ClearSight AI: Your Blueprint for Maximum Profitability
Program Overview
Every company or non-profit is different, and one size fits all approaches to AI deployment can be a disaster. When you have technologies as potentially transforming as AI/ML and Generative AI that can be applied everywhere, the big question CIOs are asking is “Where do we start?” How can we focus on AI in areas that best support OUR business strategy? This is where ClearSight AI comes in.
Without the right blueprint – YOUR blueprint with your priorities – the chances of projects meeting their ROI objectives are slim. In fact, new research from Upwork reports that 75% of employees trying to deploy generative AI in their jobs have decreased their productivity, not increased. RAND research reports that 80% of all AI projects fail. And Gartner reports that less than 30% of AI projects move past pilot.
We offer 3 different places to onboard, each customized for your specific needs.
- ClearSIght AI – Project – this allows a company or department-head to begin to use AI to optimize specific processes.
- ClearSight AI – Department – broadening out, the company might now be ready for a comprehensive use of AI, but you want your department to enjoy the productivity benefits.
- ClearSight AI – Enterprise – Here we take a comprehensive approach to see how AI can improve your entire company productivity, focusing on the data elements that are the enablers and building a plan for maximum effectiveness.
Why are AI Projects failing?
The reasons for project failure are as old as time in retail, but understanding things before you start is absolutely critical with AI because if mistakes are made, decisions happen at lightspeed in a negative way. Bad data, unrealistic expectations, organization culture or focus, lack of infrastructure, etc. Or even worse, focusing on areas that do not directly support the business goals and strategy of the company.
This is where ClearSight AI from IHL comes in. With over 400 potential use cases, this program and platform helps you prioritize projects in your organization to not only see positive results but maximum profits. But we do so in a disciplined approach to help eliminate false starts and identify problems BEFORE you start.
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More Detail about ClearSight AI
ClearSight AI is both a framework and a process to help you prioritize your potential use cases. It combines your prioritization of between 75 and 400 potential use cases with IHL’s proprietary AI Revolution Forecast and AI Readiness Index to show the maximum opportunity for the business impact of each use case over the next 5 years.
The process covers use cases in 10 different Line of Business Areas:
- Business Intelligence
- Commerce Solutions
- Enterprise Accounting, Finance, and HR
- Enterprise Application Development
- Enterprise Collaboration
- Infrastructure
- Legal and Real Estate
- Merchandise/Supply Chain Management
- Sales and Marketing
- Store Systems
Our focus is always on potential business value, however, the ratings created will cover aspects of Legal and Compliance issues, Data Readiness and System Readiness, Output/Action Readiness, Business Strategic Importance, and overall Business Value.
ClearSight AI Steps
Through the process, IHL experts will interview key executive stakeholders in each area for their relative ratings in the areas of their expertise and identify gaps to success before you start the path of implementation.
You will end up with a prioritized list of projects, with the maximum level of business value as well as a prioritized list of gaps that will help you decide which projects to tackle first and which systems or processes might need to be updated. By having the potential business value as part of the process, you have a head start on the ROI analysis of each use case.
Finally, our goal is to provide a knowledge transfer. There is a clear jumping off part of the engagement, so you are not locked into a nebulous ongoing project with consultants with no end point.
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FAQs
ClearSight AI is IHL Group’s retail AI deployment advisory service that helps retailers and restaurants identify which AI and machine learning projects will deliver the highest ROI before any technology investment is committed. Rather than applying a one-size-fits-all AI approach, ClearSight evaluates 75 to 400 specific AI use cases against your organization’s current data readiness, technology infrastructure, and strategic priorities — then delivers a prioritized implementation roadmap ranked by five-year business impact. The engagement completes in 10-20 days with a defined end date and full knowledge transfer, with no long-term consulting obligation.
RAND research and Gartner data — shows that 80% of AI projects fail and fewer than 30% of AI pilots move to production. The root causes are misalignment between AI use cases and actual business value, insufficient data readiness, infrastructure gaps, and unrealistic executive expectations. ClearSight AI prevents failure by using IHL’s proprietary AI Revolution Forecast and AI Readiness Index to objectively score each potential use case against seven operational variables specific to your organization — identifying the highest-ROI projects and the exact gaps that must be closed before deployment begins.
A ClearSight AI engagement delivers two primary outputs: a prioritized AI project list ranked by maximum five-year business value for your specific organization, and a prioritized gap list identifying the infrastructure, data readiness, and organizational steps needed to execute each project successfully. IHL analysts conduct stakeholder interviews across 10 lines of business — store systems, supply chain, finance, HR, marketing, commerce, infrastructure, and more — and apply three scoring algorithms (market impact ratios, line-of-business averages, and organization-specific variables) to produce a roadmap unique to your situation. The engagement concludes with complete knowledge transfer so your team can execute independently.
ClearSight AI offers three engagement tiers: ClearSight AI Project covers a single AI initiative, ideal for organizations that have already identified a use case and need rigorous ROI validation before committing budget. ClearSight AI Department covers one full business unit — such as supply chain, store operations, or merchandising — evaluating all relevant AI use cases for that function. ClearSight AI Enterprise covers organization-wide AI strategy, evaluating 75-400 use cases across all 10 lines of business and delivering a coordinated AI roadmap with sequenced implementation priorities. Contact IHL to determine which tier matches your organization’s AI readiness and investment timeline.
ClearSight AI combines IHL Group’s exclusive retail AI market data with a defined-scope engagement model that eliminates open-ended consulting fees. IHL’s AI Revolution Forecast tracks AI deployment across 6,000+ retail and restaurant chains, giving ClearSight access to external benchmark data on financial impact potential that no other AI consulting firm can provide. Unlike major consultancies, IHL targets completion in 10-20 days with a fixed scope and no ongoing contract requirement. IHL consultants bring decades of retail technology operational experience alongside current AI expertise — a combination that generic AI consulting firms without retail DNA cannot replicate.
Yes, while it is heavily focused towards retailers and restaurants, the model can be updated for anyone working in this or CPG industries. It is simply a readjustment of some of the use cases. Reach out to us and we can discuss.
There is a clear end date. Our goal is a 10-20 day engagement where we take the model, customize it to your specific needs, then interview your key stakeholders and department owners with their inputs, then merge that information together to provide you a prioritized roadmap of projects that is uniquely yours. We wish to do a knowledge transfer of the system at that point. This is a clear end-point of the initial project. If there is a desire to go further once this is completed to help with implementation, we can discuss at your request.
ClearSight AI started with our original forecast by retailer type around the world of the potential for AI/ML, Generative AI, and AGI from now until the end of the decade. We then took that down to the individual retailer level and built it back up, looking at the specific systems. This resulted in an AI Readiness Score and ranking among public retailers that we were able to leverage across 116 different technologies that would drive benefits with our AI Readiness Profiles.
From here we began to compile the use cases. At the end of the day it is not the technology that drives the value, but the use cases that can be impacted by the technology. At the same time our research revealed were several failures and false starts out there due to issues with data, privacy or true business value.
So there are 3 types of algorithms involved in the model. The one built for the market overall, the average ratios by line of business sizes and impact, and then this new unique one for your business that factors in 7 variables unique to your operation. These are all included in the process to give you your blueprint.