Human+AI workflow design

Two-stage transformation engine

Stage 01 Strategy Future-state workflow blueprinting Deconstruct the work as it really happens, find the friction, and design the future state worth building. The strategic roadmap, not a wish list. The five steps ↓ Stage 02 Reality Co-build sprints Rapid cycles where designers, engineers, and the people who do the work build the future state and feed what they learn back into the blueprint. How it runs ↓

Strategy feeds the build The build sharpens the strategy

Stage 1: AI strategy What to build or buy and why

Future-State Workflow Blueprinting

Collaboratively deconstruct the work as it really happens, find the friction, and design the future state worth building. The outcome is a strategic roadmap of what to build or buy and why.

  1. Deconstruct Your Status Quo

    Map how the work runs today, in workshops and in the field, with the people who do it. Shadow them; interrogate the work to understand what they do and why, and what's holding them back from their best work: efficiency, quality, knowledge, ability, capacity. Flag the moments, conditions, and circumstances that most impact success.

  2. Elevate Opportunities

    Find the breakthrough opportunities to create new value for the business, alleviate friction in the work, and elevate the creativity and capabilities of the team.

  3. Triage & Prioritize

    Triage opportunities as AI-compatible or human-process-driven. Prioritize by positive impact on the business, team, and clients or customers, factoring in dependencies and constraints like data accessibility, compliance, ethics, etc.

  4. Write Your Future Story

    Right the wrongs of your current process by transforming the opportunities into a future vision of your work. Collaboratively write your story of the most desirable experience and outcomes you hope to achieve, detailing the new relationship between your people and AI as they get their jobs done.

  5. Visualize The Strategy

    Translate your story into the Future-State Workflow Blueprint, a visual strategic roadmap that feeds decisions to build or buy. The blueprint shows AI-compatible opportunities in the context of the end-to-end experience, giving the team a clear understanding of how their work impacts the broader strategy and experience of getting the job done. Opportunities to build are the foundation of the Stage 2 Co-Build Sprints.

Stage 2: Make AI strategy reality

Co-Build Sprints

Rapid, iterative, multi-day to multi-week cycles where designers, engineers, and the people who do the work collaboratively build components of the future-state. Our approach elevates internal champions of the transformation, driving adoption peer-to-peer and making believers out of skeptics.

Co-Build Sprints

Designers, engineers, and the people the work serves design and build the components of the future-state workflow.

Sprints are staffed to fit the work: Your own engineers, guided through the process, or hand-picked partners with expertise matched to the challenge.

How we work with you

Your AI-native future needs a wholesale paradigm shift, challenging the norms and tradition behind getting your jobs done. Our goal is to create a movement in your organization; a cult of strategic thinkers and doers. AI transformation only happens from within. How we get there is personal, so is how we work with you.

Projects & Retainers

Have a process ripe for reform? We take the lead from start to finish. We respect your team's bandwidth but collaboration is non-negotiable. Your team learns through doing and your future leaders emerge. Some of them, the most unlikely in the bunch. Success isn't a one-off event, it spreads across your organization like a wildfire. It's quiet but rapid progress toward your best work.

Education

We teach the concepts behind the methods: systems-thinking deconstruction shadowing & immersion co-creation outcomes vs output scenarios & backcasting why the experience matters why building to the holistic future-state beats one-off fixes

Training

Your team learns on a real job of their own in a workshop setting, rapidly transforming an existing process into a roadmap of AI opportunities & human-process optimizations to build toward. Each opportunity can feed rapid Co-Build hackathon-style workshops building knowledge and skill through doing the work.

Coaching & advising

We coach and advise leaders and teams throughout their AI transformation journey. Think of us as unlicensed therapists, personal trainers, and matchmakers. We lived the cycles of AI hype and reality like it's groundhog day. We develop champions and leaders. The new guard of the AI Age.

Let's talk about the future.

We hate selling. We love conversations. Maybe we end up working together, maybe we don't, but time spent talking through challenges and opportunities is never wasted.

Let's talk →
Fang Futures — elevate humans with machines

Innovation is in our DNA. Before the GenAI revolution, we hacked our way through the Next Wave, each Next Wave that came along; from the dawn of the internet, eCommerce, mobile computing, smart things & places, AR/VR, and now thinking machines and AI. In every case, companies struggled finding meaningful ways implement the technology. They plugged the new thing into the old way and hoped for the best.

The way things get done now won't hold up in the future. The future of work needs redesigned. Fang Futures are the creative misfits hell bent on building the future we all want to live.

We're in an age that levels playing fields, where opportunity to scale and disrupt favors the ambitious, cunning, and nimble. Embracing the future is a choice. We bring clarity, purpose, and momentum to the willing. It's time to sneak around the gatekeepers of tradition to steal their lunch.

