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A central home for the deliverables, decisions, and next steps from the MBP Group AI workshop — designed to be revisited as the platform moves from ideas into action across the five operating brands.
From the first virtual intro call through the deliverables on this page, and into the next thirty days — the full arc of our work together at a glance.
Each link below opens the full deliverable. Bookmark this hub — everything stays in one place as the platform moves forward across the five operating brands.
The deck we walked through together — framing AI for specialty building products, the MBP Group platform opportunity, and the methodology behind each exercise we ran in the room. Designed to be re-shared internally with BU teams and Validor.
The synthesis of the pre-workshop survey across the leadership team. Where the platform is confident, where it's cautious, and where the energy already is across the five brands — the read-out that grounded the room before the first exercise.
A dual-lens walkthrough — customer-side and team-side — of where AI lands across the MBP buying experience, with the CPQ Lighthouse mapped end-to-end. Working prototypes built during the Copilot Innovations hackathon show what a handful of MBP use cases could look and feel like in practice.
A synthesis of all 72 workshop ideas — clustered into seven strategic themes, plotted on an impact-vs-effort matrix, with eight Lighthouse opportunities, a Now / Next / Later roadmap, and the full AI Canvas deep-dive on the use case the team chose to focus on: CPQ Automation.
Nine AI plays sequenced for a 90-to-120-day sprint — each with a P&L business case, an implementation timeline, and a measurement scorecard. The first four plays ship inside Q3 without cross-BU dependencies, delivering a fast P&L signal before the platform-wide lifts land. The board-ready artifact to take into the first Validor review.
A focused 90-day engagement proposal for Joe Dachowicz at SS Industries — three discrete initiatives scoped to ship Version 1 inside 60 days, with the remaining 30 days reserved for iteration on real-rep and real-customer feedback. Every 1% lift in conversion is roughly $1M in revenue; this proposal targets that line directly across three surfaces: the customer conversation, the sales rep's toolkit, and the post-sale experience.
Across five functional pillars, the workshop generated 72 candidate AI use cases. These are the nine that earned the most votes — and the pattern is unmistakable: the platform's energy is concentrated in Operational Excellence, with the quote-to-order corridor at the absolute centre.
The full set of 72 use cases — including the ones that didn't make the top nine but still earned strong support — lives in the AI Opportunity Report.
A workshop is only as valuable as what happens next. These are the four conversations we'd suggest leadership prioritize over the next month — anchored to the revenue, cross-brand, and procurement priorities the room set going in.
To the MBP Group leadership team, the five BU presidents, and the Validor sponsors who joined us in the room — thank you. The conversations were generous, the ideas were unguarded, and the willingness to imagine new ways of working across five distinct brands was the thing that made this workshop click.
You came in clear-eyed about where the platform is today — Microsoft Copilot deployed, fragmented ERPs, six acquisitions stitched together, a sharper appetite for revenue than for tech-for-tech's-sake. The ideas captured in these deliverables aren't ours. They're yours — surfaced, organized, and reflected back. Our role was to help the room see the whole picture at once. What you do with it is the part we're most excited to watch.
If anything in these deliverables sparks a question, or if you'd like to talk through a specific use case in more depth — CPQ, the Spend Map, the Revenue Bridge, or anything else — we're a message away. Onward.