
AI capacity and alpha impact modelling
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AI adoption often fails not because tools lack capability, but because impact is poorly defined, weakly measured, or disconnected from decision-making.
Lydian Stone’s AI capacity and alpha impact modelling is designed to make the effect of AI explicit, defensible, and relevant to senior leaders. The model translates workflow-level efficiency gains into capacity, decision speed, and performance outcomes – expressed in terms investment and strategy teams recognise.
Why modelling matters
Time savings alone do not create advantage.
Without a clear link between AI-enabled workflows and outcomes such as deal coverage, decision velocity, or value capture, AI initiatives risk becoming isolated productivity exercises.
The modelling ensures AI adoption is:
Grounded in real work
Anchored to senior capacity and decisions
Measured in ways that support confidence and accountability
Lydian Stone follows a structured process designed to connect AI-enabled workflows directly to outcomes that matter.
Task mapping
High-effort, repeatable workflows are identified across sourcing, diligence, analysis, reporting, and decision preparation – with a focus on where senior and team time is constrained.
Efficiency estimation
Realistic time savings are estimated by role, based on how work is actually performed rather than theoretical automation potential.
Capacity and decision impact
Released time is translated into increased capacity – such as additional evaluations, faster cycles, or deeper analysis – and into changes in how senior attention is allocated.
Alpha impact scenarios
Conservative, base, and stretch scenarios model how increased capacity and speed can influence outcomes – whether through improved investment selection, sharper strategic choices, or stronger value capture.
Visibility and validation
Impact is tracked over time using agreed metrics, ensuring results are observable, reviewable, and grounded in evidence rather than assumption.
Interpreting alpha
Alpha is used here in its broadest sense – as sustained outperformance driven by better use of scarce senior time, faster and higher-quality decisions, and more consistent execution.
Depending on context, this may appear as:
Improved deal selection and IC velocity
Stronger portfolio and reporting insight
Faster strategic and capital-allocation decisions
Reduced execution drag across complex initiatives
The modelling framework remains consistent, even as the expression of impact varies by organisation.




