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Make room
for the
next move.

Some questions need everyone in the room. Others need a small team and a week of focus. We help you bring the right people together and turn a good question into useful work.

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Four ways to make your next move AI World Café: 2 hours. Foundations Sprint: 2 days. Design Sprint: 5 days. Business Sprint: 10 days. 2 HOURS AI World Café 2 DAYS Foundations Sprint 5 DAYS Design Sprint 10 DAYS Business Sprint
From a shared conversation to a business direction.

Start with your question.

Four formats. Each with a different job to do.
Choose the one that meets your team where it is.

01

2 hours

What does AI mean for us?

AI World Café

Bring 15–25 people into a conversation about AI at your company. Give the hopes, the concerns and the everyday experience in the room somewhere to go.

In the room15–25 people across your company

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AI World Café: how the workshop unfolds Set the question in the context of your company. Rotate through small-group conversations so ideas travel across teams. Bring the patterns together and identify useful next steps. IDEAS TRAVEL BETWEEN TABLES Ask Discuss Connect BRING THE PATTERNS BACK TO THE ROOM
One question. Many perspectives. A shared way forward.

What you’ll leave with

A shared picture of the opportunities, concerns and questions worth pursuing.

World Café dialogue, complemented by Liberating Structures facilitation. The World Café method ↗ · Liberating Structures ↗

02

2 days

What should we build—and why?

Foundations Sprint

Give a new initiative a clear starting point. Decide who it serves, what problem matters and why your approach deserves to exist before you invest in making it.

In the roomA small leadership team and a decision-maker

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Foundations Sprint: how the workshop unfolds Day 1 · Define the customer, problem and differentiation. Day 2 · Compare approaches and choose a direction. Name the assumptions your next experiment needs to test. DAY 1DAY 2 Basics +difference WHO / WHAT / WHY US Choose anapproach Foundinghypothesis
Choose a direction. Make the assumptions testable.

What you’ll leave with

A testable founding hypothesis: your customer, their problem, your advantage and a chosen approach.

Based on the Foundation Sprint by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky. The Foundation Sprint guide ↗

03

5 days

Will this idea work for people?

Design Sprint

Put a consequential idea in front of customers while it is still easy to change. A focused week takes your team from a difficult question to a realistic prototype and firsthand feedback.

In the roomA focused team, a decision-maker and test participants

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Design Sprint: how the workshop unfolds Monday–Tuesday · Map the challenge and sketch possible solutions. Wednesday–Thursday · Decide what to test and build the prototype. Friday · Learn from customer interviews and review the evidence. MON Map TUE Sketch WED Decide THU Prototype FRI Test LEARN FROM REAL CUSTOMERS
Five focused days. An idea meets the people it’s for.

What you’ll leave with

A tested prototype, customer observations and a clearer decision about what comes next.

Jake Knapp’s five-day Design Sprint, developed at Google Ventures. The Design Sprint method ↗

04

10 days

How does the whole business work?

Business Sprint

Connect the thing you want to offer with the business it needs around it. Work with BFD Studio across the customer experience, the economics and the work required to deliver it.

In the roomBusiness leaders and the people who will deliver the offer

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Business Sprint: how the workshop unfolds Frame the opportunity and the value you want to create. Shape the offer, customer experience and delivery model together. Bring the economics, open questions and next experiments into one plan. The offerVALUE TO PEOPLE DeliveryHOW IT WORKS EconomicsWHAT SUSTAINS IT 10 DAYS / ONE COHERENT DIRECTION
Design the offer and the business around it, together.

What you’ll leave with

A coherent business direction, an offer to develop and a practical plan for testing the assumptions behind it.

A BFD Studio business-design format. About our practice ↗

Bring the question you’re sitting with.

You don’t need
to have it
figured out.

Tell us what your team is trying to move forward. We’ll work out the format, the people and the preparation together.

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