AI Planning Day: a £750+VAT workshop to decide if AI belongs in your product.

At Add Jam, we treat AI as a product decision, not a buzzword. Great features start as fragile ideas that need teasing out, pressure-testing, and a roadmap to something real users can try.

We don’t start with a slide deck. We start with the decision, task or experience that should get better — and whether a model, retrieval, rules, or plain good UX is the right tool. Anything is discussable; not everything should be built.

What is in an AI Planning Day?

AI Planning Day is a 4 to 5-hour deep dive — the same format and fixed price as our App Planning Day , with an AI-focused agenda. We look at your workflow or product surface and ask: is this an AI problem, and if so what does a first useful build look like?

We’ll cover implementation shape, data and privacy constraints at a practical level, how you’d know it works, rough cost-to-run thinking, and a phased path toward an MVP. This workshop is often the starting point before a build, so the foundation is honest rather than hopeful. For a sense of how much it typically costs to make an app in the UK , see our cost guide.

Agenda

• Problem & users (~45 min): What decision, task or experience gets better? Who feels the pain today?
• AI fitness check (~45 min): AI problem, data problem, UX problem, or rules/workflow problem? Explicit go / no-go / “not yet”.
• Data & constraints (~45 min): What data exists? Where does it live? Privacy / GDPR / sector constraints at a practical level (not a formal DPIA).
• Solution sketch (~60–75 min): Journey for the first useful slice; where the model sits; human oversight; failure modes.
• Build shape & ranges (~45–60 min): MVP cut; integrations; rough phased estimate in ranges; what we’d build vs what you keep in-house.

What are the rules of the planning day?

Same guidelines as the standard App Planning Day:

• Stakeholders and Decision Makers: Key stakeholders or decision-makers so pivotal calls can be made in the room.
• Limit of 4 Participants: So every voice is heard and contributes to the planning process.
• No Preparation Needed: Fresh ideas and open minds. We can send a short optional pre-read (workflow one-pager / redacted samples) if you want a head start.

Location and Format

We strongly prefer an off-site, in-person session to foster focus — typically a city-centre location in Glasgow. We also run AI Planning Days remotely by video when travel or diaries make that better.

What are the outputs?

Each day is unique. On the AI track you can expect to leave with a foundation for the next step — whether that’s a build, a smaller experiment, or a clear “don’t build AI; do this instead”:

• Go / no-go note: Plain English on whether AI is the right next step (and what to do instead if not).
• Draft specification: For the first useful AI-enabled slice.
• Architecture sketch: Where the model or service sits relative to your existing or planned app.
• Data & privacy notes: What leaves the building, what must not, logging / human review.
• Evaluation & cost-to-run sketches: How you’d know it works, plus order-of-magnitude model/API cost thinking (not a bill).
• Phased estimate & sprint outline: Ranges toward a build, plus a high-level sprint outline if you proceed — and familiar planning-day artefacts (stories, schema, wireframes) where useful.

Written pack typically follows within about 2–3 working days.

Who it’s for

Product-led teams and SMEs who can describe a real workflow or product surface and want a practical answer: should we put AI here, and what would a first build look like and cost? We often work in health, education, and sustainable travel / mobility, and with other UK product teams in the same position.

Explicit non-goals

This day will not:

• Produce a 40-page AI strategy deck or company-wide transformation roadmap
• Promise that “AI will transform your business” without a concrete first slice
• Include model-training research, academic PoCs, or multi-month discovery
• Replace a formal DPIA, clinical safety case, or legal advice
• Include implementation, production hosting, or ongoing model ops
• Guarantee that AI is the answer — a valid outcome is “don’t build AI; do X instead”

AI track vs standard App Planning Day

Same day format. Same fixed price of £750+VAT. Different focus.

• Standard: Best when you have a new app or web product and need an MVP blueprint — App Planning Day .
• AI track: Best when you are adding an AI feature to an existing product, or have an AI-shaped product idea and need a go/no-go plus first-slice blueprint — this page.

If you’re unsure which track fits, book a short call and we’ll point you. Already shipping with AI copilots and need ongoing review? See Vibe to Production .

A roadmap to a first useful slice

An MVP is a product with just enough to satisfy early users and learn. On the AI track we identify the smallest useful AI-enabled (or deliberately non-AI) slice so you can learn with the least effort, risk and cost, without overbuilding the feature.

Who you’ll work with

Add Jam is a Glasgow web and mobile studio. We build with Rails, React Native, product design, infrastructure and AI integrations . On an AI Planning Day you work with the people who would build it, not a separate strategy layer. Implementation sits on our AI services page — this workshop is for deciding and scoping first.

Ready to plan the next step? Contact the Add Jam team or book a call to schedule your AI Planning Day .