From AI access to measured AI adoption

A hands-on enablement clinic for your non-engineering teams. Your stack, your governance, your adoption goals. Like a forward-deployed engineer for AI adoption, without pulling your AI team off the product.

Access isn't adoption.

Your teams already have the tools. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, an internal assistant, AI surfaces in Slack. The rollout shipped, and usage is still uneven: a few people run half their job through these tools, most opened a chat window twice and went back to the old way.

The gap lands hardest on non-engineering teams. Engineers get the tooling, the training time, and permission to experiment. People, Finance, Ops, Support, and Legal get a license and a launch email.

And the AI engineers who could close that gap can't. They're building the product. Pulling them inside to run instruction is how roadmaps slip.

AI-native companies, and the ones getting there

For companies that already bought the tools and want the usage to follow. That's the AI-native shop where engineering sprinted ahead of everyone else, and the established company partway through a rollout that stalled at "we have licenses." The room is your business teams:

  • People / HR
  • Finance
  • Ops
  • Support
  • Legal / Compliance
  • Strategy / PM

Mixed comfort levels in one room is by design. The skeptics ask the questions everyone needs answered, and your quiet power users surface fast.

What your teams walk away doing

Not inspiration. Six habits, drilled on their own work:

Pick the right surface for the job

Chat, a reusable template, a saved workflow, or an agent. Stop forcing everything through one chat window.

Provide safe context

Give the model enough to be useful without crossing data boundaries. What's safe to paste, what never is, and how to tell the difference.

Turn recurring work into loops

Take the task you redo every Tuesday and make it a reusable template, then a loop the whole team can run.

Keep a human review point

Meaningful outputs get a named reviewer. Your teams learn where the review point goes and what it actually checks.

Know when not to use AI

Some work is faster by hand and some is too sensitive to delegate. Calling that early is part of the habit.

Measure the lift

Time, quality, speed, impact. Every workflow gets a measurement card, so "it feels faster" becomes a number.

Short concept, long lab, quick readout

Every block runs 10 to 15 minutes of concept, 30 to 45 minutes of lab on work participants actually own, and 10 minutes of readout. Nobody spends the afternoon watching demos of someone else's job.

Your advanced users become table captains instead of bored observers. And there are no slide marathons: if a concept can't survive contact with real work, it doesn't make the agenda.

Four formats on a ladder

Every rung shares the same DNA: labs on real work, a measurement card, and a recommended next step. Start where your team is, not where a sales deck says you should be.

Working session Start here

2.5 hours · remote or NYC onsite · one team, up to 12 people

One recurring workflow, rebuilt live. A 10-minute pre-survey picks it: each participant submits 2 or 3 recurring tasks, one AI win, and one AI failure. Same intake pattern as the day formats, just lighter. You leave with the working workflow, a mini tool-choice map, a measurement card, and a recommended next step.

From $5,000 · credits toward any larger format booked within 60 days

Foundations + discovery

1 day · onsite · up to ~40 people

A shared baseline for a bigger group: tool-choice judgment, safe-context habits, and hands-on labs across functions. Discovery runs alongside, so leadership gets a ranked map of which workflows are worth building first.

Leaves behind: ranked workflow opportunity map

Operator bootcamp

2 days · onsite

Day one builds the baseline. Day two breaks out by function: People, Finance, Ops, Support, Legal, each drafting workflows on their own work, with specs your AI team can actually build from.

Leaves behind: drafted workflows, skill-request specs, measurement cards

Applied adoption clinic Recommended

3 days + 6-week follow-through

The full arc, through agent literacy. Then follow-ups at weeks 2, 4, and 6 while the new workflows meet reality, ending in a leadership readout: what lifted, what stalled, what to request next.

Leaves behind: measured lift, leadership readout

The working session starts at $5,000 and credits toward a larger engagement. Onsite engagements start at $39k. Exact scope and pricing on the scoping call. Travel billed at cost.

