Make AI your advantage. In four weeks.
Cut through the noise, understand where your organisation really stands, and create an AI plan you can execute with confidence.
Know where AI can create value for you, what it costs, who owns it, and what to do first.
Remote or on site · Delivered by a CTO with 20+ years' experience
Dane Eldridge
Founder, StackUp
The problem
Consequential AI decisions, made without an independent picture
Leadership teams are often asked to make consequential AI decisions without an independent picture of where their organisation stands. The Sprint cuts through the noise: we measure and benchmark where you are, and provide a senior, independent CTO with 20+ years of technology leadership experience to support your leadership team in designing the plan. Working with them, not reporting to them.
Strategy
Where you are actually trying to win, and where AI creates real value, not just theatre.
Process
Effective, simple processes to support your success: how projects get approved, how decisions are reviewed, how you stay ahead.
Skills
The AI skills across your organisation, and whether the right training is in place to make effective AI decisions.
Every Sprint examines your organisation through these three lenses.
How it runs
Assess. Align. Commit.
Four weeks to a plan your leadership team has committed to, then a month of executive support while it gets underway.
Opening alignment session. AI maturity and technology assessments run across your organisation and leadership team, benchmarked against other organisations.
One-to-one leadership interviews, then two working sessions that lift your team's AI knowledge and build its judgement against its own evidence.
Decisions made, roadmap agreed, owners named. Your team leaves with a plan it has committed to.
Executive support. Your CTO stays close as your team puts the plan into action, building momentum and confidence, and closing with a checkpoint on what you have achieved.
Per leader, across the four weeks. The platform does the discovery work that would otherwise be extracted from your team in workshops.
Of StackUp platform access included, so the roadmap stays live and measurable well beyond the engagement.
What you receive
The AI Leadership Pack
Ten working artefacts, built with your leadership team and handed over for continued use. These are not slides. They are operating documents you will still be using long after the engagement is over.
- 01AI Maturity Benchmark Report
Scored across every dimension, benchmarked against other organisations.
- 02Tech Health Benchmark Report
The state of the technology function underneath the ambition.
- 03Leadership AI Skills Profile
AI skills across your leadership team, individually and collectively.
- 04AI & Shadow AI Discovery
What AI is already in use across your organisation, by whom, with what data.
- 05Decision Rights & Ownership Model
Who decides what, who is accountable for AI outputs, and what escalates.
- 06AI Guardrails & Acceptable Use Policy
What AI may do, what data it may touch, where human oversight is mandatory.
- 07AI Project Evaluation Framework
A repeatable scorecard and gate applied before anything goes live.
- 08Skills & Resourcing Plan
What you actually need next: hire, train, buy, or partner.
- 09Prioritised AI Roadmap
Sequenced and prioritised, with a named owner against every item.
- 10Board Pack & 90 Day Plan
The summary your CEO takes to the board, plus the actions, owners and risks that follow.
Who delivers it
A senior, independent CTO. Not a consultant with a template.
Sprints are delivered by senior technology leaders from our independent network, matched to your industry and situation. They are independent of StackUp, which is precisely the point.
Of technology leadership experience, every engagement
Technology leaders in our independent network
Across Australia, the UK, the US and beyond
The next step is a fit call, not a pitch. A 30-minute call to meet the right CTO, at no cost and no obligation. If the chemistry isn't right, we will propose someone else.
Investment
Two delivery formats
The engagement is the same in both. Each includes the full artefact pack, 30 days of executive support, and 12 months of the StackUp platform so the roadmap stays live.
AUD, plus GST
Every session delivered remotely over video, across the four weeks plus 30 days of support.
AUD, plus GST and travel
The same engagement, with sessions delivered in person at your premises rather than over video.
Pricing scales with organisation size. Payment is 50% on signing and 50% on completion. Travel and accommodation for on-site engagements are additional and agreed before booking.
Where the Sprint sits
Foundation. Momentum. Advantage.
The Sprint is the first stage. What follows is a decision you make at the checkpoint, with evidence in front of you, not a commitment you make now.
Foundation
Measure where you are, build your leadership team's AI skills, and agree a roadmap your executives own.
Momentum
Execute against the roadmap with your CTO still involved, so the thinking moves from the sessions into how the team operates.
Advantage
Re-measured every quarter. Advantage accumulates as skills and evidence build on each other.
Questions
Frequently asked
Find out whether the Sprint is right for you
A 30-minute fit call with the CTO we believe suits your situation. No cost, no obligation, and no pitch.