Session one · Goal

Two hours to turn a list of ideas into one decision

A working session, not a presentation. Your team brings the problems and whatever data you can share. We collect every candidate use case, score them together on value, feasibility, data and funding, and agree on where to start.

  • 2 to 3 hours
  • €2,000 per workshop
  • €1,000 per written result
  • Remote or on-site
Who should be in the room

Three roles, up to eight people

Someone who owns the business problem, someone who knows where the data really lives, and someone from IT or engineering who knows what may be connected to what. Leadership joins for the last half hour, when the shortlist is agreed.

Everyone in the room votes on the scoring. That is the point: the ranking survives the next steering meeting because the people who would have argued about it were there when it was made.

The session runs in English or German, remote or at your office. Remote works well when the group is spread across locations; on-site works better when the data owners have to be pulled out of their day.

A workshop where only the AI enthusiasts show up produces a wishlist. A workshop with the data owner produces a plan.
Agenda

What happens, block by block

A typical three-hour session. Two hours works when the group is small and the candidates are already written down.

BlockTimeWhat happens
Frame20 minThe business goal, the constraints that are not negotiable, and what would count as success
Collect40 minEvery candidate use case on the board, including the ones people expect me to reject
Score50 minValue, feasibility, data readiness and funding eligibility, scored together and visibly
Check the data30 minFor the top candidates: what data exists, who owns it, and what blocks access
Decide30 minOne recommendation, the runners-up, and what not to do yet
Next steps10 minWho does what before the concept workshop

Written results follow within five business days, so nobody has to take minutes.

Discovery workshop modules: framing, use case collection, scoring, data check, decision and next steps.
The modules of a Discovery session. Order stays, timing moves with the group.Source: Linda Mohamed, AI Use Cases Workshop deck, 2026
The same agenda, as I present it

The slide I send beforehand

Block one

Goal definition

What the organisation is trying to change, and what would count as proof. Everyone in the room writes it down separately first — the differences are the useful part.

Block two

Use cases

The candidates, and the named users behind each one. A use case without a named user does not leave the room.

Block three

Test data

What data exists, who owns it, and which awkward records have to be in any prototype.

Block four

Next steps

The shortlist, scored, and who does what before the next session.

Four blocks, one to three hours. The right column is what the sponsor gets out of it: a goal everyone agrees on, and the use cases and users behind it.Source: Linda Mohamed, AI Use Cases Workshop deck, 2026

Deck slide: typical agenda for a first discovery workshop, with goal definition, use cases, test data and next steps
The slide itself, as it goes out before the session. Business first, then content, then the result — the order the room works in.Source: Linda Mohamed, AI Use Cases Workshop deck, 2026
Deck slide: workshop modules showing content, result and perspective for the goal, technology and customer sessions
The three modules behind the agenda. Each one has a perspective attached: the business question, the data and feasibility question, and the customer value question.Source: Linda Mohamed, AI Use Cases Workshop deck, 2026
Written results

What you take away

The workshop is €2,000. Each written result is €1,000, so you only pay for the documents you need. The standard package includes the first two.

1

Scored use-case shortlistIncluded

Every candidate with its score on value, feasibility, data readiness and funding, so the ranking is reviewable later.

2

Data and feasibility notesIncluded

For the top three: which data exists, who owns it, what blocks access, and which AWS services would do the work.

3

Funding eligibility checkOptional

Which candidates fit AWS proof-of-concept or migration funding, and what an application needs[3].

4

First-project briefOptional

One page per recommended use case: goal, users, success measure, rough cost range and the next decision.

Price

One workshop, the results you choose

Tick the results you want and the total updates. Net prices, plus VAT.

Discovery Workshop

Pre-session intake, the live session with up to 8 people, written results within 5 business days.

Workshop
€2,000 each, 3 to 4 hours, remote or on-site
1
Written results€1,000 per result
€1,000
€1,000
€1,000
€1,000
Your package
€4,000


Delivered within 5 business days after the last session.

Book a free 30-min Idea Call15-min question slot
Standard

Discovery

€4,0001 workshop + 2 results
Full detail

Offer page

€4,000Scoring method and examples
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Series

Goal, Concept, Decision

€9,0003 workshops + 3 results
See the series →
Use cases

Real patterns, documented in the open.

The kind of candidates that show up in Discovery sessions. Each opens a write-up on ai-solutions.wiki with architecture, AWS services and trade-offs.

Questions

What people ask before booking.

How long is the session?

Two to three hours. Longer sessions lose the people you need most, so the scoring is built to fit that window.

Do we need data before the workshop?

No. The intake form collects what you have. Sample data makes the feasibility notes sharper, but the session works without it.

What if we already know our use case?

Then skip Discovery and start with the Concept workshop, where the architecture and the cost per AWS service get written down.

Is this tied to AWS?

The scoring is vendor-neutral. I build on AWS and on hybrid platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift AI, and the notes name concrete services so the next step is buildable.

What does it cost?

€2,000 for the workshop plus €1,000 per written result. The standard package is €4,000 net.

Linda Mohamed, AWS Community Hero, AI and cloud architect in Vienna
Who runs it

Linda Mohamed

AWS Community HeroAWS User Group Vienna organiserLecturer, Hochschule BurgenlandAmazon Bedrock · SageMaker AI · OpenShift AIEN & DE

I design and build AI and cloud systems on AWS and hybrid platforms, and I teach how they work. I have organised the AWS User Group Vienna for more than seven years, co-organise AWS Community Day DACH, teach AI architectures at Hochschule Burgenland, speak at conferences in Europe and the US, and maintain ai-solutions.wiki. Based in Vienna. Remote or on-site, in English or German.

Projects, open source and talks →

Sources

Where the facts come from.

Prices, service names and limits change. The linked official pages are the reference; figures on this page were checked in September 2026.

  1. ai-solutions.wiki: From AI proof of concept to production
  2. ai-solutions.wiki: Build vs buy for AI
  3. ai-solutions.wiki: AWS funding for proofs of concept
  4. AWS Well-Architected Framework
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