AI Strategy & Capability Baseline Workshop
A fast, executive diagnostic and decision accelerator.
Most organisations know AI will change how they operate. Few leaders have a clear, organisation-wide view of where they actually stand - or what to do next with confidence. The AI Strategy & Capability Baseline Workshop gives CEOs and executive teams the clarity and direction they need to make smart, timely, risk-aware decisions about AI.
$3,500 + GST
Value Guarantee
If your leadership team doesn’t feel the session delivered meaningful strategic value, you won’t be invoiced.
What You’ll Gain
By the end of the briefing and assessment, your executive team will have:
A clear baseline of your organisation’s AI capability across six strategic dimensions.
A shared, enterprise-wide understanding of where AI fits into your future.
Confidence to lead - with practical language and concepts that cut through complexity.
Sharper, faster decision-making, grounded in objective insights rather than assumptions.
Reduced risk exposure across data, governance, security, compliance, and workforce impacts.
Alignment around priorities, trade-offs, and the real opportunities worth pursuing.
Clarity and direction executives can act on immediately.
How It Works
1. Executive Briefing
A concise briefing built for senior leaders. You’ll get the essential context for AI’s role in modern organisations - strategic, operational, risk, and competitive implications - delivered without technical noise.
2. Interactive Readiness Assessment
A structured, guided session using Binary Refinery’s proprietary assessment logic. We work through the six dimensions together, capturing current-state realities, constraints, opportunities, and executive perspectives.
3. Your Custom AI Strategy & Capability Baseline Report
You’ll receive a clear, practical report summarising:
Your scores across all six dimensions.
A plain-language snapshot of your current AI position.
Your priority focus areas.
Recommendations for next steps that match your goals, risks, and capacity.
This becomes your foundation for future planning - whether you continue working with Binary Refinery, use your internal capability, or engage other partners.
Why This Workshop:
It’s fast - decisions and direction in hours, not months.
It’s strategic - built specifically for senior leadership, not IT teams.
It’s independent - no vendors, no product selling.
It’s actionable - clarity that shapes real decisions.
It’s risk-aware - protecting your data, your people, and your reputation.
This Workshop Is For:
CEOs, Executive Teams, Boards, and Senior Leaders who need:
A crisp understanding of where the organisation stands with AI.
A smart, structured way to prioritise next steps.
A strategic foundation before investing time, money, or capability into AI initiatives.
Critical Success Factor: Full Engagement
A successful workshop is built on focused attention and active contribution from every person in the room. To get the most value from this workshop, we need one thing above all else: your full engagement.
To set us up for the best outcomes, we ask that everyone:
Leaves laptops and phones aside.
Stays engaged for the full session - even when the conversation shifts between different parts of the business.
Shares their knowledge openly - the insights we need are already inside your organisation.
Different moments will resonate with different people. That’s intentional. The value comes from hearing how the pieces connect across teams and perspectives.
The brains trust is in the room. The more we hear from those brains, the better the decisions we can make together.
FAQ
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Very little. You’ll receive a short, focused preparation guide outlining the information that will make the session most valuable. No long forms, no homework - just clarity on your strategy, your key processes, and any current AI experiments or tools in play.
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Ideally:
CEO / Managing Director.
Someone who owns data/technology.
Someone who owns people/operations.
Someone who owns marketing/sales.
Finance.
Any leader responsible for customer experience or risk.
You don’t need a large group - you need the right decision-makers and the people who understand how work actually happens.
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Binary Refinery specialises in executive-level, independent emerging-technology strategy - not IT implementation, not vendor selling.
You get a blend of:
Deep experience in technology, governance, risk, and organisational change.
A proprietary assessment and opportunity-mapping system built for New Zealand organisations.
An adviser who translates complexity into clear, practical, business-first decisions.
The work is grounded, independent, strategic - and built for leaders.
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ROI typically appears through:
Avoided spend and avoided missteps.
Efficiency and time savings.
Clearer, faster decisions.
Reduced risk across data, security, governance, and compliance.
Targeted investment in opportunities that actually matter.
Many organisations see value immediately through avoided cost, quick wins, or tighter alignment.
Binary Refinery’s incentives are aligned with yours:
our purpose is to get you value, so the process deliberately surfaces realistic, achievable quick wins to help you build momentum and bring ROI forward. -
Two options:
Use it internally as your direction-setter for decision-making, capability building, and investment.
Move into the AI Opportunity Mapping Workshop, where strategy turns into a ranked, prioritised roadmap of value-creating initiatives.
Either way, you now have shared language, clarity, and direction that prevents scattered experiments.
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Most leadership teams spend 4–6 hours total, depending on the workshop. Binary Refinery does the heavy lifting - you simply show up ready to think, discuss, and decide.
No homework unless requested.
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No. These sessions are designed for strategic decision-makers, not IT teams or data scientists.
If you’d like your technology leaders present, they’re absolutely welcome - but not required.
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Yes. The frameworks scale up or down. Small and mid-sized organisations often see faster ROI because decisions are quicker and alignment is easier.
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Great - the workshop will:
Pressure-test your current direction.
Confirm priorities.
Expose blind spots, duplication, or unnecessary spend.
Tighten sequencing and focus.
You don’t lose momentum, you sharpen it.
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Binary Refinery works alongside your existing partners. We remain independent - no commissions, no preferred vendors.
Your IT provider is welcome to participate, and the resulting roadmap will make their role clearer and more effective.
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Absolutely - and this is a core value point. A good AI roadmap doesn’t just look for new tools. It identifies untapped value in the systems you already pay for, including AI functionality or integrations inside platforms like Microsoft 365, CRMs, ERPs, ticketing systems, analytics tools, and more. Many organisations get faster ROI by fully using what they already own.
Meet Your Facilitator: Kat Mac
Kat is the founder of Binary Refinery. Part strategist, part translator, she specialises in helping leaders cut through complexity, understand what emerging technology really means for their organisations, and make clear, commercially grounded decisions.
She brings experience across technology leadership, digital transformation, marketing, governance, and organisational strategy - supported by an MBA from the University of Canterbury and years advising senior leadership teams across New Zealand.
Her workshops are practical, engaging, and built around one goal: helping New Zealand organisations modernise with confidence, clarity, and control.
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