you can Build It

Have an idea worth building?

Building is how freed capacity becomes capability. Want to get your team building with AI? Prototype and test ideas quickly, go from single super-users to shared apps and automations, and make sure what's built is secure and can scale. We do it with you, in the room.

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  • Start with a real problem, not a tool.
  • Prototype in days. Test with real users. Keep what works.
  • Build in a way IT and Legal can say yes to.

What we offer

BuildShops

Build something real, together.

Best for a team ready to build something real, together, in a day or two.

A hands-on workshop where we take an idea from your team and build working prototypes in the room.

  • Learn a repeatable process for building: problem, user, prototype, test.
  • Work on your team's real ideas, with your data boundaries respected.
  • Leave with something real that people can try the next day.
Format
Facilitated working session, in the room
Time
One to two days
Who
6 to 12 builders from your team
You leave with
Working prototypes and a repeatable build process
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From my own work

What I've built

I build alongside the work, not instead of it. I made these inside a leadership development role, mostly with the one AI tool IT had approved at the time. A few went company-wide. Most started as a pilot with a single cohort, which is how I'd recommend you start too.

Learning that fits the learner

  • A self-updating AI fluency course. It searches for what's changed, brings the updates to me to review, and makes it easy to rewrite the lessons. Each learner gets their own path: test out of what they know, set goals, and choose a quick pass or a deep dive, by listening, reading, or doing.
  • Team podcasts from psychometrics. For team-based leadership cohorts, everyone's Five Dynamics results became a podcast episode about each person and their team, with practical tips for working together.

Practice, with proof

  • A pay-conversation coach. It prepares managers for comp conversations using the company's own rules. It rolled out globally, including in Hebrew.
  • A role-play simulator. In place of a knowledge check, managers practiced three conversations: giving feedback, coaching, and listening when they can't fix the problem. They were scored against the frameworks we taught, with questions to try next time.

Insight leaders can act on

  • Upward feedback themes. VPs see the themes across their organization, and only where there's enough data to keep individual managers anonymous.
  • A career navigator in Slack. Live company-wide. It explains career ladders, compares roles, names transferable skills and gaps, suggests who to talk to, and explains how internal moves work.
  • An executive presentation coach. VPs test a deck against what the CEO, CFO, and revenue and product leaders will each look for, before they walk into the room.

On the workbench now

  • A policy and benefits assistant grounded in a real handbook.
  • A manager coaching bot.
  • An evaluation that tests a coaching tool for biased advice. If People teams are going to build, they need to know how to test what they build.
  • A before-and-after version of the role-play simulator, so a program's impact shows up in the conversations themselves.

Outcomes

What HR teams build

A few of the projects People teams take from idea to working tool. See the full list in the builder mindset guide.

  • A policy and benefits assistant grounded in your own handbook.
  • Job descriptions drafted against your leveling and competency model.
  • Interview question banks tied to competencies, with a bias check built in.
  • Engagement survey comment analysis: themes and quotes, not just scores.
  • Exit interview synthesis that leaders actually read.
  • Role-specific onboarding checklists and first-week assistants.
  • HRBP case notes that summarize themselves.
  • Recruiting and headcount reporting that updates without a spreadsheet marathon.

FAQ

Questions about Build It

What do you build with?

Whatever fits your environment: the AI assistants and agent builders inside Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, ChatGPT or Claude projects, low-code automation tools, and, when it is warranted, custom apps. We choose the simplest thing that can work and that your IT team will support.

Is it secure?

Security is part of the process, not an afterthought. We agree on data boundaries before anything is built, use the tools your organization has already approved wherever possible, and involve IT and Legal early rather than at the end.

Who owns what gets built?

You do. Everything built in a BuildShop or a consulting engagement belongs to your organization, with documentation your team can maintain.

What if we don't have technical support internally?

That is common. BuildShops are designed for HR teams without engineers. For anything that needs to run in production, consulting support covers the technical work while your team keeps ownership of the problem and the outcome.

Next step

Not sure it's worth building?

Bring it to a thirty-minute call. You leave with an honest read on whether to build it, buy it, or wait, and what a BuildShop would look like.

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