The AI Readiness Challenge
Context
P&G’s Mechelen plant wanted to help its teams build confidence with AI through hands-on experimentation. The goal was to make AI accessible, practical, and directly tied to the realities of plant operations.
We designed an immersive, gamified experience built entirely on P&G’s AI home-stack. Through interactive challenges, teams learned how to use internal AI tools to solve real business problems, build practical prompting skills, and view AI as an everyday partner in innovation.
Objectives
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Build AI Confidence: Enable teams to explore and experiment with AI through real, hands-on challenges.
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Use Internal AI Stack: Help participants understand and apply P&G’s AI home-stack in practical, day-to-day ways.
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Strengthen Digital Readiness: Equip employees with foundational prompting and problem-solving skills for a more AI-enabled workplace.
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Foster Curiosity and Experimentation: Encourage a mindset of exploration, creativity, and continuous learning with AI.
Format
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In-person, bilingual, gamified training delivered at P&G’s Mechelen plant
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Built on P&G’s internal AI home-stack
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Teams competed in fast-paced challenges using internal AI tools
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Interactive wall for live uploads, voting, and peer feedback
Activity description
Setting the Scene
The day began with a fictional mission: a chocolate factory in Puebla needed urgent support — and the Mechelen team had just 24 hours to help it become future-ready using AI.
Before the challenges began, participants explored how to brief AI effectively using a simple prompting model — defining the role, context, task, and format needed to get better, faster results.
Exploring AI
in Action
Working in teams, participants took on a series of fast-paced, practical challenges built entirely on P&G’s internal AI home-stack.
They used AI to research industry insights, write content, plan workflows, and visualise ideas — all while discovering how these tools could simplify work, inspire creativity, and support problem-solving across the plant.
Fueling Collaboration and Competition
Throughout the experience, teams shared their outputs on a live interactive wall where peers voted for standout ideas, while facilitators awarded points for creativity and impact.
The result was a high-energy, highly rated experience that brought AI closer to the work — and the people — it’s meant to support. Teams left with a shared mindset, a simple prompting model, and practical confidence using internal tools to deliver real outcomes.
