AI Strategy & Implementation
Build a practical, human-centered approach that helps your organization reach its full potential.
Navigating AI: From Overwhelm to Opportunity
The promise of AI for workplace productivity and collaboration is clear, but the path forward often feels like anything but. You're facing pressure to innovate, optimize, and stay competitive, but struggle with:
Navigating the hype to find the true business value
Choosing the right tools that align with your unique business goals
Resistance from skeptical employees
Integrating AI solutions within existing IT systems
Preparing your workforce for evolving roles and skills
Ensuring data privacy, security—and ethical AI usage
How We Can Help
We partner with you to develop a holistic AI strategy that ensures adoption and delivers measurable results.
Our approach includes:
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We uncover your organization's unique AI potential using our AI-Ready Workforce Planner, assessing current capabilities, and working with you to document current skills, processes, and workflows to prepare for the risks and opportunities AI provides.
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We help you craft a comprehensive AI integration approach that aligns with your business goals, outlining technology, data, talent, and governance requirements—so AI becomes an enabler of value creation, not just a tool.
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We design targeted AI initiatives to demonstrate value, create trust with employees, and build internal momentum.
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We take an IT system-agnostic approach to seamlessly develop and deploy AI agents and solutions into your operational workflows—so your company can grow with AI’s potential over time.
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We work collaboratively with you to prepare your teams for new ways of working, ensuring full adoption, and building an AI-literate culture.
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We help you establish robust guidelines for responsible, secure, and compliant AI utilization.
Why Partner with 18 Coffees for Your
AI Strategy & Implementation
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Clarity & Direction
Transform AI confusion into a clear, actionable strategy.
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Optimized Performance
Drive efficiency, innovation, and competitive advantage across your operations.
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Future-Ready Workforce
Empower your employees with the skills and mindset to thrive alongside AI.
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Mitigated Risks
Implement AI securely, ethically, and in compliance with industry standards.
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Tangible ROI
Focus on AI initiatives that deliver measurable business value and sustained growth.
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Experienced Practitioner Support
Leverage our cross-industry knowledge and hands-on implementation support.
AI Insights & Thought Leadership
Stay ahead of the curve with our latest research and articles on strategic AI adoption.
AI-Ready Workforce Planner: Understanding AI’s Impact on Your People
With 18 Coffees’ AI-Ready Workforce Planner, leaders receive a custom roadmap with exactly the skills and processes most able to be augmented or replaced by GenAI, AI agents, and other emerging technologies, allowing you to prioritize reskilling and redeployment where they’ll deliver the most value.
The Lab for Applied AI: Where Research Meets Industry
As a faculty affiliate for the Lab for Applied AI at Loyola University Chicago, co-founder Caleb Gardner is combining research-driven insights into the future of the data science powering new AI technologies with practical applications for effective AI integration and workforce development.
Your AI rollout has a trust problem—here's how to fix it
For many leaders anxious to capitalize on the productivity gains promised by AI, this moment feels like an important opportunity. But most workers are seeing warning lights. This moment isn’t just about onboarding a transformative new technology—it’s about guiding people through maybe the most significant mindset shift of their careers.
