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“AI at Your Desk” — Department AI Adoption Program (design memo)

Client: Helios Facilities Group (fictional; Kit 3 universe) — 300 desk employees across Finance, HR and Operations-planning.

Audience: general employees — not trainers, not developers. People with a Monday-morning workload and no AI background.

One-line: move 300 desk workers from “AI is a chatbot I’ve heard of” to “AI is a governed habit in my week” in 60 days, without a single policy-breach incident.


1. Anti-generic anchor: this program is about three people, not “AI adoption”

Abstract adoption programs produce abstract adoption (zero). Everything below is designed around three named personas and their real Monday-morning tasks:

PersonaDeskMonday-morning taskBefore AIAfter AI (trained)
Marta, 54Finance (AP)Invoice-line anomaly spotting before the weekly payment run: ~240 lines, manual scan for duplicates, threshold splits, VAT mis-coding~3.5 hours, fatigue errors cluster after hour 2AI pre-screens lines into an anomaly table (RTF + decomposer patterns); Marta verifies and decides. ~1 hour, and the boring 240-line scan is now a 40-row review
Jeroen, 31HRJob-ad drafting + CV-screening notes for the Facilities Coordinator opening (38 CVs)Ads: 2 hours drafting + legal check round-trip. Screening: ~15 min/CV, style drifts by CV #20, bias risk rises with fatigueAds: draft + critique-loop in 25 min. Screening: structured notes per CV with the bias checklist baked into the prompt (few-shot pattern); ~6 min/CV, consistent style, auditable notes
Sanne, 42Ops-planningSchedule-variance summary from last week’s shift logs for the Monday management meeting90 minutes copy-pasting from three log exports into a summary managers half-readDecomposer prompt turns logs into per-site variance + cause attribution in 20 minutes; Sanne sanity-checks the numbers and writes the “so what”

Design consequence: every example prompt, every huddle script and every success story in this program uses these tasks. If a training example doesn’t map to a Marta/Jeroen/Sanne task, it gets cut.

2. The 4-stage adoption arc

StageWhat it meansAssetsExit criteria
1 · CuriousKnows what the tools can/can’t do for their desk; has seen a live demo on their own task type30-min desk-specific demo session · governance basics (04) · red-flag listCan name one task of their own that AI could help with, and one thing that must never go into a tool
2 · CapableHas applied ≥2 prompt patterns to real work with a usable resultPrompt-pattern trainer (02) · department example pack · sandbox time (2×30 min in work hours)Produces one real work output using a pattern, self-assessed “usable with light edits”
3 · ConfidentAI use is a weekly habit, not an experiment; knows when not to use itTeam “first AI habit” (manager pack 03) · AI champion floor support · critique-loop disciplineWeekly active use for 3 consecutive weeks; can state the escalation path from memory
4 · GovernedFollows disclosure + data-classification norms without prompting; flags near-missesGovernance basics (04) · quarterly refresh · champion networkZero unforced norm violations in the quarter; at least one disclosed AI-assisted client-facing deliverable with a human name on it

3. Audience segmentation — real tasks, real time math

GroupnAnchor task (before → after)Primary patterns
Finance~90Payment-run anomaly spotting: 3.5h → ~1h verify-and-decide · vendor email drafting with critique loopRTF, Decomposer, Critic-loop
HR~60Job-ad drafting: 2h → 25 min · CV-screening notes: 15 → 6 min/CV with bias checklist in the promptFew-shot, Critic-loop, Decomposer
Ops-planning~70Schedule-variance summary: 90 → 20 min · recurring report skeletonsDecomposer, RTF
Other desks~80Join wave 2 with their own anchor task, chosen with their team leadRTF first, then need-based

Time figures are self-reported estimates collected in the pilot and reported as such — see objectives below.

4. Rollout plan

  1. Pilot squad (weeks 1–3): 12 volunteers — 4 per department, mixed seniority, including at least 2 self-declared skeptics (skeptic feedback is the most valuable feedback). Full trainer + manager pack + weekly 20-min retro.
  2. Wave pattern (weeks 4–8): wave 1 = Finance + HR (~150), wave 2 = Ops-planning + other desks (~150). Each wave: demo session → trainer access → two sandbox slots → team habit selection. Waves are capped so floor support never thins below 1 champion per 25 trainees.
  3. Floor-support model — “AI champions”: 12 champions (one per ~25 seats), 2 hours/week protected time, a shared channel, and a monthly pattern-exchange meeting. Champions do not do people’s work for them — they unblock, demonstrate, and escalate tool/policy questions.

5. Measurable objectives (pre-committed)

ObjectiveTargetInstrument
Weekly active AI-tool usage among trained staff by day 60≥60%Tool-license activity log + monthly 3-question pulse
Policy-breach incidents (red-data in external tools, undisclosed client-facing AI text)ZeroChampion escalation log + quarterly audit sample
Task-time savings, self-reported, pilot cohort≥2 h/week medianPilot retro survey (weeks 3 + 6), reported with spread, not just median
Pattern competence≥80% of trainees pass all 4 pattern checksTrainer check scores
Disclosure norm adherence100% of sampled client-facing AI-assisted deliverables carry a human nameQuarterly audit sample (n≥20)

6. What this program deliberately does NOT do


Fictional disclosure: Helios Facilities Group, personas and figures are a fictionalized composite built from realistic office-work patterns. Memo drafted with AI assistance; program design, targets and final copy are human-owned.

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