Data & AI Workshop: Find out where AI will pay off for you, in one day
Your competitors are using data and AI to improve how they operate. Most people know that both data and AI matter, but few realise how much AI could help their business, what it will cost or what has to be in place first.
The Data & AI Workshop answers all of that in one day. It is an AI readiness assessment, run on site by one of our senior consultants, with your report in your hands within a week.
£3,500 plus VAT, fixed price
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What is the Data & AI Workshop?
The Data & AI Workshop is a one-day, on-site assessment of how ready your business is for AI and where AI would make the biggest difference. One of our senior consultants spends the day with your leadership team and the people who do the work, then plays the findings back to your key stakeholders within a week.
You come away knowing where you stand, what is worth doing, what it will cost and where to start. It is run by Circyl, a UK consultancy specialising in Microsoft data, AI and business applications, and it is built around solving your business challenges rather than selling technology solutions
It is not an audit or a sales pitch. It is an honest view, from people who build data and AI solutions every day, of which ideas are worth funding and which can wait.
Book your Workshop
Tell us a little about your business and we will arrange a short scoping call.
Sound familiar?
Spreadsheets holding it all together
Critical processes still run on spreadsheets and manual workarounds.
Systems that work against you
Your systems don’t work for you any longer and your people spend their time copy and pasting.
An AI plan with no starting point
Your business needs an AI plan, but you don’t know if your data is ready for it yet.
Good ideas in no particular order
Plenty of ideas, but no agreed order of priority or budget.
Some of these have names. If one is hitting home, read about Escape Excel Hell, Swivel Chair Syndrome or Platform Pain.
How it works
One day on site, one week end to end and only a few hours of your leadership team’s time.
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Before the Workshop
A short scoping call and questionnaire, so the day starts informed rather than with fact-finding.
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One day on site
With your leadership team and the people who do the work, ending with our headline findings.
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Your report within a week
We play back our findings to your key stakeholders and walk through the roadmap, the likely return and the recommended first step.
How the day runs
- Leadership session: your goals, your pressures and where decisions are slowed down by information you cannot get.
- Walk the business: following one thing through its life, such as an order, a job or a client, with the people who do the work.
- Systems and data: what holds what, how it connects and where people are filling the gaps by hand.
- Opportunities: agreeing the problems and the gains together, then ranking them by value and effort.
- Close: our headline findings, shared on the day, so you leave with value before the report arrives.
What you get back
Every report follows the same structure, so you know exactly what you are buying.
A simple score
A simple score of how AI-ready your business is and what is holding it back.
The problems, in your words
The problems slowing you down, in your team’s own words.
How you work
A review of how you work and where the gaps are costing you time and money.
What you can gain
What you can gain, ranked by value and effort.
A roadmap
A roadmap to a digital future, with an indicative cost per phase.
The likely return
An estimated return on investment, built from your own figures.
One fixed price, credited if you go further
£3,500
plus VAT, fixed price
Want to go further? A short discovery turns your first priority into a working prototype and a fixed price before you commit any further.
Credited in full against the build if discovery starts within 60 days. The report and roadmap are yours either way.
Prefer it on paper? Download the Workshop flyer (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Led by experience
Every Workshop is run by one of our senior consultants, with real experience of advising businesses on data, business applications and AI. They know what good looks like, they have seen how businesses like yours run and they will help you understand which ideas are worth funding and which can wait.
We do not design solutions on the day or try to cover a whole transformation in one session. Anything bigger becomes a recommendation in your roadmap, yours to act on with whoever you choose.
What happens next
Every roadmap is different, but most Workshops lead to one of three next steps.
A focused discovery
Where the roadmap points to a specific solution, a short discovery turns it into a working prototype and a fixed price before any build budget is committed. Start within 60 days and the Workshop fee is credited against the build.
A wider transformation discovery
Where the Workshop shows change is needed across several parts of the business, a larger discovery is the right next step, scoped separately.
A QuickStart
Where a proven starting point fits, such as our Sales CRM, HR Analytics or Finance Analytics QuickStarts, we can get something live in weeks.
It rarely stops at the Workshop
A real solution usually pulls in more than one of our skills. We will not steer you towards one product over another, we build what the process needs.
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Your questions, answered
What is the Data & AI Workshop?
The Data & AI Workshop is a one-day, on-site AI readiness assessment from Circyl, a UK consultancy specialising in Microsoft data, AI and business applications. A senior consultant works with your leadership team and the people who do the work, and within a week you receive a report showing how ready your business is for AI, where it would pay off and where to start.
How much does the Data & AI Workshop cost?
The Workshop is a fixed price of £3,500 plus VAT. If discovery starts within 60 days, the full fee is credited against the build that follows. The report and roadmap are yours to keep either way.
What do we get at the end of the Workshop?
Within a week you receive a simple score of how AI-ready your business is and what is holding it back, the problems slowing you down in your team’s own words, a review of how you work and where the gaps are costing you time and money, what you can gain ranked by value and effort, a roadmap to a digital future with an indicative cost per phase and an estimated return on investment built from your own figures.
Who needs to be involved and how much time does it take?
Your leadership team and the people who do the work. Beforehand there is a short scoping call and questionnaire, then one day on site with us. For most of your leadership team that means a few hours on the day and the session where we play back our findings.
What is the difference between the Workshop and a discovery?
The Workshop is one day and tells you where you stand, what is worth doing and where to start. A discovery takes your first priority further, turning it into a working prototype and a fixed price before you commit to a build. If discovery starts within 60 days, the Workshop fee is credited against the build.
Do we have to work with Circyl after the Workshop?
No. The report and roadmap are yours to keep and act on with whoever you choose. If you do want to go further, a short discovery turns your first priority into a working prototype and a fixed price, and the Workshop fee is credited against the build if discovery starts within 60 days.