An AI workflow looks promising, but production readiness is unclear.
Test the workflow, data, controls, review model, economics, and operating owner before scale.
JM Digital Decision Kits
JM Digital Decision Kits turn scattered context into a leadership-ready view: what is true, what is risky, what is worth the next investment, and what should move in the next 90 days.
Watch the overview
A short walkthrough of how the kits organize evidence, tradeoffs, ROI logic, and next steps before a retail, AI, data, or platform decision gets expensive.
Why This Exists
Retail teams already have documents, dashboards, vendor notes, and meeting history. What they often do not have is one clean decision package leadership can trust. These kits turn that scattered context into evidence, tradeoffs, owner clarity, ROI logic, and a practical path forward.
Best Fit
Test the workflow, data, controls, review model, economics, and operating owner before scale.
Separate platform limits from ownership, data, integration, governance, and process constraints.
Clarify source of truth, business owners, handoffs, quality rules, and decision rights.
Pressure-test fit, migration risk, implementation assumptions, and long-term ownership first.
Core Deliverables
The Core Decision Kit gives your team the complete self-serve system: intake prompts, evidence maps, a scorecard, ROI framing, an editable brief, workspace assets, and a 30/60/90 path.
Choose Your Kit
Open the family that matches the question leadership needs to answer. Each family has a fast Entry signal, a complete Core system, and an Advisory Review when senior interpretation would help the decision move cleanly.
Use this when the demo created momentum but the production evidence is still scattered: source data, human review, fallback rules, downstream systems, permissions, monitoring, ownership, and the business outcome the workflow must protect.
Replace demo confidence with production evidence before investment, reputation, and operating risk are committed.
Entry Kit
Fast readiness signal
$79
Core Decision Kit
Production evidence system
$200
Advisory Review
Senior readiness interpretation
$1,500
| Tier | Best for | What you get | What you do not get | Investment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Kit | Curious teams validating one AI workflow. | Short PDF guide, working workbook, CSV import files, and a first-pass evidence gap view. | No full 90-day path, ROI worksheet, completed workbook examples, or senior advisory interpretation. | $79 |
| Core Decision Kit | Teams that need self-serve production readiness assets. | Detailed PDF guide, Excel workbook, CSV import files, evidence templates, ROI worksheet, and 30/60/90 path. | No live advisory review, workshop facilitation, or implementation planning. | $200 |
| Advisory Review | Leadership teams with completed evidence and an active decision. | Full core kit plus advisory PDFs, workbook examples, evidence templates, CSV examples, and leadership readout deck assets. | No hands-on implementation, delivery ownership, or system build support. | $1,500 |
Use this when every initiative seems to reopen the same questions: who owns the flow, which system is the source of truth, where the handoff breaks, and what should be stabilized, simplified, retired, or sequenced next.
Turn recurring operational noise into an architecture decision leaders can understand, prioritize, and defend.
Entry Kit
Constraint scan
Coming Soon
Core Decision Kit
Operating architecture system
Coming Soon
Advisory Review
Architecture decision review
Coming Soon
| Tier | Best for | What you get | What you do not get | Investment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Kit | Teams that need a quick read on one recurring friction point. | Short PDF guide, working workbook, CSV import files, and first-pass operating constraint prompts. | No full operating-model assessment, ROI worksheet, completed workbook examples, or advisory interpretation. | $79 |
| Core Decision Kit | Teams preparing a 90-day stabilization or simplification path. | Detailed PDF guide, Excel workbook, CSV import files, systems map prompts, risk scoring, ROI view, and 30/60/90 path. | No live advisory review, workshop facilitation, or implementation planning. | $200 |
| Advisory Review | Leadership teams reviewing a complex architecture or operating-model decision. | Full core kit plus advisory PDFs, workbook examples, evidence templates, CSV examples, and leadership readout deck assets. | No system implementation, vendor management, or program delivery ownership. | $1,500 |
Use this before platform preference turns into platform commitment. The kit helps assess storefront, checkout, product data, promotions, inventory, OMS, ERP, CRM, POS, analytics, SEO, app governance, partner scope, cutover risk, and launch readiness.
Protect the business from treating replatforming as a software swap when the real work includes process, data, ownership, partner scope, and launch controls.
