I’m a consultant. I do not work in tech. Typical opportunities look at a decision that gets made many many times. This includes systems where everything gets treated the same despite some 80/20 kind of situation, which is a lot of them. Lots of older businesses have these kinds of setups where stuff is run on gut instinct or decent enough but risk adverse rules. Don’t think crazy neural net image recognition whatever. Really just look at what the business spends a lot of money on and think “could they do that smarter?”

A common thing I do is say company X has a fleet of Y assets. They repair them every N years. A good solution would be to predict which ones need repairs. Do those ones more often. Do the healthy ones less often. Pay more attention to the ones that are valuable.

Better outcomes, millions less spending. Probably don’t even need a live model in prod. Just a semi annual manual export run to excel for some planner guy who’s been keeping the schedule for 2 decades