Company-Wide AI Innovation Program
Context
Business teams blocked on engineering for AI and automation, creating bottlenecks in discovery, POC creation, and non-technical teams were severly overloaded with manual, but automatable, tasks consuming 20-40% of their week. Only 5% of company, mostly in engineering, leveraging AI capabilities despite competitive pressure.
Action
Designed and launched comprehensive AI enablement program reaching 130+ employees across 15+ technical and non-technical teams. Deployed N8N for no-code AI automation with several custom nodes for internal enablement. Integrated with centralized AI Hub for governance and cost control. Applied diffusion of innovation model for training department champions and spreading knowledge. Created self-serve documentation, videos, playbooks, and conducted 20+ training sessions. Worked with senior leadership to create and communicate the vision.
Result
Increased AI adoption from 5% to 90% of company within 3 months. Reduced AI implementation timelines from 2 months to 1 day. Initial rollout immediately escalated prompt injection and bias evals giving us clear insights into systems. Product teams immediately able to capitalize on this infrastructure for natural-language initiatives. Legal team has confidence in our governance strategy for detection and escalation of issues. Non-technical teams shipped 30+ AI workflows independently. Company will have saved $4M with efficiency gains through initial automation workflows. Created repeatable model now used for other technology rollouts.