Facilitated 2-hour sessions in Miro · in the room or remote · led by Sašo Jakljevič

Find where AI actually pays off in your business. Leave with a buildable proposal.

Most AI pilots die because they start with the technology, not the business. The AI Discovery Workshop starts from your stakeholders and their goals, maps the real problems, and ends with a concrete proposal — visualised as a design or a working prototype before you spend a euro on development. Including an honest call on where you don't need AI at all, and what your team can try on their own.

No pitch, no obligation — you'll leave the intro call with at least one AI opportunity worth exploring.

AI shipped in production for KyaniteAnswerFast · product discovery for HttpoolDatapanDFG ConsultingMicrobium

The problem

Everyone tells you to "do AI". Nobody tells you where it pays.

Sound familiar? These are the three ways companies burn budget on AI — and what they have in common is skipping discovery.

FAILURE MODE 01The pilot that never ships

A flashy chatbot demo, six months of tinkering, zero change to revenue or costs. It started from a tool, not from a workflow that matters.

FAILURE MODE 02Tool sprawl

Every team quietly pays for three AI subscriptions. Nobody measures whether any of them beat the old way of working.

FAILURE MODE 03The team that waits

People fear being replaced instead of being equipped, so adoption stalls. Without a shared map, AI stays a threat instead of a lever.

What you leave with

Four concrete deliverables. Zero slideware.

IMPACT → EFFORT → ← do first 01AI Opportunity Map

Your stakeholders, their goals and KPIs, and your work processes mapped — with every spot where AI could remove cost, time or error, drawn live with your team in Miro. Including the quick wins your team can try on their own, right away.

AI no-AI fix 022–3 worked-out ideas

The top-voted ideas developed into real proposals — what the solution would look like, how it would work, and a suggested path to implementation. Honestly marked where you don't need AI at all and a simpler fix gets the same result.

03The winner, visualised

The chosen proposal made tangible — a static design, or a vibe-coded working prototype, depending on what the idea calls for. Something you can react to, not a paragraph in a report.

€ budget plan · 90d 04Pitch support (optional)

Help shaping the internal pitch to get the project approved — the arguments, the potential, the plan and an estimated budget.

The format

Focused 2-hour sessions, not an all-day marathon.

We work through five phases in a series of ~2-hour sessions — together in the room, everyone typing on their own laptop in a shared Miro board. If we see an extra session would pay off, we simply schedule one.

The Miro board is prepared and shared a few days ahead (with a short how-to-Miro tutorial), so you can drop in ideas before we even start. The board stays yours afterwards.

Ask about the agenda
  1. Phase 01 — FoundationsStakeholders, goals, real problems

    Who could we help? We list your stakeholders, their KPIs and North Star metrics, then map how work actually gets done and the concrete problems each team runs into.

  2. Phase 02 — Idea generationCrazy ideas first, MVPs second

    We start in an ideal world — magic wand, unlimited budget — and generate without limits. Then we tone the crazy ideas down into feasible, MVP-sized versions that keep the original spark.

  3. Phase 03 — PrioritisationInterest vs. difficulty

    Every idea lands on an interest-versus-effort map. The team votes; the top 3 move forward. The hype dies here — what survives is worth funding.

  4. Phase 04 — ConcretisationDeepen the top ideas, visualise the winner

    We work the chosen proposals into implementable shape — what the solution looks like, how it works, and where AI isn't even needed to get the result. Then we build the visualisation or proof of concept: a design, or a vibe-coded prototype. Simpler pieces get flagged as things your team can try on their own.

  5. Phase 05 — Pitch prep (optional)Get it approved

    Support preparing the internal pitch: arguments, potential, plan and estimated budget for the green light.

Who's running it

Run by someone who ships AI-enhanced digital products.

I'm Sašo Jakljevič — product designer & AI integrator, building digital products from 0 to 1 since 2015. I've spent ten years doing exactly this kind of discovery: finding the riskiest assumption, testing it cheaply, and only then building.

Lately that means AI in production: an AI-supported enquiry management system for law firms at Kyanite, and AI receptionist support inside AnswerFast's white-label call answering platform.

And it's how this workshop works in practice: with Fly Amelia's airworthiness (CAMO) team, the sessions surfaced document consistency checking as the winning idea — today it's a working AI cross-check tool that reconciles the maintenance programme, AMS exports and Dent & Buckle charts, with findings reviewed on an audit-trailed board.

See my full portfolio →

10+ yrsproducts 0 → 1, discovery-first
2AI products shipped to production
+25 ptsavg. UMUX-Lite lift across projects
33%YoY growth after product strategy at kaldi.si
÷2sales cycle at DFG via prototypes
🥇Gold National Innovation Award, GZS 2025

Formats

Start free. Scale when it makes sense.

Intro call

Free

30 minutes · remote

  • Walk through your biggest workflow pain
  • Honest take on whether AI helps at all
  • At least one opportunity to explore
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The workshop

AI Discovery Workshop

€2,400

Series of 2-hour sessions · in the room or remote · Miro included

  • Opportunity map + 2–3 worked-out ideas
  • Winning proposal visualised — design or vibe-coded prototype
  • Miro board prepared, shared ahead, yours to keep
  • Extra session scheduled if we see it pays off
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Build sprint

Custom

2–6 weeks · after the workshop

  • Turn the winning use case into a working tool
  • Design + integration + team onboarding
  • Measured against the workshop baseline
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FAQ

Fair questions.

We're not technical. Is this for us?

Especially for you. The workshop starts from your workflows, not from technology. If your team can describe how work gets done, we can find where AI fits — and I translate the technical side into plain decisions.

What if we discover AI isn't worth it for us yet?

Then you've saved yourself a failed pilot — and you still walk away with answers. Part of the workshop is explicitly figuring out where you don't need AI to get the result: we sketch what that simpler solution would look like and how it would work, and flag the things your team can try on their own. The opportunity map and process map stay valuable either way.

How is this different from hiring an AI consultant?

Consultants tend to deliver reports; I run discovery the way I've run it for ten years of shipping products — assumption mapping, live testing on your real examples, and a plan measured in baseline metrics. And I've integrated AI into production products myself, so the feasibility scores come from experience, not slides.

How much time does it take?

Sessions run about 2 hours each, so nobody loses a full day of work. We move through the five phases across a handful of sessions; if we see an extra one would pay off, we schedule it as we go. The Miro board is shared a few days before the first session, so you can add ideas whenever they strike you.

Who should be in the room?

The people who own the workflows: founder/CEO, operations, and the team leads who do the actual work. Everyone contributes on their own laptop in Miro while we discuss together — so quieter voices get on the board too. Never used Miro? You'll get a short tutorial before we start.

Do you run it in Slovenian?

Seveda. Workshops run in Slovenian or English, in the room anywhere in Slovenia and the EU, or fully remote.

What does the prototype actually look like?

Depends on the winning idea. Sometimes a static design is the fastest way to test the concept; sometimes it's a vibe-coded working prototype your team can click through on real examples. For Fly Amelia's CAMO team, the workshop's winning idea became a working AI document cross-check tool.

Limited to 2 workshops per month

Stop guessing where AI fits. Map it.

Book a free 30-minute intro call. Bring your messiest workflow — you'll leave with at least one AI opportunity worth exploring, whether or not we ever work together.

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Prefer email? saso@sasojakljevic.com