AI design sprints in New YorkLeave with proceed, change or stop.
An AI design sprint for New York product teams who need one problem tested and a clear decision.
- New York, in person or hybrid
New York
New York sprints that end in proceed, change or stop
A New York product team does not need another demo. It needs a few days on one decision: proceed, change or stop. The sprint uses AI inside the research, the options and a thin prototype.
The core team meets at the New York studio or your office. A sponsor elsewhere can join hybrid. The tools are whatever you are allowed to use. You bring one live problem.
- For New York product and innovation teams who have to show a decision.
- Three to five days, or shorter when the date will not move.
- At the New York studio, or hybrid for a sponsor elsewhere.
- Rules for client data while you move.
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The problem
AI is everywhere. Results aren't.
All talk
Endless AI hype and workshops, but nothing your teams actually built or shipped.
No idea where to start
Teams know AI matters but can't see where it fits their real work.
Death by pilot
Committees, roadmaps and pilots that stall before they deliver value.
Ideas stuck inside
The best problems, and solutions, are trapped in the day-to-day.
What it is
A sprint, not a seminar
Cross-functional teams, one room, one or two days. We combine design thinking, lean startup and hands-on AI to take a real problem from messy to prototyped, and pitched, before anyone goes home. No death by slides. Just building.
Scales from a single team to a whole-of-company conference of 100+.
Two tracks
Point the sprint at what matters most
Redesign internal processes with AI
Find the workflows quietly eating your team's time, and rebuild them with AI, cutting the busywork and automating the grind.
Build new customer-facing products
Spin up AI-powered product and service ideas fast, prototyped and pressure-tested in the room, ready to take forward.
How the sprint runs
From blank page to pitched prototype
One day = an intensive proof of concept. Two days = deeper build and customer validation.
- 01
Frame
Scene-set on AI and efficiency with real case studies, so everyone starts on the same page. · Morning
- 02
Discover the problem
Teams map workflow pain points and pinpoint where AI can actually intervene. · Morning
- 03
Design the solution
Reframe the problem, then design an AI-assisted solution to the biggest one. · Midday
- 04
Prototype with AI
Teams build a working lo-fi prototype using AI tools like Copilot, ChatGPT and agents, with facilitators coaching across the room. · Afternoon
- 05
Shark Tank pitch
Each team pitches to a judging panel (problem, solution, time or cost saved, live demo), then prizes and recognition. · Late afternoon
What you walk away with
By the end of the sprint
- Workflow pain-point maps, by team
- Sharper, reframed problem statements worth solving
- Working lo-fi AI prototypes, one per team, built and demoed
- A prioritised list of AI opportunities for leadership
- Teams who now know how to use AI to solve problems themselves
Why it works
Why this beats another AI course
Build, don't talk
Real prototypes, built in the room.
Real tools
Copilot, ChatGPT and agents, on your stack.
Real problems
Your challenges, not case studies.
Shark Tank energy
Competition drives momentum and buy-in.
Capability stays
Teams keep the method long after the sprint.
Proof
Sprints that scale to the whole company
Featured: whole-of-company AI sprint
A 120-person property firm ran an AI sprint across every department at its annual conference. Teams prototyped AI solutions to their own workflow bottlenecks and pitched them live.
Who it's for
Built for teams ready to move on AI
Leaders driving AI adoption
Execs who need AI to move from talk to real, adopted solutions.
Staff conferences & offsites
A high-energy centrepiece that scales to the whole company.
Innovation & transformation teams
Teams who need to show built outcomes, not more strategy.
Facilitator
Steve Glaveski
Founder of Collective Campus, 2× Wiley author and HBR contributor. Steve has incubated 100+ startups and shaped the innovation strategies of 100+ global corporations, and he runs these sprints himself.
New York
Questions about running this in New York
Can a sprint finish before a New York steering date?
Tell us the date. We will say whether you need three to five days or a shorter format.
Who has to sit in New York for the sprint?
The team who will make the thing, and the sponsor who funds or stops the next step.
How do we book an AI design sprint in New York?
Use the contact form. Name the decision, who can attend and any data that must not go into a tool.
Why not send the same people to the New York literacy day?
Literacy builds skill for ordinary work. This sprint spends it on one problem and ends with proceed, change or stop.
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Ready to build something real?
Tell us your team, your timing and the problem you want to crack, we'll shape the sprint.