Inside the workshop
Most of the teams we meet are already paying for Gemini and almost none of them are using it for anything harder than a first draft. That is not a training problem, it is a confidence problem. Nobody wants to put real work into a tool whose answers they cannot predict, and nobody has the time to find out what it is good at by accident.
So we spent a morning finding out on purpose. Ten people in the studio, their own laptops, their own Workspace accounts and their own actual work: the inbox that never empties, the sheet nobody trusts, the deck due on Thursday. No demo data. Everything we tried, we tried on something that mattered to the person trying it.
What made it stick was not the feature list. It was watching someone who had written the whole category off get a usable answer out of a spreadsheet they had been arguing with for a year, and then watching the rest of the room lean in.
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In the room
What you'll learn
Five topics, each one built on the last, from the tool you already have to a habit you keep after the room empties.
Where Gemini already is
Find it in Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Meet without installing anything, and work out which of the five is worth your first hour.
Asking for something useful
The difference between a prompt that returns filler and one that returns work: context, a constraint, and an example of what good looks like.
Your own documents as the source
Point it at the files you already have, so the answer comes from your business rather than from the internet's average opinion of your business.
What to keep out of it
Where the data goes, what the admin console actually controls, and the short list of things that should never be pasted into any assistant.
Making it a habit
Pick the three jobs in your week worth handing over, and leave with them set up rather than written on a list you will not read again.
Moments from the day
Meet the facilitators
Amin Shariati
Founder & CEOTakes the technical half of the room. A decade across software agencies, product teams and technology consulting, most of it spent explaining to people what they were actually buying before they bought it. He teaches the way he consults: start from the thing you are stuck on, not from the feature list.
Ashley Lim
Chief Operating OfficerTakes the room itself. Four years scaling go-to-market at Deel and Semrush across ASEAN, which is where she learned to keep a session moving when everyone in it wants to ask something at once. She is the reason a half day ends on time and nobody leaves with a question they did not get to.