Service · Discovery Sprint
The Discovery Sprint is a structured Microsoft 365 and AI readiness assessment for nonprofits, foundations, and rural hospitals. We identify your top three to five use cases, score your governance posture, and deliver a written 90-day roadmap with measurable KPIs.
Aligned to Microsoft’s Envisioning & PoC for Agents methodology. Not ready to talk? Read the “Before You Enable Copilot” guide →
Why a Sprint, not a vendor call
Most mission-driven leadership teams are having the same conversation right now: the board is asking about AI, staff are already using ChatGPT informally, and the funder questionnaire just added a question about AI governance. Nobody on the inside has the time or technical depth to write an honest answer.
The temptation is to take a free vendor pitch, get a deck of slides, and move on. But the slides don’t survive the next board meeting. What survives is a written plan with specific use cases, named owners, governance gaps surfaced and ranked, and KPIs leadership can measure against.
A Discovery Sprint produces that document. Two weeks. Structured methodology. A real engagement with a real deliverable: not a sales meeting in disguise.
The Sprint also answers the question every leadership team eventually asks: where do we actually start in the CompleteCare stack? The 90-day roadmap names the tier that fits your situation and tells you why, so the next conversation is about scope, not category.
What you get
Written in the language a board, a funder, or a compliance reviewer can act on. All four are yours regardless of what you do next.
Deliverable 01
The top use cases for your organization, ranked by mission impact, technical feasibility, and time to value. Each one has a named workflow, a named owner, and an estimated effort band. Filtered through Microsoft’s Envisioning & PoC for Agents prioritization framework: the same methodology Microsoft asks its top partners to use.
Deliverable 02
For each prioritized use case: hours saved per week, cases routed faster, board reports drafted, donor outreach personalized. Numbers leadership can hold us, and you, accountable to. A board-ready business case with specific metrics per use case.
Deliverable 03
A phased plan from where you are to first production AI in 90 days. Weeks 1–4: secure the foundation. Weeks 5–8: deploy the pilot. Weeks 9–12: measure and expand. Each phase names the CompleteCare tier or tiers involved.
Deliverable 04
A direct answer to the question your board is asking: can we deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot and custom agents safely, and if not, what specifically has to happen first? Identity, data classification, sensitivity labels, Conditional Access, and responsible-AI policy gaps surfaced and ranked.
All four deliverables are yours regardless of what you do next. There is no obligation to engage Centered Networks for the implementation.
How it works
Stakeholder interviews, a Microsoft 365 tenant review, a use-case workshop, and an executive presentation. Six to eight hours of your team’s time spread across two weeks.
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Week 1
Days 1–2: Stakeholder interviews with leadership, IT, and two to three line-of-business owners. Workflow mapping for the highest-friction processes.
Days 3–4: Microsoft 365 tenant review against Copilot and CIS IG1 readiness. Identity, data, license inventory, and shadow-AI exposure assessed. Microsoft Secure AI Productivity assessment methodology.
Day 5: Use-case workshop. Staff and leadership identify where AI could realistically help, and where it should not.
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Week 2
Days 6–7: Use-case scoring through Microsoft’s prioritization framework. Business case modeling. Governance gap analysis.
Days 8–9: 90-day roadmap drafted. Tier recommendation finalized. Risks and dependencies documented.
Day 10: 60-minute executive presentation. Full findings, prioritized use cases, business case, roadmap, governance verdict. Written deliverables handed off.
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Closeout
A 60-minute session with leadership, the board representative, and whoever will be accountable for the next step. Full findings presented. Written deliverables in your hands. Questions answered. Decision timeline yours to set.
At a glance
One-time engagement. No hidden fees. The roadmap is yours.
| Organization | Investment |
|---|---|
| Small org (100 or fewer users, single tenant) | $5,000 |
| Mid-size (100–500 users) | $7,500 |
| Large or complex (500+ users, multi-tenant, or healthcare) | $10,000 |
| Qualified-prospect sponsorship (priority segment, scoping required) | $0 |
What happens after
Every path leads to a CompleteCare tier. The Sprint is the front door.
If governance gaps come first
Close the identity, device, email-security, and data-protection baseline before any AI or SOC work. This is the prerequisite tier for most organizations.
See CompleteCare →If AI is the priority and the foundation is in place
A four-week productized Microsoft 365 Copilot deployment, or the ongoing managed AI program. The Sprint confirms which is the right entry point.
See Copilot Kickstart →If you need governed AI for healthcare
The HIPAA-aligned version of this engagement, with clinical-continuity considerations and BAA documentation built in from the start.
See Healthcare AI Readiness →If a specific agent use case is obvious
Six named, productized agent deployments, each a four to six week engagement. The Sprint identifies which kit fits; the kit delivers the agent.
See Agent Kits →We build what we recommend
We built the National Mall Gateway, the digital civic education platform for America’s 250th anniversary, on Microsoft Azure for the Trust for the National Mall. The platform serves 360-degree virtual tours, lesson plans, custom itineraries, and accessibility-first features to an expected 50 million visitors during 2026. We developed a custom generative AI model in Microsoft Foundry to draft educational resources from vetted National Park Service content, and built the infrastructure with Terraform for near-instant disaster recovery. The project is featured as a Microsoft Customer Story.
Every recommendation in a Discovery Sprint is grounded in the same methodology we used here: real governance, real architecture, real accountability.
Questions
A free discovery call is a sales conversation. The Discovery Sprint is two weeks of structured work: stakeholder interviews, tenant review, use-case scoring, governance assessment, written deliverables, and an executive presentation. The roadmap is yours whether you continue with us or not.
Yes. From the kickoff call to the executive presentation, two weeks of calendar time. We typically need 6 to 8 hours of stakeholder time spread across the two weeks, plus IT-admin access for the tenant review.
Sprint scope scales with the size and complexity of your environment. A 50-user nonprofit on a single Microsoft 365 tenant is a different engagement from a 500-user healthcare system with multi-tenant and HIPAA workloads. The scoping call determines which band you sit in.
We occasionally sponsor the Sprint at no charge for organizations in our priority segments: typically community foundations, rural hospitals, and nonprofits in active funder-driven AI conversations. Ask on the scoping call; it is at Centered Networks’ discretion.
No. The roadmap is yours regardless. Roughly 80% of Sprint clients engage us for the next step because the roadmap maps cleanly to a CompleteCare tier. That is a separate decision made after the deliverables are in your hands.
That is the most common starting point. The Sprint includes a specific assessment of why Copilot is not producing ROI yet. It is almost always governance, prompt-library quality, or adoption discipline rather than the platform itself.
Yes. While the Sprint leads with AI readiness (because that is where most boards are focused right now), the methodology covers identity, security, data, productivity, and governance: the full Microsoft 365 platform. The roadmap names whichever CompleteCare tier or tiers fit your situation, not just Intelligence.
A senior Centered Networks engagement lead supported by a Microsoft-certified solutions architect for the tenant review. Chris or another member of the leadership team is the executive contact throughout.
Two weeks. A 90-day roadmap. The document your board can act on.
Tell us about your organization. We’ll scope the Sprint to your environment, confirm timing, and get on the calendar. Chris or someone from the leadership team responds within one business day.
Not ready to talk yet? The “Before You Enable Copilot” guide is a useful starting point.
A senior member of our team will reach out within one business day to discuss your organization and scope the Sprint.
Microsoft alignment
The Discovery Sprint methodology is aligned to Microsoft’s Envisioning & PoC for Agents framework and the Microsoft Secure AI Productivity assessment: the programs Microsoft asks its top partners to use when helping mission-driven organizations evaluate AI readiness.
