# Guides

> Make your next AI decision with evidence.

Start with the work you want to improve. These guides help you choose a useful first test, understand the economics, and decide what the results justify.

Canonical URL: https://hartro.com/guides/

## Choose the work

[How to choose your first AI workflow](https://hartro.com/blog/choose-first-ai-workflow/)

Compare AI workflow ideas, identify blockers and choose a small first test with a clear owner, useful baseline and manageable consequences of error.

A comparison of three workflows, the blockers to resolve, and a brief for your first test.

8 min read

## Understand the cost

[Is an AI project worth the cost? A worked business case](https://hartro.com/blog/ai-project-cost-and-roi/)

Calculate AI project ROI with a worked example covering adoption, human review, integration, running costs and the difference between capacity and cash savings.

A worked business case with adoption, review effort, running costs, and downside scenarios.

8 min read

## Judge the evidence

[How to decide whether an AI pilot worked](https://hartro.com/blog/evaluate-ai-pilot/)

Set AI pilot success criteria around real work: outcome quality, human effort, adoption and permitted actions. Use the evidence to continue, change or stop.

A practical scorecard for deciding whether to continue, change the approach, or stop.

8 min read

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