People ask this expecting a runaround. Here is the number, then what it buys.
What does an AI workshop cost?
My prices:
- AI 101, half day, $1,500. The whole team, plain English, real tools on your own work. Everybody leaves able to use it on Monday, and nobody is scared of it.
- Applied AI workshop, one day, $3,500. Your team in a room with the work on the wall, on paper. We find where the hours go, rank the ideas, and make one decision before you leave.
- Workshop plus the maps, two days, $6,500. All of the above, then I come back with maps of your key processes and hand-offs and a crawl, walk, run plan by department.
Speaker bureaus quote $3,000 to $15,000 for a full-day workshop (Futurist Speakers), and consultants who work by the hour charge about $150 to $350. My day rate sits in the normal range.
What do we get out of it?
A ranked list and one decision. That sounds small until you have sat through a $20,000 "AI strategy" that produced a deck nobody opened. The day runs on a service design method I learned at the Cooper School and ran for BMW. Everybody's work goes on the wall, everybody puts dots on the pain, and the room scores each idea on how much it would help against how hard it would be. The top of that list is your plan. The bottom is a list of things not to buy.
At the most recent one, a Minnesota consumer products company, the room made one decision on the spot about when the warehouse prints orders. It needed no software and no consultant afterward.
Why not just do a free webinar?
A webinar teaches the tool, and then your team goes back to doing what they did before. People change how they work when it is their own job on the wall and they picked what gets fixed.
Also, the webinar is free because it is a sales pitch for something that is not.
What is included and what is not?
Included: the prep call, an intake survey for your team, the day on site anywhere in the Twin Cities, the readout, and the ranked list. The two-day version adds the maps and the plan.
Not included: travel outside the Twin Cities, billed at cost, and building anything. If the top idea on the list is a build, that is a separate fixed-price conversation, and you do not have to have it with me.
Is there a cheaper way to start?
Yes. The half day at $1,500 is the cheapest useful thing I do. Nonprofits, co-ops, and arts groups get a lower rate. Ask.
Answered by Jared Lukes, Minneapolis. Twenty-five years in brand, UX, and technology, currently holding fractional AI and technology seats at three companies. About Jared.