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The AI Playground Workshop
A simple guide for teams that don't know what they need yet.
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It's natural to want clarity before you commit — to debate whether you need prompts, agents, copilots, workflows, digital workers, or AI platforms before doing anything.
There's a faster path.
Play first. Architect later.
The goal is not to find the perfect AI solution. The goal is to discover where people are wasting time — and where AI might help.
What repetitive things do you do every week?
"What is something you do every week that feels boring or repetitive enough that you could explain it to someone else?"
🧪 Try This
Have your team open Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or another AI tool and ask: "I spend 2 hours every week doing this task. How could AI help me?"
Prompting opportunity
If AI can immediately help with the task, you found a good prompting opportunity.
What parts of your job do you wish would disappear?
"If you could remove one frustrating part of your job tomorrow, what would it be?"
🧪 Try This
Ask AI: "How would you automate this process?"
Prompt
Helps me
Agent
Does it for me
AI Agent
If the answer involves looking things up, following business rules, or repeating the same process — you may need an agent.
Where could better summaries — or sharper analysis — save everyone time?
"What information should more people know, but they don't — because nobody has time to read everything, or crunch the numbers?"
🧪 Try This
Take a real document or dataset and try three prompts:
"Summarize this for an executive."
"What patterns or outliers are in this data?"
"What's the one thing I'm missing?"
Content generation opportunity
If summaries create immediate value, you found a content generation opportunity. These are usually the easiest AI wins.
Analytical agent opportunity
If the value comes from spotting a pattern, trend, or root cause — not just restating facts — you found a job for an analytical agent: one built to reason over data, not just repeat it back.
What work requires multiple tools?
"What tasks make you jump between systems all day?"
🧪 Try This
Have someone explain the full process to AI: "Here are all the steps involved."
Workflow opportunity
If the task spans Teams, Outlook, CRM, SharePoint, ServiceNow, Jira, or Excel — you found a workflow opportunity. These are often better candidates for agents, automation, and digital workers than simple prompts.
What needs constant human intervention?
"What process keeps breaking because people have to step in and fix it?"
🧪 Try This
Ask AI: "Where would humans still need to be involved in this process?"
Automation candidate
If people only step in to approve, review, or correct obvious mistakes — you may have found a strong automation candidate.
The Magic Wand Test
"If I could hire a digital worker tomorrow, what would you make it do?"
Not "help." Not "assist." Actually do.
Your highest-value AI opportunity
Their answer is usually the highest-value AI opportunity. It often reveals: an AI Agent, a Digital Worker, an AI Workflow, or an Autonomous Agent.
Sort Your Ideas
After brainstorming, put every idea into one of these four buckets.
Bucket 1
Help Me
- Writing
- Summarizing
- Brainstorming
→ Prompts
Bucket 2
Do This Task
- Answer questions
- Look things up
- Create tickets
- Follow a process
→ Agents
Bucket 3
Run This Process
- Approvals
- Employee onboarding
- Customer service workflows
- Cross-system tasks
→ Workflows & Multi-Agent Systems
Bucket 4
Be My Digital Worker
- Research projects
- Weekly reporting
- Monitoring systems
- Long-running work
→ Digital Workers & Autonomous Agents
The Simplest Discovery Question
Which of these sounds most like your idea?
Final Rule
Don't start with technology.
Start with frustration.
The best AI use cases rarely start with "We need an agent."
They usually start with "I hate doing this every week."
That's where the best ideas come from.
Found something worth building? We'll help you figure out the right tool and scope it fast.