Claude & Croissants | How We Used AI to Stop Losing £250K a Year
A curated breakfast for senior leaders at large organisations, delivered by a team of Anthropic-certified Claude Architects. Ninety minutes on what it takes to make AI work across a business; real use cases, real numbers and the lessons from doing it ourselves.
We have seen a 100% reduction in project budget overruns since introducing our AI process. Our proposal process went from three days to three hours. Sales outreach response rates more than doubled. In HR, performance reviews now draw on a year of evidence rather than the last six weeks.
The hard part wasn’t building individual use cases. It was turning them into a coherent system, aligned around the goals of the business.
What you’ll take away
Real use cases, before and after
The AI Factory, our approach to AI strategy and to actually scaling it across an organisation
Cost optimisation: how AI spend gets away from you as adoption grows, and what we did about ours
AI in the enterprise stack: where tools like Claude or Copilot fit alongside the systems your teams already use, and what applies regardless of your organisation’s chosen model
"Being able to take silos and see the bigger picture and then do the strategy... That was very helpful today"
–– Katrina Ellen Chisholm, VP Enterprise Architecture, Deutsche Bank → Watch Katrina's testimonial
Been before? New this time: cost optimisation and how we’re now using Claude across the tools we already work in.
Previous sessions have included leaders from the Bank of England, Deutsche Bank, Shell, BP, Citi, Lufthansa, Tiffany & Co. and Dunhill.
Led by Adi Ben-Ari, CEO and Claude Certified Architect. Applied Edge is the AI practice of Applied Blockchain, which has been building enterprise-grade systems since 2015 for clients including Shell, KLM, Vodafone, DHL Group and the United Nations.
"The really useful thing for me was understanding what I'm doing right and also what I'm doing wrong... there are so many tools, and so many connectors, it's hard to know where to start"
–– Lydia Rose Pallot, Director of Operations, Institutional, Uphold → Watch Lydia's testimonial
Places are limited and attendance is by approval. Over 1,000 registrations across the series, with every session filled.