A morning with Claude
AI tools
Your board will ask about AI this quarter. A morning with Claude is a half day in which your leadership team uses Claude on its own real work, not a demo, and leaves with the first three uses to roll out and the judgement to know which ones to trust.
Half a day, in your offices or central LondonRun for one leadership team at a time, typically six to twelve people. Dates on request.
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Who it is for
Chief executives and their leadership teams in mid-market and large companies who have been told to "do something with AI" and want to find out, in one morning, what it is good for in their own business before they commission anything.
What happens
- Each person brings one real piece of work: a board paper, a customer problem, a plan, a set of numbers. The morning is spent on those, not on slides.
- How to brief Claude so the answer is worth using, and how to tell when it is wrong.
- Reading a 60-page document in minutes, drafting the first version of anything, pressure-testing a decision from three points of view.
- Where the line sits: what goes into a public tool, what does not, and what to tell the company.
- A closing hour on which three uses the team rolls out first, who owns each and what it would be worth.
What you leave with
- Every attendee has used Claude on their own work and has a result they can show.
- Three agreed uses for the company, each with an owner.
- A one-page set of rules for safe use that the team wrote itself.
- The answer to the board's question, in your own words.
Who runs it
Dan Ilett, who leads The Executive Summary and has spent this year interviewing more than 100 chief executives about AI and growth. He was a Financial Times journalist and a commercial transformation director at a FTSE technology business, and he chairs the City CIO Club. He is a member of the Claude Partner Network.
Questions
We use Copilot or ChatGPT, not Claude.
The morning runs on whichever tool your company has. The method is the same; the tool is the one your people will open on Monday.
Do we need technical people in the room?
No technical skill is needed. It is built for the people who make decisions, and it works best when the whole leadership team is there.
Is our data safe?
Everything in the room is treated as confidential, and part of the morning is deciding what the company will and will not put into AI tools. Business tiers with data controls are different from the free versions, and that difference is covered.
What happens after?
Most teams take one of the three agreed uses and run it for a month, then come back for the AI Leadership Hackathon. Dan is available to the sponsor for a follow-up call at the 30-day mark.