The Curve

Digital Transformation with AI

Build a clear roadmap to an AI-enabled future

Why Discovery Matters

Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform how organisations operate, from automating routine tasks to enabling smarter decision-making and creating entirely new ways of delivering value. But successful adoption goes beyond technology choices. It relies on high quality data, scalable and resilient infrastructure, skilled expertise, and a culture prepared to adapt and evolve.

AI delivers the most value when it’s woven into a broader transformation strategy. Our Digital Transformation with AI Discovery ensures that AI becomes a catalyst for change, tightly aligned with business priorities and supported by the processes, data, and capabilities needed for success. Together, we define a clear, phased plan to integrate AI where it drives the most impact - safely, responsibly, and at scale.

1 hour free initial consultation!

Understanding the Barriers

A discovery engagement isn’t about rushing to build AI solutions - it’s about laying the foundations for them to succeed. By uncovering the challenges, opportunities, and enablers across your organisation, we ensure AI is applied where it will create the greatest impact rather than simply for its own sake. This is the essential first step in building clarity, alignment, and confidence before investing in AI-driven initiatives.

During discovery, we focus on uncovering challenges such as:

Misaligned strategy and outcomes

AI investments often fail to deliver value if they’re not linked to clear business objectives. We ensure AI initiatives are tied directly to measurable outcomes; whether that’s productivity, efficiency, financial performance, innovation, or customer experience.

Data readiness and quality issues

AI relies on robust, well-governed data. We assess the quality, structure, and accessibility of your data to determine whether it can support AI models and decision-making.

Capability and skills gaps

Effective AI adoption depends on access to specialist expertise across data engineering, machine learning, governance, and ethics. We highlight where these capabilities are required and provide the support needed to deliver them, ensuring you have the right expertise in place at every stage.

Risk, compliance, and ethics considerations

Bias, explainability, regulatory requirements, and responsible AI usage are critical. Discovery helps you understand these risks and plan for how to manage them.

Security and privacy challenges

AI projects often involve sensitive data. We assess your current practices and outline what’s required to protect data integrity, privacy, and compliance in an AI enabled transformation journey.

Cultural and organisational readiness

AI adoption often changes how people work. Discovery surfaces potential resistance and highlights strategies for communication, training, and engagement.

Lack of a clear roadmap

Without a structured approach, AI initiatives risk remaining experimental or superficial. Discovery provides a phased plan - from early proofs of concept to organisation-wide deployment.

Our Discovery Journey

Our process is designed to help you move from uncertainty to clarity - building a shared understanding of how AI fits into your broader transformation journey and what’s needed to deliver impact. A typical Digital Transformation with AI discovery engagement covers:

Current State Assessment

We evaluate your existing digital maturity, including systems, processes, governance, and skills - to build a clear picture of where you are today.

Business Goals & Strategy Alignment

We work with key stakeholders to define the outcomes you’re aiming for (e.g. productivity, efficiency, financial performance, customer experience, innovation, etc) and identifying where AI can deliver the greatest value.

Challenges & Constraints

We surface the technical, organisational, and cultural barriers to AI adoption and broader transformation.

AI Readiness Assessment

We evaluate your data quality, infrastructure, governance, and internal capabilities to determine your readiness for AI.

Risk, Compliance & Ethics Review

We explore regulatory considerations, ethical implications, security, and privacy requirements to ensure AI adoption is responsible and trustworthy.

Capability & Skills Mapping

We evaluate your current capabilities and determine where additional expertise is needed, showing how we can supply the skills and structures required to support AI initiatives effectively.

Opportunities & Prioritisation

We identify potential initiatives and AI use cases, highlighting “quick wins” as well as strategic, long-term opportunities.

Change Readiness & Enablement

We assess cultural and organisational readiness for transformation and AI, outlining strategies for communication, engagement, and adoption.

Roadmap & Next Steps

We create a phased plan that integrates your broader digital transformation journey with a clear path for AI adoption - from early experimentation and proofs of concept to full-scale, operational deployment. The result is a practical roadmap that drives meaningful change while unlocking the transformative potential of AI.

Behind the Approach

We believe AI isn’t a bolt-on

It’s an enabler of smarter, faster, and more adaptive organisations. Our approach blends technical expertise with strategic insight to ensure your AI journey is aligned with business priorities, underpinned by strong governance, and designed for long-term success. Most organisations follow discovery by commissioning an initial delivery phase focused on proving value quickly, such as building a targeted proof of concept, automating a high-impact workflow, or piloting a data-driven decision engine. This creates early momentum while laying the foundation for wider AI adoption.

Reach out to us today

We're always eager to connect and explore how we can contribute to your journey. Reach out to us and let us know how we can assist you.

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The Curve Consulting

4 Joiner Street,

OXO House,

Sheffield, S3 8GW