Use cases / Services

Sonaris for AI consultants

Map a client's process on a canvas, turn the findings into playbooks they can search, sell the sprint as a fixed package and run the pilot as a project. A two-person consultancy, run from one workspace.

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Kestrel AppliedAI readiness, pilots and team training · Manchester
  1. Process maps from discovery workshops1 / 14Canvas
  2. Playbooks and engagements the client can see5 / 14FolioProjectsChatProfiles
  3. Packages, a site and a pipeline10 / 14CommercePaymentsSitesFormsCRM
  4. Lead to engagement to pilot, connected11 / 14Flows

An illustrative workspace. The business, people and figures are fictional.

01 · Start with Canvas

Map the process before automating it

Discovery workshops happen on an infinite canvas: sticky notes for each step, connectors for hand-offs and notes for where the hours go. The canvas can stand alone or sit as a tab inside the engagement, next to the tasks it turns into.

  • Shapes, sticky notes, images and connectors
  • Free-standing or hosted inside a project
  • Cards linked to the files they describe
Canvas · Brightmoor Logistics — Accounts payable today
Step 1Invoice arrives in the shared mailbox Step 2 · 4 h a dayKeyed into the finance system by hand Step 3Manager approves by email Step 4Payment run on Fridays CandidateExtract fields, human checks the odd ones MeasureHours keyed per week, error rate
02 · Add Folio, Projects, Chat and Profiles

Deliverables the client can actually find

Readiness reports, prompt playbooks and usage policies are pages in a folio shared with the client's team as guests, who comment inline but can't edit. Each engagement is a project with phases from discovery to training, and a chat room for the people doing the work.

  • Pages that embed live tasks, files and forms
  • View, comment or edit access per page, for guests too
  • Project phases, owners and timelines
  • Guests see their own engagement and nothing else
Folio · Brightmoor — AI at work · shared with 6 guests
AI at workReadiness reportPrompt playbookUsage policyPilot resultsTraining notes
Usage policy
Approved uses

Drafting, summarising and searching internal documents with the approved assistant.

Customer data

Stays out of prompts unless the tool is on the approved list and the data is needed for the task.

Owner: Head of Finance. Next review: March 2027.
03 · Add Commerce, Payments, Sites, Forms and CRM

Packages, a site and a pipeline

The readiness sprint, the pilot build and the training day are Commerce services with fixed scopes and milestone contracts. The Sonaris site publishes articles from a folio, a self-check form turns readers into contacts and deals, and a booking page takes the discovery call.

  • Services, packages and contracts with milestones
  • Publish a folio to your site, under a path or on its own
  • Form submissions become a contact and a deal
  • Booking pages on the same contact record
kestrelapplied.co.uk
Kestrel AppliedWriting · Services · Self-check
Practical AI for operations teamsStart with the process, not the tool
Readiness sprintTwo weeks · workshops, map and report£6,500
Pilot buildSix weeks · one process, measured£18,000
Team training dayUp to 20 people · usage policy included£2,200
04 · Connect with Flows

From self-check to signed sprint to live pilot

Flows reads the self-check answers and routes the deal, turns a won deal into an engagement with a contract and a client room, and, when the pilot phase starts, calls out over HTTP to the systems the pilot touches.

  • Branch on any field, such as team size or process type
  • Call out over HTTP when a step lives outside Sonaris
  • Every run has a log, and limits stop a runaway flow
  1. Trigger · FormsReadiness self-check submitted
    when
  2. ConditionTeam size over 50
    if
  3. Action · CRMMove deal to “Discovery call”
    then
  4. Action · ChatPost to #pipeline
    then
  1. Trigger · CRMDeal won
    when
  2. Action · ProjectsCreate project from “Readiness sprint”
    then
  3. Action · CommerceContract from the deal value
    then
  4. Action · ChatOpen a room and invite the client team
    then
  1. Trigger · ProjectsPhase advanced to Pilot
    when
  2. Action · HTTPNotify the client's ticketing system
    then
  3. Action · PaymentsIssue the pilot milestone invoice
    then
  4. Action · ChatPost the pilot plan to the client room
    then
05 · The running business

Every engagement with its map, its playbook and its contract attached

The workshop canvas, the report, the client's questions, the contract and the pilot tasks all hang off one engagement, so the consultancy can run several at once without losing the thread of any of them.

Projects
Brightmoor Logistics — Sprint
Tarn Housing — Discovery
Orchard Dental — Training day
Writing · Field notes
Sections
Boards
Templates
Workflows
Project · Readiness sprintBrightmoor Logistics — AI readiness
Contract · £6,500Pilot proposed · £18,000#brightmoorPilot flow armed
Discovery
AP process mapCanvas · 14 cards
Stakeholder interviewsFolio · 6 notes
Report
Readiness reportFolio · shared
Usage policyFolio · in review
Next
Pilot scopeCommerce · draft
Sprint milestonePayments · £3,250 paid
Linked
Brightmoor LogisticsCRM
AP process mapCanvas
AI at work · 5 pagesFolio
#brightmoor · 6 guestsChat
Contract · £6,500Commerce
A week at Kestrel Applied
  1. CanvasWorkshop map: AP process
  2. FolioReadiness report shared
  3. FormsSelf-check: Tarn Housing, 140 staff
  4. CRMDiscovery call booked
  5. ChatBrightmoor CFO: “Let's pilot it”
  6. CommercePilot contract · £18,000
  7. Sites“Map first” article published
11of 14 modules in use
Seats
2
Guests
Each client's project team
Replaces
Miro, Notion, Typeform, HubSpot, Squarespace and Slack

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