THE PLAYBOOK FOR BECOMING AN
AI-CAPABLE ORGANISATION

 

 

 

Right now, new companies are being built from the ground up as AI Native businesses. In every industry. They are lean, fast, and they don't carry the legacy that existing companies do. That trend is only accelerating.

Existing organisations can't be AI Native. But they can become AI Emergent. That's our North Star: a state where AI capability is genuinely embedded across your whole organisation. Your leaders, your operational teams, your culture, your workflows. All of it.

We've built a delivery ecosystem designed holistically around that single objective. Every part of it is connected. And every part is tailored to what each layer of your organisation actually needs.

 
A cross-section view of an organisation showing different levels — executives, managers, operational teams, and the whole organisation

AI ASKS DIFFERENT THINGS OF EVERYONE

 
 
 

BOARD & SENIOR LEADERSHIP

 

Strategic understanding, personal skills capability, safety, ethics and risk alignment

Rapid AI Traction • Path to AI Emergence
 

MIDDLE MANAGEMENT

 

Bridging skill, strategy, cultural change and operations

Path to AI Emergence • AI Academy
 

OPERATIONAL TEAMS

 

Practical skills training on the tools they use every day, to drive radical efficiency and productivity

AI Academy
 

THE WHOLE ORGANISATION

 

Guided transformation that brings it all together powerfully, safely and holistically

Bespoke Consultancy • Path to AI Emergence

Every layer matters. AI Emergence happens when capability reaches every level.

Your operational teams don't need to think about change management, leadership implications, or strategic positioning. They need to be shown how to use the tools. All the functionality and features. How to apply AI to their own roles and drive radical uplifts in efficiency, productivity and innovation.

Your senior leaders need something completely different. They need to understand the strategic implications of what AI means for your people, your processes, your operations, your strategy, (possibly your revenue model if you trade time for money), and your industry. And yes, the whole senior leadership team firstly needs to become powerful and skilful users of the technology themselves so they can lead from a position of real capability.

And the organisation as a whole needs a structured path through the transformation. The change management work. The embedding of AI into the rhythms of the company. The culture shift.

That's why we don't just offer one course or one programme. We offer four connected things, each designed for a different level, all working together.

(Sure, engage with them one by one, but just know that they all connect to bring you a wholistic path towards AI Emergence.)

HOW WE GET YOU THERE

 
START HERE

Rapid AI Traction

 

1 month

Fast, structured entry point for senior leadership teams. Build understanding, confidence, and first wins.

 
 
 
 

Path to AI Emergence

 

10 months

The full transformation journey. Strategy, culture, policy, skills, and roadmap built month by month with your leadership team.

 

Bespoke Consultancy — available alongside as needed

AI Academy

 

Ongoing

Practical skills training for operational teams on the tools they use every day. Pay only for active learners each month.

Always on
 
 
 
 
 
 

AI Emergence

 

AI capability embedded across every level of your organisation.

Every organisation starts with R.A.I.T. From there, the Path to AI Emergence and Academy run in parallel... leadership transformation and operational skills training, building toward full AI Emergence.

Every element within our ecosystem reinforces the others. Senior leaders who go through R.A.I.T understand exactly why their operational teams need the AI Academy. The AI Academy builds the practical capability that makes the Path to AI Emergence programme possible. And bespoke consultancy solves any specific problems that surface along the way.

It's a flywheel. Each part creates momentum for the next.

A senior leader experiencing the power of AI for the first time

WHAT EACH OFFERING DOES

 

For senior leadership teams

R.A.I.T

A four-week (~4 hours per week) cohort course that gives your SLT traction with AI.

Equipping the whole SLT to become deeply competent users of AI tools to drive radical productivity changes in their own roles.

From those skills, they can then extrapolate what it would be like for the whole organisation to have those skills... and what subsequent people, process, cultural operational and strategic evolutions will be required once you have an AI-skilful workforce.

$7,300 + GST for your entire leadership team.

Learn more about R.A.I.T →

For operational teams at every level

AI Academy

A comprehensive online Academy of lessons and courses covering every major AI platform and practical skill. Always on, always updating, evolving in real time with the technology.

Training content updates and evolves at the pace the technology does.

Because what your employees learn now will be largely obsolete in six months.

Pay only for users who actually log in and engage each month.

Learn more about the AI Academy →

For the whole organisation (SLT-led)

Path to AI Emergence

A ten-month guided transformation programme. The long-tail extension to guide your SLT through the roadmap they get exposure to in R.A.I.T.

This is the "real work" that drives the deep cultural change that embeds AI into the rhythms, leadership, and people practices of your organisation.

The operational changes, the strategic changes, the customer and partner implications.

R.A.I.T gives you traction. This is where you build on it, towards a full and complete evolution of your organisation.

Learn more about Path to AI Emergence →

For specific challenges, tailored to you

Bespoke Consultancy

Completely tailored to your needs, done in parallel alongside Path to AI Emergence or as standalone engagements.

Once you've done R.A.I.T and your staff are in the Academy, bespoke consultancy solves the problems that are unique to your organisation and industry.

Talk to Mark about bespoke work →

WHAT WOULD IT FEEL LIKE TO BECOME AN AI EMERGENT VERSION OF YOUR CURRENT ORGANISATION?

 

Here's a peek at your future...

AI is a reflexive skill across your whole organisation. From the newest graduates through to the executive leaders, everyone is deeply skilful in using the technology and deeply literate about when it should be used and when it shouldn't.

It's embedded into your culture. Promoted, celebrated, and encouraged, but with ethics, responsible use, guardrails, and usage policies that are safe and also permissive. The technology is persistent across daily rhythms. Meetings, strategy, operations. People are working radically more efficiently, more productively, and more innovatively.

AI handles the routine, transactional, and analytical work. That frees your people for the things humans actually do best. Relationships, empathy, creative judgement, nuanced decision-making. The result is better job satisfaction, not less. More human, not less.

And you've held on to the essence of what makes your organisation yours. You've moved forward without leaving your people behind.

That's AI Emergence.

Teams building practical AI skills together through the Academy
Mark Laurence, Founder of Ten Past Tomorrow

Mark Laurence

Trained futurist (Institute for the Future, Silicon Valley) and founder of Ten Past Tomorrow. Mark has worked with over 100 New Zealand organisations and three universities to build practical AI capability at every level. He speaks at the New Zealand Economic Forum, has written for the New Zealand Herald, and appeared on Radio NZ. He leads all strategy, training delivery, and bespoke consultancy.

EVERY ORGANISATION IS SOMEWHERE ON THIS JOURNEY

 

Whether you're right at the start of your Path to AI Emergence or partway through, the best next step is a conversation. Talk to Mark about where your organisation is and what would move you forward.

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