Handing the Team the Method - presenting on my win to the company

A long overdue update on my Big Win post. Finding that while the world of AI in here moves at light speed you can't push the rest of the world forward as well.

So I put together a presentation on the AI tooling I'd built across two projects — a pipeline of scripts that took a full-day manual process down to almost nothing, and a set of in-engine tools that made an otherwise undeliverable mixing project actually possible. But the tools weren't the point. The point was the pattern behind them, and it's simple: surface the pain point, describe the workflow you wish you had, then let AI help you build it. You don't have to know how to code. You have to know what's grinding on you and be able to articulate it clearly. (I've shared my slide deck below but unfortunately have to redact some client sensitive information)

People were rather quiet during my presentation but after I turned off the PPT people immediately started engaging. My boss and our CEO were more vocal than I've ever seen them about getting people to think differently about AI. One coworker told me it was the first one of these meetings they'd looked forward to in a long time, because honestly these standing daily meetings had been stagnating and we'd largely been skipping them.

Then one colleague asked the question that's been sitting with me since: "How hard would it be for me, with no coding knowledge, to start?"

So that's my next goal — figuring out how to actually share these systems with everyone else, especially people just starting out, not just demo them. Curious how other people are doing this, handing your process to people who don't code, what's your process?

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Handing the Team the Method - presenting on my win to the company