AI hype has a downside: The breathless excitement has created a market of stakeholders focused more on the technical solution than the value (aka solutionism). If you have spent any time creating an AI strategy with a team of stakeholders over the last year, you’ve surely heard “Just build a chatbot”. Financial forecasting, document metadata extraction, a classification model… they all get the same treatment: ”Just build a chatbot.” But chatbots aren’t new. Before that, it was just use deep learning, just use neural networks, just use computer vision. Whatever is the hot topic in the AI news becomes the thing clients covet. However, if you want to build an AI strategy that gets traction and delivers ROI, you’ve got to cut through the bots and focus on the business value. By going through an AI-focused discovery session with a broad audience, you’re able to get down to brass tacks and identify the strategic goals, what problems need to be solved, and then allow the AI experts to assign solutions that align problems. In this session, we will walk through the AI-focused discovery process, and talk about how to transform your relationship with stakeholders from order taker to trusted partner.