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Intent Workshop

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Location :

In person

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Audience:

Technical and product leadership

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Duration :

3 hours

Interested in this workshop for your organisation?

Overview

About the workshop

A workshop that meets you where you are


We explore your Al landscape, identify high-value opportunities, and surface how your workforce may need to adapt.


Al works alongside us in the session, scanning the horizon together so you walk out knowing far more than when you walked in. Already clear on the problems? We prototype solutions with you in real time.


Practical and collaborative. A concrete starting point and plan of action, not a slide deck.


Our experts

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Tim Howard

Director of Transformation

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Calum Gunn

Principal Consultant at esynergy

Calum leads AI strategy, engineering practices, and the adoption of agents and agent platforms to shape the workforce across government and regulated sectors.

Workshop structure

Opening

Duration: 15 mins

What you can expect

We’ll set the context, align on objectives, and agree the focus for the session based on where you are today. The framing is simple: AI capability is abundant — the opportunity is turning it into measurable value for your organisation.

 

Laying the foundations

Duration: 25 mins

What good looks like

We’ll establish a shared, practical picture of how AI creates durable value:

  • defining intent first — knowing the outcome you want before you build
  • treating AI as part of the operating system, redesigning workflows so systems execute and humans govern outcomes
  • the building blocks of value you can trust: controlled inputs, testable scenarios, clear ownership of outcomes
  • how small, AI-augmented teams turn this into results in weeks, not quarters
Your AI landscape

Duration: 25 mins

Scanning the horizon together

An interactive scan of where the value sits for you. With AI in the room, we’ll explore:

  • your ambitions, and the opportunities with the strongest value-to-effort ratio
  • where you already have momentum to build on
  • how your workforce can be extended and augmented to capture that value
  • (Track A) the highest-value opportunities to commit to / (Track B) the fastest path to scale what’s working
Defining intent — participant activity

Duration: 30 mins

From opportunity to a system you can measure

Participants take one or two real opportunities and shape them against the building blocks of a trustworthy, value-generating system:

  • the outcome and how you’d measure success
  • the specification, inputs, and evaluation that make it reliable
  • ownership and the workforce shift that makes it stick
Break

Duration: 30 mins

A chance to step back and regroup. We may use the time to start building something from what’s emerged so far — so you can see intent turn into a working prototype.

Prototype or plan — participant activity

Duration: 25 mins

Turning insight into action

Ready to build? We prototype a solution with you in real time. Still shaping direction? We map a concrete, prioritised plan. Either way you leave with:

  • a prioritised opportunity or working prototype
  • the measurable value it targets
  • the capabilities and workforce changes that unlock it
  • a clear next step matched to where you are on the journey
Wrap-up and next steps

Duration: 15 mins

Recap, Q&A and practical next steps

We’ll close with key takeaways, follow-up options, and a clear view of how an embedded esynergy team could accelerate the value you’ve identified.

Benefits

After this session, you'll walk away with:

Clarity on where the value is — a prioritised view of the AI opportunities that matter most for your organisation right now.

A concrete starting point, not a slide deck — a prioritised opportunity or a working prototype, plus a plan of action matched to your stage.

A view of your workforce advantage — how AI-augmented teams capture and compound that value.

A trusted route to scale — practical next steps for turning intent into measurable, governable outcomes.