AVODA AI Consulting
AI resources for East African organisations
Templates, tools and a case study, written for organisations operating here: our bandwidth, our budgets, our regulator, our constraints. Nothing here is gated behind a sales call, and every one of these documents can tell you that the answer is no.
Three tools that score you in minutes
No email required to see your result. They run in the browser and they are deliberately capable of telling you not to proceed.
AI Readiness Assessment
Fifteen questions across data, process, people, governance and mandate. A score out of 60, and more usefully the one dimension that will stop your project regardless of how strong the other four are.
About 6 minutes
AI Value Calculator
Hours freed, monthly saving, payback period and year-one net, in shillings or dollars. It also tells you when the saving would not appear on a profit and loss account, which is more often than vendors mention.
About 3 minutes
AI Vendor Scorecard
Ten questions to score any supplier before you sign: data residency, processing terms, human override, audit trail, exit cost, total cost, support and track record. Low scores become contract clauses.
About 5 minutes
The downloads
Working documents, not brochures. Three of them come with an editable Word version, because a template nobody can edit is a poster.
AI Acceptable Use Policy Template
A full policy you can adopt, written against Uganda’s Data Protection and Privacy Act 2019. Scope, a red list of what may never go into an AI tool, human accountability, an approved tool register, an incident procedure and a staff acknowledgement page.
17-page PDF and editable Word file · A template, not legal advice
The AI Vendor Scorecard
The printable version of the tool above, with space for the vendor’s own answers, a sign-off line, and clause language you can send by email as it stands.
10-page PDF and editable Word file
The 30-Day AI Pilot Plan
One task, four weeks, a number measured before you start, and kill criteria signed by the sponsor on day zero. Includes the pilot charter, the measurement sheet and the decision page.
11-page PDF and editable Word file
What AI Actually Costs an East African Organisation
Published seat prices with the date each was checked, three worked baselines for organisations of five, twenty and sixty people, the costs that appear on no quote, and what a custom build runs to against a benchmark you can verify.
11-page PDF · Reviewed quarterly
AI Board Briefing Deck
Ten slides you present to your own board: where AI already sits in the organisation, what it costs, what it is worth stated honestly, the risks directors would be accountable for, and one small reversible recommendation.
10-slide PDF · Bracketed fields for your own figures
Case study: Six days, USD 255, and a website that works
We ran forward-deployed AI engineering on ourselves before selling it. What it produced, what it cost, the traffic caveat we will not hide, and a full chapter on what AI did not do.
9-page PDF · Read it on the site first
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Why these are free
Because the most expensive AI mistake in this market is not choosing the wrong tool. It is starting a project the organisation was never ready to finish, and discovering that eight months and a budget cycle later. If these documents talk you out of a project, they have done their job and cost you nothing.
Building a business rather than running an organisation? The founder-facing guides, workbooks and assessments are on the AVODA resources page.