One team, one AI workflow, working in four weeks.

The Kickstart takes one task your team repeats every week and turns it into an AI workflow they run themselves. We build it inside the AI tool your company already approved. You keep the workflow, the written check that defines a good result, and the handoff your team needs to run it after we leave.

Start the conversation How the four weeks run

A 30-minute call about the task you have in mind. If we’re the wrong fit, we’ll say so.

Free workflow kit Our monthly newsletter, drafted by a skill and scored by a rubric GateEvery fact traces to a postGateLinks only to this month’s postsGateHouse voice holdsGateIt fits the format ScoreFirst run 10/12, after one fix 11/12 Read the whole kit, no form

Buying AI seats gives everyone access. It doesn’t tell anyone what good output looks like.

A license answers who can use the tool. It leaves three questions open, and the return waits on them.

Who checks the output

Nobody owns the review step yet, so drafts either go out unchecked or get rewritten by hand.
What it’s allowed to see

Without a clear rule for which documents the tool can use, careful teams use it for nothing important.
What good looks like

Each person prompts differently, so the results vary and nobody can say whether the work got better.

One task, built with the person who already does it.

We work on a single task your team repeats, with the person who does it today, on their real inputs.

ExampleFor a fintech company, we accelerated a manual fraud review with AI, built with the analysts who already did the work. Each alert now comes ranked by severity with a suggested next step, and the analysts still make every call.

Week 1
Pick a task AI can automate or accelerate

We choose one task or workflow with you that AI can automate or accelerate, gather real inputs, and write the rubric that says what a good result looks like.
Weeks 2–3
Build it with the person who does the task

We build the workflow in your AI tool and improve it each week with the person on your team who does the task today, the one who will use it every week. The budget owner joins at kickoff and at handoff.
Week 4
They run it alone, then we hand it over

That person runs the task on real work without us, and we hand over the workflow, the rubric, and the handoff checklist.

What done means. The Kickstart is done when a named person on your team runs the workflow on at least 10 real inputs without us in the room. At least 8 of the 10 outputs pass the rubric you approved in week one with only light edits. By then you have the workflow, the rubric, the handoff checklist, and an internal owner.

What you keep

Our monthly newsletter used to be a manual process, passed from hand to hand. Now a skill drafts it from the month’s posts, and a rubric checks it before anyone sends it. We teach your team to build skills like these, so the work is repeatable. These four files are from that workflow.

SKILL.md
The workflow
The instructions and prompts, set up in your workspace.
rubric.md
The rubric
The written definition of a good result, which you can use to check every run.
04-sample-scorecard.md
A real run
The named person’s own output on at least 10 real inputs, scored against the rubric.
05-handoff-checklist.md
The handoff checklist
What to check, who reviews, and what to change when the task changes.

Read the whole kit, no form

Built for

One team, with up to 10 named people
One department, such as marketing, operations, customer service, or finance operations
A repeatable task, heavy on text or data, with a clear good resultTypical tasks: preparing reports from documents, spotting anomalies in recurring data, summarizing calls, or sorting incoming requests
An AI tool your company already approved, with seats in place
A budget owner who can say yes

Not built for

Prompt training on its own
Tasks that make regulated decisions
Work that needs ERP, database, or custom connector integration
Production apps or more than one workflow, which are custom work
Companies with an internal AI platform team already building these tools

Start the conversation

Starting from $45K. Tell us the task, and if the Kickstart is the wrong fit, we’ll say so.

Our design, engineering, and marketing teams run their own workflows this way.

We ran this on our own teams before we offered it to anyone else. These are our own workflows, not client results.

Design Designers build their own tools Proof-of-concept work on a Figma plugin that took about a month now takes under an hour. How a VGV designer codes with AI

Engineering Our workflow, in the open Wingspan runs every change through brainstorm, plan, build and review, with five review agents on every build. VGV Wingspan

Marketing Our own newsletter The monthly newsletter is drafted by a skill from the posts we published, then scored against a rubric before anyone sends it. See the whole workflow

Three ways to start.

Read the free kit, start the Kickstart from $45K, or bring us a bigger brief.

01
The workflow kit

Our marketing team’s monthly newsletter workflow, start to finish: the inputs, the rubric, the skill, two scored runs, and the handoff checklist. You can read all of it without filling in a form.

Price and who it suitsFree. Anyone deciding where AI goes first

Get the workflow kit
02
The Kickstart

One team, one workflow, four weeks. Starting from $45K. The price depends on the size of the team and your environment.

Price and who it suitsFrom $45K. Department heads with one task worth building

Start the conversation
03
Custom enablement

More teams, more workflows, connectors to your systems, and governance with your IT team. Custom price, based on your team.

Price and who it suitsCustom. Teams ready to go past one workflow

Let’s chat

What teams ask before the Kickstart.

Anything else, bring it to the first conversation.

01 Why hasn’t buying AI seats changed how our team works?

Access tells people they can use the tool. It doesn’t say who reviews the output, which data is allowed, or what a good result looks like. The Kickstart settles those three questions for one task, so the team has a reason to use it every week.

02 Is this a training course?

No. Training teaches prompting. We build a working workflow with checks, with your team and on their real work, and we’re done only when your person runs it without us.

03 Which tasks fit?

A task your team repeats every week, heavy on text or data, where someone can say what a good result looks like. Preparing reports from documents, spotting anomalies in recurring data, summarizing calls, and sorting incoming requests are typical. The workflow kit shows one from end to end.

04 What do you need from us?

One named person who does the task today and can give us 2 to 3 hours a week, at least 10 real examples of the task, a workspace admin for setup, and a budget owner at kickoff and at handoff.

05 Which AI tools does it work with?

The one your company already approved and has seats for. It doesn’t have to be Claude. Choosing a tool isn’t part of the Kickstart.

06 What happens to our data?

It stays in the workspace your company already approved, under the agreement you already have. We don’t move it into VGV systems. Our security and IP page covers how we handle your data on every engagement.

07 Can it connect to our other systems?

Not in the Kickstart. Integrations and connectors are custom work.

08 Who owns what you build?

You do. The workflow, the rubric, and the handoff are yours.

09 What happens after the four weeks?

Your team runs the workflow. If you want more workflows or more teams after that, it becomes custom work, priced on your team.

10 What does it cost?

The Kickstart is priced from $45K for one team and one workflow over four weeks. The final price depends on the size of the team and your environment. Anything past one workflow is custom work, priced on your team after a first conversation.