I'll tell you for the first time about a rare but awesome part of my work: running strategic sessions.
Essentially, the current request is nothing exotic. A session like any other: make it lively, useful, and definitely with AI.

In search of compromises between classics, design thinking, and TRIZ, we wandered into quite interesting thickets and found an unusual format: a strategic hackathon. It's cool because the result of the session is not a poorly formulated line in a dubious electronic document workflow, but a clickable prototype of a potential solution. A kind of egregore, so to speak. And you don't have to be an esotericist to understand that anything you can touch, click, and break brings much more pleasure than even a very large pile of colorful stickers.

Whether it was the atmosphere of Minsk or we really managed to liberate our data satanists, analysts, and designers, among the solutions for the business were the following:
- A revolutionary rejection of advertising on main screens. Well, not exactly rejection, but mimicry of new useful features. Still...
- Visualization of interaction with the bank's AI agent as a folder of thematic Telegram chats that arise as certain events occur in the owners' lives.
- A casino, with the ability to pull the slot machine lever once a month in your personal account and receive favorable bank offers.

But I didn't want to talk about the solutions, but about how @nkosheleva and I created a space for both novice and advanced vibe coders and programmers to show themselves in a triathlon: discovery, delivery, and pitching.

And I'll immediately raise the bar of our coolness to a level unattainable for many colleagues in the field: the night before the session, we didn't need to finish anything, print anything, fill anything, update anything, and so on. And it took us only half an hour to set up the equipment and place materials on tables in an unfamiliar conference room.

We prepared presentation and handout materials in such a way that at any stage of the session, any participant could ask any question and get a simple and clear answer. Everything was duplicated in digital form, in paper guides on tables, posters on walls, and periodic announcements via loudspeaker. The materials for working with cases were pre-packaged into RAG agents and MCP servers on the bank's internal resources, so that beginners could access data through conversations in LLM chats, and advanced users through an opencode provider.
During 6 hours of work, I was asked literally a couple of questions about lunch time and the end of the event, and that says something.

And the cherry on top was the themed merchandise. We prepared a sticker pack for Telegram and sets of stickers with our mascot in Belarusian theme. This finally elevated the event to a legendary level.

Oh, and one more thing.
The scenario is designed so that the event can be made regular and scalable. Which is what we'll do right after vacation. And it's also easy to rebrand, so "sign up for the nail appointment," girls.

P.S.
Yes, strategic sessions have a dark side: everything that happens at them often turns out to be a circus show with jugglers, magicians, and sword swallowers, while the main product of the organization lacks basic functionality, a healthy investment strategy, and venture financing rules. But that's another story.