is not the whole engagement — it is the instrument for the first of three phases.
01
Discover
Determines where AI should create value. Sextant is the Discover-phase instrument — it maps operating evidence to a prioritized, defensible agenda before anything is funded.
You are here — this demo is Discover
02
Empower
Builds the ownership, skills, strategic vision, risk model, and adoption capacity to act on what Discover surfaces.
03
Build
Creates the technical capability that makes the prioritized opportunities real.
How Sextant works
Three steps, in order, from evidence to accountable action. All three run inside Discover — the phase this demo covers.
Map
Establish where the company stands. Compare leadership perception with operating evidence, and surface workflow, data, governance, technology, talent, and adoption constraints.
Decide
Prioritize three to five AI and workflow opportunities with modeled value ranges, assumptions, confidence, dependencies, and overlap. Each gets an explicit disposition: fund, validate, defer, or decline.
Mobilize
Translate advancing priorities into named owners, 30/60/90-day workplans, evidence gates, kill criteria, and a 30-day activation checkpoint.
How evidence flows
Three instruments feed one human-reviewed evidence base. Individual findings stay with the participant; leadership sees only the aggregate.
Every surface in this demonstration, grouped the way the navigation rail groups them. Two ways to walk it:
Every report is switchable between three demo companies — Helios Manufacturing, Vertex Workforce Analytics, Continental Capital Partners — and three sample respondents, from the picker inside each surface.
What happens, and what the company contributes, from kickoff to decision.
Day 0
60-minute executive kickoff to align scope, sponsors, and the priority questions the engagement should answer.
Days 1–21
A ~45-minute diagnostic of structured items and AI-scored skill assessments for general participants, up to 8 selected 45–60-minute AI-led interviews (roughly 90–105 minutes total for those interviewees), and a lightweight document pack review — all role-specific, not a blanket per-person time commitment.
Ongoing
~3–5 hours of internal coordinator admin time to schedule participants and route document requests.
Day 28
90-minute executive readout and decision session covering the prioritized opportunity agenda and dispositions.
Effort is role-specific — participants are not all asked for the same amount of time.
Trust & confidentiality
Individual participant outputs remain confidential. Management receives appropriately aggregated organizational findings — no individual diagnostic or interview response is shared upward.
Modeled value ranges with explicit assumptions and confidence — not guaranteed outcomes. Every economic figure in this demonstration carries its assumptions and confidence level alongside it.
Vocabulary
The four terms you need to read any surface here.
Pillars
The seven AI-readiness dimensions Sextant scores every company against.
Maturity scale
0–4 on every pillar: absent, ad hoc, defined, managed, optimized.
Drift Profile
The gap between how leadership perceives AI readiness and what the operating evidence shows.
Disposition
The explicit call on every prioritized opportunity: fund, validate, defer, or decline.
Σ-Score, Reallocation Map, Agent Architecture, and Archetype are defined where they first appear — full glossary in the Methodology.
Sextant by Areté IntelligenceRepresentative Sextant output — fictional company and modeled assumptions.