AI Strategy Workshop · For leadership teams that ship

Stop debating AI.
Start shipping it.

One remote day with your leadership team. By 5 PM, your top-5 AI use cases are ranked by euros, your 6-month roadmap is on paper, and your governance starter holds up to the EU AI Act. No 80-slide deck. No "we'll circle back." Just a plan you can act on Monday.

5
use cases ranked by ROI
modeled, not guessed
6 mo
roadmap you can ship
The workshop in one sentence

Trade one working day for a board-ready AI plan.

Format · Input
1 full day

Eight focused hours with the people who actually decide. Leadership. IT. The business units that will own the use cases.

1 day · remote up to 10 attendees leadership + key roles
Outcome · not a slide deck
Top-5 use cases

Ranked by impact, feasibility, and effort. With ROI modeled in euros, a 6-month roadmap, and a governance starter your legal team can sign.

ROI range 6-month roadmap clear first move
01
Find the lever

Where will AI move the most money?

02
Model the math

Time saved. Cost cut. In euros.

03
Map the risk

Data. Governance. EU AI Act. Roles.

04
Pick the first move

One use case you can ship in 4 weeks.

Two perspectives. One table.

Business impact. Technical reality. One table.

Most AI workshops fail one way or the other. Either it's a vision with no engineering reality. Or a demo with no business case. We bring both seats to the same table — and we don't leave until they agree.

Workshop stance

A good AI workshop doesn't end with ideas. It ends with a decision your board can defend and your engineers can ship.

Before
No cold starts

We map your industry, processes, data, and stakeholders before day one.

In the room
Sparring, not moderation

We prioritize on impact, feasibility, and budget math. Not vibes.

After
Decisions, not minutes

You walk out with what your board needs to greenlight the next step.

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

Translates AI hype into business value, priorities, and the roadmap your CFO will actually fund.

AI strategy Use-case design Mid-market & enterprise
Luc Möll
Architecture
Luc Möll
COO · Solution Architect

Pressure-tests the architecture, security, data, and integration before you commit a single euro.

Enterprise security Cloud & AI Integration
The workshop is the starting line. Not the finish.

If a use case holds up under scrutiny, we can move it straight into a 4-week proof of value, a custom build, or a full growth program. Strategy, platform, engineering — one team, one bill of materials.

1,200+ production use cases

1,200 production use cases. Distilled into one workshop day.

Eight years. 35+ industries. One method. Now applied to your company.

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.
The honest take

AI pilots burn cash. Production value stays a slide deck.

Three symptoms we see at almost every mid-market company before the workshop:

01

Licenses gathering dust

Six-figure AI tool budgets. Active adoption often under 20%.

02

Workshops without exits

Idea lists, not decisions. Three weeks later, the momentum is dead.

03

Pilots stuck on the bench

Demos and prototypes that never bridge to your data, your processes, your P&L.

"

AI isn't a tool problem. It's a process problem in disguise.

Three rules

Three rules

that make this workshop work.

We've shipped 1,200+ AI use cases across 35+ industries. Three rules made the difference. They make this workshop different too.

01 / 03

Strategy first. Tools last.

We start with your KPIs and bottlenecks. The tooling conversation comes after we know what's worth fixing.

02 / 03

Business and tech, side by side.

We pressure-test every use case for impact AND feasibility — at the same time, in the same room.

03 / 03

Plans, not posters.

You leave with five ranked use cases, a 6-month roadmap, and a governance starter your board will sign.

How it works

Three phases. One result that holds up.

Most consulting deliverables hit the bin in three weeks. Ours have to survive your CFO.

01
Phase 1 · Preparation

Briefing & stakeholder survey

1–2 weeks ahead
  1. 01 60-min preparation call with the workshop sponsor
  2. 02 Stakeholder survey: pain points and where you suspect AI fits
  3. 03 Industry and data landscape scan from our team
  4. 04 Agenda tailored to your reality
Workshop day
02
Phase 2 · Workshop

The workshop day

1 full day · remote
  1. 01 Frame the business model, KPIs, and bottlenecks
  2. 02 Use-case sourcing from your industry + our 1,200-case library
  3. 03 Prioritize by impact, feasibility, effort
  4. 04 ROI modeled in euros. Risk and EU AI Act checked.
03
Phase 3 · Outcome

Report, roadmap, and one written recommendation

5 working days after the workshop
  1. 01 Top-5 use cases with ROI range and effort estimate
  2. 02 6-month roadmap with quarterly milestones
  3. 03 Governance starter: EU AI Act, data, roles
  4. 04 "Where to start" recommendation + 60-min follow-up call
Preparation  →  Workshop  →  Outcome
What lands in your inbox

What you walk away with. And what hits your inbox a week later.

Workshop Report
AI Impact Dossier
Top 5
Top-5 use cases ranked by ROI

Each use case gets impact, feasibility, effort, and ROI range — in euros, not buzzwords.

02
6-month roadmap

Milestones, owners, and the quick wins that fund the bigger bets.

03
Governance starter

EU AI Act mapping, data classifications, role-and-rights template. Operational, not academic.

04
"Where to start" recommendation

One use case. Written. Defensible. Ready to ship in four weeks.

01

Top-5 use cases ranked by ROI

Each use case gets impact, feasibility, effort, and ROI range — in euros, not buzzwords.

02

6-month roadmap

Milestones, owners, and the quick wins that fund the bigger bets.

03

Governance starter

EU AI Act mapping, data classifications, role-and-rights template. Operational, not academic.

04

"Where to start" recommendation

One use case. Written. Defensible. Ready to ship in four weeks.

05

Leadership alignment

Management, IT, and the business units leave with the same picture. End of the telephone game.

06

60-min follow-up call

Four weeks later. We check in. What's working. What's stuck. What ships next.

Format

One day. One fixed price. No daily-rate bingo.

One clear format. The exact investment is set up front in the free discovery call — once we know your team size, scope and timing. No "let us put together a proposal" dance.

Most popular

Remote intensive

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

For leadership teams that want a board-defensible AI plan by Friday.

  • Preparation call and stakeholder survey
  • Full-day live workshop (Zoom / Google Meet)
  • Top-5 use-case report with ROI ranges
  • 6-month roadmap with quarterly milestones
  • Governance starter (EU AI Act, data, roles)
  • "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.

Includes prep, the workshop day, the written output, and one follow-up call. No add-ons. No travel.

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
Siblik
Roll-out completed within a week. First prototypes within minutes.
Florian Pirchegger
Florian Pirchegger
Controlling & IT · Siblik
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. Here's what fits — and what doesn't.

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 the workshop
  • Believe AI prints money without clean data and clean processes
FAQ

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

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.

Consultants leave you a deck. We leave you a plan with ROI modeled in euros — and the team to ship it. Strategy, platform, engineering: one company, one bill of materials.

No. If you already run ChatGPT Enterprise, Copilot, or anything else — we factor it into the plan. If not, that's also fine. We're tool-agnostic at the strategic level.

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.

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Strategy, platform, and implementation from one team