AI Strategy Workshop · ROI in euros · Built on 1,200+ production use cases

1,200 AI use cases.
Now your playbook.

Melitta. KAEFER. Böllhoff. Ritter Sport. We've shipped 1,200+ AI use cases into production for the German mid-market over 8+ years. The method that got them there is now yours — applied to your business in one day, with ROI modeled in euros.

Workshop team
Colin Borremans
Colin Borremans Business
Growth & Strategy · Workshop lead
Luc Möll
Luc Möll Architecture
COO · Solution Architect
What you leave with
Top 5
use cases ranked by ROI
modeled, not guessed
One
starting point you can defend
Business + tech
The workshop in one sentence

We compress 1,200 production use cases into your five highest-leverage AI bets.

Input · your reality
Processes + pain points

Your actual workflows, your real stakeholders, your data questions, your business problems. Not a generic AI lecture.

Management IT / Digital Business units
Output · board-ready
Five-bet portfolio

A ranked set of AI initiatives with ROI math, a 6-month roadmap, and the one bet you should ship first.

Top-5 use cases ROI range PoV recommendation
01
Transfer the pattern

What worked at scale, applied to your context.

02
Force focus

Five bets with leverage. The rest cut.

03
Justify the budget

ROI in euros. Not in vibes.

04
Open execution

A path forward your team can walk.

Two seats. One table.

Business case. Engineering reality. One table.

Most AI workshops separate the two questions that matter most: where is the measurable value, and can the use case actually work in your data, your systems, and your process reality? We answer both. At the same table. At the same time.

Workshop stance

We don't want you leaving with ten nice ideas. We want one use case clear enough to deserve a Q1 budget line.

Context
Your reality first

We start with your processes, your decision-makers, and the friction points your CFO already feels.

Sparring
No politeness theater

We tell you which use cases don't deserve workshop time. Honestly. To your face.

Handover
Board-ready

The output has to work inside your company. Not just sound good in a deck.

Example workshop team
Business case + engineering reality
Plotdesk Core
Colin Borremans
Business
Colin Borremans
Growth & Strategy · Workshop lead

Connects strategy, growth, and the AI value your CFO can model in euros.

Go-to-market AI strategy Use-case design
Luc Möll
Architecture
Luc Möll
COO · Solution Architect

Drops AI into existing IT landscapes — without breaking security, integration, or your weekend.

Architecture Security Workflows
Strategy with execution attached.

When the workshop produces a defensible use case, you don't hit a wall. We can move it into a 4-week proof of value, a custom build, or a full growth program. One company, one bill of materials.

1,200+ use cases · 35+ industries

These projects taught us the method. Now you get the method.

Eight years inside large AI programs. Compressed into one focused day, written for your business.

1,200+
use cases in production
35+
industries served
8+
years building AI
Melitta
KAEFER
Ritter Sport
Böllhoff
DKMS
Lieken
MöllerGroup
Siblik
Spielwarenmesse
Padello
Fluid Metering
Akkufischer
Not every logo above is a workshop alumnus — but every one of them shaped the method you'll work with.
Already shipping

Real outcomes. Real customers. Real numbers.

Three production wins we shipped with our customers. The workshop is your structured way into the same method — compact, in one day, fitted to your context.

Melitta
2,000+
active AI users · company-wide
Company-wide AI adoption

2,000+ employees use AI in their daily work — with measurable impact in marketing, service, and production. What carried the rollout: a clear use-case prioritization along the value chain, and an adoption strategy that built buy-in instead of forcing it.

"Their expertise and creativity led to a solution that resonates across the entire company."
— Paul Töws · AI Hub Lead, Melitta
Böllhoff
1,000+
users in under 6 months
Scaling without an adoption crisis

Scaled past 1,000 active users in under 6 months — no adoption crisis, no shadow IT. What made the scale possible: a roadmap signed off by management and a governance model that built data protection and compliance in from day one.

"With Plotdesk we scaled to over 1,000 users in record time. Adoption is outstanding."
— Kevin Zelles · Head of Digital Transformation, Böllhoff
Siblik
40,000+
articles AI-searchable · in 1 week
From briefing to production

One week after kickoff, the use case was in production — 40,000+ articles fully indexed, with a measurable impact on quote turnaround in technical sales. What makes one-week deployment possible: clear prioritization of the single biggest pain point. Not ten use cases in parallel.

"Roll-out completed within a week. First prototypes within minutes."
— Florian Pirchegger · Controlling & IT, Siblik

Every one of these wins started with the same three questions: Where is the highest leverage? Which use case first? What does the roadmap look like? Exactly the questions we answer in your workshop.

What you walk away with

Five concrete outcomes. Acted on Monday.

No deck. No "we'll look into it." Five concrete outcomes your leadership team can act on the next morning.

use cases
5

Ranked by ROI

For each: description, effort, estimated annual ROI, prerequisites. In writing. Defensible to your board.

roadmap
6 mo

When each use case ships

Quarterly roadmap with owners, resources, and stakeholders. So everyone knows what comes next.

recommendation
1

Where to start first

A written, personal recommendation from us: which use case delivers the first measurable ROI in 4 weeks — and why this one.

AI Act
EU

Governance starter

Data-processing templates, EU AI Act mapping, role-and-rights concept. Operational, not academic.

picture of the AI strategy
1

Aligned leadership team

Management, IT, and the business units leave with the same understanding. End of endless strategy loops between departments.

