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The AI-Native Shift
What you'll build
A working deployed AI-native stack for your team — the Week-3 POC: real HubSpot CVP configuration, named production agents on valuefirstagent.com running against your real workflows, and a Transformation Presentation your team delivers showing the before/after of your five-layer operating model.
The live cadence
How the live thing runs for this path.
A 4-week facilitated cohort — two 90-minute live sessions/week (8 sessions), 5-8 people from the same company, plus three free Office Hours/week. The most live-led path. LAUNCHES AS APPLY/WAITLIST; delivery links OUT to the ainativeshift.com spoke.
There is no live cohort scheduled for this path yet. Apply below to join the waitlist — and you can join the weekly build clinic any week in the meantime.
The build, step by step
What you'll do, in order.
- Week 1 — Mindset: name the Industrial Age honestlySee why AI defaults to old patterns (the training-data demonstration), run the 12 Complexity Traps as a diagnostic on your own stack, quantify what current state costs. (ans-diptych-curriculum Week 1.)
- Week 2 — Architecture: design the AI-Native sidePopulate Layer 2 with the Four Unified Views, Layer 3 with the Three-Org Model, replace the funnel with the Value Path. Co-draft a Target State Architecture the Executive Sponsor signs off in the room. (Week 2.)
- Week 3 — Activate: build the HDE+AI junctionConfigure your HubSpot CVP for the chosen views; each participant builds a production agent on valuefirstagent.com against their own real workflow — real data, real output, with enforcement. The build. (ans-cohort-structure Week 3 + working-poc-deliverable.)
- Week 4 — Scale: make it a substrateMake the Week-3 activations governed, shared, measurable. Build a measurement framework your team uses without the facilitator; produce enablement artifacts for people who weren't there. (Week 4.)
- Deliver the Transformation PresentationYour team tells its own before/after story — the diptych you drew in Week 1 against the one you live in by Week 4, agents in production, governance visible. The facilitator is a witness.
Where the build becomes real
You build it on valuefirstagent.com.
each participant builds at least one production agent against their own real work (the Week-3 activation): the most literal handoff of any path.
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