MetAiBlock
prepared for
Jamaica Teas
Proposal · Move 3 · For the Jamaica Teas leadership team

AI Operational Optimization

🤖 AI-enabled optimization 🏗️ Operational systems & processes 🔄 Change management, its own strand

Not AI training. Not consulting. One braided program. The organization is changing whether managed or not.

Executive dashboard · The program at a glance
≥25%
Capacity target · per leader
5
Senior leaders
15
Staff enabled · up to
6
Months · ongoing program
Mid-point board gate
3
Outcomes · in sequence
Live
Working system already in the business
0
Numbers produced by AI · ever
Outcome 1 · To start
Capacity recovered
Outcome 2 · Next
AI-capable organization
then
Outcome 3 · Ongoing
Transformation delivered
Renewal gate
Board review · mid-point
Book time with Charles → 50% deposit to begin, before the staff working sessions
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What we heard

July 17 leadership session. A committed team; the missing systems hold the capacity.

Capacity trapped by the missing system Their own words · their own estimates
Dahlia
Building the company's first true HR function
50-60% / week
Rebuilding the employee data foundation from paper files · the system gap carries audit exposure
Kimone
Leads marketing; fields the business's data questions
~25% / week
Spreadsheets fill the missing analysis layer · analysis time the system should return to marketing
Jonathan
Drives commercial, IT, R&D + every distributor relationship
Commercial report, assembled by hand
Days / month
Report hours are hours off the market · leadership time protects and grows key relationships
Charles Barrett
Holds the operational standard, on the floor daily
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×5 desks
One number, verified across five desks · builds his own Excel measures · carries process work a growing structure will absorb
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Data: no single home yet
Workflows live in experienced heads
Leaders carry the middle layer today
AI today: convenience → next: capacity
The reframe

Not a time problem. A capacity problem.

Recovered hours redeploy to:
Key relationships
Market development
Cost reduction
The management layer
2

The structure, catching up to the growth

No new hires: the capacity the organization already pays for, returned.

The org · today → after
Today
Leadership
Middle layer · carried by leaders today
Operations
After
Leadership · senior work
Middle layer · capacity returned, structure matures
Operations
One program · three strands
AI-enabled optimization
Systems & processes
Change management
One program
3

One program, three outcomes

In sequence. Each priced, measured, and standing on the one before it.

Outcome 1 · Stop the Bleed

Leadership capacity recovered

Timing
To start · now · 2-3 weeks
$12,500
2×3hr one-on-one blocks, per leader
Biggest drain fixed, in production
Preliminary AI roadmap, each leader
Cross-team working session
Workflow map + consolidated roadmap
Jonathan · Barrett · Kimone · Dahlia · finance lead once Sage is live
Measured by
≥25% recovered vs baseline
Working fix in production
Map + roadmap delivered
Method proven here: the hardest report now regenerates, every number traceable to source file, page and cell.
Outcome 2 · Team Enablement

An AI-capable organization

Timing
Following Outcome 1
$7,500
2×4hr group sessions · up to 15 staff
Built from the workflow map
Enablement culture: staff KPIs today
Floor-level change toolkit
Measured by
15 staff trained (cap)
Weekly AI usage in the weeks after
1+ improvement per team, staff-surfaced
Then · the ongoing program
Outcome 3 · The Ongoing Program

The transformation, delivered

Timing
October start · 6 months
$5,000/month
× 6 months ($30,000)
Workflows connected, dept to dept
Sage phasing gaps closed
Single sources of truth
Reporting that runs itself
Builds inside capacity · extras quoted first
Measured by
Monthly roadmap delivery
Manual → systematised, before/after each
Adoption + spend efficiency
Mid-point board review · the renewal gate before the second half
Governed rollout
Integration
Platform optimization
Adoption & change
Roadmap delivery

The five standing deliverables inside every ongoing-program month. Jonathan as workspace admin; built for listed-company scrutiny from day one.

4

How adoption happens here

Involvement, not announcement. Built into Outcome 2, for the production floor.

Involve
Surface objections
Co-own the fix
Adopt
5

Leadership continuity

Two engagements, one build. Together they produce the structure.

