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Usage is up. The P&L hasn't moved.
People use it for the safe stuff, then stop there.
shiftspace Studio
You gave everyone AI.Their workflows didn't change.
It happens to almost everyone. The logins went out, a few people got hooked, and everyone else went back to their inbox. You can see what the licences cost. What they've changed is harder to point to. That's not a tech problem. It's a habit problem, and habits are what we work on.
Organisations we have worked with
The problem
You've paid for the tools. Here's where the return goes missing.
It's rarely the model. It's what people do with it, and what the organisation around them rewards. We see the same four leaks in almost every company.
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Your best people save hours. You never see them.
Nobody announces they finished in half the time.
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The draft takes ten minutes. The sign-off takes a week.
One step got faster. The workflow around it didn't.
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Your team copies what you do, not what you announced.
If the top doesn't visibly use it, it reads as optional.
AI isn't a tech problem.It's a habit problem.
AI makes clear thinkers faster, and everyone else faster at the wrong things. So the real work is small and daily: what people reach for on a Tuesday afternoon, and whether the organisation makes that the easy choice.
- 95%
of enterprise generative AI pilots showed no measurable impact on profit and loss.
MIT NANDA, The GenAI Divide, 2025- 5%
of employees use AI in ways that change how they work, although 88% use it at work.
EY Work Reimagined Survey, 2025
What we do
Start at the top. Then make it visible.
Most consultancies open with a strategy. We start with you, because teams copy what the top does. Then two or three visible projects show everyone what's possible. Strategy comes when you want to go deeper.
Four weekly sessions on your own work, one-to-one or with your leadership team. You win back time from the first week, and your team sees you do it.
Start here ifyou've just rolled out AI and want the top to go first.
Two or three key projects or workflows that actually change how people get work done, and that everyone can see. We build them with your team from the inside, so the new routines stick after we leave.
Start here ifpeople need to see it working before they believe it.
We assess how AI is really used in your company, then build a strategy for adoption and habit change, in people and across the organisation. Tool-agnostic and vendor-independent.
Start here ifyou're ready to go deeper and want an honest outside view.
Why us
Anyone can hand out logins. We work on what happens the Monday after.
We come from behavioural science, adult development and product, and we write software. We also built shiftspace, a habit app that runs inside Slack and Teams.
So we have spent years on one unglamorous question: what makes a new tool stick?
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Strategy first. Then we build it with your team.
Three engagements, each taken from the first strategy question to workflows people use every week.
Book a call
Tell us what you aretrying to change.
Thirty minutes with Philipp. No pitch deck, no 40-slide proposal. Just an honest read on whether we're the right people for it.
Where to begin
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Lead by example
If you've just rolled out AI and want the top to go first.
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Embedded build
If people need to see it working before they believe it.
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Independent strategy
If you're ready to go deeper and want an honest outside view.
Questions
What people usually ask first.
How is this different from an AI agency or a strategy consultancy?
AI agencies usually build the tool and leave. Strategy consultancies write the plan and leave. We do both inside your team, with the behavioural side built in: the routines, the defaults and the example set at the top. That is what decides whether what we build gets used.
Do you build AI tools or agents?
Yes, in an embedded build: two or three visible projects, built as workflows, automations and agents inside the tools and permissions you already have. We build with your team rather than for it, so your people can run and extend it without us.
How long does it take?
Lead by example is four weekly sessions, so about a month. An embedded build runs two to three days a week for eight to twelve weeks. Independent strategy takes four to six weeks. We scope the details with you on the first call.
Can we start with just one of these?
Yes. Each one works on its own. Most teams start with Lead by example, because everything after it moves faster once the top uses AI every day. The others follow when you're ready.
How do you charge?
By format and time: a block of sessions, days inside your team, or a strategy engagement. We scope and price it with you on the first call.
How does this relate to HI for AI?
Studio is senior consulting time: sessions for your leads, building, and strategy. HI for AI is a shiftspace Solutions programme that builds the same habits across the whole organisation. You can use either on its own, or both together.
Who is this for?
Companies whose teams spend most of their day with software and have rolled out AI tools, or are about to. It works best when someone at the top already feels the gap between having AI and getting value from it.
Can we work in German?
Yes. We work in German or English.
Remote or on site?
Both. Sessions and strategy work well in the room or on a call; the embedded build happens with your team, wherever they work.
For everyone else
Studio works with a few people in depth. shiftspace Solutions changes how the whole organisation works.
Studio is senior time for the people who set the direction and the teams who build. When the change has to reach every team, shiftspace Solutions takes it from there: development programmes for the human skills AI assumes, practised a few minutes a day where people already work. Pick one ready-made, have it rolled out turnkey, or have us build one around your organisation. Same team, same method.
- Cohorts of 6 to 10 weeks
- A few minutes a day in Slack or Teams
- Live workshops and coaching