A 68-minute AI-facilitated workshop

An AI facilitator for Design Sprint Day 1 Choose a direction in 68 minutes.

Clarvelo is an AI workshop facilitator that can run a focused Google Design Sprint Day 1. It guides 2–8 people through a problem statement, How Might We questions, solution sketches and a private vote, so the organizer can take part instead of running the board.

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2–8 people · Guests join with a link · No sprint board setup required

Mobile checkout drop-off

Problem Statement
How Might We
Crazy Eights
Blind Vote
We’re framing why shoppers abandon mobile checkout after adding a product. What evidence tells us they cannot complete payment without leaving the flow?
Mina
Responding to Problem Statement
In last week’s recordings, 14 of 22 mobile checkouts stopped when the form asked for a card and Apple Pay wasn’t offered.
Jon
Responding to Problem Statement
Analytics shows a 38% drop between shipping and payment on phones. Desktop is 11%.
Priya
Responding to Problem Statement
Support tickets mention declined cards, but we haven’t confirmed whether that’s the form or the payment provider.
We have a mobile-specific drop between shipping and payment, plus an open question about declined cards versus the form. Does anyone have evidence that challenges that frame? If not, I’ll carry the uncertainty into How Might We rather than treating payment failure as settled.
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When to use it

Choose a direction. Before delivery starts.

Use this design sprint workshop when a product, design or cross-functional team has a real challenge and no agreed direction. It is a focused Day 1, not a five-day Google Design Sprint: enough structure to frame the problem, generate range and choose what to explore next.

Bring people who hold different parts of the work: someone close to users, someone who knows delivery constraints, and whoever owns the next decision. The process makes room for evidence and several sketches before anyone has to pick a favorite.

  • Name who has the problem and why it matters
  • Create options before evaluating them
  • Keep each activity connected to the last
  • Choose privately against a shared criterion

The format

Four steps from challenge to choice.

25 minutes

Problem Statement

Define who has the problem, why it matters and what evidence or constraint makes it worth solving now.

25 minutes

How Might We

Reframe the important pains and opportunities as questions that invite several useful answers.

8 minutes

Crazy Eights

Sketch eight responses quickly. Range matters more than polish, and evaluation waits until the ideas exist.

10 minutes

Blind Vote

Choose the ideas that best answer the problem and opportunity questions without hierarchy setting the result.

Prepare and follow through

Bring a clear challenge. Leave with a recorded direction.

Before the session

  • Choose one challenge without writing the preferred solution into it.
  • Invite people who understand the user, the evidence and the delivery constraints.
  • Bring relevant research, examples and any limits the group must respect.
  • Agree what decision the workshop can influence.

After 68 minutes

  • A shared problem statement with evidence and open assumptions.
  • Selected How Might We questions for the challenge.
  • Several sketched responses from each participant.
  • A private vote, a chosen direction and a useful handoff to research or prototyping.

Your AI facilitator

Keeps the process moving while everyone does the thinking.

A design sprint facilitator introduces each activity, protects silent work, carries the output forward and states the voting criterion. Clarvelo does that job as an AI facilitator, which makes the process economical enough for ordinary product work as well as a consultant-led sprint.

The person who would normally prepare the board, explain How Might We, watch the clock and run the vote gets to write, sketch and choose with everyone else. The team owns the challenge, ideas and direction. Clarvelo runs the workshop mechanics.

Common questions

What to expect from the workshop.

What does the design sprint facilitator do?
The facilitator keeps the sequence honest: problem first, then How Might We questions, then sketches, then a private vote. Clarvelo introduces each activity, protects the timebox, carries the group’s work forward and runs the vote. Participants supply the evidence, ideas and judgment.
How is an AI design sprint facilitator different from a consultant?
A skilled human facilitator is still the right choice for a politically difficult or high-stakes sprint. Clarvelo can run the routine Day 1: the same connected activities, without asking one teammate to operate the workshop.
How many people can take part?
The format works for 2–8 people. Invite participants who understand different parts of the challenge and include whoever owns the next decision.
Can people join remotely or from the same room?
Yes. Each participant joins in a browser with the session link, either remotely or on their own device in the room.
Does this replace a full design sprint?
No. A Google Design Sprint usually includes mapping, expert interviews, lightning demos, prototyping and testing across several days. This workshop covers Day 1: frame the challenge and choose a direction. The rest still follows when the work needs it.
Do we need to prepare a workshop board?
No. Bring the challenge and relevant evidence. Clarvelo provides the activities, prompts, timeboxes and voting flow.

Ready when your team is

Start with a challenge; leave with a direction.

Start the session, share one link, and let Clarvelo guide the team from problem framing to a selected direction.

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Want the facilitator prompts, How Might We examples and sketching notes first? Read how to run a Day 1 Design Sprint workshop .