Find Your Starting Point
Not sure which workshop is right for your organisation? You're in the right place.
Binary Refinery runs three half-day workshops for leadership teams. Each one answers a different question. Pick the one that matches where your thinking is today - or take the 2-minute quiz and we'll route you.
The Three Workshops
Every workshop is half a day, in-person, with your leadership team. Every workshop produces a full written Report and a shorter Briefing for board or wider team distribution. Every workshop is $4,500 + GST, flat fee, backed by our value guarantee.
What differs is the question you're starting from.
AI Disruption Risk Workshop
The question: How exposed are we?
The lens: The AI Exposure Index - a 0 to 100 assessment across revenue exposure, operational exposure, and strategic displacement risk.
Best fit if:
Your board is asking about AI risk.
You want a structured, evidence-based view of exposure before investing.
Competitors are moving and you need to understand the strategic implications.
You're in professional services, knowledge work, or any business whose revenue depends on expertise sold as time.
You'll walk out with: An AI Exposure Index score, a three-layer exposure breakdown, a clear Monitor / Mitigate / Morph direction, and a sequenced response roadmap.
AI Strategy & Capability Baseline Workshop
The question: Where do we stand?
The lens: A six-dimension readiness assessment covering strategy, people, data, systems, processes, and governance.
Best fit if:
Your leadership team has mixed views on where the business actually is with AI.
You want a shared, evidence-based baseline before committing to tools, training, or headcount.
You're a professional services firm or office-based knowledge business where all six dimensions are genuinely relevant.
You want an honest readiness view, not encouragement.
You'll walk out with: A readiness score across six dimensions, a full opportunity landscape of 25 to 35 opportunities, a phased 18-month roadmap, and leadership alignment on priorities.
AI Opportunity Mapping Workshop
The question: What should we do? And in what order?
The lens: Department-by-department operational discovery - surfacing opportunities from the people who do the work.
Best fit if:
You already know your operation - the bottlenecks, the manual burden, the scheduling challenges, the quality risk.
Your leadership team is past "should we?" and into "what and when?".
You're operationally mature - manufacturing, logistics, multi-site services, processing - or a professional services firm with strong foundations already in place.
You'd rather walk out with a sequenced action plan than a readiness assessment.
You'll walk out with: A complete opportunity landscape of 25 to 35 opportunities rated on effort and impact, a phased 18-month roadmap with dependency logic, and the specific next-60-day actions that unlock everything else.
Which one is right for you?
Same output depth. Same price. Same guarantee. Same leadership team in the room.
What differs is the lens we use to get there - and the right lens depends on what your leadership team most needs.
The 2-minute quiz asks five questions and routes you to the best fit based on your answers. It's the fastest way to decide.
If you'd rather talk it through, book a 20-minute discovery call with Kat.
What Every Workshop Includes
Regardless of which you choose:
Half-Day Facilitated Session
4 to 6 hours with your leadership team, delivered in-person in Christchurch or on-site at your office. We come prepared - research on your business is done before we walk in, so the session opens at depth. No slides-at-you, no generic AI overview - a working session.
Full Written Report
Covering findings, the opportunity landscape, and the 18-month roadmap. Evidence-based, plain-language, board-ready where relevant.
Briefing Document
A condensed companion covering the headline findings, top opportunities, and the roadmap at a glance. A faster read that stands alone - and pairs with the full Report when deeper context is useful.
Delivery Session
60-minute walkthrough of findings, roadmap, and next steps. Virtual or in-person.
The Value Guarantee
If your leadership team doesn't walk away with meaningful strategic clarity, you don't pay.
Why Binary Refinery
Independent AI strategy consultancy based in Christchurch. Founded by Kat Mac - 20 years in technology, former GM at a nationwide NZ financial services organisation, MBA, board-level governance experience.
We don't sell tools. We don't take vendor referral fees. We have no allegiance to any AI platform, model, or software provider. That independence is what lets us tell you what's actually true about your business, not what helps us sell you something.
We work with NZ businesses of 20 to 200 staff - professional services firms, operational businesses, owner-operated and professionally managed. We understand the Canterbury business market, the NZ regulatory environment, and the specific pressures of running a firm that doesn't have a CIO.