Featured Project
GenAI Cost Forecasting Model
A predictive system that transformed AI governance at Sherwin-Williams by forecasting implementation costs before deployment—reducing approval cycles by 50%.
50%
Faster Approvals
64,000+
Employees Impacted
6 weeks
Development Time
Enterprise
Adoption
The Story
During my internship at Sherwin-Williams, I noticed a critical bottleneck in the AI governance process. Business units would submit requests for AI tools, but estimating costs was a manual, time-consuming process that delayed approvals by weeks.
Inspired by ML and economic forecasters who predict product costs for future planning, I asked: "Why couldn't we forecast the cost of implementing AI tools the same way?"
I authored a white paper outlining the concept and pitched it to my manager, David Wendt. He saw the potential and gave me the green light to develop it further while balancing my other AI governance responsibilities.
Working tirelessly with ML engineers to validate the approach, I developed a presentation and presented to both my direct manager and the VP overseeing all AI initiatives at Sherwin-Williams. They loved it.
Within six weeks, I led the team that brought this initiative from concept to production. The tool fundamentally changed how Sherwin-Williams evaluates AI investments and was adopted enterprise-wide.
How It Works
Unstructured Business Inputs
Natural language requests from business units describing their AI tool needs
We need a chatbot for customer serviceWant to use Copilot for our sales team of 50Looking to implement document summarizationNeed AI for inventory forecastingData Transformation
Input: Business Request
"Hi, our marketing team of about 50 people wants to start using Microsoft Copilot for creating presentations and analyzing campaign data. We'd need it integrated with our existing SharePoint and Teams setup. What would this cost us annually?"
Copilot Studio LLM
Extracts, classifies, and normalizes parameters
Output: Structured Data
tool: "M365_Copilot"
users: 50
department: "Marketing"
integrations: ["SharePoint", "Teams"]
use_cases: ["presentations", "analytics"]
tier: "Enterprise"