Applied AI Operator Workshop
Three days that turn you from an AI experimenter into an assessed AI operator — with a tested workflow, a verifiable credential and a controlled 30-day deployment plan.
Tool-neutral, human-centred, business-first and compliance-aware.
Stop Collecting AI Pilots That Go Nowhere
Every week you experiment, you fall a little further behind the promise.
The problem
You're Not Failing at AI.
You're Missing the Operating Discipline Around It.
Monday morning: someone pastes the quarterly numbers into a public chatbot. Tuesday: marketing publishes AI copy nobody verified. Wednesday: a vendor demo promises to "transform the business" if you just buy their platform. Thursday: another pilot joins the graveyard.
The real cost
The Real Cost of Winging It
Ungoverned AI use doesn't feel expensive — until it is. Every month you improvise, you pay in:
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Shadow AI and leaked data
Staff using unapproved tools with client information you'll never get back.
02
Decisions on hallucinated numbers
Fluent, confident, wrong — and signed off because nobody checked.
03
Shelfware licenses
Seats bought after a good demo, abandoned after the first weird failure.
04
Compliance exposure
The AI Act is in force. "We didn't know" is not a defence.
The shift
But What If Everything You've Heard About AI Adoption Is Backwards?
What if the answer isn't a better chatbot... but a better brief?
What if hallucinations aren't bad luck... but missing verification?
What if the risk isn't the model... but the absence of boundaries?
What if you don't need an AI strategy... but an AI operating method?
We learned this in the field, helping Belgian SMEs untangle their AI experiments. The companies that succeed don't have better tools. They have people who know how to hold the outcome, bound the work, audit the output and name the human owner — on any platform.
So we turned that discipline into three frameworks — the H.U.M.A.N. Loop, the AI Delegation Ladder and the BARRIER architecture — and built a programme around them.
Introducing
The Applied AI Operator Workshop
A 3-day working workshop for Belgian SMEs — from complete beginners to technical professionals. Two days to build vendor-independent competence and design your AI workforce. One day to build, break and deploy a real agentic workflow on a live platform. This isn't another tool course or vendor demo. It's the deep work of becoming someone who can direct AI, verify it and stand behind the result.
You leave with a trained human operator, a tested AI worker and a controlled 30-day deployment plan.
What's inside
Here's What Happens Inside the Workshop
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Day 1 · Competence
Become an Effective AI Operator
Produce reliable work regardless of which AI product you use: capabilities and failure modes, the Delegation Ladder, opportunity discovery, the Professional AI Brief, context engineering, source verification, hallucination detection, data boundaries, AI Act basics and human accountability.
Deliverable: your Personal AI Operating Manual.
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Day 2 · Design
Design Your Company's AI Workforce
From individual use to business design: workflow autopsy, Domain-Driven Design for AI, bounded contexts, business invariants, Agent Charters, tool and permission design, handoffs, swarm orchestration, BARRIER guardrails and evaluation metrics.
Deliverable: your AI Workforce Blueprint.
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Day 3 · Live build
Build, Break and Deploy in a Live Platform
Configure one real agentic workflow — then attack it. We inject false data, outdated prices, prompt injection and unauthorized requests; you prove your system detects, refuses and escalates. Then you measure, improve and defend it in the Dangerous Enough Challenge.
Deliverable: your Tested AI Pilot Pack.
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Control Lab
The Human Update Control Lab
Our proprietary design-and-control layer on top of any execution platform: Use-Case Discovery, Domain Designer, Agent Charter Builder, Swarm Designer, BARRIER Control Centre, Failure Simulator, Evaluation Studio and Compliance Proof Pack. It's what keeps the workshop — and you — vendor-neutral.
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Credential
An Assessed Credential — Not a Certificate of Attendance
You demonstrate ten competencies, from opportunity discovery to failure testing. You receive the highest level you actually prove — AI-Literate Professional, Applied AI Operator or Agentic Workflow Designer — with a verification URL and a one-page Competence Transcript an employer can check.
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Bonus
A Portfolio Capstone You Can Defend in Any Interview
A sanitised case: the business problem, the opportunity assessment, the workflow, the agent design with permissions and stop conditions, the failure testing you performed, and the business case with baseline, measurement and 30-day pilot plan.
