Generative AI · Use case workshop

The generative AI use cases that pay for themselves

One workshop to sort your GenAI ideas: which ones are worth building, whether prompts, retrieval or fine-tuning fits each, and what a first concept looks like on your data.

  • €4,000 with 2 results
  • Amazon Bedrock and open models
  • Remote or on-site
  • English or German
The problem

Most GenAI ideas die on data and fit long before the model matters

Every team has a list: a chatbot, document summaries, a writing assistant, contract checks. The model is rarely what decides success. What decides it is whether the right knowledge is reachable, whether the task needs a large model at all, and how you will know the answers are right.

Generic models miss your business context. Most use cases need retrieval over your own documents[2]; a few need fine-tuning[3]; some are better served by a ready-made service like Amazon Textract[4]. The workshop makes that call per use case, before anyone buys a licence.

Model choice comes last. The LLM landscape page on ai-solutions.wiki, one of its most-read pages, shows how quickly the options change[7].

Pick the use case first, the technique second, the model last.
Full retraining, fine-tuning and retrieval compared by cost and practicality.
Retrain, fine-tune or retrieve: retrieval is usually the cheapest way to give a model your knowledge.Source: Linda Mohamed, walkthrough of the Red Hat lab OpenShift AI on AWS, September 2026
A typical decision

Ready-made service or generative model?

The same invoice, two ways. Many GenAI ideas turn out to be layer-1 problems that a cheaper, predictable service solves.

Amazon Textract returns fixed fields; Amazon Bedrock follows a prompt.
Amazon Textract: cheap, narrow, predictable. A model on Amazon Bedrock[1]: flexible, needs judgement and evaluation.Source: Linda Mohamed, lecture “Von Managed zu Hybrid: KI-Architekturen”, Hochschule Burgenland, 2026
Managed model data boundary: only permitted context crosses to the model endpoint.
With a managed model, your data and retrieval stay in your environment; only permitted context crosses to the model.Source: Linda Mohamed, lecture “Von Managed zu Hybrid: KI-Architekturen”, Hochschule Burgenland, 2026
Written results

What you walk away with

€2,000 for the workshop, €1,000 per written result. The standard package includes the first two.

1

GenAI use-case shortlistIncluded

Candidates scored on value, data readiness, risk and effort, with a recommended first use case.

2

Technique decision per use caseIncluded

Prompting, retrieval, fine-tuning or a ready-made service, with the reasons and the data each option needs.

3

Concept test on your dataOptional

A small sample run through the chosen approach, with example outputs and what went wrong.

4

Risk and evaluation notesOptional

Prompt injection, data leakage and hallucination risks for the use case[5], and how to test answers.

Price

One workshop, results you choose

Net prices, plus VAT.

Generative AI Use Case Workshop

Intake, one workshop with up to 8 people, written results within 5 business days.

Workshop
€2,000 each, 3 to 4 hours, remote or on-site
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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

GenAI workshop

€4,0001 workshop + 2 results
Next

Concept and prototype

from €5,000Architecture, cost, working software
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Series

Goal, Concept, Decision

€9,0003 workshops + 3 results
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AWS services

The AWS services behind this work.

Plain-language notes on the services I use for this kind of project. Each name links to the official AWS documentation.

Amazon Bedrock

Managed access to foundation models from several providers through one API. You choose the model and write the prompt; AWS runs the model.

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases

Retrieval-augmented generation: your documents are chunked, embedded and stored in a vector store, and the relevant parts go into the prompt.

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails

Filters for topics, harmful content and personal data on the way into and out of the model.

Amazon Textract

Reads text, forms and tables from scanned documents and returns them as structured data.

Amazon Bedrock Data Automation

Extracts structured output from documents, images, audio and video with one managed call.

Amazon OpenSearch Service

Search and vector search engine, often the vector store behind a knowledge base.

Funding

Check AWS funding before you pay.

Many AI proofs of concept and cloud migrations qualify for AWS funding: credits for the AWS usage and, in some partner programmes, funds for the delivery work. What applies depends on the project, the programme and the AWS account team. I check it in the Idea Call, and the workshop results are written so they can go straight into an application.

Proof of concept

Up to €10,000

For a prototype on AWS with a clear path to production.

Migration

Up to €400,000

For larger cloud moves, planned in phases.

How AWS funding for AI works →

Questions

What people ask before booking.

What does the GenAI use case workshop cost?

€2,000 for the workshop plus €1,000 per written result. With the shortlist and the technique decision it is €4,000 net.

Do we need to pick a model beforehand?

No. The workshop decides the use case and the technique first. Model choice follows from data, quality and cost requirements.

Is our data safe with a managed model?

Amazon Bedrock does not use your prompts and outputs to train models[9] and runs in the AWS Region you choose. Retrieval runs in your environment; the workshop checks what may cross that boundary.

Can this run on open models or on-premises?

Yes. If data may not leave, the technique decision includes self-hosted models, for example on Red Hat OpenShift AI.

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.

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Start here

Start with one conversation.

30 minutes to look at your idea, your data and the right starting point. Or book 15 minutes if you only have a question.

  • Which GenAI ideas you have
  • What data they need
  • Whether retrieval or fine-tuning fits
  • Whether AWS funding could apply

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