Rung 0 · Free
AI Reality Check
Ninety minutes, on-site, where your team builds one real thing from their own work.
The AI Reality Check is a free 90-minute on-site session where 15–25 of your people build one working thing from their own work, live. It has no slides and no sales deck. Its job is to show what agentic AI actually looks like and to establish honestly whether a paid diagnostic is worth either side's time.
- Free, 90 minutes, on-site, 15–25 people building one real thing from your own work.
- No slides and no Prompt Engineering 101: it starts where the free tier stops.
- It exists partly to disqualify engagements that should not proceed.
- You leave with a working artefact, a candidate-workflow shortlist and a go/no-go on the Diagnostic.
- It is the top of a five-rung ladder sold in order; the next rung is the Adoption Diagnostic.
- Rung
- 0
- Duration
- 90 minutes
- Price
- Free
- Shape
- 90 minutes · on-site · 15–25 people · one working thing built live, from your own work
Who this is for
A transformation owner or engineering leader at a GCC, nano-GCC or funded product team who has bought AI licences and seen no measurable movement, and wants to find out (before spending anything) whether an outside practice can install working agentic workflows, and whether a paid diagnostic is worth either side's time.
What you get
- One real, working thing built live during the session from a workflow your own team brought, not a demo on our data.
- A first read on which of your workflows are genuinely agentic candidates and which are not.
- Your team seeing agent orchestration and tool use directly, past the prompt-basics that free training already covers.
- An honest answer to whether a paid Adoption Diagnostic is worth doing, including when the answer is no.
- The counter-evidence on the table: why 95% of enterprise GenAI pilots showed no P&L impact, stated by us up front.
Deliverables
The working artefact built in the room
Whatever your team builds during the 90 minutes is yours to keep. It is small by design, but it runs.
A shortlist of candidate workflows
The two or three workflows from your own operation that look most worth a closer look, and the reasoning.
A go / no-go read on the Diagnostic
A plain statement of whether the next rung is worth your money, based on what we saw in the session.
What this rung will not do
We name what we refuse to sell before we start. The honesty constraint is the product.
- No slide deck and no hype reel. If you want a vendor pitch, this is the wrong session.
- No Prompt Engineering 101. The free tier from Microsoft, AWS and Nasscom FutureSkills already covers prompt basics; we do not resell it.
- No commitment to buy anything. The session exists partly to disqualify engagements that should not proceed.
- No promise that your favourite workflow is automatable. Sometimes the honest read is that it is not, and we will say so.
Frequently asked questions
Your team brings a real piece of their own work, and in 90 minutes on-site we build one small but working agentic thing from it together. There is no slide deck. You see agent orchestration and tool use directly, and you leave with the artefact, a shortlist of your most promising workflows, and a straight answer on whether the paid Adoption Diagnostic is worth doing.
Because it is a qualification step for both sides. It lets your team see what an agentic build actually is, and it lets us see whether your workflows are worth a paid diagnostic. Sometimes the honest conclusion is that they are not, and we would rather establish that in 90 free minutes than in a paid engagement that should not have started.
No. It is not Prompt Engineering 101: the free tier from Microsoft, AWS, IBM and Nasscom FutureSkills already covers prompt basics for millions of people. The Reality Check starts where that stops: agent orchestration, tool use and what it takes to make a workflow actually run. It is a working session, not a curriculum.
A real workflow from your own operation and 15–25 of the people who touch it. The session works on your work, not on a sanitised demo, because the whole point is to test against your actual constraints. The more concrete and messy the workflow, the more useful the session.
If both sides think it is worth it, the next rung is the Adoption Diagnostic: two weeks, interviews, shadowed workflows and a licence-utilisation audit that names which three workflows to automate and which to leave alone. The ladder is sold in order: the Reality Check is how you decide whether to take the first paid step, not a step you skip.
Not sure which rung fits?
Start with a free AI Reality Check. Ninety minutes, on-site, one real workflow built live.