Managed AI Services
Turning AI Complexity Into Business Clarity
AI is a powerful tool for accelerating your organizational goals, but it also hits massive challenges with integration with existing systems, underlying data quality, security, cost management, and even user adoption. Navigating this complexity is where Thrive excels.
We take a consultative approach to AI. The success of your AI project hinges on having a clear, impactful use case and a technology stack that supports both your business objectives and your culture.
Are You Ready to Get Started?
Are you ready for AI today? From data strategy to security implications to use cases that will provide tangible ROI, Thrive is available to help you through every step of your AI journey.
Experience Combined with Technology
Crawl-Walk-Run
Crawl: Quick Wins and Good Habits
Success breeds success. Thrive’s AI consulting team can help identify one or two areas where you can see immediate benefits from AI, and will then help with deployment, training users in how to write effective prompts, and defining policies. Fast adoption helps to build confidence in the program and develop experience.
Walk: Standardize and Expand
The next step is to expand into more complex or specialized workflows, such as developing role-based playbooks or multi-step AI operations. This is also a good time to begin building out governance around AI, ensuring that outputs are properly evaluated and maintaining quality standards.
Pause: Measure and Assess
After a few months, we recommend that you stop and do a holistic assessment of how your AI journey has progressed. This is the time to begin comparing realized results against your strategic business goals to make sure that your AI projects and updated workflows are achieving the expected results. This is also the time to assess whether you need more advanced AI or whether your current implementations are returning value.
Run: Optimize and Scale
Most organizations will see the most benefit from standard AI technologies and processes; this hits the right balance of ease of adoption and increased productivity. But some organizations will want to move to a different, strategic use of AI. Thrive can help with detailed use case assessments, data and information architecture reviews, and developing AI agents for autonomous operations.
Plan for Success
With AI, it is critical that you do the right thing, not just something. While use cases will be specific and unique, there are general guidelines that can help to identify what will be an effective project for AI:
- Is the overall process understood from end to end?
- Is this process routine? Is it repeatable?
- What are the underlying data sources?
- Will automating or augmenting the workflow result in a clear benefit?
- Can the impact be measured?
- Can the impact be intuitively understood?
- Would integrating AI into the process fit with the culture and attitudes of the affected teams?
High Impact, Clear Results
Process Automation
AI is the next level for automation, providing natural language processing and prompt engineering that can make it simpler for users to define and manage tasks.
- Take over time-intensive, repetitive tasks
- Parse and analyze large datasets for valuable insights
- Return formatted and consistent results
Process automation can be developed in multiple layers, where incremental improvements can occur throughout your organization and result in significant gains. Process automation does more than simply copy and replace existing workflows; it can modify those workflows so that low-level processing is done by the AI while your teams are able to focus on high-value, non-replicable work.
While the goals for process automation are broadly around productivity gains, these can be measured in different ways, like time to complete tasks, higher individual throughput, cost reduction, or resource optimization.
Accelerated Creativity
GenAI has the potential for more creativity than synthesizing sales emails. GenAI can be used to brainstorm ideas, to validate uniqueness, and to research niche topics. AI cannot substitute for intuition-fueled creativity and brand voice, but it can be used to help bring clarity in the haze of the planning and design. AI is a way to speed-run the creative process, either for a single contributor or a whole team.
- Brainstorming
- Storyboarding
- Research
- A/B testing
- Persona definitions
Immediate Knowledge Resources
A lot of questions are asked repeatedly. You can free up support or internal resources by digging information out of case notes and internal documents and creating high-quality, accessible FAQs, chatbots, or knowledgebases.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How can AI help us improve efficiency and growth across the business?
AI can help organizations improve efficiency and growth across their business by helping to automate repetitive tasks, such as reviewing and analyzing data, freeing teams to focus on higher-value work, while uncovering insights from data that drive smarter decisions.
What kind of return on investment can we realistically expect from AI?
ROI varies by use case, but businesses can see gains through cost reduction, faster decision-making, and improved productivity, especially through process automation or improved modeling. AI can also uncover new revenue opportunities by analyzing data more effectively.
How do you ensure AI is implemented responsibly and securely?
At Thrive, we follow ethical AI principles, implement robust data privacy measures like AI policy and governance, and continuously monitor models for bias or errors. Security is integrated at every stage, both at the infrastructure level and in the AI implementation, to protect sensitive business data.
Can AI help us make better decisions with the data we already have?
Yes. AI can analyze structured and unstructured data to identify patterns, trends, and anomalies that might otherwise be missed. This leads to faster, evidence-based decision-making.
How do you minimize risk and disruption when introducing AI into our operations?
We minimize risk and disruption by piloting AI in controlled environments, provide training for teams, and integrate solutions incrementally. We ensure you have a clean data structure from the start and continuously monitor your systems so that any issues are addressed before scaling.
How does Thrive’s AI approach scale as our business grows?
Our first step starts with ensuring data quality and defining robust governance and policies for AI within your organization. Thrive then helps design and deploy AI solutions with flexible architectures that expand alongside your data and workloads. By setting a universal and secure foundation, our approach ensures ongoing performance without requiring frequent rework.
How do you build an AI use case?
We start by identifying a clear business problem, assess available data, and define measurable outcomes. From there, we help you design a solution that aligns with your operational goals and scalability needs.
Are You Wondering How to Get Started With Your AI Strategy?
Contact Thrive today and learn how we can deliver help you design unique and innovative AI use cases that will boost your productivity and creativity, built on a platform that delivers security, quality, and performance.