Your Leadership Team
Agrees the priorities and scope, joins the foundations workshop and signs off the roadmap and what comes next.
Where Clients Start
Start With AI Foundations
In 3 to 4 weeks we map how your business runs, set up an AI platform with your company brain, run one workshop and put one live workflow into daily use.
It's a fixed-fee engagement with a clear scope, run by the people you meet on the first call.
Book a CallWhat's Included
What AI Foundations Includes
A small first piece that delivers, without a big programme or a slide deck at the end.
Your Processes Mapped
We map how the business runs with the people doing the work, find where the team's time goes and set out a roadmap of where to start and what follows.
An AI Platform for the Team
Claude, ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, whichever fits your environment, set up for the whole team with your company brain behind it.
A Usage Policy and Data Rules
Clear rules on which tools to use, what information can go where and when a person checks the output, so everyone works the same way.
One Live Workflow
Your first workflow built, tested with the people who'll use it and in daily use before the engagement ends, with an owner.
A Foundations Workshop
A workshop for the leadership team and the wider team on the new setup: What it's for, how to use it well and where the rules sit.
How It Runs
How the 3 to 4 Weeks Run
The same people run every step, from the first conversations with your team to the workflow going live.
Map the Business
Week one
We spend time with the people doing the work, map the business and agree where to start.
- How the work gets done today
- Where the team's time goes
- The first workflow agreed
Set Up the Platform
We set up the AI platform with your company brain and agree the rules for using it.
- Your company brain set up
- Usage policy and data rules
- The foundations workshop
Build and Test
We write the agent skills for your first workflow and test it with the people who'll use it.
- Agent skills written for your work
- Testing on real work
- Changes made from team feedback
Go Live and Plan
Your first workflow goes into daily use, and you get a roadmap for the sprints that could follow.
- An owner for the workflow
- Results reviewed against the scope
- Next steps agreed with you
In Their Words
ELab highlighted the infinite opportunities we have to improve with AI. We realised that moving slowly means we're actively missing out. For us, this is just the starting point, and we're excited to embrace it.
Kim Bevins, General ManagerWho's Involved
Who Takes Part
AI Foundations works because the people who do the work help shape it. Here's who's involved on each side.
The People Doing the Work
Show us how the work really runs, test the first workflow on real work and take ownership once it's live.
The ELab Team
The people in your first meeting run the engagement. They've run businesses themselves and learn yours from the inside.
At the End
What You Have at the End
Your company brain and workflows sit in your own systems and accounts. Whether you carry on with implementation sprints or run things yourselves, the foundations are in place.
A Roadmap: Where to start and what follows
Where AI goes in next, area by area, based on how your business actually runs. It's the brief for each implementation sprint that follows.
One Shared Setup: The whole team on one platform
Instead of everyone using AI their own way in their own tools, the team works from one platform with your company brain behind it.
Clear Rules: What goes where and who checks it
A usage policy and data handling rules your team can follow, in place before clients, investors or regulators ask how you use AI.
One Live Workflow: With an owner
Your first workflow running in daily work, with an owner on your side and a point where a person reviews the output.
Practical Questions
Scope, Cost and What Comes Next
Who is AI Foundations for?
Owners and leaders of established businesses whose growth is limited by the capacity of their team. It suits teams already using AI on their own who want one shared way of working. It also suits teams that haven't started yet.
Is AI Foundations a workshop?
It includes one, for the leadership team and the wider team. Most of the 3 to 4 weeks goes into mapping your business, setting up the platform and building your first live workflow.
What does it cost?
AI Foundations has a fixed fee, agreed before work starts, so you know the full cost up front. The fee depends on the scope of the mapping and the first workflow.
Which AI platform will we use?
Claude, ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, whichever fits your environment and the systems you run on. We set up your company brain so it isn't tied to one tool.
What happens after AI Foundations?
Most clients go on to implementation sprints, following the roadmap one area of the business at a time. AI Foundations stands on its own, so there's no commitment to carry on.
A Good Place to Start
Bring the Work You Want to Improve
Thirty minutes on how your business runs and what you'd like to improve. No preparation or project brief needed.
Book a Call hello@elab.co.nz