Most firms treat AI as a technology purchase. We treat it as a people transformation.
BDO helps organizations identify practical AI opportunities, strengthen governance, build workforce capabilities, and scale solutions that deliver measurable business value.
AI transformation doesn’t start with a technology purchase. It starts by understanding how people are already using AI, where the strongest opportunities exist, and what must change across the organization to turn experimentation into measurable results. This approach helps executives identify opportunities to grow revenue, lower costs, improve client and employee satisfaction, sharpen decision-making, outpace competitors, and build sustainable AI capabilities across the organization.
BDO’s Guided Grassroots Transformation is a people-led approach to AI adoption. Leadership establishes business priorities, governance and guardrails, while employees closest to the work identify, build and scale practical AI solutions.
BDO’s AI Diagnosis is a workforce-based assessment that helps organizations understand how AI is currently being used, where it could create business value and what risks or capability gaps need attention.
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BDO’s Guided Grassroots Transformation brings together five steps we have completed within our own firm and now apply with clients. Here is how the approach worked at BDO and how we can tailor it to your organization:
Our own AI adoption began with our people. We trained professionals on approved tools, encouraged teams to build agents for everyday tasks, and identified solutions that could be shared across the firm.
We bring that experience to your organization, working alongside your teams to strengthen AI skills, encourage responsible experimentation, and scale the agents and solutions that demonstrate business value.
At BDO, an employee idea became Agent Tara, a tax quality-check agent built in just two days. Within weeks, 45 Tax colleagues were using it, saving 1–2 hours per return and delivering a reported 400x ROI.
Start with a clearer view of your organization’s AI activity, opportunities, risks and workforce needs. The result is a practical, evidence-based action plan that helps leadership prioritize the next steps in the organization’s AI transformation.
What could your people uncover?
We work alongside your teams to turn promising ideas into practical AI use cases that support business priorities and have the potential to scale.
BDO helps you automate the manual tasks that take up valuable mindshare so your people can devote more time on what matters most. Whether it's finance, procurement, marketing, legal operations or human resources, we help you identify use cases to enhance processes, boost productivity, and unleash human potential. Dive into our "AI in Your Day" video series and discover how BDO helps people thrive with AI.
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BDO helps organizations establish practical AI governance that protects the business without slowing experimentation. We work with leadership to define oversight, roles, responsibilities, and guardrails; strengthen data privacy and cybersecurity practices; and maintain appropriate human review of AI outputs. We apply the same accountability within our own firm: AI never signs a deliverable; a BDO professional always stands behind it.
BDO’s principled efforts help companies to:
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BDO’s Guided Grassroots Transformation is a people-led approach to AI adoption. Leadership establishes priorities, governance and guardrails, while employees closest to the work identify, build and scale practical AI solutions.
BDO’s AI Diagnosis evaluates how AI is currently being used, where it could create value, what risks need attention and what workforce, governance or training gaps may affect adoption. The result is a practical action plan based on evidence from across the organization.
Organizations can scale AI adoption by training employees to use approved tools, enabling responsible experimentation, identifying effective employee-built solutions, measuring adoption and business value, and expanding the solutions that demonstrate results.
Practical AI governance establishes clear roles, responsibilities, guardrails and human oversight. This gives employees room to experiment while helping the organization address data, privacy, security, compliance and operational risks.
Your people are the transformation. Start with evidence, make progress visible and scale what works. Complete the form to discuss an AI Diagnosis and practical action plan for your organization.
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