The Operator’s Workbench
A lab where senior operators redesign the workflows AI is changing. You already use AI individually. Your team does too. But the work itself hasn’t changed yet: reporting is still manual, coordination is still painful, handoffs are still messy. That gap is what we work on. Minimal theory. Maximum implementation.
Request an invitationFour topics, four real redesigns
Topics span two sessions: built in one, tested inside your company in between, presented back in the next. Four full build cycles across five weeks.
Redesign a people management workflow
The processes internal to your organisation: 1:1s, performance conversations, working with peers, managing up. You pick the angle that fits your role.
Redesign visibility across the organisation
How people in your org know what’s happening: cross-functional coordination, post-meeting updates, decision flow. Qualitative visibility, not metrics.
Redesign where your knowledge lives
Documentation as AI infrastructure: where information sits, how it’s structured, and whether your AI can reach it. This is where you stop knowledge living in people’s heads and set it up so AI can build on it.
A workflow the cohort brings
Participants propose the final topic, the room picks together, and you self-allocate into build groups around the problems that matter most.
Inside each session
Concept material lives in async pre-work. Live time is for building. Each session opens with presentations from the previous build cycle.
Topic and pattern
A short framing of the topic and the AI pattern underneath it, then one case study discussed together to create common ground.
Your workflow
Breakouts in small teams: who’s involved, how it works today, where it breaks, the outcome you want. Shared in 60-second rounds.
Start in the room
Building starts live, in your real environment, with whatever tool fits: an agent, a scheduled task, an agentic workflow.
Between sessions
Run the redesign inside your company. An AI interviews you about the build and writes it up, so every redesign is documented consistently.
The full time cost, stated plainly: two hours live each week for five weeks, plus around one hour of pre-work per session. Roughly fifteen hours, total. The format exists so you don’t spend the rest of your week trying to keep up.
The cohort works in the open
Every operator keeps a participant page the whole cohort can read: the workflows you’re redesigning, the experiments, what worked, what broke. We build with each other, and everyone in the room has been handpicked or recommended, so everyone has something to teach.
The documented builds feed a cohort AI you can query for patterns: how someone automated 1:1 follow-ups, what worked for managing up, which visibility redesigns held. At the end of the programme, you post what you built and what you learned, on LinkedIn, internal Slack, or your all-hands. Accountability through visibility is part of how this works.
What we ask of you
The programme runs five weeks. The membership runs a year.
Your seat includes 12 months of Workbench membership, starting the day your cohort does.
Peers to learn with
A private community of operators rebuilding how companies work for the AI era. Ask, compare, share what you’re shipping.
Two hours, one function
A live two-hour session each quarter, deep on one area: finance, marketing, operations.
Two guest seats per deep dive
Bring two colleagues, free, to every deep dive. Your team sees the method without buying a seat.
Two things decide an invitation.
You change how work gets done
The Workbench is about redesigning workflows. If that’s within your reach, even just for your own team, these five weeks will be worth your time.
You already use AI regularly
You don’t need to be an expert, but you should be working with today’s tools, agents included. The cohort builds together instead of covering basics.
Sound like you? Send the request. We’ll have a short conversation, and you’ll get a straight answer.