Hands-on AI workshops for leadership

Most of us consume endless advice from podcasts, news, emails, etc. Very few consciously design how they think and identify patterns.

Cognitive Modelling is a method for turning the judgement, decision frameworks and thinking patterns you value into AI-powered strategic advisors you can use repeatedly.

In this workshop, you'll build your own Board of Advisors and your own decision system. Bring one real issue you are currently dealing with and put that issue in front of it.

1. 01
   Extract your first advisorStart with a real founder, operator or thinker whose decision-making is visible through long-form public work. We extract how they make decisions and create strategies.
2. 02
   Design the advisor who doesn't existBuild a perspective your current network does not give you: a particular strategic function, combination of traits or way of thinking.
3. 03
   Build deliberate disagreementAdd an advisor designed to challenge your natural bias rather than reinforce it. I always suggest to bring different perspectives in your Board of Advisors, so you don't create an echo chamber where everyone agrees with you.
4. 04
   Put a real decision through the boardYour advisors challenge the problem independently before their perspectives are compared. You interrogate the trade-offs and take the decision back to your own judgement.
5. 05
   Test whether the board deserves to stayIf an advisor gives generic answers, it is incomplete. You learn how to recognise weak modelling and improve it.

• A working AI board of advisors built around the way you make decisions.
• A method for building additional advisors yourself.
• And a system you can return to whenever you need a strategist, challenger, operator, coach or genuinely different point of view.

Most business owners have added AI to their week, but very few have taken anything off it.

So this workshop starts somewhere else:
What does the business repeatedly need done and why does a human still need to carry all of it?

Operational Modelling takes several recurring pieces of work, extracts the business judgement behind it and turns that into the first working part of an AI operating system.

You do not build a theoretical AI department. You build yours in the room.

1. 01
   Build the business brainWe start with the context every useful agent needs: how you work, what you care about, what you are betting on, what you have already done and who you serve.
2. 02
   Design the organisation around the workYou create the AI organisation your business actually needs. I'll guide you, but you'll create an AI department tailored to your business and your work specifically.
3. 03
   Choose the job you most want goneOne recurring piece of work becomes the starting point. Often it is the weekly job you avoid, the admin nobody wants or something that should not still depend on you.
4. 04
   Build the first working agents and workflowsWe turn that job into a system that can run on a schedule, with the right context, instructions and output. The work arrives whether or not somebody remembered to ask for it.
5. 05
   Define where the machine stopsA useful agent also knows when not to decide.We define the point at which the system escalates to a human: a customer, client, public-facing decision or anything else where judgement needs to remain with a person.

• The first working piece of your own AI department.
• A framework for identifying what should be delegated next.
• And a different way of looking at AI: not as another tool your team has to use, but as operational capacity you can deliberately design.