Kickstart your AI Adoption
Get AI moving in the right places.
AI Kickstart is built for leadership teams ready to get their people moving on AI. We build practical capability, uncover the opportunities worth pursuing, and mentor your team to deliver initial use cases in your business.
Where do you even start with AI?
Leadership teams are often dealing with several questions at once.
Where is AI already being used?
We can help you answer them. Here's how.
Equip your team. Redesign the work. Deliver the first use cases.
Kickstart combines practical learning, discovery and hands-on delivery.
Understand
We work with you to baseline your current environment: people, systems, current AI use, friction points and priorities.
Educate
We run practical AI skills workshops for your team, tailored to their AI confidence, and the work they actually do.
Discover
We use structured methods to help you uncover, prioritise and redesign the use cases most worth taking to initial AI delivery.
Build
We work alongside your team to build and deploy your redesigned AI use cases, including the change needed to embed them.
We equip your team with practical capability, then work with you to identify, redesign and deliver prioritised use cases.
Rather than automating old processes, let's rethink them.
During this phase, it's critical to investigate how work actually happens.
We guide your team to systematically uncover what's done now and how it could be redesigned.
Understand the work ›
Workflow mapping, service journeys and conversations with the people doing the job.
- Areas of high effort or high volume
- Where delays and bottlenecks happen
- How critical the decisions are
- Where judgement is needed versus clear rules
- How repetitive the task is
- How visible the use case is across the business
Challenge the process ›
Identify what could be removed, combined, automated, delegated or redesigned.
- What could be removed altogether
- What could be combined or simplified
- What could be automated end to end
- What could be delegated to a different role or tool
- What genuinely needs redesigning, not just speeding up
- Where the current process creates risk or rework
Design the new workflow ›
Decide what AI does, where people use judgement, and where oversight sits.
- Who owns the outcome
- When and how often it runs
- What information it needs, and from where
- Where human judgement and sign-off sit
- How it will be monitored
- What happens when it gets it wrong
Test value and feasibility ›
Assess usefulness, technical practicality, risk and adoption.
- Whether it's practical with the tools and data on hand
- Effort to build against the value it creates
- Risk and the controls needed around it
- How much change it asks of the people using it
- The role it could play in building wider momentum
- How quickly it could realistically go live
How we help your team
Practical activities we run with your team, scaled to match your starting point.
Leadership alignment
Agree what you really want to change with AI and where it is already in use.
Tailored AI capability workshops
Practical skills pitched to each team's confidence and the work they do.
Workflow and service discovery
Map how work actually happens, including existing AI use, tools and workarounds.
Opportunity redesign and prioritisation
Redesign the work, then agree what to do first and how.
Mentored delivery
We mentor your team to deliver the first use cases live in the business.
Move from ideas to having AI working in your business.
By the end of Kickstart, you should have:
Our goal is to help your team become self-sufficient, or we can provide fractional AI Advisory support to help you keep things moving.
Ready to get your first use cases moving?
Talk to us about Kickstart →Why work with Secret Sauce?
AI adoption needs more than training.
Our multi-disciplinary team guides you through leadership judgement, workflow design, behaviour change, innovation, risk, governance and technical feasibility.
Board and AFRC experience
Leadership judgement, governance, investment and oversight are addressed from the outset.
Change and psychology
We consider how people build confidence, change behaviour and adopt new ways of working.
Innovation, service and workflow design
We rethink and redesign the work, rather than simply adding AI to the existing process.
Data science and technical capability
We help you make complex data accessible, guide what's technically possible and help you move viable ideas into delivery.
The value comes from combining these disciplines around the same problem.
Need to get AI moving?
The most common feedback from clients is that they wish they had started sooner. There's no 'right time', and the longer you wait, the more catching up there is to do.
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