Most AI initiatives fail before they begin — not because the technology does not work, but because organizations cannot get from idea to commitment. Every organization has the same starting problem: too many potential use cases, too little clarity on which one to pursue, and no mechanism to validate the business case without building something first. Catalyst Starter solves the starting problem in a single day.
The session produces three concrete deliverables before end of day: a working AI demonstration running on real data from your business, a calibrated RoAI business case with revenue impact, cost reduction, and time savings specific to your operations, and a 90-day production roadmap your team can begin executing the following week. Not slides and not projections borrowed from analyst reports — outputs built from your actual data and your actual competitive context.
Morning: Signal to Strategy
The session begins with your business — your revenue drivers, your cost pressures, your competitive threats, and where you are feeling the most friction today. Using TNE’s industry solution frameworks, your business and technical leaders work together to map the AI signals already moving your industry and identify the two or three highest-value AI opportunities specific to your organization.
This part of the session is deliberately not theoretical. The facilitators bring industry-specific context about what is working in deployments at comparable organizations — the use cases with the fastest time to value, the ones that have consistently produced measurable RoAI, and the ones that tend to stall. You leave the morning with a prioritized AI opportunity and a shared understanding of why it is the right one to pursue first.
Afternoon: From Plan to Proof-of-Concept
With your priority identified, the session shifts to building. Working with your data and using TNE’s pre-built Compass fleet foundations, the afternoon produces a running proof-of-concept — not a mock-up or a demo using sanitized toy data, but a working demonstration of the AI capability applied to your actual business problem.
The business case is built alongside the proof-of-concept, calibrated to your operations. RoAI projections — revenue impact, cost reduction, or time savings — are anchored to real numbers from your business rather than industry averages. The 90-day production roadmap identifies the specific steps, resources, and milestones to move from proof-of-concept to production deployment, starting the following week.
Built for Both Audiences
Catalyst Starter is designed to run business and technical leaders through the session simultaneously. Business leaders drive the strategy, validate the value hypothesis, and own the business case. Technical leaders guide architecture decisions, evaluate integration requirements, and own the production roadmap. The output is a shared artifact that aligns both sides around a single, high-conviction AI investment — with no translation layer between the business case and the implementation plan.
What Happens After
Catalyst Starter is the entry point to the Catalyst transformation journey, not a standalone event. Business leaders continue to Catalyst Enterprise Business — a 5–10 day working engagement that produces a complete AI business plan with credible RoAI projections and decision playbooks. Development teams continue to Catalyst Enterprise — pair-programming with Catalyst AI Partner to build production-grade Compass fleet deployments against your actual codebase. Business professionals who are expert AI prompters attend Catalyst Pro — a 1–2 day program to build the correct foundations for the departmental solutions they are already creating. Catalyst AI Partner continues to learn your context and accelerate every step after the workshop ends.
- Working proof-of-concept — not slides; a running AI demonstration on real data from your business, tailored to your identified opportunity
- Calibrated RoAI business case — revenue impact, cost reduction, and time savings projected from your actual operations, not industry averages
- 90-day production roadmap — specific, actionable milestones your team can begin executing the following week
- Shared business and technical alignment — business case and implementation plan produced together, no translation layer required
- Industry solution foundation — built on TNE’s pre-built Compass fleets so you start from a proven foundation, not a blank page
- Catalyst AI Partner onboarding — begins learning your context from session one, compounding value from day one
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