Solution ③ · 45-Day AI Rescue

If you've paid for AI tools, pilots or consultants and have little to show for it, you're not alone. The 45-Day AI Rescue picks the workflow with the highest return and takes it into production in 45 days, on infrastructure that lasts and with ROI tracked from day one. Fixed fee: $7,500–$15,000.

The problem

The demo worked. Production didn't.

  • You're paying for AI licences that half the team never opens.
  • The pilot looked great on clean examples, then failed on real data.
  • Staff use whichever AI tools they like, with no policy or oversight.
  • Your board, partners or investors keep asking, "What did we get for it?"
  • Competitors seem to be pulling ahead, and you don't know who to trust.
  • The last consultant left a strategy deck and no working system.
42%

of companies abandoned most AI initiatives in 2025

S&P Global

46%

of AI proofs of concept scrapped before production

S&P Global

~5%

of AI pilots achieve rapid revenue acceleration

MIT NANDA 2025

82%

of African organisations are piloting AI, but few have scaled

PwC 2026

Why AI projects stall

It's rarely the model. It's everything around it.

Messy data

The AI was tested on clean examples. Your real data lives in five systems and doesn't agree with itself.

No measure of "good"

Nobody defined what success looks like, so nobody notices when the AI quietly gets things wrong.

Wrong workflow

AI was bolted onto a process designed for people, instead of the process being redesigned around it.

No infrastructure

No monitoring, no logging and no fallback, so it works until it doesn't, and then nobody knows why.

The 45-day plan

From stalled pilot to working system in 45 days.

Days 1–10

Audit & select

We review your AI tools, pilots, spend and data, then choose the single workflow with the clearest return. We also tell you what to cancel.

Days 11–35

Build the foundation

Data pipelines, integrations, evaluation tests and the workflow itself, built and tested on your real data.

Days 36–45

Launch & adopt

Go live, train your team, set a usage policy and switch on your ROI dashboard.

Months 2–4

Run, then scale

Three months of Run are included: we monitor accuracy, cost and uptime and report ROI monthly. After that, it moves onto an AI Workforce plan.

What's included

AI spend & readiness audit

Everything you're paying for, what it's delivering, and a clear verdict on each: keep it, fix it or cut it.

Build vs. buy advice

An independent view on whether an off-the-shelf tool will do the job or you need a custom build. We don't take vendor commissions.

Production infrastructure

Pipelines, integrations, model orchestration, monitoring and fallbacks, so the system runs reliably every day.

Governance & safe use

Access control, audit logs, data handling rules and an AI usage policy for your team.

Adoption & training

We design the system around how your team works, then train them until they actually rely on it.

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ROI dashboard

Live tracking of time saved, costs avoided and revenue influenced, ready for your next board meeting.

45-Day AI Rescue · Pricing

A fixed-fee project that rolls into a subscription.

Prices exclude VAT. The fee depends on scope, which we agree with you before any work starts.

Fixed fee by scope

$7,500–$15,000

One fixed fee, agreed up front from the scope of the rescue. No hourly billing and no open-ended change orders.

Included

3 months of Run

Once it is live, we monitor, fix, tune and report on it for three months as part of the fee.

Then

Onto AI Workforce

The rescued workflow becomes an AI worker on a monthly AI Workforce plan. From $1,250 per AI worker/month.

See AI Workforce plans

After launch, the Run months and your AI Workforce plan cover: 24/7 monitoring & alerts · fixes & maintenance · model upgrades & tuning · hosting, security & backups · change requests · monthly impact report. What that means

Our guarantee: if it isn't live in production in 45 days, we keep working free until it is.

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Why Lapis

Senior attention the big firms reserve for their biggest clients.

Big consultancies send junior teams and slide decks. Cloud providers' hands-on programmes are aimed at enterprises. Research from MIT suggests projects run with specialist partners succeed about twice as often as internal builds. We give growing and mid-market companies that same specialist, hands-on help, at a price and pace that fits them.

AI Opportunity Audit

Not sure which pilot to rescue?

The AI Opportunity Audit ($490) reviews your AI tools, pilots and spend, tells you what to keep, fix or cut, and ranks the AI workers worth running, with the monthly value of each. The fee is credited back when you start.

  • A 2-week review of your workflows, lead handling and AI spend
  • A ranked plan of AI workers, with the monthly value of each
  • 100% credited if a subscription starts within 30 days
FAQ

Make Your AI Pay: your questions answered.

A fixed-fee project ($7,500–$15,000, by scope) that takes a stalled AI pilot or tool into production in 45 days, measured against a business KPI. It includes 3 months of Run, then moves onto an AI Workforce plan.

Get Started

Find out what your AI spend should be delivering.

Book a free 30-minute discovery call. We'll talk through what you've tried, what's stalled and whether a 45-Day AI Rescue is the right fit.