Solutions
Create real value with human-centered AI
Are you ready to scale AI?
AI is changing the economics of how IT drives business growth. With unit costs plummeting, the age-old question of build vs buy is starting to tilt heavily towards build.
This opportunity raises new challenges for digital leaders:
- Despite the excitement surrounding AI, pilots continue to fail because business users revert to Excel- and PowerPoint-based approaches when their needs are not met.
- The problem isn't the technology or the tools required to build solutions. There are plenty of models, frameworks, and tools to choose from. The real challenge is knowing which business problems to solve and how to solve them in the most efficient, user-centric way.
- Most IT teams do not put enough emphasis on human-centered design as a lever to lower the risk of AI investments and increase the likelihood of driving user adoption and behavior change at scale.
Savvy leaders are turning to Whitespace experts for assistance. We specialize in helping you build the right things and build those things right.
To speed you along your journey to a scaled AI future and change the way you approach change, we have developed the following human-centered AI solutions:
1-Day AI Intensive
A focused session to pinpoint where AI can empower your teams and unlock value
Who is this for?
Leadership teams, department heads, and senior stakeholders who need to identify the most valuable use cases, and prioritize their AI investments.
What to expect
8 hours of intense Design Thinking to strip away the hype. We will tailor this workshop to your specific needs and context to surface high-value opportunities.
- Friction Map: Analyse bottlenecks and frustrations of a major business process
- AI Opportunities: Mapping friction points against AI capabilities (framework provided by Whitespace)
- Prioritisation: We run the top 6 ideas through an Opportunity Canvas to assess value
- Feasibility Matrix: Human and business value vs. technical feasibility and data readiness
- Accelerator Decision: We select the #1 use case to take forward to the 4-Week AI Accelerator program.
What is the outcome?
An AI Opportunity Blueprint, containing use cases ranked by impact and feasibility.
Ready to define your AI strategy?
Let's have a chat and discuss if the AI Intensive program is a good fit for you.
4-Week AI Accelerator
Set the course to scale AI beyond pilots and achieve measurable outcomes
Who is this for?
IT and Business teams who:
- Have identified a high-value business process or use case that can be "agentified"
- Need a reality check or want to test assumptions
- Are stuck in POC purgatory, e.g., you are struggling to integrate AI into a seamless, user-friendly workflow people actually use
- Require executive buy-in to fund AI initiatives
What to expect
Our 4-week accelerator program enables you to bridge the gap between business ambition and tech reality.
Week 1: Understand & align on core challenges
Stakeholder interviews, process mapping, and data audit bring us to a common understanding of the core challenges of a specific business process or use case.
Week 2: Ideation & concept validation
Opportunity mapping using "AI Primitives", To-Be journeys, and rapid prototyping to produce a validated list of high-potential AI opportunities.
Week 3: Business priority & tech complexity
We apply a rigorous filter to the ideas. Our value scoring helps calculate the business impact, while the tech complexity is assessed through different lenses.
Week 4: Vision & roadmap
We synthesize everything into a narrative and timeline to submit to senior management. The North Star Vision is an inspiring high-level presentation with interactive elements. The Roadmap defines a realistic, phased approach and the right mix of foundational elements, quick wins, efficiency gains, and innovation.
What is the outcome?
You get a North-Star Vision and a Realistic Roadmap that you can act upon immediately.
Ready to sprint to success?
Our 4-week program is a serious commitment, requiring 4-6 hours per week from your "Problem Owner" and access to key stakeholders in your organization. Please book a 1-1 call so that we can assess your readiness for the "Sprint" model or if we should start with our 1-Day AI Intensive.
AI Executive Roundtables
Exploring the human factor in scaled AI solution delivery
As part of our ongoing 'AI that sticks' roundtable series, we gather a small, select group of digital leaders every few months to exchange ideas on stakeholder alignment, user adoption, and value realization, and to support one another with best practices for scaling human-centered AI.
The goal is to generate fresh insights and perspectives with your peers and to tackle your most pressing challenges. The roundtables feature great food, sharp minds, and memorable discussions. They are energizing and actionable, meaning you will return to the office ready to take practical steps toward delivering AI at scale.
At this time, our roundtables are held in either Zurich or Geneva, and they are open to anyone willing to travel to Switzerland. We have had participants from multinational companies join us from all across EMEA.
To ensure a high-value experience, participation in our roundtables is based on a strict set of criteria, which are assessed during a 30-minute 1-1 call.
Agentic Design System
UI infrastructure for your AI architecture
AI is transforming how enterprises design and build software, making design systems more valuable than ever before. AI agents such as Claude Code work best when paired with an AI-ready design system that provides detailed UI context for branding, accessibility, code quality, usage guidelines, and more.
And yet, in non-digital-native enterprises, most home-grown design systems are not primed for agentic coding and MCP-powered workflows, leaving them vulnerable to obsolescence.
We have solved this problem. Read on.
Introducing Edelweiss
At Whitespace, we have developed an Agentic Design System Platform called Edelweiss that enables any customer to deploy it in ‘plug and play’ mode to build software applications. It can be up and running (fully branded, fully accessible) in a matter of days. Additional customizations (e.g., departmental templates, industry-specific components) are available as part of a value-added service.
Part product, part service, Edelweiss Design System™ is a turnkey 'UI infrastructure' solution for your enterprise AI architecture. Teams building software products on top of LLMs, data lakes, data virtualization, etc. — all that investment in AI-driven product development that large companies will be making over the next decade — now have a structured UI layer to tap into, meaning product builds become significantly more efficient, consistent, automated, and accessible.
Out of the box, Edelweiss includes the following key features:
- Branded, tokenized Figma library
- Branded React and Web Components libraries
- Edelweiss MCP Server for agentic workflows
- Documentation in Figma, Storybook & JSDoc
- WCAG and EU Accessibility Act compliance
- Governance & change management services
As the only solution on the market backed by an SLA, Edelweiss comes with dedicated customer success and support services that guarantee rapid returns and long-term value. Our experts stay up to date with the latest technology and tooling capabilities, so you don't have to. Right out of the gate, you need fewer internal resources allocated to core design system work, which means your designers and developers can stay focused on solving business problems, not reinventing the button.
Interested in learning more about Edelweiss?
Please book a meeting so that we can arrange a demo and discuss your needs.