Your leadership team
can't lead what
they've never touched.
One day. Fifteen leaders. The tools open in front of them. They leave able to spec, govern, and call BS on AI work, not just talk about it.
The bottleneck nobody draws on the org chart.
You wouldn't delegate reading to a Chief Reader. Why have you delegated thinking?
Most exec AI training teaches your leaders to talk fluently about AI. We teach them to do something embarrassing first: actually use it. The fluency follows.
A CFO who has never opened Claude cannot tell you whether a £3m AI proposal is a steal or a swindle. The bottleneck is not budget. It is the prompt window your CFO has never seen.
The CEOs who win the next decade will not be the ones who hired the best Chief AI Officer. They will be the ones who became slightly annoying about it themselves.
“You're not going to lose your job to an AI. You're going to lose your job to someone who uses AI.”
Eight moves. One room. One day.
A one-day workshop sounds suspiciously short. It is. That is the point: the leaders who need this most cannot spare three.
- 01 · 09:30
Diagnose where you're actually leaking
MIT's 2025 study found 95% of enterprise GenAI pilots return zero financial value. We open with the three stalled pilots each leader brought from pre-work, mapped against the 5% that worked. Most leaks are not technical. We name yours by 10:30.
Your board pack · your AI line items - 02 · 10:30
Brief the model like a smart new hire
Claude and ChatGPT open side by side, working on your real board pack. The room discovers that most of what reads as 'AI failure' is actually a briefing failure they have been making with humans for years.
Claude Opus · ChatGPT 5 - 03 · 11:45
Commission a real piece of work
Each leader picks a live question their org is paying someone to answer. Deep Research, Perplexity, and NotebookLM run on it in parallel. We compare what came back against the £40k consulting brief that question would have funded.
Deep Research · Perplexity · NotebookLM - 04 · 13:00
Working lunch on a stuck decision
Pick one decision the last board meeting could not close. The room uses the tools on it for forty minutes. We don't promise an answer. We promise the conversation will be sharper than the original one was.
Whatever fits the question - 05 · 14:00
Spec a digital coworker
Each leader ships a no-code agent for one workflow in their own remit. The skill is not 'how Lindy works'. It is how to write a job description for software that will do the work, which clarifies the human ones too.
Lindy · Relay · n8n - 06 · 15:15
Ship something visible
A board-ready deck and a working prototype app, both in under thirty minutes. Each leader presents both to the room. We then discuss what that means for every 'six-week build' currently sitting on your roadmap.
Gamma · Lovable - 07 · 16:15
What never to trust, and why
Where these tools quietly lie. Where they confidently invent. The five categories of work that should not yet be delegated, and the five that already should have been. Governance from the muscle, not the slide deck.
All of the above - 08 · 17:00
Narrative confidence, then the signed plan
Each leader drafts a 90-second statement to their function: what we are doing with AI, what we are not, why. Then they write down one workflow they will personally ship inside 30 days, witnessed by the room. We book the day-90 Pilot Triage on the way out.
Pen, paper, the room
Eight tools. Each one chosen for what it reveals about leadership.
Not a vendor tour. Each tool surfaces a specific decision a leader has been making badly, and lets them make it well by 5pm.
Claude (Opus)
01That 'writing a good prompt' is actually 'writing a good brief'. Surfaces a management gap, not a tech gap.
ChatGPT Deep Research
02How to commission an investigation. Mirrors hiring McKinsey, but in 20 minutes for $20.
Perplexity
03That 'I'll have my EA google it' is a workflow you've been overpaying for. Verify a claim in the meeting, not after it.
Gemini + NotebookLM
04Context is now a leadership skill. Choosing what to put in the model's working memory is the new 'what to put on the agenda'.
Gamma
05How much of executive communication was performance of effort. Once a deck takes 12 minutes, you have to defend why a meeting takes 60.
Lindy (or Relay)
06The org-design question hiding inside every 'should we hire for this'. Forces a job description for a digital coworker, useful for the human ones too.
Lovable
07That the gap between idea and prototype is now hours, not quarters. Reframes 'approve the build' to 'approve the next build, having seen this one ship by lunch'.
A vertical pick
08Harvey, Hebbia, Glean, or n8n. Chosen for your sector. Shows that the real arms race is in workflow-specific wrappers your competitors already deployed.
Habit transfer, not knowledge transfer.
Knowledge transfer is overrated. One day of supervised practice beats one quarter of self-directed Lunch and Learns.
A personal AI workflow that survives Monday
Every attendee leaves with one habit they have already practised in the room, not a list of things they intend to try.
A 90-second narrative for the next town hall
What we are doing with AI, what we are not, why. Drafted in the room and stress-tested against the colleague in the next chair.
Vocabulary that calls BS in the next vendor meeting
The room will know what 'agentic' actually means, where context windows leak, when an evaluation is rigged. The next AI pitch lands differently.
A signed 30-day commitment, witnessed by the room
Not a strategy doc. One specific change each leader will make, in their own remit, in the next month. We book the day-90 Pilot Triage on the way out.
Send the people who approve the spend.
We charge £2,500 because it should sting just enough that you send the right people. The expensive version of this day is the one where you do not run it.
- CEOs, MDs, founders, managing partners.
- SLT and C-suite, including the CFO, COO, CMO, and the head of operations.
- Board members and NEDs who keep approving AI line items without touching them.
- Heads of function who own a team and a P&L, and need their team to follow.
- Engineering or data teams. They need a different workshop and a different week.
- Anyone hoping for a certificate. There is none.
- Practitioner-level training. This is the leadership version. The implementation happens later, if it happens at all.
- Anyone who cannot put their phone on the table face down for eight hours.
£2,500 flat. Up to fifteen leaders. One day.
If the day surfaces work worth building, we can scope a bespoke implementation from what we saw in the room. No obligation. Most of the value should already be sitting in the signed 30-day plans.
Pick a date. Send the diary invite. We'll bring the room into the future by 5pm.
30 minutes to scope the day for your team. No deck, no pitch.