Data Crunch Limited Applied AI & Data Systems
Use cases

Use cases that turn a business need into a useful system quickly.

This is not a list of abstract technologies. It is a selection of situations where an AI assistant, a data layer, an automation workflow or a decision-support system can create a visible and defensible outcome quickly.

Selection

Eight cases that business teams understand quickly

These examples cover the most common situations where the goal is direct value rather than a technical demonstration for its own sake.

01

Internal AI assistant & RAG

Used to accelerate access to internal knowledge without sacrificing traceability.

  • document-heavy knowledge bases and support notes,
  • assistant grounded on explicit sources,
  • deliverables: answers, evidence trail, scorecard, reusable pattern.
02

Document workflow & intake

Used to classify, extract, validate and route documents with clear human controls.

  • common cases: client intake, onboarding, internal approvals,
  • automation plus human-in-the-loop gates,
  • deliverables: workflow, approval queue, control report.
03

SQL copilot & decision support

Used to turn a business question into a query, a summary and an action plan.

  • portfolio prioritisation, commercial review, operating decisions,
  • questions routed into SQL and an executive memo,
  • deliverables: report, memo, route log, action queue.
04

KPI automation & reporting

Used to produce indicators, alerts and summaries without making day-to-day operations heavier.

  • service, support, operations or commercial performance monitoring,
  • KPI generation and prioritised alerting,
  • deliverables: dashboard, digest, executive summary, action plan.
05

Agentic workflow & orchestration

Used to chain AI tools, APIs, no-code blocks and human validation in one flow.

  • common cases: qualification, briefing, support and tool coordination,
  • routing, fallback logic and explicit ownership,
  • deliverables: workflow studio, control layer, fallback playbook.
06

OpenClaw + n8n agentic ops

Used to supervise AI agents, execution states, human approvals and operational handoffs.

  • common cases: document agents, SQL copilots, support and reporting,
  • OpenClaw for controlled reasoning, n8n for orchestration,
  • deliverables: ops console, handoff queue, execution trace, runbook.
07

AI readiness & value-risk assessment

Used to decide which agentic AI cases should start now, start with controls or stay in backlog.

  • value, risk, data readiness, adoption and complexity arbitration,
  • OpenClaw / n8n positioning based on actual operating need,
  • deliverables: portfolio score, control matrix, 30-day roadmap.
08

Trusted metrics & BI readiness

Used to stabilise metric definitions before dashboards or copilots consume them.

  • common cases: KPI drift, weak semantic layers, reporting inconsistency,
  • trusted metrics, data contracts and release briefs,
  • deliverables: metric layer, contract status, BI release note.
What it leaves behind

Outputs that can still be reviewed afterwards

Good engagements do not leave a demo only. They leave artefacts a team can read, circulate and use for the next step.

Executive memo

What was tested, what works, what remains under watch and what should be decided next.

Testable workflow or system

Prototype, orchestration, control logic or data layer clean enough to be reviewed and shared.

Action queue

Priorities, owners, guardrails and the next engagement level if the case deserves follow-through.

Next step

If one of these looks familiar, the useful move is to start from the real workflow.

The best way to judge a use case is still to frame it quickly around the data, constraints and outcome that actually matter.