AI Strategy & Advisory for Northshore businesses
Find the AI use cases worth pursuing. Skip the ones that aren't.
30 minutes. No obligation. Written findings either way.
The problem
AI moves fast and vendors will sell you anything. Most AI projects fail because the use case was wrong, the data wasn't ready, or the work was never connected to a real business outcome. A bad AI project wastes money and creates new problems to manage.
What we do about it
We start with an AI Readiness Assessment: an honest evaluation of your people, processes, data, and infrastructure. From there, we build a sequenced roadmap covering the use cases worth pursuing, a vendor evaluation, and a build-vs-buy recommendation for each one.
What does AI Strategy & Advisory include?
Everything below is covered in one agreement, documented in writing, and reviewed with you on a schedule.
AI Readiness Assessment
Evaluation of your people, processes, data quality, and infrastructure across four dimensions of AI maturity: giving you a clear baseline before any investment.
Use-Case Identification
Through stakeholder interviews and workflow analysis, we surface the AI opportunities with real business value: and help you ignore the ones that don't.
Business Value Scoring
Every candidate use case scored on feasibility, ROI potential, data readiness, and implementation risk: so you invest in what's actually worth pursuing first.
Sequenced AI Roadmap
A phased implementation plan with milestones, dependencies, and decision points: not a vendor deck. A real plan your team can actually execute.
Vendor & Tool Evaluation
Independent evaluation of LLM providers, AI platforms, and automation tooling: without vendor bias. We find what fits your needs, not what's loudest in the market.
Build vs. Buy Analysis
For each use case, we determine whether to build custom, integrate an existing tool, or do nothing: with cost, risk, and capability trade-offs documented.
AI Policy & Governance Framework
Acceptable use policies, data handling guidelines, and governance structure established before your first AI deployment: not after a problem surfaces.
Ongoing Advisory
Quarterly reviews to assess AI project performance, revisit the roadmap, and adjust as the technology landscape and your business evolve.
How working with us starts
No sales deck, no pressure. The first conversation is useful whether or not you hire us.
A 30-minute assessment call
We talk through how your office runs today: devices, email, backups, who has access to what, and what keeps you up at night. If it helps, we review your Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace settings while we talk.
Written findings and a flat-rate proposal
You get a short, plain-English summary of what we found and what we would fix first. If managed IT makes sense, the proposal is one flat monthly number with everything listed.
Onboarding without disruption
We document your environment, roll out monitoring and security in stages, and introduce your team to the help desk. Most work happens remotely; on-site visits are scheduled around your business.
AI Strategy & Advisory: common questions
What does AI Strategy & Advisory from Lagniappe IT include?
AI Strategy and Advisory finds the AI use cases worth pursuing for your business, scopes proof-of-concept work, evaluates vendor solutions, and helps prioritize where AI investment will return the most value. Scope is set to your environment, written down, and delivered on a schedule.
How much does AI Strategy & Advisory cost?
AI Strategy & Advisory is normally part of a flat monthly managed IT agreement priced mainly on headcount, rather than sold by the hour. Larger one-time projects are quoted separately. We quote after a free assessment so the number reflects your actual environment.
Who is AI Strategy & Advisory a good fit for?
Owner-led businesses of roughly 5 to 50 people on the Northshore of Louisiana, especially law firms, CPA firms, dental and medical practices, title companies, insurance agencies, contractors and nonprofits that hold sensitive data and cannot afford downtime.
Where do you deliver AI Strategy & Advisory?
From our office in Mandeville across St. Tammany Parish (Covington, Slidell, Madisonville, Abita Springs and nearby), plus Hammond and the Greater New Orleans area. Most work is remote; on-site visits are scheduled when hands are needed.
How do we get started?
Book a free 30-minute assessment. You get written findings either way, and a flat-rate proposal if there is a fit. Onboarding is staged so your team keeps working while we take over.
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Start with a free 30-minute assessment. We look at your current setup, your backups, your email security and your biggest risks, then give you written findings you can act on, whether or not you hire us.
Prefer to talk now?
Call 985-304-3054 or email [email protected].
Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm Central. Security monitoring runs 24x7 through our SOC partner.
1011 North Causeway Blvd., Suite 8, Mandeville, LA 70471