AI Value Creation Executive Workshop
Get the answer to 'How can AI really move the needle in my business?'
An intensive, hands-on 1-day workshop for leaders who need a concrete AI action plan.'
Inquire about the workshopWhen this workshop is useful
You already got high-level ideas from consulting firms about AI. Now you want something concrete that can be applied to your company to drive growth, EBITDA margins or reduce a risk exposure.
You have the impression that a lot of 'AI vendors' are trying to sell a technical solution rather than solving your business problem.
You have many ideas on where to apply AI, but need help prioritizing what's actually worth doing to create business value.
You need support in sizing the economic value of AI, its workflow change implications and the AI oversight requirements.
What you'll get from the workshop
Clarity on where AI is the right value creation lever for your business context and goals, and where it remains hype.
A clear map of the workflows that should be augmented by AI to achieve your goal, with a high-level technical and feasability breakdown.
A playbook on how to implement human oversight properly, including AI monitoring systems, Human-In-The-Loop designs and escalation paths.
A phased roadmap on what a short-term, medium-term and long-term implementation should look like.
How the workshop works
Step 1
Get the right mental models
We'll share mental models to take the complexity out of AI and help leaders be more confident on 'How to think about AI in business'.
Step 2
Start with your business goal and move backwards
You'll decide on a business goal to focus on and we'll guide you on identifying AI value pockets and levers to achieve those goals.
Step 3
Workflow redesign around AI
Together, we'll identify the workflows that needs to be augmented by AI to achieve your goals, help you redesign them around AI and put in place the right AI oversight playbooks.
Step 4
Translate into a next-step plan
You leave with a focused output and a practical view of what should happen next, not just workshop notes.
How we know our methodology works
Our disciplined yet intensive workflow design approach has helped us achieve commercial results for more than 15 years, even before AI.
3x faster delivery at 8% of the cost
Redesign of a software delivery cycle to be AI-first
We replaced a slow and costly outsourcing vendor with an in-house AI-native delivery cycle. The production-ready software was deployed in under 3 weeks and allowed the client to get user feedback 3 times earlier.
25% increase in investment throughput
Redesign of investment due diligence workflows around agentic AI
We helped an investment firm augment their investment teams with AI with a bespoke AI solution which compressed 3 weeks of due diligence into a few hours, while keeping strong AI oversight.
10x more qualified leads for outreach
Augmenting an outreach team with AI copilots
We advised an outreach team on how to adjust their workflow to get more targeted LinkedIn profiles for different outreach campaigns, and implemented a bespoke an AI solution to replace manual labor.
Capture new revenue opportunity
Go-to-market workflow redesign around self-serve
We redesigned the entire go-to-market motions from sales, marketing and product onboarding for a SaaS company, and unlocked previously unreachable paying markets at a low marginal cost.
70% higher telemarketing conversion
Integrating the sales stack & workflows
We helped a retail business increase its telemarketing conversion by 70% by digitizing and integrating their entire sales and telemarketing infrastructure, using smart routing to the best agents for the best leads and automated follow-up.
50% shorter time-to-productivity for new salespeople
Redesigned a sales training workflow into a tech-enabled one
We redesigned a traditional, offline staff training into a blended experience, shortening the time to acquire sales skills and increasing the output quality, while optimizing trainers' time utilization.
Who leads the workshop?
The same C-Level advisor will guide you through the journey.
No ‘Buy senior judgment, get junior execution’ model.
Transformation leader
Led complex digital transformations in enterprise banking, education, SaaS, AI and investment management.
Operator
15+ years of experience building companies, launching products, driving growth, from 0 to exit.
Investor
Experience evaluating business opportunities, working with capital allocators and enterprise value creation.
AI engineer
First-hand understanding of AI systems, harnesses, orchestration and governance.
Bao Nguyen (AI Value Creation Principal)
Bao brings a blend of business acumen, strategy and AI engineering capabilities, allowing him to help Clients bridge the gap between AI and actual value creation.
In the last 15 years, he has held C-level roles and led digital transformations across enterprise banking, education, SaaS, carbon financing and investment.
He has advised on AI strategy and implemented real-world AI solutions for an investment fund, leading the client from solution shaping to actual delivery to production. He also brought to market an AI and data platform in carbon financing. Both solutions included complex multi-step agent orchestration, RAG and AI governance planes.
In terms of commercial success, he enabled one of the first billion dollar exit in Vietnam (Commercial Real Estate) and exited 2 of his own companies (tech-enabled education and SaaS).
He holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science (Paris, 2008), where he worked on neural networks - the foundations enabling most of current GenAI technologies.
Still on the fence?
This engagement is a good fit when…
- • You are already past basic AI awareness and needs a credible business starting point.
- • You want an action plan around one real business goal, not a broad AI trends discussion.
- • You need a focused decision-making session that can lead into implementation or deeper design work.
This engagement is not the right fit when...
- • You want a general education on AI awareness and trends.
- • You want training on how to write better prompts.
- • You do not believe leadership should drive the AI transformation and prefer a bottom-up, employees-led approach.
Inquire about the workshop
Share the business priority you want to address. We will respond with whether this workshop is the right starting point and what the next step should be.