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Your board wants proof.

SilkFlo turns AI ideas into approved business cases, then tracks the return they deliver across Copilot, RPA and agentic AI. Built for AI, digital and transformation leaders.

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Copilot meeting notes & actions
Business case

Tracking realised value against the original business case

Net benefit to date
£57,900
ROI to date
260%
Payback period
Month 1
Cumulative cash flow
Actuals to date vs forecast
£60k£30k£0 M0M4M8M12 Forecast £57.9k to date
Value realisation
Net benefit to date
£57,900
Hours saved to date2,672
Labour savings£80,160
Employee eNPS+7 pts
ROI to date
260%
Payback
Month 11 month early

One-off investment £8,000

Solution architect £2,250
Change & adoption £1,750
Prompt & agent build £4,000

Running cost per year £42,780

Microsoft 365 Copilot licences £17,784
Remaining manual effort £24,996
What opportunity do you see today?Describe it, and SilkFlo helps you assess and track it
Copilot could write our meeting notes and chase the actions.
Employee ▾Generate Idea ✦
Decision
Which initiatives should we fund?
HighLow HardEasy to deliver Quick wins Copilot meeting notes ROI 89.7% · payback 2 mo
Potential value£3.58M
Avg ROI103.7%
Approved ✓
Financial story
Net cashable savings, all initiatives, year to date
£11.5kCost savings +£7.5kRevenue £19.0kNet cashable
Beyond cash
Customer experience (NPS)+6 pts36 vs 30 baseline
Employee experience (eNPS)+7 pts27 vs 20 baseline
Compliance & risk£120kvalue at risk reduced
Run-rate£9.0k / mo
Annualised£108k
Initiatives10

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Used by AI, digital and innovation teams at

  • Staffordshire County Council
  • Aviva
  • ISG
  • RGA
  • WSFS
  • JLR
  • UST
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4x

Faster from idea to approved business case

Compared with spreadsheet and consulting methods

€3M+

Forecast savings tracked in one portfolio

Roland Szymanski, COO, electronics manufacturer

~15 hrs

Of manual reporting returned each month

Per business analyst, from automated ROI tracking

The problem

Why AI that works still doesn't show up in the P&L

AI shows up in the P&L only when someone tracks its benefits after go-live. Most organisations don't: business cases are filed at approval and never checked, and vendor dashboards count usage, not return. Benefits realisation closes that gap.

1

Ideas scattered everywhere

Use cases sit in Excel, Miro and inboxes, with no standard intake and no single view of the portfolio.

2

Funding follows the loudest voice

Approvals go to whoever argues best, not the initiative most likely to pay back.

3

Business cases nobody revisits

Once a project goes live, nobody checks the forecast against what it actually delivered.

4

Reporting eats hours every month

Innovation leads build reports by hand every month to defend budgets they can't evidence.

Case study · Aviva UK

How Aviva found £12M of savings opportunities in 21 days

Aviva's Claims Innovation team tracked ideas in spreadsheets and a Miro board, with no standard intake and no financial model. With SilkFlo's AI intake and ready-made business case models, they qualified 102 AI and automation opportunities in 21 days, each with a costed business case. Total cost: £865.

“SilkFlo transformed our process discovery, uncovering £12 million in savings in just three weeks. Its efficiency and ease of use have been a genuine step change for our team.”
Graham Lee, Aviva UK
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£12M
Savings opportunities identified
102 use cases, each with a costed business case
21
Days to a costed, prioritised pipeline
From spreadsheets and a Miro board
90x
Lower cost than consulting
£865 vs £75,600 consulting equivalent
How SilkFlo works

Benefits realisation for every AI initiative

Benefits realisation means checking that each investment delivers what its business case promised. Most teams try it in spreadsheets, months after go-live. SilkFlo builds it into every step, from the first idea to the last pound saved.

1Discover

Capture every AI idea in plain words

Staff describe an opportunity in their own words. SilkFlo's AI turns it into a scored idea with the team, process and likely value, so good ideas don't get lost in an inbox.

