Practical AI adoption workshops for established businesses
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.
Context · Role · Interview · Task
Humans define · AI supports · humans verify
Client result · GRAF UK
A short film from the GRAF UK workshop: real tasks, safe AI adoption, and people retaining the judgement that matters.
In one day, one established SME turned multiple recurring bottlenecks into implementation-ready AI workflow briefs.
SFC / In the spotlight
S01 — The Adoption Problem
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.
01 / Usage
Useful experiments remain isolated instead of becoming a shared business capability.
02 / Safety
Staff either avoid the tools entirely or use them without consistent boundaries for customer and commercial information.
03 / Checking
Teams need to know what to check, which sources to check against, and when to stop and ask for help. We help define those checks so confident answers receive proper scrutiny before anyone acts on them.
04 / Method
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.
Book an AI Opportunity ConversationS02 — The Workshop
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.
Package / 01
A practical introduction for teams deciding where AI can help.
£650 + VAT
90 minutes · delivered on-site
Most popular
Package / 02
A half-day working session for up to 20 members of staff.
£1,500 + VAT
Half day · up to 20 people · delivered on-site
Package / 03
For businesses that want usage, accountability and internal capability.
£4,500 + VAT
Three group sessions · measured follow-up
Across every workshop
Practical capability, shared guardrails and a clearer way to decide where AI genuinely improves the work.
Apply clear guardrails, protect sensitive information and check material outputs.
Focus the team on recurring tasks where AI can release useful capacity.
Turn suitable opportunities into clear inputs, exceptions, review points and next steps.
Define data boundaries, human checks and who remains accountable for every result.
Track workflow reuse, time released and the quality of the resulting work.
Give people more capacity for customers, judgement, creativity and action.
S03 — The Pathway
Your team knows where work gets delayed, repeated or passed between people. We help turn that knowledge into a clear process: what starts the work, which information it needs, what happens next and who remains responsible.
The workshop identifies and tests the opportunity. Where a connected system is worthwhile, we agree a separate implementation scope covering business rules, system connections, permissions and approval points.
Before wider use, the workflow is tested against agreed examples, including missing information and unusual cases. Your team understands how to use it, when to intervene and who owns future changes.
Start with one useful improvement. Measure the result. Build from there.
In the room, your team learns to
Choose the right approach for each step: formulas for calculations, approved business records for facts, and AI for drafting, organising or interpreting information.
One clear, agreed rule on customer and commercially sensitive data.
Context, Role, Interview, Task. When information is missing, the AI interviews the user instead of inventing answers.
Humans define the outcome, AI supports the middle 60%, and humans verify and own the result.
For a task they actually do every week, tested against a real example and saved for reuse.
Included in the Adoption Programme
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.
Two focused hours to assess priorities, budget, team readiness, available business knowledge, checking requirements and oversight. Agree what to test first, who owns it and what evidence would justify further investment.
£1,250 + VAT
Book an AI Opportunity ConversationEvery 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
01 / Format
Your people know where the work gets stuck. We build around tasks they already do, involve them in testing, and use their feedback to improve the workflow. They leave with something they helped shape and know how to use.
02 / Safety
Every workshop includes your agreed data rule: what staff may and may not put into AI tools.
03 / Accountability
The 20/60/20 model keeps your people accountable for every output. AI assists; it is never the accountable employee.
04 / Evidence
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.
S05 — The 20/60/20 Framework
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.
Before a workflow is used, agree what a good result looks like, which facts and figures need checking, and who can approve the next step.
Routine checks can be supported by rules. Missing information, unusual cases and consequential decisions need a clear route to the right person. Your team should know when to proceed, when to question the output and when to stop.
Define what it may read, change or send, and which actions require approval. Test those boundaries alongside the output, so responsibility is built into how the work happens.
Book an AI Opportunity ConversationHuman 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
S07 — Led by Damian Mark Smyth
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.
Founder / Damian Mark Smyth
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
Damian speaking about AI at a Silverstone Technology Cluster event— bringing emerging technology back to useful, commercially grounded action.
In the field / University of Northampton
Damian speaking at Northampton University Business Fest 2026.
Logos indicate organisations, programmes or media platforms connected with Damian's wider professional experience. The nature of each relationship varies.
S08 — Free Resource
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.
About 4 minutes. Your diagnostic answers stay in this browser.
Weekly Musings
