Phase 01 · Governed
Foundation
Leadership aligns on strategy, risk, governance, budget and change management, and the AI workspace is configured live.
- ai-native-strategy.pdf
- governance-kit.pdf
- adoption-playbook.pdf
- + budgeting framework, change plan
AI Leadership Workshop · Build your company's AI operating model
Your team has AI tools. This workshop gives it a plan.
A hands-on workshop that aligns your leadership team on AI strategy, governance and budget, sets up a governed AI workspace, and maps a department-by-department rollout. Built by the team behind 60+ production AI deployments across 11+ industries.
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We run a limited number of workshops each month.
Most companies have bought AI tools, but few have a plan for using them. In this video, Devin explains why AI adoption stalls (shadow AI, rising spend, an overloaded internal AI champion and internal politics) and how the workshop fixes it in three phases.
60+
AI systems shipped to production
$13M
Total ROI produced for our clients
100K+
Fans across the world
11+
Industries in production today
The workshop
The AI Leadership Workshop from CustomAI Studio is a hands-on session for executive and department teams at mid-market and enterprise companies. Leadership aligns on AI strategy, governance, data security and budget, sets up a governed workspace in Claude, ChatGPT or your tool of choice, and leaves with a department-by-department rollout plan.
The problem
Why AI adoption stalls
Buying seats and sending people to training is the tip of the iceberg. Most companies get stuck for four reasons.
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No playbook for AI at scale
Vendors sell silver bullets. Nobody hands you an operating model for rolling AI out across the company.
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Tools don't know your business
Your policies, SOPs and tribal knowledge aren't in any vendor's product, so the output never quite fits.
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Your AI champion is overloaded
One person becomes the AI help desk. Projects reach 80% and stall when other work takes priority.
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Internal politics
Half the team won't touch AI. Without change management, adoption splits the company instead of moving it.
Why we built this
After designing and deploying more than 60 production AI systems, the truth became impossible to ignore.
“The companies actually winning with AI weren’t winning because they picked Claude over ChatGPT, hired better prompt engineers, or bought more software.
They were winning because leadership changed how the organization operated. They established governance, standardized how AI got used, captured company knowledge, built reusable systems, created clear ownership, and measured success with real ROI.
Look, we all know that AI is inevitable. The challenge leaders are faced with today is figuring out how to maximize what it can do for their organization.”
The 5-stage AI adoption framework
Most companies are at stage one. The workshop takes you through two and three, and sets up four and five.
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You are here
Stage One: Experimental
Scattered, ad-hoc use. Shadow AI, no shared view, no guardrails.
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Foundation
Stage Two: Governed
Leadership aligned. Shared vocabulary, risk framework, a place to build safely.
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Build
Stage Three: Operational
Adoption department by department. Real workflows moved into production.
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Growth
Stage Four: Integrated
A dedicated team inside the business. Custom infrastructure, working across departments.
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Growth
Stage Five: Optimized
AI-native. Compounding gains, measured on outcomes, improving on its own.
You own everything
Most AI workshops end with a slide deck. Ours ends with working systems.
Most internal AI projects get 80% of the way there and stall. The last 20% is where the value is.
Everything the workshop produces belongs to you, loaded with your company's knowledge and standards. No lock-in, and it works with the AI tools you already use.
A structured journey that compounds over time
Every phase builds on the last, until AI becomes a core part of how your company operates.
Phase 02 · Operational
Build
We go department by department, building Skills around each team's real workflows and teaching them to improve those Skills on their own.
Phase 03 · Integrated
Growth
We become your embedded AI team, building the automation, centralized knowledge and backend systems behind the Skills.
Hear it from our clients
Leadership teams who came in with scattered AI usage, and left with a plan they could act on the next morning.
“This is more than I would have hoped for. I kept telling Devin this was where I wanted to get to, but I didn’t expect we were going to get there this quickly. The whole thing was incredibly thoughtful, and as soon as I showed it to Keith (CEO), he was immediately bought in.”
“It has been a game changer. I spent a couple hours after that call getting some tasks set up as artifacts in Claude, instead of as a Word doc or Slack message… I would not have known about that except for the session with your team.”
“[Julian] and Devin built a session that made it easy to jump in… I’m setting up 1x1s with several of the folks who were in the session, and I’m happy to share my guidance as they keep building. Watching the realm of the possible open up for my teammates has been the best part.”
Workshop details
- Format
- Hands-on, facilitator-led workshop
- Length
- Half-day (Foundation)
- Who attends
- CEO, leadership team, department heads
- AI tools
- Claude, ChatGPT or your tool of choice
- You leave with
- AI strategy, governance kit, adoption playbook, budgeting framework, change management plan, configured workspace
Frequently asked questions
Who attends?
Leadership first, in Foundation. Then each department works with us alongside its team in Build.
Which AI tool do you use?
We prefer Claude, but the workshop works with ChatGPT or whatever your company already uses.
What happens after the workshop?
Build rolls out working Skills department by department. Growth makes us your ongoing AI team.
How many workshops do you run?
A limited number each month, because every workshop is hands-on.
Ready to become AI-native?
Get your leadership team on one AI plan.
Book a call and we'll walk through where your company is today and what the workshop would cover for your team.
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