Strategic AI Business Transformation
Cedus turns AI investment into measurable ROI
Cedus helps organisations turn AI strategy into live, enterprise-grade AI solutions that improve the bottom line.
We specialise in real business transformation - the coordination, prioritisation, and control required to make AI investment pay back - in parallel with building enterprise grade AI solutions.
We’ve been transforming organisations for 10+ years, across 50+ organisations, long before AI became fashionable.
This is hands-on transformation, designed to move in weeks, not months.
Why Most AI Investment Fails
Organisations invest in AI to improve performance - yet spend rises while the bottom line barely moves.
Buyers are forced into one of two broken options:​​
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Large consultancies - expensive, slow, advice-heavy
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Engineering providers - fast, but often disconnected from business return and ROI
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The same gap exists internally, between leadership ambition and teams building AI - often in silos, delivering disconnected use cases with limited business or strategic impact. What’s missing is a business-led capability between strategy and delivery that keeps AI focused on ROI.
Typical capability gaps include:
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No clear target end state, outcomes, or benefits
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Cost, benefit, ROI, and risk not forecast realistically
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AI initiatives not owned, governed, or managed as a portfolio
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No enterprise roadmap — or the execution capability to deliver it
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Weak or missing business cases, with legacy cost left in place
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Benefits and ROI not tracked through to completion
What We Do
The picture and video below show how Cedus runs strategic business control and rapid AI delivery in parallel - ensuring every AI use case contributes to a defined target end state and delivers measurable ROI.
We turn AI spend into measurable ROI fast. We do this by running two tightly connected capability areas in parallel, as shown in the diagram.
1. Strategic AI Business Transformation
We establish a lightweight, business-led function that governs AI as a commercial investment. ROI drives decisions end-to-end - AI is treated as capital investment, not an experiment.
This covers:
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Target end state - how the business must operate differently
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Outcomes and benefits - what AI must deliver and how success is measured
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Portfolio and roadmap - what gets built, and in what order
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Capability and cost - aligning delivery capacity and spend to ambition
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Management information and governance - clear reporting and active steering​​
2. Rapid AI Use Case Build
In parallel, real AI use cases are delivered end-to-end. Cedus works with existing teams where they are strong, and best-of-breed partners where gaps exist — while remaining accountable for outcomes.
Each use case:
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Has a clear business case and ROI target
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Is built and operated in the live business
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Removes legacy cost and complexity
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Measures realised ROI against the target end state​
Our Unique Approach
Over the past decade, Cedus has built a proven, enterprise-grade capability for delivering strategic transformation in world-leading organisations. This is not theory or slideware - it is a practical, hands-on approach shaped by years of working inside complex businesses and designing change that fits how organisations actually operate.
Strategic Transformation Leadership - Senior practitioners who work alongside leadership teams to align stakeholders, define the target end state, and steer execution through complexity. The focus is always practical - turning ambition into decisions, momentum, and measurable outcomes.
Predictive ROI Modelling Software - A single source of truth that connects strategy, delivery, cost, and benefit into one living model. It enables organisations to anticipate return, govern investment decisions, and steer change with confidence as reality unfolds.
Proven Method - A consistent, scalable approach that brings structure and discipline to strategic change. Designed to be embedded, not dependent - leaving organisations with a self-sustaining capability long after delivery.
Engineering AI build capability - Cedus deliberately works with best-of-breed AI engineering partners - including clients’ existing providers or trusted specialists such as RiverAI. This keeps Cedus technology-agnostic in a fast-moving landscape, while ensuring solutions remain robust, secure, and enterprise-grade.
How Do You Start ?
Contact us about a 10 day Strategic AI Discovery.
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We install the missing capabilities needed to turn AI investment into ROI.
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What you leave with;
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A functioning AI operating model that provides all capabilities required to deliver ROI
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Initial AI use cases producing measurable ROI (via our engineering partners)
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