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Practical AI for people who have to ship it
For Product Owners and Business Analysts.
Turn “we should use AI for this” into a bounded, testable proposal your organisation can actually approve. Learn the method, practise it on a real case, then do the work in the Studio.
One method, three ways in
Read it. Practise it. Use it at work.
The book, the training and the Studio all teach the same method with the same running case, so whatever you start with, the rest fits straight on.
Live courses
Live cohorts and free sessions on Maven, with hands-on exercises on the Atlas case and your own problems.
The book
Thirteen chapters that take one AI idea from vague ambition to a governed pilot. The full method, in depth, to keep on your desk.
Product Studio
The software your team uses to produce the real outputs: the Four Lenses, the Solution Canvas and a decision record.
The method
Explore
Pick a problem worth solving and test whether AI adds anything.
Specify
Define the user, the AI task, the sources and the boundary.
Control
Design oversight, risk controls and evaluation into the product.
Deliver
Run a bounded pilot and make an evidence-based decision.
The running example
Meet Atlas.
Atlas starts where most enterprise AI starts: a senior stakeholder asking for “an AI agent”. Across the book and the course you watch it become something a bank, an airline or an energy company could actually approve.
Every exercise is practised on Atlas first, then repeated on your own problem. You see the same failure, like a policy question about a meal during delayed travel, from the angle of requirements, risk and evaluation.
Read the Atlas worked example- The ask
“We need an AI agent for policy questions”
A broad, exciting idea with no user, no boundary and no measure of success.
- Explore
An advisory assistant for the service desk
One user, one painful workflow, and a human who still makes the call.
- Specify
Two global policy domains, not everything
Scope narrowed to travel and expenses, with named sources and owners.
- Control
Filtered retrieval with the passage shown
Answers grounded in the right policy, conflicts routed to a person, and failure cases tested.
- Deliver
A governed pilot with a clear decision
Measures, thresholds and stop signals agreed before a single user sees it.
The book
The whole method, in one place.
A field guide for the people who sit between the business and the builders. Clear enough to use on Monday, rigorous enough to stand up in a governance review.
- Format
- Ebook (PDF + EPUB)
- Chapters
- 13 + appendices
- Price
- £11.95
Instant download. The Kindle edition is on Amazon. Paperback £14.95 on Amazon.
What readers say
From the people doing the work.
★★★★★
“What I really liked about this book is that it goes beyond the usual AI theory and focuses on real business challenges. Madhusudhan Konda explains how to turn AI ideas into practical solutions, while keeping requirements, risks and governance in mind. I particularly appreciated the real-world approach and exercises. It feels more like a guide you can actually use at work rather than just another book about AI. Definitely a valuable read for Product Owners and Business Analysts.”
Enterprise AI Product Studio
The software that produces the outputs.
The course teaches the method. The Studio is where your team does it for real, on your own initiatives, and produces the artefacts your organisation asks for.
- Four Lenses assessment and opportunity case
- One Canvas, ten connected decisions
- Coherence review that catches contradictions
- A decision record: proceed, sequence, reshape, park or stop
Four Lenses profile
Read the profile, not merely the total.Who is this for?
Product Owners, Business Analysts and anyone who has to turn “we should use AI for this” into something a delivery team can build and a governance board can approve. No coding is needed.
Where are the live courses?
Live courses and free sessions now run on Maven, where you can see dates and prices: maven.com/mkonda. For private training for your team, email ai@chocolateminds.com.
Where do I buy the book?
The ebook (PDF and EPUB) is £11.95 from this site. The Kindle edition is on Amazon. Paperback £14.95 on Amazon.
What is the Product Studio?
The working software for the method. Your team uses it to build the Four Lenses assessment, the Solution Canvas and the decision record for your own AI initiatives.
Can I try the method before paying?
Yes. The Solution Canvas, the evidence sheets and the Atlas worked example are free on the Resources page, no sign-up needed.