For people newly in AI enablement roles
You've been made the AI person.
Here's what to do first.
Enablement Lead is a free weekly newsletter for the person whose job is getting everyone else productive with AI. Practical playbooks, templates and honest field notes. Nothing about the AI race, plenty about what to do on Monday.
Free playbook
Your first 30 days as an AI enablement lead
A week-by-week plan to find what matters, get one team visibly better off, and report progress leadership believes.
- Week 1 Find out what people actually do with AI today
- Week 2 Pick three workflows worth fixing, not thirty
- Week 3 Run your first enablement sprint with one team
- Week 4 Report progress in numbers leadership trusts
The 90-day plan
What to do this week, whichever week you're in.
Five stages, from your first conversations to a programme that runs without you. Pick one to see what to read, what to use and what to present.
Where are you?
- 1 Discover Weeks 1–2 Where are we really?
- 2 Prioritise Weeks 2–3 Where should we start?
- 3 Train Weeks 3–6 How do we get people using it?
- 4 Measure Weeks 4–8 Is it working?
- 5 Scale Weeks 8–13 How does this last?
Stage 1 · weeks 1–2
Find out what people actually do with AI today, and what's stopping them.
By the end: Eight discovery conversations, a maturity baseline, a sponsor who has agreed what you're accountable for, and the one blocker that dominates.
Everything for Discover →Stage 2 · weeks 2–3
Pick three workflows worth fixing, not thirty, and agree the rules.
By the end: Three workflows with owners and baselines, a one-page usage policy people can follow, and a clear choice of tools.
Everything for Prioritise →Stage 3 · weeks 3–6
Run live sessions on one team's real work, one team at a time.
By the end: Your first teams running a named workflow with AI, a one-page guide for each, and feedback from every session.
Everything for Train →Stage 4 · weeks 4–8
Re-measure against your baselines and report numbers leadership trusts.
By the end: Before-and-after numbers for each workflow, labelled honestly as timed or estimated, and a maturity trend by team.
Everything for Measure →Stage 5 · weeks 8–13
Turn one team's win into a programme that runs without you in every room.
By the end: A champions network with a rhythm, your experts' methods captured as shared skills, and a board paper that secures the next two quarters.
Everything for Scale →Training decks
One session, in anyone's brand
The same slide from Prompting on real work, rendered live three times. Add a logo, colours and fonts once and every deck restyles, down to the company name in the copy.
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Acme Insurance · Sora -
Northwind Retail · Lora
Acme Insurance and Northwind Retail are example brands.
Sound familiar?
The job description said "drive AI adoption". It didn't say how.
- Everyone has a licence. Usage is a handful of enthusiasts and a long tail of people who tried it once.
- Leadership wants an ROI number by next quarter, and nobody agrees what to measure.
- Every team wants something different, and you're one person.
- Your personal productivity is great. The organisation's hasn't moved.
- The best know-how in the company lives in three people's heads, and none of it is in the AI tools.
Free scorecard · 3 minutes
How mature is your company's AI adoption?
Twelve questions across sponsorship, skills, workflows and measurement. Get your tier now, and a report with your three highest-leverage next moves.
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Your first 30 days as an AI enablement lead
A week-by-week plan to find what matters, get one team visibly better off, and report progress leadership believes.
1Discover
8 min read · free with signup
Picking your first three workflows
How to turn a pile of "we could use AI for that" into three workflows you can actually deliver and measure.
2Prioritise
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Writing a one-page AI usage policy
A policy people read, remember and follow, written in a week with the people who'd otherwise block it.
2Prioritise
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