Professional Services Forensic Engineering

Identify AI Opportunities to Minimize Error Correction Time, Boost Operational Efficiency, and Foster Profitable Growth

Our client, a specialty consulting firm, excels in property damage, accident reconstruction, and forensic engineering. They offer 60 specialized services, detailed analysis, and efficient operations.

Services

Industry

Professional & Administrative

situation

AI Integration Hurdles, Where to begin?

Our client, a specialty consulting company, focuses on services related to property damage, accident reconstruction, and forensic engineering. Their work involves extensive analysis and the creation of detailed reports. They differentiate themselves with a broad array of sixty or so specialty services, experienced staff, and operational efficiency.

The client encountered numerous challenges and wanted to leverage AI but didn’t know where to start.

Multiple Operating Bottlenecks and Pain Points: Operating variations and inefficiencies negatively impacted cycle time and service delivery.
Error-Prone Reports: Manual workflows involved copying old reports, resulting in frequent errors.
Limited Best Practice Sharing: Effective practices were not consistently shared across the company.
Resource Constraints: High workload burdens and operating budget constraints resulted in some critical functions, such as business development, being under-resourced. For example, “reports often had mistakes like outdated labels or fragments from old client data, diminishing their reliability.”
Insufficient AI Knowledge: Limited AI knowledge resulted in a lack of clarity as to how AI could impact business, for better or worse.
Absence of AI Plan and Resources to Develop One: No AI plan existed, or the ability to develop one within a satisfactory timeframe.

Download our AI Guide

Impact

Lack of AI adoption may lead to real consequences

The absence and continued delayed creation of an AI Plan and Contextual Understanding could jeopardize the client’s competitive standing and cause them to miss highly attractive operational efficiency improvements. Without engaging in AI initiatives, the leadership risks falling behind industry trends and losing ground to competitors who capitalize on AI advancements.

Consequences of not acting include but are limited to the following.

Strategic Deficiency: Inability to make well-informed strategic decisions and plans that leverage AI.
Time and Resource Wastage: Roughly 10% of project time was needed to correct errors.
Client Dissatisfaction: Inconsistencies and errors in reports could harm client trust.
Operational Inefficiency: Manual workflows continue with increased costs and reduced overall efficiency.
Missed Opportunities: Opportunities are missed as constrained resources lack time to act.
Quantified Impact: “Spending 10% of project time on correcting errors could delay project timelines and increase costs, potentially affecting client satisfaction and reducing revenue.”

The Results

Prioritized AI Opportunities

Allata’s approach focused on identifying, understanding, and addressing pain points through AI. Here is what we did:

AI Knowledge and Insights: Provided a detailed perspective on AI, including an industry view. Efforts were made to align the leadership team’s perspective on AI, ensuring everyone had a similar view of AI’s opportunities and potential risks.
Assessment and Opportunity Identification: Interviewed 19 stakeholders, outlined core operations in terms of the business value chain, identified 36 pain points, and outlined 54 AI opportunities.
Priorities & Profiles: Prioritized 11 key opportunities against a collaboratively developed set of prioritization criteria and developed opportunity profiles for each, outlining detailing use case components, implementation requirements, and change management considerations.
AI Plan: Organized findings in a comprehensive report, inclusive of suggested sequencing, implementation steps, and immediate actions key to capturing AI value.