The Builder's Room
Your leaders don't need more AI training.
They need to build something real — on their own problems, coached live.
This is not a workshop. Nobody leaves with notes. They leave with a working solution they built themselves, the judgment to build the next one, and the guardrails to keep it safe.
The opportunity
Every organization is sitting on the same untapped asset
Leaders who know exactly what they would build if they could. The report that doesn't exist. The workflow that should be automated. The analysis they rebuild by hand every month.
Until recently, those ideas died in a backlog — waiting on a vendor quote or an IT roadmap measured in quarters. That constraint is gone. With conversational AI, vibe coding, and MCP-connected tools, a business leader can now build the solution themselves.
The Builder's Room teaches them how to think about it, scope it, and ship it. This is not training. Nobody leaves with notes. They leave with something that runs.
Who this is for
Business-unit leaders, function heads (Finance, Operations, Sales, HR), general managers, and PE portfolio operators who have ideas and want velocity — not another tool license nobody uses.
What happens in the room
Your leaders work on their own real problems — not exercises. DataKeys coaches the entire way: scoping, building, pressure-testing, and demoing. Every participant ships a working solution.
The governance guarantee
Everything built in the room is designed to pass your security and governance review. We build the guardrails in, not bolt them on.
Three tiers
Choose the altitude that fits your goal
Start with Spark to get leaders building. Add Scale to make it stick across the team. Add Embed to close the production and governance gap.
Tier 1
Spark
Build your first solution.
2 days · 16 hours · min. 10 participants
For teams getting started. Leaders surface real use cases, learn to tell buildable from not, and each ship a working solution on their own problem.
Day 1 — Find it & frame it
Use-case discovery from real work · buildable-vs-not judgment · process mapping · build spec · intro to prompting, vibe coding (Cursor / Claude), and MCP-connected data.
Day 2 — Build it & ship it
Guided end-to-end build · live coaching and unblocking · governance pressure-test · everyone demos.
Walk away with
- A working solution each leader built
- Personal prompting & build playbook
- Governance guardrail checklist
- 30-day keep-building path
Tier 2
Scale
Build it, then take it back to your team.
3 days · 24 hours · min. 10 participants
Everything in Spark, plus a third day that turns individual builds into a team capability — so the value doesn't walk out with the workshop.
Days 1–2 — Spark, in full.
Day 3 — Spread it
Hardening builds for real use · connecting to live data sources safely · prioritized use-case backlog for the wider team · a Builder's Operating Rhythm so leaders keep shipping monthly · internal champion identification · executive demo to sponsors.
Adds on top of Spark
- Team use-case backlog (prioritized)
- Builder's Operating Rhythm playbook
- Internal champion plan
- Sponsor demo & readout
Tier 3
Embed
Build it, scale it, and make it safe for production.
4 days · 32 hours · min. 10 participants
Everything in Scale, plus a fourth day that connects what leaders build to your governance and a credible path to production — closing the shadow-AI risk that self-service building creates.
Days 1–3 — Scale, in full.
Day 4 — Govern it & graduate it
Map builds to your data-access and approval policies · risk-tier each solution · define the promote-to-production path with IT · shadow-AI guardrails · a 90-day adoption and value-tracking plan · executive governance readout.
Adds on top of Scale
- Builds mapped to your governance model
- Risk-tiering + promote-to-production path
- Shadow-AI guardrail kit
- 90-day adoption & value-tracking plan
- Executive governance readout
Pricing
Per seat, minimum 10 participants
| Spark 2 days | Scale 3 days | Embed 4 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per seat — Virtual | $3,000 | $4,000 | $5,000 |
| Per seat — In-person | $4,000 | $5,000 | $6,000 |
| 10-seat cohort — Virtual | $30K | $40K | $50K |
| 10-seat cohort — In-person | $40K | $50K | $60K |
| Each leader ships a build | |||
| Team rollout plan | — | ||
| Governance + production path | — | — |
Priced per seat, minimum 10 participants. Additional seats at the same per-seat rate. Larger cohorts and multi-team programs available on request. In-person pricing excludes travel. Custom and recurring cohort programs available for portfolio-wide rollouts.
Best for
Business-unit leaders, function heads across Finance, Operations, Sales, and HR, general managers, and PE portfolio operators who have ideas and want velocity — not another tool license nobody uses.
Why it's different
Training teaches concepts. The Builder's Room produces outcomes. Your leaders stop waiting on IT and vendors and start shipping their own solutions — with the judgment to know what's worth building and the guardrails to keep it safe.
Ready to run a Builder's Room?
Tell us about your team, your timeline, and where you want to start. We'll recommend the right tier and scope it together.