Day formats run onsite-first. Remote delivery is available for distributed or non-US teams.

From one-off prompt to managed agents

Every team climbs the same ladder. The workshops move people up it deliberately, and nobody gets pushed past the rung their work supports.

  1. One-off prompt. Useful once, gone tomorrow.
  2. Reusable template. The prompt that worked, written down so the whole team can run it.
  3. Loop. A repeating workflow with inputs, steps, and a review point.
  4. Skill request. A spec your AI team can build from, not a vague ask in a Slack thread.
  5. Supervised agent request. The same spec discipline, plus the checkpoints a human signs off on.
  6. Managed multi-agent. Literacy only: your teams learn to read and request this work, not run it.

Take-home artifacts along the way:

  • tool-choice map
  • Loop Engineering Canvas
  • structured request pack
  • skill-request cards
  • agent-request cards
  • business quality-check card
  • measurement worksheet

Every workflow gets a before/after card

Each workflow built in a lab gets a measurement card, filled in before anyone declares victory:

  • baseline
  • new workflow
  • time signal
  • quality signal
  • speed signal
  • impact signal
  • safety gate

Where volume exists, you get observed lift. Where it doesn't yet, you get directional estimates and a named list of blockers. Either way, the readout runs on numbers, not vibes.

The adoption layer, not a shadow AI platform team

No sensitive data in exercises

Labs run on real work, not real secrets. No PII, no sensitive data in exercises, and participants drill the boundary as part of the habit.

Human in the loop

Meaningful outputs keep a human review point. That's a rule we practice in the labs, not a line on a slide.

Your governance path

New skill and agent requests route through your AI team's governance path. The workshops feed that path; they don't route around it.

Vendor-neutral habits

Your teams build judgment about surfaces, context, and review points. That judgment survives a tool switch; dependency on one vendor's UI doesn't.

Operator first, builder every day since

I did the job your teams do. Enterprise sales at Cision, with a $1.6M ARR book across 125+ accounts. While I carried that number, I built the team's 50+ entry Skills library and ran AI workflow sessions at the company summit, before any of this was my job. I know what adoption looks like when the learner has a quota.

Now I build with these tools daily: 25 shipped projects, 5 hackathon wins, and the From Chatbot to Builder cohort I teach. The workshop material isn't theory I collected. It's the operating habit I use.

Closest public case study: Prompt Runner, a sales Skills library turned into a web app for an enterprise team with strict data-security requirements.

FAQ

Can we start small?

Yes, that's what the working session is for. One team, one workflow, 2.5 hours, no procurement cycle. If it lands, the fee credits toward any larger format you book within 60 days. You're not betting the quarter on a workshop.

Onsite or remote?

The working session runs remote or onsite in NYC, whichever fits your team. The day formats run onsite-first because the lab energy is the point, with remote delivery available for distributed or non-US teams.

How many people per format?

Up to 12 for the working session, one team at a time. The day formats run from about 10 to about 50 people, with function breakouts once the group is bigger than one room's conversation.

What about procurement, NDAs, and vendor onboarding?

They run in parallel with prep. NDAs, security questionnaires, and vendor onboarding happen while the pre-survey and scoping work are underway, so the session doesn't wait on paperwork.

What does our company need to provide?

Three things: tool access for participants on whatever your teams already use, the language of your AI-adoption goals so the labs aim at them, and 1 or 2 internal support people who can unblock access questions on the day.

Is follow-through available for the smaller formats?

The 6-week follow-through is built into the 3-day clinic. For the working session and the day formats you can add follow-up sessions, and every format leaves measurement cards behind, so the check-ins have structure either way.

Book a scoping call

One call, 30 minutes. You bring the adoption goal and the teams that are stuck. I bring the format recommendation and the scope. You get a written proposal within two days.

Prefer plain email? Write me at [email protected]. Two or three sentences about the team and the goal is plenty.