Work on a real priority.
Agree the problem, intended outcome and a practical action or experiment during the training. Establish what evidence will show progress.
AI Skills & Adoption / Workshop
AI Pilot Design Sprint
Turn one selected business problem into an approval-ready pilot design, with a test method, accountable owners, resource assumptions and clear continuation criteria.
Duration1 day
Private cohortUp to 12 participants
Live online£2,495
BookingDates by agreement
Training is the start.
Application is where it counts.
Every course combines live learning, a practical application tool and a one-hour follow-up to review what happened when you put it to work.
Use your course-specific tool.
Use the Pilot design and validation evidence log to record your starting point, actions, results, obstacles and supporting evidence while applying the learning at work.
Bring the evidence back.
Join a 60-minute live cohort follow-up, normally 30 days after training. Review results with your facilitator, work through obstacles and agree what to change next. A 7- or 15-day review can be agreed where it better fits the application.
Your practical tool
Pilot design and validation evidence log — a course application workbook supplied to participants for recording implementation and review evidence.
Preview the questions worth asking before you act. The delivery workbook is provided with the course.
How application and follow-up work
The organisation provides time, relevant permissions and an owner for the agreed action. Participants capture evidence in the tool before the review. Agilinks brings facilitated reflection and focused advisory support to help interpret results and decide the next step.
One 60-minute remote follow-up per delivered cohort is included. Where a workshop already includes a one-hour follow-up, this is the same session. For the 12-week programme, the review follows programme completion and is additional to its 36 live hours. Package support allowances of eight or 16 hours remain separate; this review does not reduce them.
The review date and evidence-sharing arrangements are agreed before booking. Share approved summaries or anonymised examples; the workbook stays within your organisation unless you choose to share it. The tool is a working template, not a hosted tracking platform. Implementation is carried out by your team; technical delivery and ongoing consultancy are separately scoped. Results are reviewed honestly, including where an approach did not work.
When this is useful.
An AI opportunity has been selected, but the business cannot yet authorise a controlled pilot or tell whether its results would be meaningful.
Who commissions this?
A business owner responsible for approving the pilot.
Who should attend?
A process owner, practitioner, technology representative, data owner and someone able to resolve approval questions.
Required background
Bring one selected problem, a known process owner and sufficient workflow knowledge. This is not an unrestricted idea-generation workshop.
What participants will be able to do.
- Frame a bounded experiment around a specific business problem.
- Compare AI with simpler alternatives and identify necessary controls.
- Define evidence that would justify continuing, changing or stopping the pilot.
What your organisation takes away.
- A pilot charter defining the problem, hypothesis, scope, owner and proposed test period.
- A proposed workflow with human review, exception handling and approval dependencies.
- An evaluation scorecard covering quality, effort, baseline requirements and stop/continue criteria.
- Resource assumptions, risk/control actions and an approval checklist.
What we will work through.
One-day design sprint: six hours excluding breaks, with preparation and output refinement. Up to 12 participants.
Indicative sequence and timings. The final agenda is agreed around your organisational priorities.
01Frame the selected problem 30 minutes
Define beneficiary, present impact, desired change, scope and boundaries.
Practical output
Specific problem statement.
02Map the existing workflow 60 minutes
Examine inputs, outputs, decisions, hand-offs, exceptions, human judgement and measures.
Practical output
Current workflow and baseline requirements.
03Design the candidate approach 45 minutes
Identify assistance points, human review and non-AI alternatives; define the proposed workflow.
Practical output
Proposed pilot workflow.
04Test value and feasibility 60 minutes
Challenge benefit assumptions; assess tool capability, data suitability, effort, dependencies and resources.
Practical output
Feasibility assessment and resource assumptions.
05Define controls and approvals 45 minutes
Review reliability, information handling, oversight, escalation and unresolved approval actions.
Practical output
Risk/control actions and approval checklist.
06Design the evaluation 75 minutes
Set hypothesis, test cases, baseline, sample, test period, quality checks, effort tracking and stop criteria.
Practical output
Pilot charter and evaluation scorecard.
07Prepare the approval decision 45 minutes
Present rationale, responsibilities, dependencies, open issues and proceed/investigate/stop criteria.
Practical output
Sponsor-ready pilot design pack.
Connect the learning to work.
A sponsor can decide whether the pilot is defined sufficiently to authorise, or identify exactly what remains unresolved. Approval remains the organisation’s decision.
Pre-work and preparation
Share the current process, available baseline information, candidate tools, constraints and known approval requirements.
What we each contribute
The company provides process knowledge, relevant technical input and decision authority. Participants resolve design questions. Agilinks challenges assumptions and refines the agreed pilot pack; prototype development and implementation are separate.
A clear agreement before booking.
Includes preparation, one facilitated day and refinement of the workshop outputs. Pilot implementation, production deployment and software development are separate. A valid outcome may be that AI is unsuitable for the problem.
Separately priced. Not included in annual short-course allowances; any substitution must be agreed explicitly in your proposal.
Private live-online delivery. On-site arrangements, travel, substantial customisation and paid software licences are quoted separately. Applicable tax treatment, dates, session hours, final agenda, output scope and payment and cancellation terms are confirmed in your written proposal.
Discuss your needs → agreed proposal → purchase order where required → invoice and bank transfer. No payment is taken on this website.
Questions from L&D and business teams.
Can this align with our capability framework?
Yes. Share your business priorities, role expectations and existing framework during scoping. We agree the learning objectives, relevant exercises and evaluation approach in the proposal.
Is certification included?
This is an independent Agilinks offering. No external accreditation, examination or SAFe certification is included or implied.
Can you tailor the agenda?
We agree relevant examples and priorities before booking. Substantial redesign, additional outputs or implementation support are separately scoped.