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Getting started with AI

From the AI opportunity assessment to a solution of your own. Many businesses bought AI long ago, and everyday work still does not change. The tool is rarely the reason. That is exactly where we start.

  1. Assessment
  2. Enablement
  3. Integration
  4. Automation

When nothing changes despite the licenses, there are usually three reasons: nobody has worked through their own tasks with the tool, it is unclear which company data may go into a prompt, and intermediate results are still copied by hand from one program to the next.

The path runs in four stages. You begin by handing whole tasks to the tools you already have instead of only asking questions, and after each stage you decide again whether the next one is worth it for you. We propose a solution of your own only once the standard tools reach a real limit.

You do not need to know in advance which tool you need.

Assessment

What you get

One day at a fixed price, remote by video conference; a meeting on site with you is arranged separately on request. We review your workflows and select up to two together for a closer examination. We include a narrowly scoped third workflow only if time allows. We check which data exists for them and what state it is in. We talk to the colleagues who run the workflow every day.

Within five working days you receive a short written decision report with a recommended first step and the reasons that speak against the other options. We then go through the findings together in a 60-minute review. The recommendation can be a tool you already have, a change to the workflow, a pilot, a direct step into integration or automation, or no paid step at all.

What changes in your business

You know where AI helps in your business today and where it does not. An honest answer can also be that the next step is not worth it yet. You will hear that sentence from us when it is true.

The next step

Discuss an AI opportunity assessment

In the intro call we clarify free of charge whether the AI opportunity assessment is the right step for you. If you commission the enablement workshop within 30 calendar days of the findings review, we credit the fee in full.

Enablement

What you get

Two workshop days for one team, at a fixed price, working on that team's real tasks. We work with Claude including Cowork, with ChatGPT Work, and with Microsoft Copilot. Your team can already ask these tools questions; in the workshop it learns to hand over whole tasks and to accept the result: with a goal, material, boundaries, and a review step. Every participant brings cases from their own week, and those cases are the material of the workshop.

Two parts are fixed and are never dropped. The first is a part on governance. It covers data protection when company data goes into Claude or ChatGPT, the main points of the EU AI Act, and an understandable list of what may go into a prompt and what may not. The second is a clear view of the licenses: which access your team really needs and how the providers charge for it.

What changes in your business

The team hands over tasks from its own work instead of practicing on examples from a presentation. It knows which tasks are suited to handing over, how much review a result needs, and when it is better to keep a task itself. And it knows the rules it has to follow when it handles company data.

The next step

Discuss an AI enablement workshop

If you want to keep what you learned in everyday use, there is a monthly program with one session per month and support between the sessions.

Integration

What you get

We connect the tools to the programs you already have and to the channels through which work reaches you. That always includes an approval step: the AI prepares, a named person checks and approves. Only when you see from live operation that a category works reliably do you decide whether it may run without approval.

What changes in your business

The copying between windows stops. The information is where the work happens, and nothing leaves your company without someone having seen it.

Automation

What you get

A solution of your own with bounded AI agents, built for the workflow that the standard tools can no longer cover. This is the point where the rules and exceptions of your business are too precise to describe in a prompt, or where the work should run without anyone starting it. The solution belongs to you.

What changes in your business

A workflow that ties up people today runs as your own application. Your people still decide at the points where it counts.

The next step

Discuss an automation

The implementation runs in fixed-price milestones, and what we build belongs to you. Ongoing operation is agreed separately as a monthly service with reserved capacity; it is not included in the implementation. Where the step between two stages is not obvious, we test the most important workflow beforehand in a pilot with real examples.

The assessment fee is credited

The AI opportunity assessment costs a fixed amount for one day. If you commission the enablement workshop within 30 calendar days of the findings review, we credit that amount in full against the workshop. So you do not pay twice for the fact that we want to understand your business before we recommend anything.

What you can rely on

You buy your licenses yourself, directly from the provider. We do not resell licenses and we earn nothing on them. That is why our recommendation for a tool does not depend on which one we have on the shelf.

Governance is part of the workshop and not an add-on package. Data protection and the main points of the EU AI Act come first, before a team starts putting real company data into a tool.

We speak openly about tools and providers. What another company's product can do, we say as it is. What we build ourselves belongs to you.

You talk directly to the developer who is responsible for your solution. No sales team in between, and no handover to someone who does not know your business.

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FAQ about getting started with AI

What does the AI opportunity assessment cost?

The AI opportunity assessment has a fixed price for one shared working day. We review your workflows and examine up to two in depth. We include a narrowly scoped third workflow only if time allows. The price is set before you commission it. If you commission the enablement workshop within 30 calendar days of the findings review, we credit the fee in full against the workshop.

Do we need to know in advance which AI tool we need?

No. That decision is exactly the one we take off your hands. You show us a task that costs time today and explain it in your own words. We ask questions, work out the rules and the exceptions, and recommend the smallest approach that helps reliably in everyday work. That can be a tool you already have.

May our company data go into Claude or ChatGPT?

That depends on the plan you booked and on the settings, not on the name of the tool. In the workshop we clarify, for your own accounts, which data may go in, which may not, and how your staff can tell the difference. We claim only what is actually configured in your account.

Do we need our own licenses?

Yes. You buy access to Claude, ChatGPT, or Microsoft Copilot directly from the provider, on your own contract. We do not resell licenses. In the workshop we tell you which access your team really needs, so that you do not pay for seats nobody uses.

Talk to us about your workflow

We like to start with the back-office work that slows your business down, which of those tasks an AI agent can take over, and which software it needs for that.

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