5 teams, 24 hours, we ended up with five working prototypes shipping this week.
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AI Workshop for SMBs and Mid-Market Companies, One Day Onsite
Without an IT department, AI often stays stuck at a few employees trying ChatGPT on their own while daily business runs exactly as before. An AI workshop brings the team together onsite for one day and builds on the most urgent task in your own business, without stopping daily operations. Need more afterward, you move on to the multi-day Corporathon hackathon.
- Real prototypes instead of slides
- Facilitated by AI practitioners
- Ready to run within a week
- Documented handoff included
Built for
Where SMBs and mid-market companies get stuck with AI. Without an IT department, AI often stays stuck at a few employees trying ChatGPT on their own while daily business runs exactly as before. An AI workshop b
Customer voices
What participants publicly say about the hackathon
Summarised takeaways from approved LinkedIn posts by teams that built with us.
From “I should really learn AI” to a shipped product, with zero coding experience.
No months of prep needed: a team, a bit of chaos, and it turned into a working product.
5 teams, 24 hours, we ended up with five working prototypes shipping this week.
From “I should really learn AI” to a shipped product, with zero coding experience.
After day one, people who had never opened a terminal were building in Claude Code.
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Oke Wilhelm
NavVis
The biggest effect wasn’t the tooling, it was the mindset shift: “I can build this myself.”
NT
NavVis Team
Marketing & ops
After day one, people who had never opened a terminal were building in Claude Code.
OW
Oke Wilhelm
NavVis
The biggest effect wasn’t the tooling, it was the mindset shift: “I can build this myself.”
NT
NavVis Team
Marketing & ops
The format
Knowledge turns into a working prototype.
An AI workshop for SMBs and mid-market companies without an IT department, one day onsite with a result you use right away. Book a discovery call.
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Where SMBs and mid-market companies get stuck with AI
Without an IT department, AI often stays stuck at a few employees trying ChatGPT on their own while daily business runs exactly as before. An AI workshop brings the team together onsite for one day and builds on the most urgent task in your own business, without stopping daily operations. Need more afterward, you move on to the multi-day Corporathon hackathon.
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What mid-market teams build
Typical challenges: a quoting assistant that prepares structured offers from inquiries, a customer service bot for recurring questions, a knowledge bot with n8n and Claude Code that documents and keeps accessible the experience of long-tenured staff, plus a reporting tool with Gamma for leadership. Built with Lovable, n8n and Custom GPTs, with no coding background required.
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One week to your Corporathon
1. Intro call, clarify goal and team. 2. Tools and challenges call, pick the most urgent task. 3. Finalize data and access. 4. Prepare the environment. 5. Hackathon days, tool workshop, sprint, result pitches.
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Classic training vs. Corporathon
A training shows leadership AI in theory. The AI workshop delivers the quoting assistant in one day, running in daily business the following week. That is what justifies the investment for a smaller business, and the hackathon deepens it afterward if needed.
Output, not slides
A Corporathon is not a seminar. It is a facilitated sprint where teams rebuild real work with AI.
0 week
from scope to ready-to-run sprint
0 formats
Spark, Ignite and Blaze
0 steps
from call to documented handoff
How it works
Clear steps from scope to handoff.
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Intro call
Corporathon + sponsor · goal, scope and date
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Challenge design
Corporathon + team leads · real use cases and tool stack
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Data & access
Client · approved data, roles and boundaries
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Tool workshop
Corporathon · teams can use the stack
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Hackathon sprint
Teams · working prototypes
Next step
Ready for your Corporathon?
Book a discovery call directly, we clarify goal, format and date in the call.
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FAQ
Questions that should be clear before the first call.
An AI workshop for SMBs and mid-market companies without an IT department, one day onsite with a result you use right away. Book a discovery call.
Without an IT department, AI often stays stuck at a few employees trying ChatGPT on their own while daily business runs exactly as before. An AI workshop brings the team together onsite for one day and builds on the most urgent task in your own business, without stopping daily operations. Need more afterward, you move on to the multi-day Corporathon hackathon.
Typical challenges: a quoting assistant that prepares structured offers from inquiries, a customer service bot for recurring questions, a knowledge bot with n8n and Claude Code that documents and keeps accessible the experience of long-tenured staff, plus a reporting tool with Gamma for leadership. Built with Lovable, n8n and Custom GPTs, with no coding background required.
1. Intro call, clarify goal and team. 2. Tools and challenges call, pick the most urgent task. 3. Finalize data and access. 4. Prepare the environment. 5. Hackathon days, tool workshop, sprint, result pitches.
A training shows leadership AI in theory. The AI workshop delivers the quoting assistant in one day, running in daily business the following week. That is what justifies the investment for a smaller business, and the hackathon deepens it afterward if needed.
Is it worthwhile for a team of 15 employees? Yes, especially there every automation counts directly. The Spark format runs one day for up to 10 people and fits many smaller businesses without stopping daily operations. Do we need our own IT department? No. We bring the technical implementation, you bring your process knowledge. The resulting tools are built so you can keep maintaining them …
Usually not for smaller formats. As soon as production systems are connected, we bring IT and security in early.
There is no certificate at the end, there is a working result: built workflows that keep running in daily operations.
For teams in marketing, sales, operations, product and IT. Coding skills are not required — the facilitation is built so every team ships a working prototype.
Usually one week: scoping call, use-case selection, access and tool setup. After that the sprint is ready to run.
You decide which data enters the sprint. Access, privacy and boundaries are agreed upfront and we only work with approved material.