Entry Kit
Migration reality check
Available August 6, 2026
Core Decision Kit
Platform decision system
Available August 6, 2026
Advisory Review
Platform tradeoff review
Available August 6, 2026
| Tier | Best for | What you get | What you do not get | Investment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Kit | Teams doing early platform exploration. | Readiness checklist, migration-risk prompts, platform-fit scan, and first-pass red-flag list. | No full migration scorecard, ROI worksheet, launch-control view, or advisory interpretation. | $79 |
| Core Decision Kit | Teams comparing platform options or preparing an internal recommendation. | Detailed PDF guide, Excel workbook, CSV import files, platform comparison, migration pre-mortem, ROI framing, and 30/60/90 path. | No live advisory review, workshop facilitation, or implementation planning. | $200 |
| Advisory Review | Leadership teams preparing a major platform decision. | Full core kit plus advisory PDFs, workbook examples, evidence templates, CSV examples, and leadership readout deck assets. | No platform implementation, partner selection ownership, or delivery management. | $1,500 |
Use this when reports, tools, and teams disagree about the truth. The kit makes source of truth, business ownership, handoffs, quality rules, downstream decisions, and ROI-relevant controls visible before AI, personalization, reporting, or automation scales.
Move from fragmented data conversations to clear ownership, decision rights, quality rules, and ROI-relevant controls.
Entry Kit
Ownership gap scan
Coming Soon
Core Decision Kit
Data ownership system
Coming Soon
Advisory Review
Ownership decision review
Coming Soon
| Tier | Best for | What you get | What you do not get | Investment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Kit | Teams that need a fast read on one data ownership gap. | Short PDF guide, working workbook, CSV import files, and first-pass accountability view. | No full ownership model, ROI worksheet, completed workbook examples, or advisory interpretation. | $79 |
| Core Decision Kit | Teams preparing to improve reporting, personalization, AI readiness, or operational controls. | Detailed PDF guide, Excel workbook, CSV import files, ownership matrix, system-of-record view, ROI worksheet, and 30/60/90 path. | No live advisory review, workshop facilitation, or implementation planning. | $200 |
| Advisory Review | Leadership teams that need senior interpretation before data, AI, or personalization commitments. | Full core kit plus advisory PDFs, workbook examples, evidence templates, CSV examples, and leadership readout deck assets. | No data cleanup, system implementation, or ongoing governance operations. | $1,500 |
Investment Ladder
Use Entry for a fast read, Core when the team needs the full decision system, and Advisory when the evidence deserves senior interpretation before the next move.
A fast read for one decision area when you need a signal before involving more people.
CoreThe complete self-serve system: brief, workspace, scorecard, ROI worksheet, decision prompts, and a 30/60/90 path.
PremiumA senior review of completed kit outputs for teams that want executive interpretation before moving forward.
Add-onsOptional office hours, planning support, stakeholder workshop support, or deeper assessment work when the decision expands.
Bonuses
Frame the decision in a format leadership can absorb quickly.
Move from diagnosis to next steps without creating another long planning exercise.
Ask sharper questions before a platform or partner conversation narrows too early.
Connect the decision to margin, speed, confidence, risk, capacity, and payback logic.
Compare options with weighted criteria so the discussion is not driven by opinion alone.
Confidence Policy
If a completed kit does not identify a meaningful constraint, risk, dependency, or executive decision, you can request a different Decision Kit at no added investment. The goal is clarity you can use, not another asset you ignore.
Role Routing
These are common starting lenses. The right kit still depends on the decision, the risk, and who needs to stand behind the recommendation.
Use the kit tied to the decision that can change margin, service, capacity, or execution this quarter.
Use Retail Architecture or Data Ownership when storefront symptoms point to content, product data, handoffs, reporting, or operating-model gaps.
Use Replatforming or Data Ownership when platform direction, integration risk, systems of record, security, or migration scope need a clearer decision path.
Use Retail Architecture when execution is slowed by unclear ownership, exception handling, process gaps, or cross-functional handoffs.
Use AI Production Readiness, Replatforming, or Data Ownership when leadership needs an evidence-backed view of readiness, risk, and sequence.
Questions
Yes. Each kit is designed for asynchronous use. Complete it alone, with a small leadership group, or before an internal workshop.
Core kits include an executive PDF, editable doc, workbook scorecard, workspace assets, and supporting templates.
The Core Kit is a productized advisory system. Advisory review, office hours, workshops, and planning support can be added separately.
Choose the area tied to the most important decision in the next quarter. If you are unsure, use the guidance form below.
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