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AI Audit & Governance

A structured, value-driven approach to assessing your current AI landscape, identifying high-impact opportunities, and establishing a governance framework that ensures measurable productivity gains and long-term strategic alignment.

AI Audit & Governance
Financial Due Diligence
Operational Advisory
Digital Transformation

AI Audit & Governance Approach and Methodology

Discovery & Future State Vision

What AI initiatives are we currently doing and what is our long-term AI strategy?

Map & Identify Gaps in a Set of Services

What services are potential areas of AI productivity improvement?

Value Identification & Action plan

What does success look like? How do we govern initiatives and track value?

These outputs will enable us to align the AI investment priorities to ensure they are directed toward initiatives with the highest productivity impact

Future Vision Alignment

Process Blueprints

AI Governance Framework

KPIs & Value Tracking

Avana Advisors

AI Audit & Governance Engagement Timeline

Discovery & Future State Vision

Purpose: Understand existing AI initiatives through stakeholder interviews, operating model review, and data analysis. Conduct workshop to define future state vision and objectives.

Map & Identify Gaps in a Set of Services

Purpose: Map current state business processes, tools, and resources. Identify labor intensive sub-processes, manual, repetitive activities, quality risks, and highlight areas of frustrations, and pain points.

Value Identification & Action plan

Purpose: Conduct prioritization exercise for improving gaps and frustrations through AI solutions. Develop value case and opportunities quantification. Establish governance framework for solution implementation and tracking.

AI Audit & Governance Case Study

The Scattered AI Problem

Chemical manufacturer running 28 AI initiatives across sales, O2C, logistics, marketing and other functions. Discovery phase revealed 14 projects delivered zero tangible ROI – wasted pilots on vanity chatbots, basic reporting dashboards, and low-impact process tweaks.

Our 4-Week Audit Uncovered Hidden Value

  • Reviewed 28 projects 14 terminated (50% portfolio cleanup)
  • Mapped 6 service areas Identified 8 high-impact opportunities
  • O2C emerged as #1 priority 65% of finance capacity trapped in manual sub-process

    O2C Deep Dive: The Bottlenecks
    87-person team supporting 5 sales regions battled:

  • Invoicing: 4hr/day rekeying POs vs. contracts (12% rejection rate)
  • PGI validation: Manual warehouse cross-checks (8% inventory errors across 1,200 daily shipments)
  • AR matching: 35% payments needed manual intervention ($1.2M unapplied cash monthly)
  • Collections: Generic dunning emails ignored customer patterns (DSO +18 days)

Agentic AI Solution Deployment

9 autonomous AI agents replaced manual workflows:

  • IDP auto-matched Pos (98% accuracy)
  • PGI agent validated ERP/warehouse in real-time
  • AR agent auto-applied 92% payments 
  • Collections agent personalized 27K dunning sequences

Proven Impact

Quantitative: O2C headcount 87       27 (-69%); DSO – 22 days; disputes – 89%; $3.2M annual savings

Qualitative: Finance shifted from firefighting to strategic pricing; sales gained order visibility; C-suite trusted cash forecasts – “AI Audit gave us our North Star” – CIO

Future State Vision

Productivity unlocked: 8 remaining opportunities across 6 functions promise additional 45% capacity gain.

Governance framework ensures sustained AI ROI tracking. Company now prioritizes agentic solutions delivering 3X ROI minimum.

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Ready to evaluate your AI initiatives and unlock measurable value? Our team will work with you to assess your current landscape, identify productivity opportunities, and design a governance framework aligned with your long-term strategy.

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