- What Is the AI Advantage Sprint?
- Why Start With a Diagnostic?
- How the 30 Days Break Down
- What Makes This Different From Other AI Enablement Approaches
- A Low-Risk Way to Start
- What Comes After the Sprint
- Who the Sprint Is For
- FAQs
Your company has already spent on AI tools. Maybe you rolled out a platform, ran a few lunch-and-learns, sent the company-wide email about the future of work. And yet, when you look at your senior leadership team, actual AI fluency is thin. Adoption is patchy. Nobody can tell you which leaders are genuinely capable and which ones are nodding along in meetings.
That's exactly the problem the AI Advantage Sprint was built to solve.
This article explains what the Sprint is, how it works, what you walk away with, and why it's the right starting point for serious AI enablement at the executive level.
What Is the AI Advantage Sprint?
The AI Advantage Sprint is a structured 30-day diagnostic. It scores every senior leader on AI fluency, conducts one-on-one interviews with each of them, and delivers a concrete 90-day strategy brief at the end.
It is not a workshop. It is not a vendor pitch. It's an honest audit — a clear picture of where your leadership team actually stands, not where you hope they stand.
Before you invest in a 12-month development program, you find out exactly what you're working with.
Why Start With a Diagnostic?
Most AI enablement engagements start with a solution. A vendor shows up with a platform, a curriculum, or a framework and asks you to buy in before anyone has looked at the actual problem.
The Sprint flips that. It starts by asking: what do your leaders actually know, what are they actually doing, and where are the specific gaps?
That distinction matters. Deploying AI tools without trained leaders is like buying a squat rack and never using it. The equipment doesn't build the capability — the people do. And before you can build capability, you need to know where each person is starting from.
The scored fluency assessment makes that visible. Every senior leader gets a score. Not a vague impression, not a survey with a bar chart. A score that reflects their actual AI mindset, skillset, and toolset across the dimensions that matter for senior decision-making.
How the 30 Days Break Down
Fluency Scoring for Every Senior Leader
Each member of your senior leadership team is assessed individually. The scoring covers the three dimensions AI Performance Lab uses across all its programs: mindset (how leaders think about AI's role in their decisions), skillset (what they can actually do with AI tools), and toolset (how well they understand what's available and relevant to their function).
This isn't a group quiz. Individual assessment means you see the full range inside your team — not an average that hides the outliers.
One-on-One Interviews
Beyond the scored assessment, every senior leader goes through a structured one-on-one interview. This is where the qualitative picture fills in. What are the blockers? Where does skepticism live? Who is quietly ahead of the curve, and who is still operating with 2022 assumptions?
The interviews surface what a diagnostic instrument alone can't capture. They also signal to your leaders that this process takes them seriously as individuals — not just as seats in a training program.
The 90-Day Strategy Brief
At the end of 30 days, you receive a 90-day strategy brief. This is a concrete artifact, not a slide deck full of observations. It tells you where your leadership team's AI fluency gaps are, which gaps are most urgent, and what the first 90 days of a development plan should look like.
If you move into the full 12-month program, this brief becomes the foundation for that work. If you need to take it to your board or CEO to make the case for further investment, you have something specific to show them.
What Makes This Different From Other AI Enablement Approaches
Most enterprise AI training programs skip the diagnostic entirely. They assume the problem is uniform and apply the same solution to everyone. That works reasonably well for broad workforce enablement, where you're moving a large population from zero to basic proficiency.
It does not work for senior leadership teams. Your CFO and your Chief Marketing Officer have different AI opportunities, different risk tolerances, and different starting points. A one-size curriculum ignores all of that.
The Sprint also gives you something most AI enablement engagements never produce: a baseline. When you eventually measure progress, you have a starting score to measure against. The full 12-month program at AI Performance Lab re-administers the AI Fluency Diagnostic at Month 12, and the delta between Month 1 and Month 12 is the documented proof of progress. The Sprint is where that baseline gets established.
No other identified competitor offers a structured diagnostic sprint as a standalone, low-commitment entry point to a longitudinal program. That format simply doesn't exist elsewhere at the senior leadership level.
