Case studies
enersis: from a two-day workshop to cohorts across the company
An energy-software company in the EnBW group trained its engineers, then ran the programme across engineering, HR and operations.
One of your team built a tool just for himself. What happened to it?
“He built a small chatbot for himself to discuss those specs. This was the spark that lit the fire. This chatbot is now part of our product, and we are MVP-ing it for our customers.”Situation
enersis is an energy-software company and a wholly owned subsidiary of EnBW. Asked how AI adoption across the company looked before the programme, its solutions architect answered "Really hard to non-existent."
What we did
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2026: in-person workshops in Berlin and Bern, two and three days long.
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Three facilitated cohorts of ten weekly sessions each, with assignments applied to people's own work.
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The programme ran across engineering, HR and operations.
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Data security was handled head-on, by anonymising data so people could use AI on real work.
In their words
What changed in the business?
How much faster is your team shipping now?
“He sped up his development cycle by a factor of seven or so, which is totally mind-blowing.”
Florian Wolf, CTO & Managing Director, enersis How did the cohort change your own workload?
“I'm delivering more with what feels like less stress and less workload, plus I have time for the side projects that bring value to the company.”
Berkay Üner, Solutions Architect, enersis
What can non-technical people build?
What did you do straight after the workshop?
“I wanted to show my husband what I created, because I was very proud of myself. It brought me more self-confidence. Now the whole family calls me my little programator.”
Veronika Sedlacekova, Office Manager, enersis What stuck with you from the non-technical group?
“Our head of HR created this summary tool, someone who never touched a single line of code in their life. And that was not even at the end of the second day.”
Berkay Üner, Solutions Architect, enersis
What about security and data?
Was data security the thing holding people back?
“Data security and privacy are a major blocker. We managed it by leveraging what is possible with anonymizing data, and this clicked a lot with the people.”
Florian Wolf, CTO & Managing Director, enersis Which part of the workshop mattered most for your role?
“In my role I'm in touch on a daily basis with sensitive data. It would be really useful to get AI help, but I cannot share this type of data.”
Veronika Sedlacekova, Office Manager, enersis
Was it worth the time?
Did it only work because it was a side project?
“We discussed that the first few weeks would be a decline in productivity, and that our ideal goal would be for the capacity of the colleagues to increase. And this is what we saw.”
Florian Wolf, CTO & Managing Director, enersis Could you have achieved this without external help?
“That's an easy answer. I don't think so. We wouldn't have been able to do this by ourselves in that short time period.”
Florian Wolf, CTO & Managing Director, enersis
Source: published case study: augmented.club/case-studies/enersis
What the client owns now
- An internal tool one engineer built for himself during the programme is now part of the enersis product, in MVP with customers (client-reported).
- {{TODO: what enersis owns now: team standard, skill library, internal cohort leaders, as agreed with enersis}}
Next
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