Bring Me
a Problem
One hour. Bring the problem that has been eating your week - and watch it get diagnosed, live, with AI.
No slides about AI. The room brings real problems. We diagnose them on stage, blast them open into options with live AI, and hand back a prescription you could act on tomorrow.
A must for any organisation tired of AI training that teaches the tool and never touches the actual work
A real problem, diagnosed live
Not a topic - your topic. We find the real problem under the one you presented, in front of the room, with AI.
The problem blasted open into options
Live AI generates a wall of ways to solve it, then we pressure-test them together down to a shortlist worth acting on.
A prescription you can act on
The chosen approach and the exact tools to build it. Not a certificate that you attended - a result you can use.
The way in
Bring Me
a Problem
AI Surgery
The diagnostic talk - real AI used live, on your real problems
Show me the value
AI Powered
Most AI training makes people fluent and leaves them exactly where they started - knowing more, doing nothing. This talk starts the other way round. Instead of teaching the tool, Tom asks the room for the thing that has been annoying them for a year: the report that eats a day a week, the inbox that never clears, the process nobody has time to fix.
Then he operates on it. Live, on stage, with real AI in the room - diagnosing the real problem under the presented one, blasting it open into options, and handing back a prescription. Everyone watching leaves seeing their own problem differently, and wanting theirs on the table next. It is the most human thing you can do with the most human technology we have ever had: point it at something that actually matters and watch it help.
Suitable for
All-staff events, leadership conferences, kick-offs and awaydays. Particularly powerful as the opening session of an AI Surgery programme, where the problems raised become the work.
Format & logistics
Content mix
This talk leads directly to The Surgery workshop — where Tom runs the diagnosis live, team after team, and everyone leaves with a prescription to build.
Go to Workshop ↓
Take it further
The Surgery
Show me the value
AI Powered
A live diagnostic clinic. Team after team takes the chair, brings one real problem, and gets it diagnosed and prescribed in three to five minutes - Tom pointing real AI at the actual work, fast, in front of the room.
The rounds keep coming. Every diagnosis goes up on the wall, so teams learn as much from each other's problems as their own. Nobody leaves with a certificate. Every team leaves the chair with a chosen approach, the exact tools, and a build brief for the recovery week.
Logistics
Content mix
What happens in the room.
A working clinic, not a lecture. Every team is a patient; every problem gets diagnosed, blasted open and prescribed - live.
Triage
15 minEvery team names its one problem and what "fixed" would look like. We sort and sequence the list, so the clinic runs on the problems that matter most.
The rounds - diagnose & blast
3–5 min per team, rollingTeam by team takes the chair. We find the real problem under the presented one, point real AI at it, and blast it open into options - fast, out loud, in front of everyone.
The prescription
per teamEach team leaves the chair with a chosen approach and the exact tools to build it. A first rough version is often made live, right there, in minutes.
The wall
throughoutEvery diagnosis goes up on the wall. Teams learn from each other's problems, patterns emerge across the room, and the same moves start getting reused.
Marching orders
20 minEvery team leaves with a build brief for the recovery week - what they are going to make, and the promise to come back with something real, not a plan to make it.
The workshop leads to the Recovery & Make It Happen programme — where the prescription becomes a working system the team actually uses.
See the programme ↓
The programme is where a diagnosis becomes a working system. It kicks in at the recovery week: teams go away and build the thing from their prescription, with Tom on call - then come back, and together we make it real.
Content mix
The Surgery
Diagnose the real problem, blast it open into options with live AI, and choose an approach. A first rough version is built in the room, together.
The Recovery Week
The team goes away and actually builds the thing from the prescription, on real work, with Tom on call. Come back with something real - not a plan to build it.
Make It Happen
Together we harden the rough build into a system that runs reliably, fits the process, and others can use - with the trust, checking and ownership sorted.
Discharge & repeat
The team owns a living system and the method to run the next problem through the same loop themselves. The capability stays after Tom leaves.
