The Fluency Method
by 888 Foundry
You've seen the headlines about AI.
Companies transforming, work running itself, productivity doubling.
Then you tried it yourself and the experience didn't match the hype.
“How is this supposed to run my company?”
The problem isn’t the tool. It's that you were never onboarded. Now, you're missing perspective.
The Fluency Method was created to close that gap.
The methodology drives understanding of human and AI collaboration.
You'll learn:
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How AI operates
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To think with AI
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To use AI responsibly
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What to actually delegate to an agent
The result is the experience the headlines promised, finally delivered. Responsibly, securely, and on your terms.
Who is this meant for?
C-suite & Leaders of Institutions
In charge of the institution's direction.
Product & Innovation Leads
For owners that have to scale AI initiatives.
Portfolio & Finance leaders
P&L owners that make go/no-go decisions.
Platform leaders
Owners of the AI platform.
The agentic era is being shaped now. The leaders who define it will be those who have mastered AI firsthand.
Those who have not will inherit what others have built and fall behind competitively.
Rajiv Donde
Advisor, teacher, advocate
Technology and finance executive and professor. C-suite at multiple startups with successful exits, and a long focus on IT in banking and healthcare. He advises on strategy and teaches the methodology.
Behind the method
Most adoption challenges aren't a people problem. They're a design problem.
888 Foundry is a group of professionals who have built and scaled AI strategy inside Fortune 500 enterprises, led technology and finance organizations, held C-suite roles at startups with successful exits, and spent decades helping institutions and their people perform at their best.
After GenAI hit the scene in 2022, they watched the gap between leaders and their businesses widen, which led them to create The Fluency Method --- a hands-on approach that helps leaders to understand how to think with and use AI.
As the technology continues to evolve, more and more leaders are recognizing the opportunity to reshape their organizations and mandating adoption. But access to tools alone does not produce fluency, adoption or scale. What continues to be missing is a shift in how leaders themselves think about and work with AI.
The agentic era is being shaped now and there is a call to action for leaders to step up and shape the future of their businesses, institutions, and workforce.
Renata Pagliaro
Operations, engagement, sales
Business development leader and relationship builder. Two decades in outplacement, leadership development, and career management, selling to executives across industries. She leads operations, engagement and customer success.
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The Stranger
The 5 levels of AI fluency
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The New Hire
The Direct Report
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The Department
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The Operating Model
You ask, it answers, and every conversation starts from zero. Useful for quick answers.
The onboarding. You give it what you'd give any new employee: your context, your standards, your way of working.
You delegate, it delivers, you review and redirect. AI stops being a tool you visit and becomes how the work gets done.
Work you designed, running on its own. Finished output arrives while you're in the meeting. You manage outcomes now, not steps.
You set the standard for how your institution works with AI, and the whole organization rises with you.
Ask it
Teach it
Work with it
Hand it off
Lead with it
We empower leaders to take an active voice in AI conversations and guide their institutions in scaling AI responsibly.
How to work with us.
Structure is discussed and built around the needs of the institution and team.
Immersion
3 Days
A three day intensive. Leaders build operational AI fluency together.
Implementation
90 Days
A ninety day engagement. The Fluency Method, embedded into the institution.
Advisory
Ongoing
Strategic partnership for leaders shaping AI inside their institutions.