MetAiBlock · AI Operational Optimization
Returns the capacity
+
The Spark Inc · Nicole Samuels-Williams
Helps leaders convert AI-enabled capacity into leadership capability and business results
Capacity, converted into capability and results
The middle layer the organization is missing · senior leaders doing senior work · a mature operating structure

Coordinated milestones, not overlaps. Each engagement priced by its own firm. Continuity assumed in this design.

6

The AI platform: seats, spend, governance

Claude, Team plan. Centrally administered: Jonathan as workspace admin. Client-side, budgeted with the program.

WhoPlanMonthly band
Most usersStart on a $20-25/month plan, each$150-500/monthbased on usage · their own subscription
First cohort · Jonathan + the Outcome 1 leaders5-6 users ≈ $150/month
Heavier usageRaises the band
Access control
Data-handling rules
Spend controls
Auditability

Listed company: adoption never runs ahead of compliance. Honest limit: usage has capacity; we size seats, monitor burn, and optimize spend (Outcome 3, deliverable 3).

Section 7 · Before the numbers
What the board is buying · the three tests
Saves or makes money

A quarter of five leaders' targeted time, returned. No new hire. Redeployed to revenue protection and growth.

Measured, not projectedThe ongoing-program ask arrives with Outcome 1 baselines from your own team
Better managers

Capacity is the precondition for the leadership maturation underway with The Spark Inc.

Measured, not projectedTwo programs · one transformation
Time back

The KPI on every outcome. Reported vs baselines at the mid-point board review.

Measured, not projectedBoard-reviewed at the mid-point gate
Traceable, auditable numbers: the reporting engine is the standing demonstration. For a listed company, that governance posture is part of the value.
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The investment

Every price sits next to what it returns.

To start · $20,000
Then · $5,000/month × 6 ($30,000) mid-point gate
OutcomeInvestmentTiming
1 · Leadership Capacity RecoveredReturns: ≥25% of targeted-workflow time per leader, measured vs baseline$12,500To startNow · 2-3 weeks
2 · AI-Capable OrganizationReturns: an AI-capable staff layer, adoption built in$7,500NextFollowing Outcome 1
3 · Transformation DeliveredReturns: roadmap delivered, systems built, board-reviewed at mid-point$5,000/month× 6 months ($30,000)OngoingOctober start · 6 months · gated at mid-point
Program total$50,000To start: $20,000Then: $5,000/month × 6
Client-side tooling · budget completeness$150-500/monthbased on usageClaude seatsTheir own subscription · ongoing
How payment works: the program to start (Outcomes 1 + 2)
Program total to start (Outcome 1 + Outcome 2)$20,000
50% deposit · to begin, before the staff working sessions$10,000
50% balance · after the staff working sessions are delivered$10,000
$10,000
50% deposit · to begin
Staff working sessions
Delivered · the line of separation
$10,000
50% balance · after the staff sessions
$5,000/month × 6
Ongoing · October start · gated
The in-person option (group sessions)
Group enablement in person · two full days in Jamaica+$1,500 flat
Or: travel covered directly by Jamaica Teas (flight, hotel, car)at cost
Group sessions delivered virtually insteadno extra cost

Individual leader sessions are virtual. The option applies to group sessions only.

The ongoing program (Outcome 3)
Monthly engagement · 6 months · October start$5,000/month (× 6 = $30,000)

Activated after the program planning conversation. Billed only from program start. The mid-point board review is the renewal gate before the second half.

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What this builds toward

Custom platform builds sit outside this program; larger builds are scoped and quoted before work starts.

Data with a home
Documented workflows
Daily AI fluency
Organizational knowledge system
Scoped on its own merits, once the foundation exists

Outcomes 1 through 3 lay the foundation stones. The destination is a project of its own.

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Next steps

1
50% deposit · $10,000
Begins the program
2
Outcome 1 sessions
5 leaders · 2-3 weeks
3
Team enablement
Balance follows its delivery
4
Ongoing-program planning
October start · board review calendared

Where this starts

50% deposit ($10,000) to begin, before the staff working sessions · balance after the staff working sessions are delivered