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Practical AI adoption workshops for established businesses

Turn your bottlenecks into automated systems.

Your people bring real recurring tasks. We help them turn those tasks into safe, tested AI workflows and identify the larger opportunities worth implementing across the business.

90-minute workshops from £650 + VAT. Half-day workshops from £1,500 + VAT. Delivered at your premises using your approved AI tools.

SFC / Workshop 01

The Team AI Workshop

From £650 + VAT
  1. 01Show what's possible
  2. 02Find the work worth improving
  3. 03Safe use & data rules
  4. 04Learn CRIT + 20/60/20
  5. 05Build one real workflow
  6. 06Test, share, commit
Method / 01 CRIT briefing

Context · Role · Interview · Task

Method / 02 20/60/20

Humans define · AI supports · humans verify

In one day, one established SME turned three recurring bottlenecks into implementation-ready AI workflow briefs.

Technical drawing extraction · stock ordering · customer email triage

S01 — The Adoption Problem

The tools aren't the problem. Adoption is.

Most AI adoption stalls because people do not know which tasks to start with, what data is safe, or how to check the result. We fix those operating habits before you invest in more technology.

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01 / Usage

AI capability is concentrated in a few enthusiasts.

Useful experiments remain isolated instead of becoming a shared business capability.

02 / Safety

Unclear data rules suppress adoption and increase risk.

Staff either avoid the tools entirely or use them without consistent boundaries for customer and commercial information.

03 / Checking

Confident answers enter workflows without a shared checking standard.

Teams need a reliable habit for checking facts, numbers, commitments and technical claims before work is used or sent.

04 / Method

Useful experiments are not becoming shared business processes.

An AI strategy only creates value when it changes how daily work gets done, reviewed and improved.

Start with your people, not another platform. Build the habits, evidence and ownership that turn experimentation into measurable business value.

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S02 — The Workshop

Hands-on workshops that turn AI interest into working habits.

Choose a focused 90-minute opportunity workshop, a hands-on half-day workflow sprint or the complete Adoption Programme. Every format is practical, clearly scoped and priced upfront.

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Package / 01

AI Opportunity Workshop

A practical introduction for teams deciding where AI can help.

£650 + VAT

90 minutes · delivered on-site

  • Plain-English AI safety and data rules
  • CRIT and 20/60/20 introduced
  • Live work on tasks from your business
  • Recommended next opportunities captured
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Package / 03

AI Adoption Programme

For businesses that want usage, accountability and internal capability.

£4,500 + VAT

Three group sessions · measured follow-up

  • Three practical team sessions
  • Follow-up accountability and usage review
  • Internal AI champions supported
  • A shared prompt and workflow library
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Across every workshop

What your team will leave with.

Practical capability, shared guardrails and a clearer way to decide where AI genuinely improves the work.

01
Safe, effective AI use

Apply clear guardrails, protect sensitive information and check material outputs.

02
Repetitive work identified and prioritised

Focus the team on recurring tasks where AI can release useful capacity.

03
Implementation-ready briefs

Turn suitable opportunities into clear inputs, exceptions, review points and next steps.

04
Clear ownership and approval points

Define data boundaries, human checks and who remains accountable for every result.

05
Measured capacity released

Track workflow reuse, time released and the quality of the resulting work.

06
More time for the human premium

Give people more capacity for customers, judgement, creativity and action.

S03 — The Pathway

Adoption first. Integration second. In that order.

Workshops surface the truth about your business: which tasks drain the most time, which processes are rule-based enough to automate, and where AI removes a real bottleneck rather than a hypothetical one.

In the room, your team learns to

  1. 01
    Spot the right tasks

    Which jobs are right for AI, and which are not.

  2. 02
    Use AI safely

    One clear, agreed rule on customer and commercially sensitive data.

  3. 03
    Brief AI properly with CRIT

    Context, Role, Interview, Task. When information is missing, the AI interviews the user instead of inventing answers.

  4. 04
    Keep a human accountable with 20/60/20

    Humans define the outcome, AI supports the middle 60%, and humans verify and own the result.