A Low-Risk Way to Start
One of the practical advantages of the Sprint is what it isn't: a 12-month commitment.
If you're a Chief People Officer or Chief Learning Officer who has been burned by an AI initiative that didn't land, committing to a year-long program before you've seen any evidence of fit is a hard sell internally. The Sprint removes that barrier.
You get real output in 30 days. Scored data on every leader. A strategy brief you can act on. And you make the decision about what comes next from an informed position — not a hopeful one.
That's a materially different conversation to have with your CEO or board than "we're thinking about investing in AI training."
What Comes After the Sprint
The Sprint feeds directly into the AI Performance Lab 12-month program, which includes four quarterly on-site workshops, monthly 60-minute live cohort sessions, and a continuously updated self-paced video library refreshed weekly. The library covers prompting, agentic workflows, decision intelligence, and AI governance.
The 12-month program comes with three performance guarantees:
- A 30-day exit option with a prorated refund if the program isn't the right fit
- An outcome guarantee: if fluency scores don't improve from Month 1 to Month 12, the program extends at no charge until they do
- A service quality guarantee: partial fee refunds for any missed deliverables
Those aren't marketing language. They reflect genuine confidence in what the program produces — and they make the decision to proceed after the Sprint considerably easier to defend internally.
Organizations including PepsiCo, Walmart, and Barclays have gone through the program. Case studies for Doma, PetLab, and a pharma client are available at aiperformancelab.ai/case-studies.
Who the Sprint Is For
The Sprint is the right starting point if any of this sounds familiar:
- Your organization has invested in AI tools but senior leaders aren't using them with confidence
- You've had a failed AI rollout and need to understand the human capability gap before trying again
- Your board is asking for evidence of AI progress and you need something concrete to show them
- You want to build the case for a longer development investment but need data first
- You're not sure which leaders are ready and which ones need the most support
If you're a CPO, CLO, or Chief of Staff to the CEO at a large enterprise, the Sprint gives you the diagnostic clarity to act on — rather than guess at.
FAQs
What exactly does the AI Advantage Sprint deliver? Three things: a scored AI fluency assessment for every senior leader, individual one-on-one interviews with each leader, and a 90-day strategy brief that identifies gaps and recommends a development path. All of it within 30 days of starting.
How is AI fluency scored in the Sprint? Each leader is assessed across three dimensions: mindset, skillset, and toolset. The scoring reflects actual capability in each area — not a self-reported survey. You get a granular view of the full range inside your team.
Does the Sprint require a commitment to the 12-month program? No. The Sprint stands on its own as a 30-day engagement. It's designed to feed into the 12-month program if you choose to proceed, but that decision comes after you've seen the Sprint output — not before.
How is this different from a standard AI training needs assessment? A typical needs assessment is a survey or a facilitated workshop discussion. The Sprint includes individual scored diagnostics and one-on-one interviews for every senior leader, and it produces a concrete 90-day strategy brief. The output is specific and actionable, not a general summary of themes.
What happens if we do the Sprint and then proceed to the 12-month program? The Sprint baseline feeds directly into the Month 1 AI Fluency Diagnostic for the full program. Your leaders enter the 12-month program with a head start on self-awareness, and the development work is shaped by what the Sprint uncovered. At Month 12, the diagnostic repeats — and the delta is the documented proof of progress.
What if our leaders are skeptical about AI training? The one-on-one interview component is specifically designed to surface skepticism, blockers, and individual concerns. That information shapes the development strategy. Leaders who feel heard at the diagnostic stage are more likely to engage seriously with the work that follows.
How do we get started with the AI Advantage Sprint? Start with a conversation. Book a call or take the AI Readiness Assessment at aiperformancelab.ai to get a preliminary read on where your organization stands before you commit to anything.
Your leaders are not going to figure this out on their own, and another tool rollout won't fix a fluency problem. The Sprint gives you the data to act. Book a call at aiperformancelab.ai and find out exactly where your leadership team stands.