The board will ask what AI changed this year. Right now the honest answer is a training completion rate.
Velocity gives every role its own AI Skills, built from the real job, and writes a Value Impact receipt each time one runs on real work. It is the method from Matt Kesby's Untangling AI (Wiley, USA Today National Bestseller), running across your company.
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Company Value Impact/This quarterHoursDollars
What is it worth?$48,210Value Impact this quarter
Who is adopting?64 of 90people ran a Skill
What value is forgone?$6,420scheduled Skills that did not run
Who is refining?38refined Skills adopted
By departmentDrills down to the person, the Skill and the run
Operations$14,380
Finance$12,940
Sales$10,210
Customer Service$6,030
Marketing$3,150
People$1,500
Example Value Impact by department, this quarter
Department
Value Impact
Operations
$14,380
Finance
$12,940
Sales
$10,210
Customer Service
$6,030
Marketing
$3,150
People
$1,500
Illustration · example dataExample company, 90 people. The four tiles are the four questions Velocity's Value Impact report answers.
To the CEO
You backed the AI budget because standing still was the bigger risk. The training happened, the certificates went out, and your competitors are moving at the same time you are. Yet when a director asks what actually changed, the honest answer is attendance figures, not outcomes.
Attendance is not an outcome.
You walk away with a per-person, per-run dollar figure your board can interrogate line by line.
What changes
From completion rates to a ledger of results.
A number the board can question
Value Impact by department, team, person, Skill and run. Every figure traces back to a receipt written when the work finished.
Adoption you can see
Who ran a Skill this period, who has not started, and what value was forgone when scheduled Skills did not run.
Every role on the same method
Each person's Skills start from their own Position: their goals, their X-Factors and the tasks that fill their week.
Example Skills
Skills your leadership team would run.
Real Skill titles built on Velocity. Your people's Skills are built from their own Positions, so your company's list will be its own.
Board meeting prep for CEOsExecutive
Run your executive leadership team meeting from prep to decisionsExecutive
Ops risk scan for CEOsExecutive
Run your daily competitor price comparison and CEO reportStrategy
Prepare your weekly pipeline and forecast reportSales
Compile your monthly management accounts pack for reviewFinance
Value Impact
Run the numbers on your own team.
Pick one recurring task that many people do. Velocity applies the same arithmetic to every real run, so this is the shape of the number your board will see.
The formula
Value Impact = (Time today × Cost × Frequency)
− (Time with the Skill × Cost × Frequency)
Untangling AI, chapter 4
Example: a weekly status report, written by 25 managers.
Next step
Three ways to start.
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