AI Investment Strategy — Industrial Manufacturer, Abu Dhabi, UAE
The Situation
A UAE-based industrial manufacturer with production facilities in Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, and Muscat had been fielding AI conversations at board level for 18 months without anything concrete to show for it. The business had no internal AI function, no data science capability, and no framework for evaluating the vendor proposals that kept arriving.
The COO had been handed the AI brief with a 6-month deadline to present a credible plan. He had 4 months left when Amorisoft was engaged.
What Amorisoft Did
Amorisoft ran a focused 10-week advisory engagement structured around one question: where does AI create measurable value for this specific business, given the data it actually has and the organisation it actually is.
Discovery covered 3 facilities and 22 stakeholder interviews across operations, maintenance, procurement, and finance. 16 candidate use cases came out of discovery. Each was scored on business value, data availability, delivery complexity, and time to first result.
16 narrowed to 3 for year-one funding recommendation. The 3 were predictive maintenance for the Abu Dhabi facility's primary production line, AI-assisted procurement spend analysis across all 3 countries, and a demand forecasting model for the manufacturer's top 40 finished goods SKUs.
Each recommendation came with a data readiness assessment, a build-versus-buy position, and a 12-month delivery timeline. The board presentation was built by Amorisoft and delivered jointly with the COO.
Results
The board approved funding for all 3 initiatives at the presentation. Combined projected value across the 3 was AED 4.2 million over 24 months, with predictive maintenance accounting for AED 2.1 million of that figure. Technology evaluation time for the approved initiatives dropped by 60% compared to the group's previous vendor assessment processes, because each initiative arrived with a vendor shortlist and evaluation criteria already defined. Implementation of the predictive maintenance initiative began 3 weeks after board approval.