AI Opportunity Map

The AI Opportunity Map exists because most AI shortlists are built from the technology backwards. This tool reverses the order. You begin with a business process and the measurable gap between how it performs today and how it should perform, then work through progressively heavier options: fixing the process itself, connecting systems so data flows, encoding rules, applying predictive models, or adding generative AI on top. Each option carries its own cost, risk and evidence requirement, and the map makes those trade-offs visible before anyone buys a licence.

The output is not a vendor list but a shortlist of experiments. The map asks you to record assumptions, note what evidence is still missing, and define the next test you could run — which makes it a discussion document for process owners, finance and the people doing the work rather than a solo planning exercise. A companion checklist, Executive AI mandate and first 90 days, covers decision rights, portfolio, baselines and controls for the person who owns the programme.

The site is explicitly framed as a personal project: Juan Beltrán writes that the views are his own and do not represent ABB or any current or former employer. The tool itself runs in the browser and needs no account. It is best understood as a structured thinking framework with an interactive front end — useful for executives and transformation leads who need to defend why a given process deserves AI at all.