// THE FLATIRON AI ACCELERATOR

From AI licenses to AI in production.

Strategy firms work with executives. E-learning vendors reach the masses. Bootcamps train builders. The Accelerator covers all three in one connected program, and every lab ends in a work product your team owns.

01 Leadership Lab Leaders see what AI can really do, then set priorities and 90-day goals. OUTPUT → PRIORITIES FOR THE WORKFORCE 02 Activation Lab The workforce turns repeatable tasks into reusable AI skills against those priorities. OUTPUT → SKILLS LIBRARY + BUILDER SHORTLIST 03 Builder Lab Power users turn the highest-value skills into governed workflows in production. OUTPUT → WORKFLOWS LIVE, HOURS SAVED

Start anywhere. Most organizations begin with the Leadership Lab; each lab also runs on its own.

01 · Leadership Lab

Stop searching. Start building.

Most leaders know AI matters but haven’t seen what it can actually do. In one four-hour session, your leadership team builds solutions to common business problems, then turns what they’ve learned into a plan for each department.

Who
8–20 executives; no technical background needed
Format
4 hours, in person or virtual, plus intake survey
Faculty
Senior facilitator plus a technical builder
Timeline
About two weeks end to end

The session

0:00–0:30Explore capability. Live demos of analysis, drafting, app-building and automation.
0:30–1:30Build together. Groups solve everyday leadership problems with AI.
1:30–2:30Bring your idea. Two or three leader-submitted ideas, built live.
2:30–3:15Map your department. Rate opportunities on value and ease.
3:15–4:00Strategy and goals. Shared priorities; 90-day goals with owners.
PROOF OF CAPABILITY
Leadership AI Action Plan and working prototypes
Delivered within five business days, with recordings, prompts and templates from every build.

02 · Activation Lab

Prompts are disposable. Skills are built to last.

Move from one-off prompts to team-wide skills.

A prompt is used once. A skill is a packaged, reusable process with its own instructions, examples and reference data that anyone on the team can run consistently. Learners map a real task from their job, build it as a skill in your licensed tools, test it, and share it.

Who
Cohorts of 50–100 knowledge workers
Format
4–6 hrs on demand plus four 2–3 hr live labs
Faculty
Lead instructor plus domain facilitators
Timeline
6–8 weeks

Four live labs

L1Generative AI fundamentals. Context, examples and structured output, plus checking the work, all within your data policy.
L2Map your task and its data. Inputs, steps, rules, exceptions and what good looks like.
L3Build your skill. Package it, test it on real cases, refine it, share it.
L4From skill to agent. Skills wired into an agentic flow live. Builder Lab readiness is scored.
PROOF OF CAPABILITY
A working AI skill per learner, shared with the team
Plus a team skills library, a capability dashboard by team, and an evidence-based Builder Lab shortlist.

03 · BUILDER LAB

From power user to builder.

The best AI ideas stall at the demo stage. In six to eight weeks, your power users turn a leadership priority into a working workflow, built inside IT’s guardrails, so the IT queue gets shorter instead of longer.

WHO
Up to 30 power users, ideally Activation Lab top performers
FORMAT
20 hrs live plus weekly office hours
FACULTY
Technical instructor plus a domain practitioner
TIMELINE
6–8 weeks, ending in a demo day

SIX MODULES · CAPSTONE BUILT IN PARALLEL

M1Workflow thinking3h
M2Advanced prompting and context4h
M3Connecting to data and tools4h
M4Automation and agents4h
M5Quality, risk and governance3h
M6Ship and scale, plus demo day for leadership2h
PROOF OF CAPABILITY
A working functional workflow, measured
A live workflow on real business work, with a spec, documented controls, an owner, and baseline-versus-pilot results from a 2–4 week run.

Which lab answers which question.

Leadership Lab Activation Lab Builder Lab
Core questionWhat can AI really do for our departments, and where do we start?Can our people turn repeatable tasks into reusable AI skills?Can we turn use cases into running workflows?
AudienceLeadership team, 8–20Broad workforce, 50–100Power users, up to 30
DurationOne 4-hour session6–8 weeks6–8 weeks
Proof of capabilityAI Action Plan and prototypesWorking AI skillWorking functional workflow
Measurable result90-day AI Action PlanSkills still in use at 30 daysHours saved from live workflows

Configured, not custom-built

Fast to launch. Made for your team.

You buy one of three labs. We assemble it from a proven core, a function pack, a platform pack and your own context, so the program is tailored without a six-month build.

Flatiron coreTask decomposition, evaluation, responsible use
Function packCases, standards and rubrics for Finance, HR, Legal…
Platform packClaude, ChatGPT or Gemini, updated quarterly
Your contextPolicy, data, priorities, sponsors

e.g. ACTIVATION LAB: FINANCE, DELIVERED IN CLAUDE

Plan your Accelerator.

Tell us where you are with AI. We'll recommend where to start and what you'd have to show for it in 90 days.

Talk to our team