Working with AI / A D4 studio programme

A note about the one day workshop

Most companies introduce AI at the bottom, to the junior staff, and hope it travels upward. It rarely does. The people who decide what a good report looks like, what a deck has to say, which vendor comparison actually matters, are the ones sitting in the leadership meeting. When they learn to work with AI, the standard changes, and the rest of the company follows. So we start at the top: your leadership team, plus the people you choose to bring.

We spend one day together at your office. Every module has the same shape: watch it done, then do it on your own real work, then show the room. Nobody leaves with slides. Each person leaves with one recurring task of their own, set up and running, tested that day.

Then the month matters more than the day. Four weekly office hours online, sixty minutes each, to unstick what broke and spread what worked.

It runs on Claude or ChatGPT, whichever your team already uses. Business plans on both, so your data is not used to train models, and we write a one page acceptable use guide with you before we finish.

If that sounds useful, give me thirty minutes on a call. I will tell you honestly whether it fits your company.

Deepak JagdishFounder, D4 studio

dj@d474.studio

The programme

One day in person, then a month of weekly office hours online. The day is the launch; the month is the programme.

Format
A one hour online primer about a week before, one in person day of roughly six hours including lunch, then four weekly online office hours of sixty minutes each, a thirty day challenge, and a review call.
Who
The leadership team, not junior staff. Family businesses and next generation leaders professionalising how the company runs. Manufacturers, distributors and services firms with recurring reports, decks, SOPs, vendor comparisons and customer communication. Beginners welcome: the shift we make is from search engine to thinking partner.
Where
At your office, anywhere in India. Office hours are online.
Platform
Claude or ChatGPT, your choice. We recommend based on what your team already uses and your IT setup. The content is the same either way.
Data
Business plans on both platforms do not train on your data. We also teach masking of customer and employee details, a verify before you act habit, and your team co-writes a one page acceptable use guide on the day.
Follow-up
Four weekly office hours: unstick, deepen, spread, sustain. Plus a private workshop portal with guides, prompt packs and templates customised to your organisation and your functions, behind a login for your team only.
Group size
Best between 8 and 20 people: the leadership team plus selected managers.
What you need
Laptops, an AI subscription for each participant, and two or three real tasks each person wants to speed up. We help you set the subscriptions up.
Language
English, with regional language output exercises where useful.
Pricing
A fixed price per programme, quoted on the call once we know your group size and platform.

The day at a glance

No.ModuleOutcome
1Talking to AIOne prompt framework: Context, Task, Format, Iterate, used on a real task
2Documents, data and ExcelInterrogate a report; work a real spreadsheet
3Decks and communicationA real deck outline drafted; emails, memos, regional language copy
4Projects and repeatabilityOne recurring task set up so it runs every week
5Build sprint by functionFinance, sales, operations, supply chain, HR, R&D, IT: each builds their own
6Safe and smart useThe verify before you act habit; the acceptable use guide
7Make it stickA 30 day plan, the office hours calendar, three commitments each

What your team leaves with

  • One working setup for their single most repetitive task, tested on the day.
  • A shared library of prompts and templates for your functions.
  • A one page acceptable use guide agreed by your own leadership.
  • A 30 day challenge with weekly office hours to carry it through.

Book a call with the founder

Thirty minutes on a call. Tell us about your team and we will suggest a shape and a date.

About the studio

D4 is an independent design and technology studio serving clients globally since 2017. Founded by Deepak Jagdish, an alum of MIT Media Lab and Georgia Tech, USA. Over the past decade the studio has worked with Fortune 500 companies, startups, governments and research labs. D4 builds its own software products, provides bespoke software services, and helps companies and teams adapt to using AI to improve workflows.