Three phases, one outcome

The workshop is more than the workshop day.

We prep before. We work hard during. We deliver the report that makes the difference after.

01
1–2 weeks before the workshop

Preparation

about 2 hours of your time
  1. 01 60-min briefing call: strategy, data, stakeholders
  2. 02 Stakeholder survey: biggest friction points in daily ops
  3. 03 Pre-analysis of your tool and data landscape
  4. 04 Workshop agenda tailored to your reality — not a template
Workshop day
02
The workshop day

Workshop

1 full day · remote
  1. 01 Use-case mapping along your real business processes
  2. 02 Live demos: top use cases from 35+ industries
  3. 03 Prioritization: what ships first, what later, what never
  4. 04 Governance starter: GDPR, EU AI Act, ownership
  5. 05 Risks and blind spots — mapped openly, on the record
03
1 week after the workshop

Follow-up

included · no extra fee
  1. 01 Top-5 use-case report with effort and ROI ranges
  2. 02 6-month roadmap with quarterly milestones
  3. 03 Governance starter as operational document
  4. 04 Written "where to start" recommendation
  5. 05 Optional: 30-min follow-up call with the workshop lead
Preparation  →  Workshop  →  Outcome
One workshop. One scope.

Everything you need. One focused day.

One day. Fully remote. The same method we used for 1,200+ production use cases. The same output your board can act on. The exact investment is agreed up front in the free discovery call.

One format · zero ambiguity

Remote intensive

Fixed price · Agreed in the discovery call
Duration
1 full day, online
Attendees
up to 10 attendees

For leadership teams who want a defensible AI plan — not another deck.

  • Preparation included (briefing call, survey, agenda)
  • Full-day live workshop (Google Meet / Zoom)
  • Top-5 use-case report with effort and ROI ranges
  • 6-month roadmap with quarterly milestones
  • Governance starter (GDPR, EU AI Act)
  • "Where to start" written recommendation
  • 60-min follow-up call with the workshop lead
Book discovery call

Fixed price per format. No daily rates. No surprises. We share the exact investment in the free discovery call — once we know your team size, scope and timeline.

The discovery call is always free — we use it to decide together whether the workshop fits.

Customers, on the record

What our customers say. In their own words.

Real customers. Real results. No marketing speak.

Melitta
Their expertise and creativity led to a solution that resonates across the entire company.
Paul Töws
Paul Töws
AI Hub Lead · Melitta
Böllhoff
With Plotdesk we scaled to over 1,000 users in record time. Adoption is outstanding.
Kevin Zelles
Kevin Zelles
Head of Digital Transformation · Böllhoff
Plotdesk frees up our team, raises our close rate and produces happy customers.
Thomas Neuß
Thomas Neuß
Managing Director · DisplayMax
distilled from 1,200+ AI use cases across the German Mittelstand
Honest qualification

We'd rather walk away than waste your day.

Plain talk now saves us both pain later.

This works if you:

  • Own management, innovation, digital, or IT — with the authority to actually decide
  • Run 50+ FTEs and real business processes where AI can move the P&L
  • Are willing to put your real pain points on the table
  • Have time to act on the output — internally or with us
  • See AI as a strategy question, not an IT procurement line item

Skip this if you:

  • Want ChatGPT-for-employees training (we don't teach that here)
  • Need a "we did a workshop" line for the board with no follow-through
  • Love 80-slide decks more than 5-page action plans
  • Expect a deployed AI system by 5 PM (that's the proof of value, not this)
  • Believe AI prints money without clean data and clean processes
FAQ

Questions you'd ask if we were already on the call.

Consultants leave you a deck. We leave you a plan with ROI modeled in euros — and the team to ship it. Strategy and execution from one company, instead of handing strategy off to the next department. We speak business and tech because we build both.

That's often when it pays off the most. Licenses without a use-case strategy usually lead to low adoption and unclear ROI. In the workshop we figure out where your existing tools actually create impact — and where you need extra building blocks.

A 60-min briefing call, a stakeholder survey (15 minutes per person), and a few existing process, data, and tool overviews. Nothing more. We come prepared — you don't need to do consultant homework.

No. This is for leadership and decision-makers. We can run user training for your teams separately — but this here is the strategic reset, not employee onboarding.

4 to 10 people. The right ones: management, IT, innovation, and whichever business units have the most to gain. Fewer than 4 makes it a meeting. More than 10 dilutes the depth.

Within 5 working days: the report, the roadmap, the governance starter, and a written "where to start" recommendation. After 4 weeks: a 60-min follow-up call. If you want us to ship the first use case, we offer a Proof of Value: four weeks, one production use case, fixed price. If not, you keep everything and run it internally.

Usually 2–3 weeks from the discovery call. Remote-only means no travel logistics — we're flexible on dates.

That's what the discovery call is for. We qualify together. If we're not convinced we can deliver, we say so — instead of selling you a workshop that won't.

Your next step

30 minutes on a call.
Then we both know.

You talk. We talk. Honest assessment. If we don't think the workshop fits, we say so — instead of selling you one. You speak directly with a Plotdesk strategist. Never a sales rep.

GDPR-compliant · servers in Germany
Real strategist · zero sales theater
Strategy, platform, and implementation from one team