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How exactly should this AI solution be designed — before implementation begins?

The complete functional and technical design for your greenlit initiatives — ready to implement.

The program greenlit the initiatives and set the priority. The blueprint designs them: what each solution does, which models and agents run it, how it integrates, how it’s secured, and what “done” means — one specification a delivery team can implement from without guessing.

Design package
Every greenlit initiative, fully specified.
Functional, AI, technical, security and acceptance — before any build.
The decision
Approve for implementation.
The approved package becomes the build baseline.
Time & price
from $15,000
Priced for the portfolio, by scale · built on the AI Adoption Program

The questions it answers

Business & Functional

Which business objective does the solution support?

How will users interact with it?

Which business process will change?

AI Design

Which models should be used? Which AI agents are required?

Which workflows should be automated?

What level of autonomy is acceptable — and how do humans stay in the loop?

Technical Design

How will it integrate with existing systems?

Which interfaces, APIs and services are required?

How should data flow through the solution?

Security & Compliance

How should authentication, permissions and data protection be implemented?

Which compliance requirements must be met, and how is sensitive data protected?

Acceptance

How will success be measured?

Which acceptance criteria must be met before production — and what defines production readiness?

The final approvalApprove the Technical & Functional Blueprint for implementation.

What you get

One package — the AI Solution Blueprint — covering the initiatives your program greenlit. Six groups of documents, one build-ready design:

01

Executive Solution Overview

The one document the sponsor who approves the build actually reads: what each solution does, what it costs, when it’s ready — the whole design in a page, without the spec underneath. It’s what turns a hundred-page blueprint into a decision leadership can sign.

02

Functional Design

What the solution does, from the user’s side.

Functional Specification · User Stories · Process Flows
03
The core of the blueprint

AI Design

The decisions a delivery team can’t improvise — model choice, agent boundaries, autonomy, human-in-the-loop, guardrails.

Model Selection · Agent Design · AI Workflow Design · Prompt Strategy · Guardrails
04

Technical Design

How it’s built and how it connects.

Solution Architecture · Technical Requirements · Integration Design · Data Flow · Security & Compliance Requirements
05

Quality

What “good” and “done” mean, in measurable terms.

Non-Functional Requirements · Success Metrics · Acceptance Criteria · Acceptance Test Scenarios
06

Delivery

How it reaches production.

Implementation Approach · Rollout Plan · Dependencies & Assumptions
A specification, not a proof of concept. Nothing is built here — the blueprint is what makes building predictable. When it’s approved, no open questions remain before implementation starts.

The blueprint on the table

One design document per greenlit initiative, each signed off as its own implementation baseline — here’s one of them. Sample — form, not real data.

Customer Support AI AssistantKnowledge Search+1
SAMPLE
HainkJuly 2026
AI Solution Blueprint

Customer Support AI Assistant

The functional and technical design, ready for implementation.
Prepared for
Northwind Trading
Version
1.0 — implementation baseline
Status
Approved for implementation
Scope
Functional, AI, technical, security & acceptance
Contents
01
Executive Solution Overviewp. 1
02
Functional Designp. 4
Functional Specification · User Stories · Process Flows
03
AI Designp. 9
Model Selection · Agent Design · AI Workflow · Prompt Strategy · Guardrails
‹model: … · agents: … · autonomy: supervised · human-in-the-loop: … · guardrails: …›
04
Technical Designp. 18
Solution Architecture · Integration Design · Data Flow · Security & Compliance
05
Qualityp. 29
Non-Functional Requirements · Success Metrics · Acceptance Criteria & Tests
06
Deliveryp. 36
Implementation Approach · Rollout Plan · Dependencies & Assumptions
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How it runs

Phases 1–4 were the Assessment and the Program — the blueprint continues the same track, one greenlit initiative at a time.

Phase 5Solution Discovery & Scope

Using the AI Adoption Program as the input, we take each greenlit initiative in turn and refine it into an implementation-ready scope. With business and technical stakeholders we define business objectives, solution scope, users & stakeholders, functional requirements, business rules, success criteria and integration boundaries.

The decision to proceed has already been made — this phase removes the remaining ambiguity before design begins.

Phase 6Functional & Technical Design

Our team develops the Functional Specification, Technical Specification, AI Workflow Design, Solution Architecture, Integration Design, Security Requirements, Non-Functional Requirements and Acceptance Criteria. This is where the whole blueprint is created.

Phase 7Blueprint Review & Approval

We review the blueprint with business and technical stakeholders and validate the solution against business objectives, architecture, security, integrations and acceptance criteria. Approved documents become the implementation baseline.

DeliveryThe complete AI Solution Blueprint package

Executive Solution OverviewFunctional SpecificationTechnical SpecificationSolution ArchitectureAcceptance Package… among the full design set

No assumptions remain before implementation starts.

What’s behind the price

Priced from $15,000 — visible on purpose. What stands behind it:

The judgement calls settled before code — model choice, agent boundaries, autonomy, guardrails. Get these wrong mid-build and it’s rework; the blueprint resolves them while they’re still cheap to change.
Every greenlit initiative, fully specified — functional, technical, security and acceptance, to the point where nothing is left to interpret mid-build.
Executable by any competent team — yours, ours, or a third party. A blueprint you can hand to anyone is a real specification, not a lock-in.
Priced against the alternative — building an AI solution from a vague brief is how budgets double and timelines slip. The blueprint is the cheapest place to be precise.
Price scales with the portfolio — how many initiatives, and how complex each is (integrations, data, autonomy, compliance surface). Fixed in the proposal.

The program decided what. The blueprint designs how. Implementation builds it.

The AI Adoption Program greenlights the initiatives; the blueprint turns them into build-ready specifications. With the baseline approved, implementation begins — models, integrations, infrastructure — by your team or ours.

About implementation →

Ready to design the solution?

Start with a 30-minute scoping call — or go straight to a proposal. From $15,000, priced for your portfolio.

Frequently asked questions

Do we need the AI Adoption Program first?

Normally yes — the blueprint designs initiatives the program already greenlit and prioritized, using its portfolio and roadmap as input. If you arrive with a clearly defined, already-decided initiative, we can scope a blueprint directly — the scoping call sorts that out.

Is anything actually built in this phase?

No — deliberately. The blueprint is the design; nothing is implemented. That separation is the point: you approve exactly what will be built, and its cost and criteria, before a delivery team starts.

Can our own developers build from it — or only Haink?

Anyone competent can. The blueprint is written to be executable by your team, ours, or a third party. That’s what makes it a specification rather than a sales hook.

Does it cover one initiative or the whole portfolio?

The portfolio the program greenlit — each initiative gets its own functional and technical design, scoped and priced together. Bundling the pricing doesn’t blur the work: every solution is specified to its own build-ready bar, because each is a distinct system with its own models, integrations and acceptance criteria.

What if the design surfaces a problem with the initiative?

Then the blueprint says so — better here than mid-build. Occasionally the right output is “this needs rescoping” or “a prerequisite isn’t closed yet.” Finding it in design is the cheapest place to find it.

What happens after approval?

Implementation. The approved blueprint is the baseline a delivery team works from — models, integrations, infrastructure. If you build with us, delivery picks up directly from the package.