What This Session Is
- A conversation — not a sales pitch, not a technology lecture
- Practical and specific to your industry
- One goal: everyone leaves with at least one idea they can't wait to try
Where Is AI Right Now —
and Where Does It Fit for Your Team?
AI Discovery Workshop · 60 Minutes
Three Outcomes for Today
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You leave feeling AI is real, relevant, and achievable — not hype, not scary
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A clearer picture of where AI fits in your day-to-day work
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A concrete idea of where to start
THE AI LANDSCAPE TODAY
AI is a capable junior colleague
Not a genius. Not a robot replacement.
Think of AI as a very fast, very well-read team member who has never worked in your industry before. It needs good direction. It makes mistakes. But it can handle enormous amounts of research, drafting, summarizing, and organizing.
The sweet spot
clear, bounded tasks
THE AI LANDSCAPE TODAY
Small teams have the advantage
A 10-person team saving each person 5 hours/week = one full-time employee added — without the headcount
Fewer legacy systems. More flexibility. Faster decisions. The barrier isn't access to tools — it's knowing where to start.
AI curiosity is a learnable skill
THE AI LANDSCAPE TODAY
The risk of waiting is higher than the risk of starting
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Most AI tools are inexpensive or free to try
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The real cost is opportunity cost — competitors building faster while your team does manual work that doesn't need to be manual
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You don't need a big AI strategy before you start. You need one good use case, done well.
Where AI Falls Short (Today)
Here's where the limits are.
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Final decisions requiring deep industry judgment or regulatory nuance
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Relationship-driven work — sales, stakeholder management, community trust
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Tasks where the inputs are messy, unstructured, or undocumented
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Anything where accuracy is life-or-death with no human review
The pattern
AI excels at high-volume, time-consuming, rule-governed tasks. It's weak at deep contextual judgment and trusted human relationships. This is your highest value contribution area -- everything else you should consider for AI augmentation.
LIVE DEMO
The Queryable Document Repository
The Scenario
Imagine someone on your team gets a question about a grant or contract. Instead of digging through a 60-page PDF — they just ask.
What You'll See
A plain-English question → an instant, accurate answer pulled from real documents
Key Takeaway
Any team member can query your documents in plain English. No training required. Live in days, not months.
Example implementation: @contractQA slack bot
LIVE DEMO
Meeting Notes That Write Themselves
The Scenario
Raw meeting notes go in. A structured summary — with decisions, action items, and owners — comes out in 45 seconds.
→
The Real Question
How long does it take your team to write this up today? Or does it just… not happen?
Key Takeaway
Same notes, multiple outputs — summary, follow-up email, task list. One input, many uses.
LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR TEAM
Where Does AI Fit for Your Team?
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What tasks do you do every week that feel repetitive — where you think, "there has to be a better way"?
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If AI gave you 5 hours back per week, what would you do with them?
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What documents or deliverables does your team produce over and over, starting from scratch each time?
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If you could fix or speed up one thing by end of quarter, what would it be?
WHERE DO YOU STAND?
AI Readiness Snapshot
For each category, consider: where is your team on this spectrum?
| Category | Starter | Intermediate | Advanced |
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| Leadership & Culture | Leaders openly curious about AI? | Leadership has set AI direction? | AI experiments celebrated? |
| Current Tool Usage | Using AI tools personally? | AI tools in workflow today? | Team training on AI tools? |
| Data & Documentation | Key info documented & accessible? | Processes in written form? | AI could query your documents? |
| Process Visibility | Team knows each other's workflows? | Handoffs clearly defined? | Biggest time drains identified? |
| Risk & Trust | Comfortable sharing work context with AI? | Concerns about accuracy addressed? | Data sensitivity mapped? |
Most teams at your stage land in Starter to early Intermediate — and that's exactly the right place to be. The quick wins are real, accessible, and don't require massive change management.
One or Two Use Cases, Done Well
That's what moves the needle. A quick win creates a pull effect — the rest of the team starts asking "can AI do this too?"
2026 is a year of change -- The question isn't whether AI belongs in your business.
It's where to start.
NEXT STEP
AI Readiness Assessment
A focused deep dive with your team. We map your highest-value use cases, prioritize them, and give you a concrete starting point.
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2–3 hour engagement
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Prioritized AI roadmap specific to your industry
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Designed to pay for itself in the first tool we build together
Let's find 20 minutes this week to talk about what this looks like.
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