AI Feasibility Audit

Most AI initiatives fail before they start. The data is not ready, the GTM is not aligned, and the initiative was never commercially viable to begin with. Our AI Feasibility Diagnostic tells you which initiative to back, what it will take to make it work, and whether the investment will see a return.

A failed AI initiative costs engineering cycles, commercial credibility, and investor confidence. PE-backed SaaS companies cannot afford to get this wrong. Our AI Feasibility Audit is a four-week sprint that evaluates your chosen initiative across data readiness, technical feasibility, and commercial viability, and delivers a board-ready recommendation before a single line of production code is written.

173tech leads the data and infrastructure assessment. Epic Advisors lead the GTM and commercial framing. The output is a single, integrated view of whether your initiative is worth building, what it would take, and what to do in the next 90 days.

What Good Looks Like

Properly Evaluated Initiatives

The most expensive AI mistake is committing engineering and commercial resources to the wrong initiative. We force the focus early, stress-test one initiative from every angle, and deliver a recommendation your board can act on before the spend begins.

- A go, no-go, or reshape recommendation backed by experience

- Board and investor-ready rationale built in from day one

- Focus on projects you can realistically achieve instead of blue-sky ideas

A clear roadmap, a prioritised investment case, and £267,000+ in identified annual savings.

Data & Technical Feasibility

Your AI initiative is only as viable as the data beneath it. We assesses your infrastructure, data quality, and tooling against the specific demands of your chosen initiative. You will know exactly what you have, what you are missing, and what a build would actually cost.

- Full assessment of data quality, coverage, and pipelines

- Architecture options and a phased technical roadmap

- A clear cost estimate for your investment decision

Designing the blueprints for a three-stage matching system that replaces an unscalable, manual process

A Commercial Roadmap

An AI initiative without a GTM plan is an R&D cost. We define the buyer, the value proposition, the pricing rationale, and the launch strategy so your initiative has a route to revenue, not just a route to production.

- Buyer definition and willingness to pay assessed before you build

- Pricing rationale and competitive positioning documented

- A GTM roadmap ready to execute

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What We Deliver

A four-week sprint with fixed scope, fixed fee, and a board-ready output at the end. No open-ended discovery, no unbounded retainer.

We confirm access, align on candidate initiatives, and arrive at week one ready to move.

We review your ideas, run structured stakeholder interviews, and narrow to one primary initiative.

We assesses your data, infrastructure, and tooling against the demands of your product idea.

We produce the GTM plan, pricing rationale, and launch strategy, designed to survive scrutiny.

An integrated deliverable covering everything. You leave knowing exactly what to do next and why.

You can choose whether to take implementation in-house or work with us going forward.

Your Collaboration With Us

Two firms. One sprint. The commercial and technical expertise to tell you whether your AI initiative is worth building before you commit to building it.

Epic helps PE-backed SaaS companies build the commercial strategy, positioning, and GTM infrastructure to turn product investments into revenue.

173tech is a data and analytics consultancy that helps growth-stage and enterprise SaaS companies build the data infrastructure, intelligence, and products that create competitive advantage.