Claude & Croissants | How We Used AI to Stop Losing £250K a Year
London, UK · Wednesday, 16 September 2026
A curated breakfast for senior leaders at large organisations, delivered by a team of Anthropic-certified Claude Architects. Ninety minutes on what it takes to make AI work across a business, with real use cases, real numbers and the lessons from doing it ourselves. London, 16 September 2026.
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Previous sessions have included leaders from the Bank of England, Deutsche Bank, Shell, BP, Citi, Lufthansa, Tiffany & Co. and Dunhill. Over 1,000 registrations across the series, with every session filled.
Project budget overruns were costing us around £250,000 a year. Since introducing our AI process we have not had one.
Our proposal process went from three days to three hours. Sales outreach response rates more than doubled. In HR, performance reviews now draw on a year of evidence rather than the last six weeks.
The hard part was not building the individual use cases. It was turning them into a coherent system, aligned around the goals of the business.
What you'll take away
- Real use cases, with the before and after
- The AI Factory, our approach to AI strategy and to scaling it across an organisation
- Cost optimisation, covering how AI spend gets away from you as adoption grows and what we did about ours
- Where tools like Claude or Copilot fit alongside the systems your teams already use, and what applies regardless of which model your organisation has chosen
Who it is for
Senior leaders at large organisations who own their AI approach, or who have been asked by their exec team to work it out. You do not need to arrive with a strategy. Most people in the room do not have one yet.
If you have been before, the new material this time is cost optimisation and how we are now using Claude inside the tools we already work in.
Led by Adi Ben-Ari, CEO and Claude Certified Architect. Applied Edge is the AI practice of Applied Blockchain, which has been building enterprise-grade systems for regulated organisations since 2015, for clients including Shell, KLM, Vodafone, DHL Group and the United Nations.
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Hosted by Applied Edge, the AI practice of Applied Blockchain. Building enterprise-grade systems since 2015.
Why attend
Live AI workflows we've built and deployed for real organisations.
Senior leaders. Candid discussion about what works.
Try Claude, CoWork and Code with guidance from our team.