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AI Experience StrategyStart with an Experience Session
We design AI that lands.

Everyone wants AI. Almost no one has focus.

Two thin lines begin together at a gold point and quietly diverge: the experience you believe you deliver, and the one people actually live

I show leaders of complex organizations where AI actually pays, prove it before they spend, and design it to land. We start with one prioritized bet, not a list of shiny possibilities.

Start with an Experience Session
The problem

The problem was never the technology.

You've bought the AI. You've run the pilots. And still the experience your customers and employees actually have drifts from the one you intended, and the AI you invested in doesn't land. The reason isn't the technology. It's that the gap between what you think you deliver and what people live stays invisible, and closing it means unlearning how you've always worked. That's the hard part. It's also the whole job. AI didn't create this. It just made the stakes impossible to ignore.

The experience, over time →
THE GAPwhere the cost quietly accrues
What you believe you deliver
What people actually live
The evidence
1.9×
the revenue difference for firms that figured out where AI actually creates value.

The bottleneck was never access to AI. It's knowing where it belongs. Researchers call it the mapping problem, and the firms that solved it dramatically outperformed the ones left to guess. That mapping is the work I do. It's called AI Opportunity Mapping.

Kim, Kim & Koning · Mapping AI into Production · INSEAD / Harvard Business School, 2026 · 515 high-growth startups
What I do

I partner with leaders of complex organizations facing high-stakes decisions. I show you the gap between the experience you believe you deliver and the one people actually live, prove what it's costing, and redesign how the work gets done, now with AI, so it finally lands. I call that AI Opportunity Mapping.

You start here
The gap between the experience you think you deliver and the one people live.
You leave with
The AI Investment Brief.
One prioritized, validated bet.

I work from evidence, not opinion. I stand with you as a peer. And I'm not here to push pixels or produce decks no one reads.

The front door — the Experience Session

Build a real AI concept with your team. In ninety minutes.

It's the lowest-risk way to work with me. Bring your team, or join an open session. Using a hands-on method, you design a real AI concept together and leave knowing what's worth pursuing, and what isn't. No technical background required.

The tools you'll experience
A fanned deck of AI capability cards, the front card showing a gold index mark and plain-language text

AI Cards®

A plain-language deck that organizes every AI capability, so your team matches AI to the moments that matter without an engineer in the room.

A step-by-step collaboration board with three columns of task tiles, the current tile marked in gold

The collaboration board

A step-by-step board of five-minute tasks that carries the team from a blank start to a concept you can see and react to.

Two ethics check cards, the front card carrying a balance scale with a gold beam

The ethics cards

A fast, structured check that pressure-tests the concept for risk and the human role before it ever reaches a budget.

What happens in the ninety minutes
I

Start with the work, not the technology

We map the product or service experience and find where the friction and the opportunity actually live.

II

Match AI to the opportunity

Using the card system, the team matches AI capabilities to the moments where they'd make a real difference. No jargon, no engineers required.

III

Shape a concept

We turn the strongest match into a concrete concept you can see and react to, with a built-in check on the ethics and the human role.

IV

Know your next move

You leave clear on whether it's worth taking further, and what the path to a validated, build-ready concept looks like.

You leave with clarity on the one move worth pursuing, and the confidence to say no to the rest.

Where it leads
Start here

The Experience Session

Ninety minutes, hands-on, with your team or an open group. You're here.

If it's a fit

AI Opportunity Mapping

A short engagement that takes your strongest opportunity to a prioritized, validated bet, with the business case and the ethics worked through alongside your people.

From there

What fits your situation

Deeper engagements, scoped to the work in front of you. The session is just the door.

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Proof

Where this has worked.

Healthcare · McKesson

Design moved upstream

Helped build an internal design capability and restructure how product decisions got made, so design moved into the business case instead of downstream polish. The return compounded across everything built after.

Financial services · Navy Federal

Start with the member, not the product

Reframed the work from a single card product to the member's everyday money life, how they spend, save, and invest, then mapped where the experience broke and which moments to redesign first.

Fit

Who it's for

Leaders of complex organizations in high-stakes situations, healthcare, financial services, and other regulated or trust-sensitive industries, who are past the AI pilots and asking where it actually pays off.

Who it isn't

If you want production design, a deck for the shelf, or validation instead of change, I'm not your person. The work only lands when you're willing to see clearly and unlearn.

About

Twenty years watching humans meet machines. It started with my dad, who installed manufacturing computer systems for a living and brought one home before most of the neighborhood had one. Fascinating. Frustrating. Hard to use. I've been at it ever since.

More about me

See where AI fits before you spend a dollar building it.

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aaron@kennellydesign.co · kennellydesign.co