AI Play Queue

13 plays ranked by urgency × effort

The beating heart of Prism. Every endorsed play is evidence-backed, effort-estimated, and owned. The Group CTO's quarterly report to the Investment Committee is the shipped column below — measured lift per PortCo.

Endorsed / accepted

Proposed

Shipped / measured

MacroViewM365 Document Management

Ship MacroView Copilot-extension: records-mgmt + compliance filing on top of Copilot

SharePoint redesign (Jan 2026) puts Copilot at centre of doc libraries. Existential: don't fight, extend. M365 Copilot Wave 2 agents launched Oct 2024.

criticalproposed

Effort

8 weeks

Expected lift

Defensive — prevent 15-25% churn risk from Copilot adoption; new 'Copilot-ready' pricing SKU.

Framework

Document Intelligence

Owner

MacroView CTO

Sponsor

Group CTO

HeroNatHERS Energy Rating

Plan-to-model CV — auto-populate NatHERS from PDF/DWG floor plans

Manual plan tracing is the #1 pain point cited by assessors. Cove.tool cuts 150hr→30min. PNNL BEM-AI (Mar 2026) open-source agentic BEM. Both Hero and Energy Inspection consume same Chenath inputs — build once, deploy twice.

criticalendorsed

Effort

10 weeks

Expected lift

60% assessor-time reduction; defensive vs Cove.tool entering AU; directly transferable to Energy Inspection.

Framework

AI-Assisted Design Generation

Owner

Hero CTO (primary) + Energy Inspection CTO

Sponsor

Group CTO

OmnitronicsRadio Dispatch

Voice-to-incident-log + cross-jurisdiction real-time translation

Axon-Prepared $640M acquisition (Nov 2025); RapidSOS HARMONY AI (Jan 2026). Omnitronics P25/DMR/TETRA interop is moat — AI on top of protocol-bridge is defensive + differentiating.

criticalproposed

Effort

16 weeks

Expected lift

Retention defence vs AI dispatch natives; lighthouse customer (DFES WA / Rio Tinto).

Framework

Conversational In-Product Copilot

Owner

Omnitronics CTO

Sponsor

Group CTO

Energy InspectionNatHERS Energy Rating

Plan-to-model CV (shared with Hero) — BERSPro auto-populate from floor plans

Transfer target of Hero's Plan-to-model play. BERSPro v5.2.5 consumes same Chenath v3.23 inputs as Hero — shared framework, two PortCo deployments. Defends domestic mkt vs Cove.tool entry.

highproposed

Effort

4 weeks

Expected lift

Deployment of already-built framework; 50% assessor-time reduction; joint Hero×Energy-Inspection working group.

Framework

AI-Assisted Design Generation

Owner

Energy Inspection CTO

Sponsor

Group CTO

StreamtimeCreative Agency PM

Job margin guardrail — predict negative-margin trajectory + draft client comms

1,200 agencies × time+margin data, untapped. Timely shipped AI Timesheet Assistant May 2025 — competitive pressure is real and scoped. No-timesheet positioning makes AI margin-intel a perfect fit.

highendorsed

Effort

8 weeks

Expected lift

2-3 pts GM recovered; first AI feature shipped = positioning parity with Timely.

Framework

Predictive Margin / Churn

Owner

Streamtime CTO

Sponsor

AI & Automation Specialist

RemovifyOnline Reputation Mgmt

Multi-platform removal orchestration agent — autonomous detect→submit→appeal

'Hundreds of thousands of removal actions' proprietary learning dataset. Erase.com/ORM Geek/Citefy AI-native competitors. Removify already markets 'unique AI platform' — widen the moat.

highendorsed

Effort

10 weeks

Expected lift

50%+ throughput per agent; supports US+EU geographic expansion under Software Combined.