The fit
But This Isn't For Everyone
The Workshop is not for you if:
- You want a vendor demo or a tool recommendation
- You're looking for someone to "do AI" for you
- You expect transformation without changing how you work
- You want a certificate for showing up
- You're not willing to have your workflows challenged
The Workshop is for you if:
- You're tired of pilots that die after the demo
- You want skills that survive your next platform switch
- You need AI value you can measure and defend
- You want compliance handled as a habit, not a panic
- You're ready to prove what you can do — and be assessed on it
What Participants Walk Away With
We're a new programme — instead of quoting testimonials we don't have yet, we'd rather show you the work. Every participant leaves with three packs:
Day 1
Personal AI Operating Manual
Use cases, brief, delegation levels, verification checklist, rules and risk card.
Day 2
AI Workforce Blueprint
Domain design, Agent Charters, permissions, invariants, guardrails and tests.
Day 3
Tested AI Pilot Pack
A configured, attacked and measured workflow — ready for a controlled 30-day pilot.
Pricing
Join the Workshop Today
The standard price is €1,500 per participant, excluding VAT. With the SME wallet, Flemish SMEs pay only €1,050 (30% subsidy). Medium-sized enterprises pay €1,200 (20% subsidy).
Small enterprise
After 30% SME wallet subsidy.
€1,050 /seat
Register- Full 3-day programme
- Assessed credential
- Possible SME wallet subsidy
Medium enterprise
After 20% SME wallet subsidy.
€1,200 /seat
Register- Full 3-day programme
- Assessed credential
- Possible SME wallet subsidy
Standard price
Without subsidy, one seat, everything included.
€1,500
Register- Full 3-day programme
- Assessed credential
- Personal guidance during the workshop
1 month free Kervalt Pro
Register for a workshop in September or October 2026 and receive 1 month free access to Kervalt Pro — the private AI software from our specialist Kim. Experience the difference compared to mainstream AI tools.
SME wallet criteria
| Employees | Turnover | Balance sheet total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small enterprise | < 50 FTE | ≤ € 10,000,000 | ≤ € 10,000,000 |
| Medium enterprise | < 250 FTE | ≤ € 50,000,000 | ≤ € 43,000,000 |
FTE = full-time equivalent. One FTE is one full-time employee, two part-time employees, etc.
The SME wallet uses the size determination from your first subsidy application. This applies for the rest of the calendar year.
Prices excl. VAT. Subsidy amounts are indicative via the Flemish SME wallet. Request a quote for an in-company track.
Guarantee
Zero Risk. All Reward.
Day-one love-it-or-leave-it money-back guarantee.
We're so confident the Workshop will change how you work with AI that we're taking the risk off your shoulders. Book your seat. Experience day one — the full operator method, the frameworks, the hands-on work.
If at the end of day one you don't feel like you're on a completely different trajectory, tell us before day two. We'll refund every euro. No questions. No hassle. No hard feelings.
You have nothing to lose. Except another quarter of pilots that go nowhere.
Frequently asked questions
Perfect — the Workshop starts at your level. Beginners use structured templates; technical professionals get architect-level missions. Day 3 is guided configuration on a live platform, not a programming exam. If you can run a business process, you can run this programme.
Most of our participants do. Licenses aren't the bottleneck — operating discipline is. Everything you learn applies directly to the tools you already pay for, and transfers to whatever you switch to next.
Enough to become a senior AI engineer? No — and we won't pretend otherwise. Enough to identify a valuable use case, design a bounded workflow, break it safely and launch a controlled 30-day pilot? Yes. That's exactly what you're assessed on.
It's woven through the programme: roles and risk categories on day 1, data boundaries on day 2, and a Compliance Proof Pack you complete for your own use case on day 3. Practical AI literacy — not a substitute for case-specific legal advice.
A live agent platform selected per cohort, with our Control Lab as the design-and-control layer on top. Always with synthetic or anonymised data — never your production systems. The point is the method, not the vendor.
Stop Experimenting. Start Operating.
The market doesn't need another company with AI licenses. It needs companies with AI operators. The Workshop is where you become one — assessed, evidenced and dangerous enough to apply AI responsibly.
Day-one money-back guarantee · Prices excl. VAT