Build the 2027 AI plan your CFO will fund

Build the 2027 AI plan your CFO will fund

Budget season is here. Section helps AI leaders turn a year of tools and scattered wins into a measurable plan—what to fund or stop, which workflows to redesign, and how to prepare the workforce to deliver.
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2026
2027
Hours saved
23,400
Unrealized impact
$12.7M
Adoption rate
68%
Duplication
High
CRITICAL

A bigger AI budget is not a strategy

By now, you have activity: licenses, pilots, champions, agents, workshops. The 2027 plan has to connect it to business value – and make the tradeoffs clear.

What did AI actually deliver?

Separate measured value, directional evidence, and assumptions. Establish a baseline without pretending the data is perfect.

Where should the next dollar go?

Forecast value and investment under conservative, expected, and upside cases. Make every assumption visible.

Which work should change first?

Find the workflows with the strongest combination of material value, organizational viability, and speed to impact.

Can the organization execute?

Set the leadership, proficiency, adoption, and change targets required to make the roadmap more than a deck.

From messy evidence to a board-ready plan

Section brings the strategy, data, workflow expertise, and workforce plan together, so each part of the forecast has an execution path behind it.

Measure ROI to date

Inventory spend and initiatives. Analyze usage, proficiency, workflow impact, business results, and the barriers behind stalled value.

Forecast 2027 value

Model cost, capacity, quality, and growth scenarios. Distinguish hard evidence from directional signals and explicit assumptions.

Set strategy and KPIs

Align leaders on the outcomes AI should create, improve, or eliminate—and the few measures that will prove progress.

Prioritize workflows

Map critical work across functions, score opportunities, and choose the workflows most likely to produce material impact.

Enable the workforce

Define what executives, managers, champions, and employees must do differently and build the support to get them there.

Walk into budget review with the answers

Get a working plan with owners, dates, assumptions, and metrics – and a clear first 90 days.

2026 ROI baseline
2027 ROI forecast
Executive KPI scorecard
Workflow opportunity heatmap
12-month transformation roadmap
Workforce enablement plan
Investment priorities & tradeoffs
90-day action plan

“Our diagnostic with Section revealed a gap between capability and readiness that became a turning point in our approach.”

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Leo Casado

Director of Martech and AI, Autodesk

Don't roll the 2026 plan into 2027

Your ROI data may be incomplete. Your pilot list may live in three spreadsheets. Your leaders may disagree on priorities. That's normal. Bring us what you have, and we'll help turn it into a plan you can fund and execute.

Bring us the messy version