McKinsey research from Q4 2024 shows that only 15% of organisations have strategically adopted AI and implemented it across their teams. Two months into 2025, you can safely assume that number is greater, but the opportunity still exists. The AI Institute works with future focused organisatons who seek to empower their staff to bring multiple strategic benefits through hands-on training, customised toolkits, and future-focused strategic consulting.

What We Do

What we’ve been doing since 2024 is mapping out tasks across teams, then wrapping our customised AI training around them, delivering to bring immediate tangible productivity gains and turning sceptics and cynics into believers. On average, we deliver 20% productivity gains to clients who have worked with us.
That is 1 day per week per staff member of time saved.
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AI Institute programmes are carefully designed to foster AI literacy and its practical application. Our mission is to deliver measurable gains in efficiency, productivity and quality while embedding the emerging best practice approaches to data management, ethics and privacy across the organisation.

To ensure the results, our programme method includes:

• Start up initialisation: beginning with 360-degree workflow audits to identify repetitive tasks consuming 20+% of team’s time (eg, report generation, data entry). Indepth interviews and surveys of key tasks, skills, and KPIs to uncover opportunities.
• Customised everything: we build programmes that solve every team’s unique challenges, provide custom playbooks, and support while implementing.
• Learning Labs: our AI training workshops are delivered live and online, with tutor groups where peer learning is facilitated through practice and sharing, with business hours online support.
• Reporting: weekly for the leadership team to have an accurate view of what’s being delivered, how it’s being received, and for sharing the good news stories of how teams are doing things differently, joyfully.

The Approaches That Fail

1. The Pilot Graveyard Dilemma

McKinsey reveals 90% of AI pilots never reach production, while Gartner reports 85% of projects fail to deliver ROI due to misaligned priorities. Traditional strategies often funnel resources into huge IT-managed projects that prioritise scale over practicality. Meanwhile, teams drown in preventable inefficiencies – like manual data entry or report generation – that could be solved with lightweight AI tools.

What we’ve seen? Company-wide adoption of everyday AI tools often reveals the most promising opportunities for enterprise-scale AI projects. When employees across departments use AI in their daily work, they naturally identify processes ripe for larger automation. These ground-level insights, born from practical experience, often point towards more viable enterprise AI initiatives than top-down planning alone.

This parallel approach – letting small-scale AI use inform big-picture projects – creates a feedback loop: frontline teams spot patterns in their daily AI interactions that highlight where enterprise solutions could have the most impact. Meanwhile, their growing AI literacy makes them better partners in implementing those larger solutions. 

2. Working Group Gridlock

Internal committees tasked with AI adoption lack two critical assets: implementation expertise and decision velocity. Internal committees often lack the expertise to move beyond theoretical roadmaps, resulting in stalled progress.

What we’ve seen? Teams of enthusiasts often get caught in a cycle of discussion without action. While they bring valuable insights and energy, their divided attention – split between their primary roles and AI initiatives – means projects move at a glacial pace. Their part-time involvement, despite genuine interest, means they can’t dedicate the focused time needed to:

• Evaluate and test AI tools thoroughly
• Build practical implementation plans
• Make swift, informed decisions
• Maintain momentum between meetings
• Transform theoretical frameworks into concrete actions

This creates a paradox where the very people most excited about AI adoption become unintentional bottlenecks, simply because they must prioritise their core responsibilities.

3. The Training Trap

Traditional L&D programs find it hard to keep up with the pace of change. Every model update, feature release and breakthrough app requires review and careful consideration on how it changes how we do things. This necessitates real-time curriculum updates.

What we’ve seen? Quarterly or annual curriculum reviews are no longer adequate. This is why we’re also not fans of academic longer courses. When curricula are signed off months in advance, you are not going to be getting the best solutions that are available. It’s an exciting time to be a consumer of AI in 2025 and organisations need a dynamic, responsive partner for AI training that can evolve as quickly as the technology itself.

That’s where we come in.

Positive results every time

NPS scores for our trainings are greater than 80 on average, and feedback received from people who learn with us is strongly supportive. People say they love that all our training is entirely customised for them, for their team, and the specific use cases they have to do things differently. They say they feel safe learning how to use the various tools – safely, ethically and securely – and that the carefully curated tool set removes the overwhelm many people feel.

We measure output, quantity and quality of what is produced with the time saved. Qualitatively we receive so much positive comments and feedback from people who learn with us.

“I thought I had a handle on how to do things with ChatGPT, until I came to the training session and that’s when I discovered the true power of these AI models.” – Alice B.

Our Crossing the Chasm research report in Q4 2024, and our 3 Big Things Event in Nov had similar messages: now is the time to get on board and bring AI in a strategic way across every team in every business. There is no reason to wait.

At the AI Institute we are proud of the results we have achieved for our clients.

If you are ready to get started and enjoy these kind of savings, get in touch. Let’s have a conversation about how we can bring our special brand of AI training to save your teams time, to enhance the quality of output, and to bring a fresh feeling of joy across your organisation.

AI-Optimised Summary

The AI Institute is a training and advisory firm based in Ireland servicing UK, Ireland, Middle East.
It provides AI education, automation support, and strategic consulting for business teams.
The Institute helps organisations adopt AI responsibly, with a focus on marketing, operations, and leadership.