Build a 90-day AI plan

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title: "Build a 90-day AI plan"
description: "A three-phase method to turn scattered AI ambition into a 90-day plan with owned workflows, clear rules and one measured result leadership can see."
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# Build a 90-day AI plan

A three-phase method to turn scattered AI ambition into a 90-day plan with owned workflows, clear rules and one measured result leadership can see.

For: CEOs, COOs and leadership teams who know AI matters but have no plan anyone owns.

Most AI strategies are either a slide of possibilities or a pile of tool subscriptions. A useful 90-day plan picks a few workflows, sets the rules that make AI safe to use, and ships one measured result — so the next plan is based on evidence rather than enthusiasm. These three phases fit the work into one quarter.

## Days 1–30 — Assess and choose

**Goal:** Know where AI is used today and pick where to focus.

1. Inventory current AI tools, accounts and informal use across teams.
2. List candidate workflows and score them on value, readiness and risk.
3. Choose one priority workflow to ship and two to prepare.
4. Name an executive owner for the plan and an owner for each workflow.

**You finish with:** An inventory, a scored shortlist and named owners.

## Days 31–60 — Set the foundation and build

**Goal:** Make AI safe to use and start the first workflow.

1. Publish a short AI use policy: approved tools, data rules and review points.
2. Configure the approved workspace for the priority workflow’s team.
3. Record the baseline for the priority workflow before changing it.
4. Build the smallest version with approval points and a stop rule.

**You finish with:** A published policy, a configured workspace and a first workflow in parallel run.

## Days 61–90 — Measure, report and plan the next quarter

**Goal:** Prove the result and decide what comes next.

1. Compare the priority workflow against its baseline.
2. Report results, costs and lessons to leadership in one page.
3. Decide whether to expand, adjust or stop, with reasons.
4. Set the next quarter’s workflows and owners from what the first one showed.

**You finish with:** A measured result, a leadership report and the next 90-day plan.

## Common pitfalls

- Starting with a tool purchase instead of a workflow.
- A plan with no executive owner.
- Skipping the policy, so people keep using personal accounts.
- Reporting activity instead of a measured result.

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## See it as a workflow

- [A company-wide AI rollout with rules people follow](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/company-wide-ai-rollout/): Leadership Move from scattered personal AI accounts to one approved setup, a short policy and a first set of shared workflows the whole company uses.

## More guides like this

- [Get a stalled AI pilot into production](https://lidvizion.ai/guides/get-a-stalled-ai-pilot-into-production/)
- [Run an AI steering group](https://lidvizion.ai/guides/run-an-ai-steering-group/)

## Related answers

- [What should a practical 90-day AI plan include?](https://lidvizion.ai/answers/what-should-a-90-day-ai-plan-include/)
- [When should a company hire a fractional Chief AI Officer?](https://lidvizion.ai/answers/when-should-a-company-hire-a-fractional-chief-ai-officer/)

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