Human+AI Workflow Design — Fang Futures

Human+AI workflow design

Two-stage transformation engine

Stage 01 Strategy Future-state workflow blueprinting Deconstruct the work as it really happens, find the friction, and design the future state worth building. The strategic roadmap, not a wish list. The five steps ↓ Stage 02 Reality Co-build sprints Rapid cycles where designers, engineers, and the people who do the work build the future state and feed what they learn back into the blueprint. How it runs ↓

Strategy feeds the build The build sharpens the strategy

Stage 1: AI strategy What to build or buy and why

Future-State Workflow Blueprinting

Collaboratively deconstruct the work as it really happens, find the friction, and design the future state worth building. The outcome is a strategic roadmap of what to build or buy and why.

  1. Deconstruct Your Status Quo

    Map how the work runs today, in workshops and in the field, with the people who do it. Shadow them; interrogate the work to understand what they do and why, and what's holding them back from their best work: efficiency, quality, knowledge, ability, capacity. Flag the moments, conditions, and circumstances that most impact success.

  2. Elevate Opportunities

    Find the breakthrough opportunities to create new value for the business, alleviate friction in the work, and elevate the creativity and capabilities of the team.

  3. Triage & Prioritize

    Triage opportunities as AI-compatible or human-process-driven. Prioritize by positive impact on the business, team, and clients or customers, factoring in dependencies and constraints like data accessibility, compliance, ethics, etc.

  4. Write Your Future Story

    Right the wrongs of your current process by transforming the opportunities into a future vision of your work. Collaboratively write your story of the most desirable experience and outcomes you hope to achieve, detailing the new relationship between your people and AI as they get their jobs done.

  5. Visualize The Strategy

    Translate your story into the Future-State Workflow Blueprint, a visual strategic roadmap that feeds decisions to build or buy. The blueprint shows AI-compatible opportunities in the context of the end-to-end experience, giving the team a clear understanding of how their work impacts the broader strategy and experience of getting the job done. Opportunities to build are the foundation of the Stage 2 Co-Build Sprints.

Stage 2: Make AI strategy reality

Co-Build Sprints

Rapid, iterative, multi-day to multi-week cycles where designers, engineers, and the people who do the work collaboratively build components of the future-state. Our approach elevates internal champions of the transformation, driving adoption peer-to-peer and making believers out of skeptics.

Co-Build Sprints

Designers, engineers, and the people the work serves design and build the components of the future-state workflow.

Sprints are staffed to fit the work: Your own engineers, guided through the process, or hand-picked partners with expertise matched to the challenge.

How we work with you

Your AI-native future needs a wholesale paradigm shift, challenging the norms and tradition behind getting your jobs done. Our goal is to create a movement in your organization; a cult of strategic thinkers and doers. AI transformation only happens from within. How we get there is personal, so is how we work with you.

Projects & Retainers

Have a process ripe for reform? We take the lead from start to finish. We respect your team's bandwidth but collaboration is non-negotiable. Your team learns through doing and your future leaders emerge. Some of them, the most unlikely in the bunch. Success isn't a one-off event, it spreads across your organization like a wildfire. It's quiet but rapid progress toward your best work.

Education

We teach the concepts behind the methods: systems-thinking deconstruction shadowing & immersion co-creation outcomes vs output scenarios & backcasting why the experience matters why building to the holistic future-state beats one-off fixes

Training

Your team learns on a real job of their own in a workshop setting, rapidly transforming an existing process into a roadmap of AI opportunities & human-process optimizations to build toward. Each opportunity can feed rapid Co-Build hackathon-style workshops building knowledge and skill through doing the work.

Coaching & advising

We coach and advise leaders and teams throughout their AI transformation journey. Think of us as unlicensed therapists, personal trainers, and matchmakers. We lived the cycles of AI hype and reality like it's groundhog day. We develop champions and leaders. The new guard of the AI Age.

Let's talk about the future.

We hate selling. We love conversations. Maybe we end up working together, maybe we don't, but time spent talking through challenges and opportunities is never wasted.

Let's talk →
Fang Futures — elevate humans with machines

Innovation is in our DNA. Before the GenAI revolution, we hacked our way through the Next Wave, each Next Wave that came along; from the dawn of the internet, eCommerce, mobile computing, smart things & places, AR/VR, and now thinking machines and AI. In every case, companies struggled finding meaningful ways implement the technology. They plugged the new thing into the old way and hoped for the best.

The way things get done now won't hold up in the future. The future of work needs redesigned. Fang Futures are the creative misfits hell bent on building the future we all want to live.

We're in an age that levels playing fields, where opportunity to scale and disrupt favors the ambitious, cunning, and nimble. Embracing the future is a choice. We bring clarity, purpose, and momentum to the willing. It's time to sneak around the gatekeepers of tradition to steal their lunch.