DataForge AI Studio
A 12-week experiential programme that delivers a real AI solution for your organisation, lifts your team's capability, and opens a pathway to venture scale. No PhD required. No strategy document gathering dust.
What you get
Most organisations are stuck at the strategy slide. We move you to real outcomes: a working solution, a capable team, and a platform for growth.
We focus on real customer problems and build AI solutions that create measurable value for your organisation. You keep the IP. You deploy it. It works.
Our experiential programme puts your people at the centre. They learn by doing, guided by expert DataForge coaches, and come out the other side genuinely capable of leading AI initiatives.
The best solutions become ventures. Where you have an idea worth scaling, we bring talent, systems, and networks to turn a proven solution into a funded company built for growth.
Our blueprint
Every engagement follows the same rigorous 12-week structure, built around a real challenge you supply, coached by DataForge's multidisciplinary team, and delivered as a working solution with a showcase.
You bring a challenge worth solving
Organisations supply a real, meaningful problem, along with a willingness to reimagine how it could be solved with AI. No pre-built data pipeline required.
We coach your team through the programme
DataForge assembles a multidisciplinary coaching team. Over 12 weeks, your people work through discovery, design, build, and validation, learning by doing at every step.
A solution is delivered and showcased
The programme culminates in a working AI solution and a live showcase. You leave with something real. Not a slide deck, not a proof-of-concept in a notebook.
You own it. We explore what's next.
You keep the solution and employ the talent. Where there's an opportunity to scale the IP into a venture, we're with you: equity, systems, and networks included.
The upside
Your people win
An accelerated pathway to real AI experience: hands-on, practical, and portfolio-ready. Not a course certificate.
Your organisation wins
Unlock AI potential with a live solution, an upskilled team, and the internal momentum to keep going.
New Zealand wins
Build homegrown AI capability and talent at a time when New Zealand needs it most.
Common questions
There are legitimate reasons organisations hesitate. We've heard them all. Here's why they're not blockers.
Our data isn't ready for AI.
It doesn't have to be. You need a problem worth solving, not a perfect data lake. We help you understand what jobs need doing and what value AI can realistically unlock, starting from where you are today.
We don't have the talent or an AI strategy.
You don't need machine learning PhDs or a 40-page AI strategy. The 12-week programme is designed to build your internal capability from the ground up, so you can hire and lead the right talent going forward.
We're too busy to take this on right now.
DataForge supplies a multidisciplinary team and coaches them alongside yours. The lift on your business is deliberately designed to be manageable. You participate; you don't project-manage.
More ways we can help
Align your executive team and board on AI expectations, risk, and opportunity. We surface what AI means for your organisation and help you build the governance to act on it confidently.
We don't just advise. We build. Full-stack AI solutions, automation pipelines, and digital products, using AI across the entire delivery lifecycle from discovery through to DevOps.
When a solution is ready to scale beyond its original use case, we bring talent, systems, and networks to help turn it into a funded company, built for growth from day one.
Book a 30-minute discovery call. We'll talk through your challenge, what's possible in 12 weeks, and whether DataForge AI Studio is the right fit for your organisation.
Tell us what you're working on. We'll identify your top three AI opportunities, outline what data and infrastructure you need, and recommend the right approach, at no cost.