  5. 05
    Build one working workflow

    For a task they actually do every week, tested against a real example and saved for reuse.

Included in the Adoption Programme

  • A follow-up accountability session with every attendee
  • Internal AI champions trained inside your business
  • A shared prompt library your team owns and grows
  • Usage tracked and reported: who used their workflow, how often, and the hours released

The adoption goal: staff routinely ask "could AI do this faster, better or more consistently?" Usage is reviewed against real workflows, rather than assumed after the training.

Leadership AI Strategy Session

Two focused hours to agree priorities, guardrails, ownership and the next sensible investment.

£1,250 + VAT

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Every opportunity is classified as an individual assistant, a shared team workflow or a connected business system. That creates a sensible path from testing an idea to building a dependable business tool with AI.

S04 — Why This Works

Built on delivery, not slideware.

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01 / Format

Working sessions, not lectures.

Nobody watches a demo for 90 minutes. Everyone builds a workflow for a task from their own job.

02 / Safety

Safe by design.

Every workshop includes your agreed data rule: what staff may and may not put into AI tools.

03 / Accountability

Humans stay responsible.

The 20/60/20 model keeps your people accountable for every output. AI assists; it is never the accountable employee.

04 / Evidence

Measured, not vague.

In the Adoption Programme, we track who used their workflow, how often and what time it released. Real examples, not inflated claims.

Northamptonshire's practical AI partner

Workshops run at your premises across Northamptonshire and the surrounding counties, with practical follow-up so useful experiments become working habits rather than forgotten training notes.

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S05 — The 20/60/20 Framework

Use AI for the work it does well. Keep people responsible for the decisions that matter.

20/60/20 is the operating principle we teach in every workshop. It helps your team decide where human judgement is essential, where AI increases throughput, and where accountable review must happen before work is used or sent.

Alongside it sits CRIT: Context, Role, Interview, Task. A briefing method your staff can remember, reuse and pass on. Together they turn “have a go with ChatGPT” into a repeatable way of working.

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Human Direction

Define the outcome, supply context and decide what good looks like.

AI-Supported Work

Research, organise, draft, analyse, transform or propose.

Human Review

Check facts, apply judgement, edit, approve and take responsibility.

AI increases capacity. People retain direction, judgement and accountability.

S06 — Client Results

What clients say about practical support from Damian and SFC.

Client 01

Joanne Banham

Joanne Banham Dance Company

Client 02

Darren Smith

Giant Journeys

Client 03

Colm Clarke

Static Hydro Energy

S07 — Led by Damian Mark Smyth

Implementing AI, not talking about it.

Two years of hands-on AI implementation: CRM automation, AI voice agents, assessment funnels, content systems and staff training across manufacturing, food, energy, trades and professional services. You get commercial judgement first, technical build second.

03TEDx talks
03Published books
BBCContributor
20+Years in business
Damian Mark Smyth delivering talks on three TEDx stages

Founder / Damian Mark Smyth

Commercial judgement before technical prescription.

Damian is a three-time TEDx speaker, published author and long-time business adviser. Success Formula Club applies that experience to train the team, build the smallest effective system, and leave your business able to run it without dependency.

In the field / Silverstone Technology Cluster

Practical AI, shared with business and technology leaders.

Damian speaking about AI at a Silverstone Technology Cluster event— bringing emerging technology back to useful, commercially grounded action.

BBC Entrepreneurs Circle Adam Smith Institute CEO Coaching International St Andrew's Healthcare GRAF Metropolitan Police

Logos indicate organisations, programmes or media platforms connected with Damian's wider professional experience. The nature of each relationship varies.

S08 — Free Resource

Where could AI make your team's working week genuinely better?

The free Team AI Opportunity Finder looks at the work people already do, how confidently they use AI and what is stopping useful habits from spreading. It then builds a practical first action plan.

  • See your current team AI adoption stage
  • Identify the three workflows worth testing first
  • Surface the confidence, support and safety gaps holding people back
  • Estimate the time and annual value a modest improvement could release
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