AI rollout program · for teams of 10–200

Team AI Adoption Auckland

A structured 6–8 week program that gets your whole Auckland team genuinely using AI — not just the early adopters. Adoption assessment, an internal champions program, tooling rollout, governance, and measured results. Led by Rye Smith, Australia's Claude Ambassador.

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6–8 week program
Workshops + coaching + async
Champions program included
On-site Auckland or hybrid
Led by Claude Ambassador for Australia · Rye Smith
Why a program, not a workshop

Most AI training reaches the keen 20%

Getting a whole team to genuinely adopt AI is a change problem, not a training problem. This program is built to reach everyone — and to prove it worked.

Reaches the whole team, not just early adopters

One-off workshops light up the keen 20%. A structured program — with champions, cadence and measurement — pulls the other 80% along too.

Governance built in, not bolted on

An acceptable-use policy, data-handling rules and approval workflows so legal and security are comfortable and your team can move fast.

Adoption you can actually measure

We baseline usage in week one and report against it. You get dashboards and a 90-day review — not a vague sense that 'people are using AI now'.

An internal champion network

We train champions across your departments so support is desk-side and peer-led. Momentum outlasts the engagement.

The program

Five phases, 6–8 weeks

A structured rollout delivered on-site in Auckland or hybrid — a mix of workshops, hands-on coaching and async support. Every phase produces something concrete.

Phase 1

Adoption Assessment

Week 1

We start by mapping where your team actually is — not where you assume it is.

  • Current-state audit across every department in scope
  • Tool inventory: what's already in use, sanctioned and shadow
  • Skills baseline survey — confidence, frequency, real usage
  • Blocker analysis: the policy, technical and cultural friction points
  • A prioritised adoption roadmap scoped to your team

Phase 2

Champions Program

Weeks 2–3

Adoption sticks when it spreads peer-to-peer — so we build your internal champion network.

  • Selecting AI champions across functions and seniority levels
  • Intensive champion training — deeper than the rest of the team
  • Equipping champions to run desk-side support and clinics
  • A champion playbook: prompts, use cases, escalation paths
  • Monthly champion cadence so momentum outlasts the program

Phase 3

Tooling Rollout

Weeks 3–5

The practical plumbing — getting the right AI tools into the right hands, configured properly.

  • Claude and AI tool setup, licensing and access provisioning
  • Projects configured with your brand voice, templates and context
  • Integrations with the systems your team already works in
  • Role-based rollout sequencing so no one is left behind
  • Hands-on workshops tied to each team's real workflows

Phase 4

Governance & Policy

Weeks 5–6

A clear, practical framework that lets your team move fast without creating risk.

  • An acceptable-use policy written for your organisation
  • Data handling rules — what can and can't go into a prompt
  • Approval workflows for higher-risk or external-facing output
  • Risk guardrails, review rituals and hallucination checks
  • Sign-off pathway with legal, security and leadership

Phase 5

Embed & Measure

Weeks 7–8

We turn a rollout into a habit — and prove the uplift with real numbers.

  • A sustainable training cadence for new starters and refreshers
  • Adoption metrics dashboards — usage, depth and outcomes
  • A 90-day review against the Phase 1 baseline
  • Identifying the next wave of high-value use cases
  • A handover plan so your champions can sustain momentum
Auckland context

Why Auckland organisations need a structured rollout

Auckland is New Zealand's commercial capital, and the organisations headquartered in the CBD and the Wynyard Quarter share a clear case for a structured AI rollout. The banks, insurers, corporate head offices and professional-services firms that anchor the city run large operations, finance and customer teams — the kind of structured, document-heavy work where AI adoption either reaches the whole floor or fizzles after a workshop. An internal champions network placed across each function is what brings a whole Auckland organisation to a consistent standard, rather than leaving a gap between the early adopters and everyone else.

The pressure on Auckland teams is competitive and it is regulated. As New Zealand's international gateway with the country's deepest professional talent pool, Auckland organisations know their competitors are moving on AI, and leadership wants results that can be measured. At the same time, the Privacy Act 2020 sets clear expectations for how personal information is handled — which makes the governance phase essential. An acceptable-use policy, clear rules on what data can go into a prompt, and approval workflows for customer-facing output have to be in place before a rollout goes wide.

A Team AI Adoption program for an Auckland organisation starts with a current-state assessment across your divisions, builds a champions network so adoption spreads peer-to-peer, rolls tooling out by role, and produces a governance framework that aligns with the Privacy Act and that your risk and legal functions can sign off. Delivered on-site in the Auckland CBD or the Wynyard Quarter, or hybrid, over 6 to 8 weeks — with adoption dashboards and a 90-day review so a transformation lead can show the executive a real, measured uplift.

Rye Smith — Claude Ambassador for Australia
Claude Ambassador AU
Your trainer

Rye Smith

Claude Ambassador for Australia & Lead Workshop Trainer

Rye is Australia's Claude Ambassador and an AI strategist who has helped thousands of professionals understand and ship with Claude. He runs hands-on, classroom-style workshops in every capital city — demystifying Claude Code, Claude Coworker, and the agentic workflows that are reshaping how Australian teams work.

  • Claude Ambassador for Australia

    Anthropic-recognised community lead

  • Certified Claude Code trainer

    Hands-on agentic workflows since 2024

  • n8n Ambassador (APAC)

    Cross-tool automation expert

  • 1,000+ professionals trained

    Workshops in 11 Australian cities

Workshops in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra, Hobart, Darwin, Gold Coast, Newcastle & Auckland.
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At a glance

Program details

Duration

6–8 week program

Format

Workshops + coaching + async

Team size

10–200 people

Delivery

On-site Auckland or hybrid

Outcome

Measured adoption uplift

Includes

Champions program

Just need a one-day team workshop?

If a full rollout program is more than you need right now, our Claude Coworker workshop in Auckland is a focused one-day option for getting a team started.

Claude Coworker in Auckland
FAQs

Frequently asked questions

How much does a Team AI Adoption program cost in Auckland?+
Programs start From NZ$9,200 and are custom-scoped to your team. The final figure depends on team size, the number of departments in scope, and how much governance and integration work is involved. We scope every engagement on a discovery call and send a fixed-price proposal before anything is committed — there are no per-seat charges.
How is this different from a one-day AI workshop?+
A workshop teaches a room of people for a day. A Team AI Adoption program changes how a whole organisation works over 6–8 weeks. It includes a current-state assessment, an internal champions network, the tooling rollout, a governance and acceptable-use policy, and adoption measurement. Workshops are a component — the program is the system that makes the change stick.
What size team is this designed for?+
We run programs for teams and organisations of roughly 10 to 200 people. Below 10, a workshop is usually a better fit. Above 200, we phase the rollout department by department. Most clients engage us at the team, division or whole-of-organisation level.
Do we need to have chosen an AI tool already?+
No. Tool selection is part of Phase 1. We're Claude specialists and Rye is Australia's Claude Ambassador, but the assessment is vendor-honest — we'll recommend the tooling that fits your security posture, budget and workflows, and we don't take referral commissions.
How do you measure whether adoption actually worked?+
We baseline your team's AI usage, confidence and workflows in Phase 1, then report against that baseline. You get adoption dashboards through the program and a formal 90-day review covering usage depth, workflow change and outcomes — so the result is evidence, not anecdote.
Can our organisation expense the program?+
Yes. We issue GST-compliant tax invoices to your organisation and NZBN, and can stage payment across the program. We're happy to provide a detailed quote and scope document for finance or procurement sign-off before you commit.
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A 6–8 week program · on-site Auckland CBD or hybrid · champions, governance and measured adoption.

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