Groundwork
AI Blueprint
Acceleration Without Compromise
THE PROBLEM
AI accelerates output, not outcomes
AI makes speed cheap; personas generated instantly, PRDs drafted beautifully, roadmaps built confidently. Under pressure, teams let AI do the thinking without customer research, problem clarity, or strategic grounding that make decisions durable. Research shows AI exposes weak fundamentals: teams become more confident in less accurate work, moving faster toward wrong outcomes.
THE SOLUTION
Learn to use AI as a Productive Partner
The AI Blueprint Program pairs AI’s speed with rigorous customer practices. In two weeks, move from insights to validated foundations (problem, persona, needs) to tested prototypes—not because prototyping is hard, but because establishing customer-backed foundations at speed is. Learn when to trust AI and when to validate, maintaining rigor while accelerating what matters.
Why the Groundwork AI Blueprint is Different
2 Weeks from insights to tested prototypes
- Day 0 – 8 hours: Foundation setting. Establish your customer foundations: scoped problem, evidence-based persona, and prioritized customer needs that will guide all downstream work.
- Days 1-10 – 4 hours daily (2 hours coached, 2 hours team prep):
- Each day, the team applies a repeatable AI-accelerated step within the process of discovery through validation.
- There are two customer validation checkpoints using lean research practices (5-7 participants per study).
- Your coach ensures you’re building judgment and practices to replicate this on every future opportunity.
Applied to Real Work
We work with you to choose an actual business opportunity your team is facing right now. This allow the team to get hands-on.
Every artifact the team creates (customer foundations artifacts, AI-ready PRD, interactive prototypes, executive deck) is work they’ll use immediately after the workshop. They’re building real momentum on what matters most to your business.
Modern AI tools + Proven practices
We pair AI acceleration with coaching that builds judgment, not just output:
- Accelerate every phase—customer research synthesis, AI-Ready PRD drafting, rapid prototyping—while maintaining critical thinking at each step.
- Use our proven, reusable prompt libraries that effectively translate customer insights into well-scoped problems, actionable personas, and prioritized customer needs that set projects up for success.
- Learn when to trust AI outputs and how and when to question them, building a repeatable practice that improves decision quality, not just velocity.
Lean customer validation
Two validation checkpoints built into the program using proven small-sample research practices (5-7 participants per study).
Your coach guides you through hypothesis development, structured interview scripting, and rapid synthesis all designed to provide real signal when large-scale studies aren’t possible due to timing or cost constraints.
Guided by tenured product executives
Your dedicated coach is a former or currently operating product executive with 20+ years leading teams. They’ve built products, scaled organizations, and navigated real constraints. That enables them to adapt the program to your team’s context and coach them through the messy realities, not just the ideal process.
Program Details
Customer Foundations
Day 0
8 Hours
Customer Foundations
Partner with AI, utilizing Groundwork’s proven prompt libraries and tools to synthesize your existing customer insights into the critical customer artifacts that will ensure a customer-backed approach to product building.
Homework: Finalize the customer foundations to ensure a solid foundation going forward.
Ideation
Day 1
2 hours
Ideation
Homework: Align on 1-2 ideas to take forward into the program
Vision to MVP
Day 2
2 Hours
Vision to MVP
Homework: Finalize MVP scope.
Lo-Fi Concept Development
Day 3
2 Hours
Concept Development
Homework: Prepare for customer Interviews
Customer Checkpoint #1
Day 4
3-5 Interviews
Customer Checkpoint #1
Homework: Making accessible all interview transcripts and notes
AI-Ready PRD Development
Day 5
2 Hours
AI-Ready PRD
Homework: Finalize AI-Ready PRD
Prototyping
Day 6
2 Hours
Prototyping
Homework: Continue building and memorializing major hypotheses in preparation for testing.
Prototyping & Planning
Day 7
2 Hours
Prototyping & Planning
Homework: Interview 3-5 customers to validate key assumptions.
Customer Checkpoint #2
Day 8
3-5 Interviews
Customer Checkpoint #2
Homework: Making accessible all interview transcripts and notes
Synthesize & Decide
Day 9
2 Hours
Synthesize & Decide
Homework: Develop a demo day presentation for leadership
Demo Day
Day 10
2 Hours
Demo Day
Demo Day is also Graduation Day!
