Hands-on AI workshops for teams
Find the work AI should be doing. Then teach your team to do it.
AI Groundwork starts with your people and your operations, not the tools. Your team practices on their own real work and leaves with a clear decision, a roadmap, a named owner and a 30-day review. If the workshop shows a clear operating need, Otto, our AI operating system, is one place to go next.
Every workshop is led by Ed or Jeremy Krystosik.
No handoff to a junior team.
AI Groundwork
What your team leaves with.
- A Friction Map of where the week goes
- Practice on their own real work
- AI workflows they built themselves where it helps
- A prioritized decision on what to tackle first, and what not to
- A roadmap with a named owner for each step
- A 30-day review to check what stuck
On site or live virtual. One day or several. Sized by the Fit Check.
The workshop
The tools got easy. Knowing where to use them didn’t.
So we start with your people. AI Groundwork is a hands-on workshop sized to your team, on site or live virtual.
Find it
Your team maps where the week goes and learns what is worth handing to AI, and what is not.
Practice it
They work hands-on with AI on their own real tasks. We show it, they try it, we coach until it clicks.
Own it
The skills stay with your team, plus a prioritized decision on what to do next, a named owner, and a 30-day review.
1 day
Spark
AI used here and there.
2 to 3 days
Sprint
Tools that don’t talk to each other.
5+ days
Scale
Early wins, no system yet.
The problem
The operator gap.
Three patterns we see before every workshop.
You built the company. Now it runs through you.
Every decision, every exception, every “quick question” lands on your desk. The strategic work keeps getting pushed to next quarter.
You’ve bought tools. Nothing connected.
A chatbot here, a copilot there, an automation someone wired up last quarter that nobody owns. The business got a little faster in a few places and stayed the same shape everywhere else.
Every vendor pitches AI at you. Nobody diagnoses your business first.
You are not short on salespeople. You are short on someone who will sit with your operations, your team, and your P&L and tell you where AI actually earns its keep, and where it does not.
After the workshop · One possible next step
When the workshop shows a clear operating need, we can install Otto.
Otto is the AI operating system we build between your strategy, your data, your team, and the repeatable work that eats your week. It is not required, and we only recommend it where the workshop supports it. See how Otto works.
- 01Context
- 02Data
- 03Intelligence
- 04Automate
- 05Build
Results from Otto installs
$14M
portfolio underwritten in the first 14 days of production
Real estate & private equity install
465
loose documents filed, and sensitive records secured
Same install, first two weeks
~40%
tighter case processing after the Intelligence layer went live
Professional services install
How we work
Fit Check, Workshop, then what fits.
- 01
Fit Check
A self-serve readiness check. No call required.
- 02
Workshop
The main event. A hands-on workshop sized to your Fit Check result, ending in a decision, a roadmap, a named owner and a 30-day review.
- 03
Otto, if it fits
When the workshop shows a clear operating need, the five layers go in, in order, each one tested before the next. Deeper diagnosis becomes a Blueprint first when it is needed.
- 04
Run
A monthly retainer that keeps the system tuned as the business changes.
The fit.
The workshop fits any team that wants to find where AI earns its keep. Otto comes in where decisions and repeatable work still pile up at the top.
Primary
Businesses where too much still routes through the top.
CEOs and COOs at multi-location service firms, professional practices, and ops-heavy e-commerce, where decisions still wait on one or two people and repeatable work eats the leaders’ week.
Secondary
Local service businesses with operational complexity.
Multi-location clinics, practices, and operators whose day is broken up by ops questions that should not need to reach the owner.
Not a fit: If one person can still hold the whole business in their head, you don’t need Otto yet.
Start with the Fit Check.
A short readiness check shows where your team stands and which workshop level fits. Then we set up a call to talk it through.