  • No long forms
  • Every idea scored the same way
  • Hit pipeline targets without chasing teams for ideas
“SilkFlo transformed our messy innovation pipeline into a £12M portfolio of financially-vetted, board-ready business cases. It changed the conversation from ‘what if’ to ‘what’s the ROI’.”
Graham LeeClaims Innovation Lead, Aviva UK102 opportunities · £12M · 21 days
What opportunity do you see today?Describe it, and SilkFlo helps you assess and track it
Copilot could write our meeting notes and chase the actions.
Employee ▾Generate Idea ✦
IdeaCopilot meeting notes & actions
Value driverProductivity
StageReview
Suggested techMicrosoft 365 Copilot
2Discover

Build an AI business case the board will fund

Each idea becomes a costed business case: one-off investment, running costs, expected benefits and payback. That gives you a benefits realisation plan you can track from day one. Try the method in our free AI ROI calculator.

  • Ready-made models for Copilot, RPA and agentic AI
  • Costs and benefits in plain terms
  • Win budget sign-off in fewer rounds with finance
“SilkFlo simplifies cost/benefit analysis and ROI tracking in one click. Exactly what’s needed to streamline innovation management and communicate value to stakeholders.”
Bianca AgostonBianca AgostonAI & Automation Leader
Business case · Forecast
Copilot meeting notes & actions
One-off investment£8,000
Running cost per year£44,784
Labour savings per year (3,000 hrs)£90,000
Net annual benefit£45,216
ROI (3-year)89.7%
Payback2 months
Year 1 ROI70.5%
Beyond cash
Employee experience (eNPS)+5 ptsforecast for year 1
3Govern

Approve AI investments through clear stage gates

Every idea moves through the same gates, from review to approval. Leaders compare value against ease of delivery across the whole portfolio, so funding follows evidence and every sign-off is on record.

  • One view of every idea, by stage
  • A clear record of who approved what
  • Stop funding work that won't pay back
“SilkFlo eliminates the silos when implementing AI and automation. With centralised governance, it’s easier to get stakeholder buy-in and keep everyone aligned on company strategy and goals.”
Georgina OwensGeorgina OwensCTO
Decision
Which initiatives should we fund?
HighLow HardEasy to deliver Quick wins Copilot meeting notes ROI 89.7% · payback 2 mo
Potential value£3.58M
Avg ROI103.7%
Approved ✓
4Realise

Track realised benefits against the forecast

Once an initiative is live, SilkFlo brings in usage from Copilot, UiPath and your other tools and compares realised benefits with the original business case. Anything behind plan is flagged early, while there's still time to fix it.

  • Works across any AI or automation vendor
  • Forecast vs actual, updated as data arrives
  • No more chasing benefit owners for monthly updates
“SilkFlo has become an important part of our benefits realisation approach, providing us with a structured way to capture, assess, prioritise and track opportunities across our digital transformation and automation portfolio.”
Daniel ArnoldSenior Digital Manager, Staffordshire County Council
Business case · Actuals
Synced from Microsoft Copilot
Paid back 1 month early
£60k£30k£0 M0M4M8M12 Forecast £57.9k to date
Net benefit to date£57,900
ROI to date260%
PaybackMonth 1
Beyond cash
Employee experience (eNPS)+7 ptsvs +5 forecast
5Realise

Report one benefits realisation number to the board

Every initiative rolls up into one benefits realisation dashboard: net cashable savings, run-rate and annualised value, with cashable and non-cashable benefits kept separate. When the board asks what AI has returned, the answer is ready.

  • Every figure traces back to an initiative
  • Six value drivers, from savings to NPS
  • Answer “what has AI returned?” in minutes, not weeks
“Before SilkFlo, our RPA and AI projects were in spreadsheets — it was chaotic, wasted time and lacked transparency. Now it’s all unified. SilkFlo provides the board-level transparency we needed.”
Ryan BarkerRyan BarkerCTO, Re-Insurance
Financial story
Net cashable savings, all initiatives, year to date
£11.5kCost savings +£7.5kRevenue £19.0kNet cashable
Beyond cash
Customer experience (NPS)+6 pts36 vs 30 baseline
Employee experience (eNPS)+7 pts27 vs 20 baseline
Compliance & risk£120kvalue at risk reduced
Run-rate£9.0k / mo
Annualised£108k
Initiatives10
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Simplified SilkFlo screens with demo workspace data.

Independent ROI tracking

AI tools report usage. SilkFlo reports return.

Copilot counts prompts. Agent and automation platforms count runs. Each dashboard covers one vendor and stops short of the money. SilkFlo sits across all of them and tracks what every initiative returns against its business case, whatever it’s built on.

