Sponsor, groups, tools, boundaries, candidate work, and evidence.
FROM INTEREST TO PRACTICE
Follow one cohort all the way through.
The lifecycle connects business context, live learning, real department work, and evidence for the next decision.
THE LIFECYCLE
Six moments. One useful line of sight.
Each moment produces something the next one can use, so the program does not reset at every workshop.
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DISCOVER
Name the reason to begin.
Clarify the sponsor’s objective, current AI experience, approved tools, and the work that could make a first cohort worthwhile.
Working outputA short fit brief with a business reason and an accountable sponsor. -
SHAPE
Choose the cohort and its boundaries.
Map participant groups, data rules, delivery context, one candidate artifact, and the evidence that would make the next decision clearer.
Working outputA cohort map, delivery shape, and evidence plan. -
LEARN
Create a shared way to work with AI.
Participants learn to frame the task, supply source material, define boundaries, inspect the result, and verify according to consequence.
Working outputA common operating model and a real task brought into the next phase. -
APPLY
Build with work the department recognizes.
Teams use the model on a real or synthetic artifact, compare the output to its sources, and capture the prompt, workflow, and review habit that held up.
Working outputA reusable working pattern and a named use-case record. -
SUSTAIN
Keep the useful work from going quiet.
Office hours, group-scoped resources, guided support, and updates help participants unblock work and make their patterns easier to reuse.
Working outputRefined artifacts and a prioritized set of patterns and use cases. -
DECIDE
Choose what happens next.
Review the strongest available evidence, separate learning signals from workplace behavior, and decide what should expand, change, become a build, or stop.
Working outputA clear next decision with owners and the evidence behind it.
WHAT COMPOUNDS
The cohort leaves working assets behind.
The exact mix follows discovery. The point is to create material the organization can use after the live sessions end.
Prompt or workflow, source requirements, and review habit.
Owner, value hypothesis, status, boundaries, and next action.
What the cohort learned, what changed in the work, and what to decide next.
YOUR STARTING POINT
Pick one cohort. Bring one real piece of work.
We’ll map the rest together in a short working session.
