The WhereAI methodology

What WhereAI evaluates

You describe your business, the systems you use, and up to five opportunities you want to compare. For each one, WhereAI asks only for inputs that type of opportunity can actually support, and ranks the result as an Opportunity Map.

The four areas

• Work & operations: recurring processing, preparation, chasing and filing. Inputs are people, weekly hours, pay rates, how repeatable the work is, and how much judgment it needs.
• Decisions & intelligence: recurring decisions and the research behind them. Inputs are frequency, preparation time, how available the information is, the cost of delay, and whether approval is required.
• Customers & growth: response, follow-up, personalization and service. Inputs are monthly volume, response time, conversion rate and customer value where you have them, and whether escalation is needed.
• Products & services: new ways to package expertise. Inputs are the problem, the intended audience, the evidence of demand, any durable advantage, and whether expert oversight exists. These stay exploratory.

Value and ease

Each opportunity is placed on two axes. Value reflects how much could change: time returned, decision frequency and cost of delay, or a customer scenario. Ease reflects how practical it is to start soon: readiness of information and systems, judgment required, implementation complexity, and the strength of the evidence you supplied.

Considering both together is why a smaller, ready opportunity can rank above a larger one that isn't ready. The exact weights aren't published, but every input that affects a result is shown next to it.

Capacity value is not cash

Capacity value is hours returned multiplied by the rates you gave. It is not cash saved and not profit. It turns into money only through a decision: redeploying the time, avoiding a hire, or growing without adding people. Revenue scenarios are never added into a capacity figure.

Assumptions, evidence and uncertainty

Addressable shares are shown as ranges. Where you supply weak or no evidence, the opportunity is marked lower confidence rather than given a precise number. Cross-area rankings are an order of things to investigate, because a capacity figure and a revenue scenario are different kinds of number.

What WhereAI does not claim

• No industry benchmarks or averages: figures come only from your inputs.
• No guaranteed savings, revenue or outcomes. Results are planning estimates, not financial advice.
• No fabricated return for product ideas without defensible economics.
• No implementation quote. The optional $79 Implementation Planning Brief is a planning document.

Questions

Does WhereAI use industry benchmarks?

No. Every figure is arithmetic on the numbers you enter. Examples on this site are labelled illustrative.

Is the ranking deterministic?

Yes. The same inputs produce the same map. The ranking is not generated freely by an AI model.

Why are capacity and revenue shown separately?

They are different kinds of value. Blending them into one number would overstate the case and hide what has to happen for the value to be real.