Vendor-agnostic: independent of every AI and automation vendor
AI assistants
Microsoft 365 Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, Gemini
Active users, prompts sent
Usage
Agents & automation
Agentforce, Power Automate, UiPath
Runs, tasks completed
Activity
SilkFlo
Every tool, one view
Forecast vs actual £, per initiative
£57,900
Net benefit to date · Copilot meeting notes & actions
£0 Forecast
Paid backMonth 1
Forecast paybackMonth 2
Return
Tracks return from Microsoft 365 CopilotChatGPT EnterpriseGeminiAgentforcePower AutomateUiPath+ any other tool

SilkFlo figures are illustrative data.

In their words

What AI and automation leaders say about SilkFlo

SilkFlo has been crucial for our automation and AI initiatives. From Discovery to Go-Live, SilkFlo has helped us discover 100s of ideas, with forecasted value of over 3 million euros.
Roland Szymanski
Roland Szymanski
COO, Electronics Manufacturing
With SilkFlo, we can see our innovation projects clearly in one pipeline, making prioritization and delivery faster than ever. It’s a truly dedicated tool we wish we had earlier.
Matt Allen
Matt Allen
Automation Director, Consulting
SilkFlo enables a culture where everyone’s input in the AI journey is valued. It goes beyond idea management and allows the whole org to share and measure ideas effortlessly, driving better AI and automation solutions from the get-go.
Mario Lazo
Mario Lazo
Senior Program Lead for AI & Automation, Consulting

Frequently Asked Questions

About SilkFlo

  • What is SilkFlo?

    SilkFlo is an AI value realisation platform. It helps AI, digital and transformation leaders capture AI and automation ideas, build costed business cases, approve the right ones and track the return each one delivers against its forecast, with finance able to check every number. It replaces spreadsheets and disconnected tools with one system of record for every initiative, whatever vendor it runs on.

  • What is AI value realisation?

    AI value realisation is proving that each AI and automation initiative delivers the return its business case promised. You set a baseline and forecast before go-live, then track actual benefits against that forecast until the value is realised: cash savings, revenue, capacity released, customer and employee experience, and risk. It is benefits realisation, applied to AI. Read the full definition.

  • How do I prove AI ROI to the board?

    Show the board three things for each AI initiative: the business case it approved, what it has actually delivered since go-live, and the gap between the two. That means setting a baseline and forecast before launch, then tracking real benefits (cash savings, capacity released, customer and employee experience, risk) against that forecast every month. SilkFlo does this for every initiative and rolls it up into one portfolio figure, so the answer is ready when the board asks. Aviva UK used SilkFlo to qualify £12M of savings opportunities in 21 days, at 90x lower cost than a consulting approach.

  • How is SilkFlo different from a project management tool?

    Unlike general project management tools such as Jira or Asana that act as a ‘System of Work’, SilkFlo is purpose-built for the financial governance of AI and technology initiatives, acing as a ‘System of Value’. It combines opportunity discovery, AI business case modelling, stage-gate governance, and real-time ROI tracking in one platform. It sits above your execution tools as the financial and strategic layer – vendor-agnostic and integrated via API with your existing tech stack. 

  • How quickly can SilkFlo deliver value?

    Within weeks. Aviva UK’s Claims Innovation team qualified 102 AI and automation opportunities, worth £12M in potential savings, within 21 days of starting with SilkFlo, each with a costed business case. Business cases that used to take weeks to build can be drafted in minutes from an idea described in plain words.

  • Who is SilkFlo designed for?

    SilkFlo is built for the AI, digital and transformation leaders who have to show what their AI and automation programme returns: Heads of AI and Automation, digital and transformation directors, and centre of excellence leads. It is used in UK public sector organisations, including councils, and in financial services. Finance teams use it to check and sign off the numbers.

  • Is benefits realisation now a compliance requirement?

    Not a legal requirement for most organisations, but it is increasingly expected. PMI’s PMBOK Guide (7th edition) makes “focus on value” one of its twelve principles. For councils in England, external auditors must report on the arrangements in place to secure value for money, under the National Audit Office’s Code of Audit Practice. A benefits register that tracks realised benefits against each business case is clear evidence of those arrangements.

  • Is SilkFlo secure and compliant?

    Yes. SilkFlo is ISO 27001:2022 certified, GDPR-compliant, and holds UK Cyber Essentials certification. Full security documentation is available at silkflo.eu.trust.site. 

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