The
AI Framing
Sprint.
Get your business on the right track with AI in six weeks. Twelve operating artefacts. Thirty days of execution support. Built for businesses that want to lead AI, not catch up to it.
Built for CEOs and boards of technology driven businesses who already know spend isn't the constraint, clarity is.
Frame AI before you activate it.
AI adoption is a journey through three stages. Most organisations skip the first stage and rush into the second. That is how AI becomes scattered. That is how risk becomes invisible. That is how organisations create problems before they have created value. The AI Framing Sprint is the Frame stage. The work that earns the right to move forward with confidence.
Frame
Define why AI matters, where it fits, who owns it, what guardrails are needed, how people will be enabled, and how value will be measured.
Activate
Select, configure, and deploy the right tools, agents, automations, workflows, vendors, or internal capability.
Advance
Continue reviewing decisions, measuring outcomes, supporting adoption, improving governance, and expanding use cases.
Twelve questions your leadership team will be able to answer.
Every CEO is being asked these questions by their board, their insurer, their customers, and their leadership team. The sprint produces the answers.
Why does AI matter to this organisation?
What outcomes are we trying to create?
Where is AI already being used today?
Where could AI improve sales, operations, workflows, decisions, or customer outcomes?
Who owns each AI related decision?
Who is accountable for AI outputs?
What guardrails are required?
What data and systems can AI access?
How should employees be enabled?
Who should act as AI Champion?
How will we measure value?
What internal or external capability do we need next?
Eight workstreams across
six weeks.
Each workstream produces a concrete artefact that becomes part of your operating structure. The work is practical and designed to fit around how a leadership team actually operates.
AI Foundations for Leaders
A practical leadership level understanding of AI without the technical deep dive. Chat tools, context, tokens, prompts, agents, and the difference between automation, augmentation, and agentic workflows.
Purpose and Direction
Define why AI matters to your organisation, the outcomes it should support, the boundaries that should guide adoption. The outcome is an AI Purpose Statement your team can repeat without prompts.
Governance and Guardrails
Decision rights, approved use cases, risk areas, data access, human oversight, escalation paths. Safe acceleration, not paperwork.
AI Visibility and Org Chart Mapping
Where AI is operating, where it should operate, where it sits inside the structure of the workforce. AI is increasingly performing identifiable work. If it is doing work, it needs to be visible. Every agent mapped to a named human owner. Every decision logged.
Position, Role, and Task Mapping
Break selected positions into roles and tasks. Identify which tasks remain human led, which can be automated, which can be augmented, and which may eventually become agentic.
Enablement and Adoption Planning
How people get access, how they will be supported, how the AI Champion keeps momentum moving. Training, communication, feedback loops, and the practical support that turns interest into action.
Measurement and Value Tracking
How the organisation will measure whether AI is creating value. Workflow improvement, sales effectiveness, time saved, quality, risk reduction, capacity, or additional income.
Selection and Capability Support
Role definition, capability requirements, selection criteria, interview questions, and early selection or engagement process for the right internal person, vendor, or partner.
Twelve operating artefacts.
Not slides.
The sprint produces a set of working documents, maps, registers, and templates developed alongside your leadership team and handed over for continued use. Your organisation will keep using them long after the engagement ends. Artefacts marked with AI Operating Map are built inside the platform and remain live and accessible after the Sprint closes.
Two businesses. Same result.
Different sectors, different leaders, the same outcome from the Sprint.
Engaging Techshin Partners for our AI Framing Sprint gave us the launch pad we needed to implement AI strategically, with proper structure, governance and policy in place from day one.
Techshin’s programme took AI at THX from a dream to a grounded reality. In six weeks it went from an idea to something embedded across the business, with the whole team actively hunting down ‘thin’ work to remove. The real win was clarity: we now understand what AI can and can’t do for us, with sensible guardrails in place and the structure to keep it going long after the programme ended.
Three frameworks. One outcome.
The sprint applies three of the practice’s core frameworks together. Each solves a different problem. Together they give your business the foundation to lead AI with confidence.
The operating model
Governance creates safe boundaries. Enablement turns tools into capability. Measurement proves whether AI is creating value. Installed once in the sprint, then applied to every AI decision that follows.
See the GEM Blueprint ↗The four foundations
SOPs make work visible before AI touches it. The Org Chart makes AI visible in the workforce. The AI Champion gives the work an internal leader. The Purpose Statement sets direction before tools. The O is built inside the sprint through the AI Operating Map.
See the AI Operating Map ↗The maturity lens
Augment. Automate. Agentic. How AI changes work at each level, and where governance and measurement need to evolve as the organisation moves through them. It keeps the sprint honest about where the business actually is, not where a vendor says it should be.
Two formats. Same artefact pack.
Same twelve artefacts, same thirty days of execution support, same selection and capability guidance. The only difference is how your leadership team works best.
Remote Sprint
Distributed across six weeks with scheduled working sessions.
- Preparation and discovery
- Six weeks of scheduled working sessions
- Full twelve artefact pack
- Thirty days of execution support
- Selection and capability support
- AI Operating Map access included
Onsite Sprint
Compressed delivery built around a three day leadership intensive.
- Preparation and discovery
- Three day onsite leadership intensive
- Full twelve artefact pack
- Thirty days of execution support
- Selection and capability support
- AI Operating Map access included
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The work this sprint produces is harder to do later.
Once AI has spread across an organisation without a frame, the leadership task becomes recovery rather than design. Recovery is slower, more expensive, and more politically difficult. Design is faster, cleaner, and creates the conditions for safe acceleration.
The thirty days of execution support that follow the sprint turn the artefact pack into operating reality. The aim is that your AI Champion, your governance group, and your leadership team are working confidently inside the structure before the engagement closes.
An organisation cannot simply say, the AI did it. AI cannot be sworn in as a witness. AI cannot carry fiduciary responsibility. AI cannot sit in the executive chair. The organisation remains responsible.
The Framing Sprint is our deepest engagement, delivered directly by Timothy J. Hitchens.
If you want to start smaller, Map Guidance and Map Advisory are available directly through the AI Operating Map.
See AI Operating Map offers ↗Some organisations want to go further than deciding what to build next.
Once the Map has done its job, AI Operating Architecture lets leadership reimagine what the whole organisation could become and architect a Target AI Operating Map before committing to what gets built.
Discuss AI Operating Architecture →“Whether you’re just starting out with AI or have made a start without much structure, I’d recommend it without hesitation.”Anthony Fryer · Managing Director, THX UK
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