Duration
5 hours, in a single focused session.
AI strategy workshop designed to move you forward
Most AI trainings are built generically, so the team walks out inspired but with nothing to act on. We help leadership decide which process to change first, and what it takes to start.
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Location
On-site at your office or fully remote.
Participants
Up to 20 decision-makers who own the processes.
Why do AI projects stall?
It’s rarely the technology. It’s readiness.
Most AI projects don’t fail because the model doesn’t work. They fail because the company wasn’t ready to use it. Generative AI is the clearest example: MIT found that 95% of organisations get zero measurable return on it, rarely because of the technology. The build works, the demos go well, and six months later nobody is using the system. Our workshops are different. You leave with concrete next steps you can act on, or a clear picture of what to fix before you can start.
What is an AI strategy workshop?
Seeing this pattern again and again, we built a different kind of session — one working day where your leadership stops discussing AI in the abstract and looks at your actual work.
The filter is simple: where do you do the same kind of work, over and over? We score those processes on value, feasibility and how quickly they’d show a result, and you leave with a ranked shortlist worth piloting. We call the method AI Radar, and we’ve run it from mid-size companies to global brands.
How it works
From calibration to a decision
A real sequence, not a single session. Each step has a defined output you can hold.
01
Calibration
Before the session, you share context on the processes, teams and sample data in scope. We review it and calibrate the agenda to your reality, tailoring the workshop to you.
02
The workshop
We work on your processes. Each candidate goes through the AI Opportunity Canvas and is scored against the same four readiness criteria.
03
The AI Readiness Report
We compile the scoring, reasoning and recommendations into one document: the written record you can take to the board or hand to the delivery team.
04
Results presentation
We walk your leadership team through the findings and answer questions, so the decision is shared, not just delivered.
The AI Opportunity Canvas
Better AI decisions start with the right questions. Our 45-minute AI Opportunity Canvas helps you assess whether a process is a strong first AI pilot — and what to clarify before you begin.
Get the AI Opportunity Canvas
What you walk away with
The concrete things you take home
A decision on every process
For each process you bring, a clear written verdict: Go, Not yet, or Not here.
A scored, ranked shortlist
Candidate processes ranked by business value, how feasible they are, and how quickly they would show a result.
An ROI estimate
A rough estimate of the business impact for each initiative worth piloting.
A 6–12 month roadmap
What to pilot first, what comes after the first results, and what to set aside for now.
AI Readiness Report (PDF)
An executive summary with the scoring, reasoning and recommendations, ready for the board.
A live results session
A two-hour online session where we walk your leadership through the findings and answer questions.
Is it for you?
Built for some rooms, honestly not for others
This is for you if
- ✓ You’re stuck at “we should do something with AI” and want a concrete first step
- ✓ You want a shortlist of where to start, not a tour of tools
- ✓ You can get decision-makers in one room for a day
- ✓ You have repeatable processes and data that lives somewhere
It’s not for you if
- ✗ You want hands-on ChatGPT or Copilot training for the team
- ✗ You’re after a keynote to inspire the room, not a working session
- ✗ You’ve already chosen the project and just need a vendor to build it
- ✗ You can only send people who can’t actually make decisions
Who runs it
Facilitated by the people who built the method
Not trainers reading slides. Practitioners who ship AI in large organizations and run these sessions with client boards.
Kamil Kupcewicz
Twenty years with technology products, much of it spent translating between the boardroom and the technical team. That bridge is the only way an idea survives in a large organisation. He turns broad ambition into something you can approve, budget and run, grounded in what is feasible.
Why DLabs.AI?
A workshop run by a team that ships AI
Not consultants who only advise. The people in the room have taken AI from idea to production for mid-size companies and global brands — and the workshop is built on that track record.
10+
Years building AI in production
65+
Projects delivered
40+
Clients served
4.9/5
Average rating on Clutch
Four candidate departments. Three pilots. One honest “not here”.
In a recent session, a leadership team wanted to evaluate four departments for AI pilots without betting on the wrong one. We scored each department against the same four readiness criteria, live in the room. Three were greenlit, each with an owner and a measurable goal. The fourth was set aside. Not because AI couldn’t help, but because the work rarely repeated and left no pattern to learn from. They walked out with three candidates ready to move and a clear, documented reason the fourth wasn’t.
Leave your next board meeting with a decision
Write to us and let’s talk about how we can design the session around your processes, your data and the decisions you actually need to make.
Frequently asked questions
An AI strategy workshop is a working session where a leadership team scores its own processes against clear readiness criteria and decides where artificial intelligence is actually worth piloting. Unlike a generic AI training, it ends with a written decision: a shortlist of 1–3 processes to pilot in the next 4–6 weeks, each with an owner and a measurable goal.
An AI strategy workshop and a tool training solve different problems. ChatGPT or Copilot trainings teach your team how to operate a model; an AI strategy workshop answers which of your processes to change with AI and where to start. One builds skills, the other produces a decision.
An AI workshop for leadership includes a short calibration session that tailors the agenda to your context, a hands-on session scoring your real processes through the AI Opportunity Canvas, an AI readiness audit, and an AI Readiness Report with a prioritised shortlist, a rough ROI estimate and a 6–12 month roadmap.
The AI workshop can be run either on-site at your office or fully remote, whichever suits your team. The method, the scoring and the deliverables are the same in both formats; only the logistics change.
An AI readiness assessment scores each process on data quality, team openness, available tools and financial impact before any tool is chosen. If a process isn’t ready, that’s a valid outcome: you leave with a written list of what to fix first (usually data, documentation or ownership), with an owner for each item.
An AI strategy workshop should be attended by the decision-makers who own the processes under discussion. AI adoption only works as part of strategy, not as an impulse, so it isn’t a session only for the technical team.
An AI strategy workshop runs about five hours in a single session, preceded by a ~1-hour calibration session roughly two weeks earlier. Afterwards you receive the AI Readiness Report and a 2-hour online presentation of the results.
The workshop is self-contained, with no obligation to continue. If you do want to go further, two natural paths follow: an AI Solution Blueprint for a chosen process (solution architecture, a working prototype on your data and a precise budget, typically 3 to 4 weeks per area), or full end-to-end implementation in your own infrastructure. Our job in the workshop is to show you real options, not to sell you the next step.
No. We’re vendor-neutral and cloud-agnostic, working across Azure, AWS, GCP and Snowflake, and we don’t sell licences. The recommendation follows your context, not ours.
An AI strategy workshop is a fixed-scope engagement, priced to the processes and goals you bring, covering preparation, the workshop day, the final report and the live results session. Write to us with a little context and we’ll send a precise figure; travel, accommodation and materials are on us.
