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For a CI team or a plant leadership group that wants to use AI assistants without losing the floor. It's the talk, run on your own process.

1. We walk one process together before anyone opens a laptop.
2. The five principles: source tags on every number, poka-yoke for data, observe before solving, coach before drafting, respect for people.
3. A live run on one of your own exports, an OEE or a value stream, with every formula shown and every unknown marked [NEEDS GEMBA].
4. Everyone sets up the free toolkit and drafts one real deliverable before we finish.

You finish with: a working setup for the team, a data-safety rule for what goes into an AI tool, and a list of what to go look at on the floor.

For a line or a department where work waits more than it moves. One value stream, from walk to standard.

1. Weeks 1 to 2: walk the stream, map the current state, and baseline lead time, throughput and the bottleneck, each with a source.
2. Weeks 3 to 10: kaizen events on the biggest losses, run with your people, one A3 per problem.
3. Weeks 11 to 13: standard work and a daily management rhythm to hold the gains, then measure again.

You finish with: a before-and-after you can defend, the standard work, and a team that knows how to run the next one.

For teams without a CI lead or a Director of Operations, or between hires.

1. Tiered daily management that people actually look at.
2. A3 coaching for the problems that keep coming back.
3. Planning and capacity work, from demand back to the schedule.
4. Hiring and developing the person who eventually replaces me.

You finish with: a management system your own people run.

"AI at the Gemba" is on at the GBMP 22nd Northeast Lean Conference on September 29 and 30, 2026. It adapts to a leadership offsite or a site all-hands.

1. The deck and the handout are public, so you can see exactly what you would get.

You finish with: a talk your people can act on the next morning, with the free toolkit to go with it.