What is the AI Discovery Cards Workshop?
The AI Discovery Cards Workshop is a creative, interactive workshop in which we work together to identify the best opportunities for applying AI in your business. We use Microsoft AI Envisioning Cards and design thinking methods to explore ideas and integrate them into your own workflows.
In a nutshell
- Duration: about 4 hours
- Format: on-site, hybrid, or virtual
- Intended for: executives, process owners, consultants, digital transformation managers, and data and AI professionals. No prior technical knowledge required.
Plenty of enthusiasm, but stalled in the pilot phase
Almost everyone recognizes the opportunities offered by AI, but many organizations remain stuck in the experimental phase. Our AI Benchmark 2026, a survey of 150 professionals in Belgium and the Netherlands, reveals where the bottleneck lies:
87%
sees AI as a huge opportunity for the organization.
56%
is still in the experimental and pilot phase.
6%
has already widely integrated AI into its processes.
Source: AI Benchmark 2026, Alistar (150 respondents, Belgium and the Netherlands, May and June 2026).
Why do you need the AI Discovery Cards Workshop?
Even with all the enthusiasm surrounding AI, it turns out that actually implementing AI in business is no easy task. Many organizations face the same questions: where do you start, what’s feasible, and how do you avoid investments that don’t add real value? These are familiar situations:
- There are ideas within the team, but there is no structured approach to putting them into practice.
- It's hard to assess what's technically possible today and which AI solutions are right for your challenges.
- AI often remains a standalone experimental phase rather than a strategic lever.
- The fear of making the wrong choices or a bad investment holds initiatives back.
Approach
Here's how the workshop works
The workshop is intentionally accessible, interactive, and playful. In four steps, you’ll move from your current approach to a prioritized shortlist.
1. Your current situation
We gather insights into your internal processes, needs, and business challenges.
2. Explore Microsoft AI Cards
You'll discover innovative ways to use AI and evaluate how you can leverage that technology.
3. Integrate the AI Cards into your workflow
We map AI to your business processes, derive concrete ideas from them, and refine them together.
4. Evaluate and prioritize
We assess the business impact and prioritize the ideas based on feasibility and value.
More than 70 AI Cards
What are the benefits of the workshop?
After the workshop, you’ll leave not only with inspiration, but also with concrete results you can put to use right away:
- Hands-on AI expertise through interactive design thinking and envisioning techniques
- A comprehensive, up-to-date overview of existing AI solutions thanks to the Microsoft AI Envisioning Cards
- A shortlist of concrete AI use cases, linked to specific process steps
- An overview of your key pain points and opportunities for optimization
- Clear quick wins and focused next steps
- Alignment within the team and a shared vision of where AI adds value
Preparation
How do you prepare?
The more precise the input, the more concrete the output. To get right to work, we’d like to ask you to provide a few materials in advance:
Business Goals
A summary of your goals, challenges, and areas for improvement.
Processes and Workflows
Existing workflow diagrams or process descriptions, with the bottlenecks identified.
Data and Metrics
Relevant business data: How do you measure success?
Opportunities for Innovation
Processes that are too cumbersome today and are ripe for innovation.
And above all: an open mindset for exploring new ideas and emerging technologies.
Triple I Framework
Three Approaches for Maximizing the Impact of AI
AI impact arises along three strategic axes that are not mutually exclusive. An organization can move along all three at the same time, each at its own pace: a Copilot rollout on the shop floor, an agent experiment in a department, and a custom solution for a specific business process. Our role is to help you move forward along the right axis. Discover the Triple I Framework.
Initiate: Optimizing What Already Exists
Get more out of the tools you're already using today and build a solid foundation for AI.
- Rolling Out Copilot
- Establishing Governance and Policy
- Supporting Employees and Structuring the Use of AI
Integrate: Weaving AI into the Business
Integrate AI into your processes and production lines as a bridge to customization.
- Building AI Agents for Processes
- Integration with Line Systems
- Automation with Power Platform and Copilot Studio
Innovate: Build Something Unique
Use AI where standard solutions fall short.
- Custom AI Solutions and Proprietary Models
- Applying RAG to Internal Data
- Developing Autonomous Agents
AI Partner Alistar
Why Alistar?
A good workshop is all about the right methodology and the right people. What sets us apart:
Proven methodology
We use Microsoft AI Envisioning Cards and design thinking to give you a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of what AI is capable of today.
Experts in processes and AI
We combine in-depth process knowledge with strategic insight into what is technically possible today.
Accessible and interactive
A creative, hands-on approach that anyone can participate in, without any prior technical knowledge.
Focus on Business Value
We start with your workflows and prioritize based on impact and feasibility, not on technical details.
From Workshop to Completion
You'll leave with a prioritized shortlist, and we can work with you to develop the use cases all the way through to implementation.
Ready to turn your AI ideas into use cases?
In a single interactive workshop, discover where AI can truly add value to your organization, and leave with a concrete, prioritized shortlist.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
About 4 hours. The session can take place on-site, in a hybrid format, or virtually.
For management and executives, process owners, consultants, digital transformation managers, and data and AI professionals. No prior technical knowledge is required.
The inspiration session provides a broad overview of what AI can offer. The Discovery Cards Workshop goes deeper: using Microsoft AI Envisioning Cards and design thinking, we translate your workflows into a prioritized shortlist of use cases.
A set of cards that provide a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of existing AI capabilities. Using design thinking, we link them to your workflows and specific ideas.
You’ll walk away with a prioritized shortlist and concrete starting points. From there, we can further develop the use cases until they’re ready for implementation.