Framework

Conversational In-Product Copilot

Owner

Removify CTO (Christian Ricotti / Jofry Sutanto full-stack + Roden Wild data/automation)

Sponsor

AI & Automation Specialist

Scope SystemsMining ERP

Predictive-maintenance recommender on mine equipment telemetry

300+ mines × 20yr operational data. IMAFS partnership (Jan 2025) validates AI appetite. Every day of avoided unplanned downtime at a tier-1 mine is $Ms.

highendorsed

Effort

12 weeks

Expected lift

$2-5M ARR via premium module; 1-3% retention lift; lighthouse for Azure/AWS mining partnership.

Framework

Anomaly Detection in Time Series

Owner

Scope Systems CTO

Sponsor

AI & Automation Specialist (HQ)

Last YardRetail Shelf-Edge

Dynamic pricing optimiser — demand × inventory × competitor signal

AWS-native since 2015; 15M promos/week for anchor grocer; 100k+ daily decisions already automated. Revionics/Competera AI pricing validates market. Self-describes 'AI-ready'.

highendorsed

Effort

14 weeks

Expected lift

1-3% GMV lift at lighthouse retailer = $Xm direct attributable; flagship for AWS credit partnership.

Framework

Constrained Optimisation Agent

Owner

Last Yard CTO

Sponsor

Group CTO

Res2Aviation DCS & W&B

AI load-optimisation recommender — minimum-fuel W&B planning

500+ airports × 300+ airlines of load history. Fuel is ~25% of airline cost. Corendon expansion (Feb 2026) signals strategic growth phase — bolt AI on top of reputation.

highendorsed

Effort

14 weeks

Expected lift

0.5-2% fuel-burn reduction = $Ms per airline per year; premium W&B SKU.

Framework

Constrained Optimisation Agent

Owner

Res2 CTO

Sponsor

Group CTO

WCC GroupWorkforce Matching

Skills-graph embedding for cross-border PES; career-path recommender

NL AIC + EU AI Pact signatory already. 'Half a billion people daily'. France Travail / Bundesagentur / UWV ideal lighthouse for responsible-AI skills graph.

highendorsed

Effort

16 weeks

Expected lift

Lead-product feature for public-sector RFPs in EU; basis for group AI centre-of-excellence.

Framework

Predictive Margin / Churn

Owner

WCC Group CTO

Sponsor

Group CTO

ActivateIAM / ITSM Automation

Conversational IAM — NL access requests auto-routed via ServiceNow/Entra

V8 already ships built-in AI chatbot (Nov 2024). CTO Burke public thought leadership on AI agent identities (Apr 2025). Microsoft Marketplace listing (Feb 2026).

mediumaccepted

Effort

8 weeks

Expected lift

25-40% reduction in access-request tickets at anchor (TSB/MBIE); turn V8 chatbot into revenue SKU.

Framework

Conversational In-Product Copilot

Owner

Activate CTO (Robert Burke)

Sponsor

AI & Automation Specialist

DbvisitDatabase DR

Replication-health anomaly detection + NL DBA assistant

Datadog DBM + Percona pushing AI-driven DB observability — Dbvisit's NIL AI is a gap. 2000+ customers × replication telemetry = training data.

mediumproposed

Effort

10 weeks

Expected lift

Product parity with AI-DB competitors; justifies premium tier; lighthouse via NHS / NZX.

Framework

Anomaly Detection in Time Series

Owner

Dbvisit CTO

Sponsor

AI & Automation Specialist

Unified StreamingVideo Streaming Infra

ML-driven per-title encoding-ladder optimisation (QoE + CDN cost)

'AI-ready' website claim; live-streaming latency research presented at Fraunhofer FOKUS Jun 2024. BBC/ITV/Viaplay = elite references; any CDN-cost reduction is material at scale.

mediumproposed

Effort

12 weeks

Expected lift

3-10% CDN cost reduction per customer; justifies premium Virtual Channel + Remix pricing.

Framework

Anomaly Detection in Time Series

Owner

Unified Streaming CTO

Sponsor

AI & Automation Specialist