--- title: "90-Day Playbook for Building a High-Performing AI Team | Talk by Marian Kamenistak" description: "Teams underperform for human reasons, not technical ones. Adding AI does not change that." url: "https://www.marian.coach/speaker/90-day-ai-team-playbook/" lang: "en" image: "https://www.marian.coach/images/marian-kamenistak-og-image.jpg" --- # 90-Day Playbook for Building a High-Performing AI Team Teams underperform for human reasons, not technical ones. Adding AI does not change that. For: CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Engineering ManagersFormat: 45-60 min keynote or 70-min hands-on workshop [Book this talk →](mailto:marian@marian.coach?subject=Speaking%20request%3A%2090-Day%20Playbook%20for%20Building%20a%20High-Performing%20AI%20Team) ![Marian Kamenistak pointing at a slide scoring AI-assisted engineering skills — agentic coding, AI code review, MCP integration — against a mid-level developer salary.](https://www.marian.coach/_astro/talk-41.lxux8gFJ_Z1qaqzN.webp) ## What does a 90-day plan for a high-performing AI team look like? Teams underperform for human reasons. Dropping agents into a team that is unclear about its purpose just produces confusion faster. Ninety days, three phases: clarity about which calls the agents are allowed to make, then who signs off on their output and what happens when it is wrong, then the review habits that hold once the novelty wears off. You leave with the free AI toolkit for engineering leaders, nine tools plus the Claude skills behind them, so the diagnostic runs on your team's numbers rather than mine. ## Why this talk, not a generic version of it This isn't a tools list. It starts with what breaks agentic teams: which calls the agents get to make on their own, who signs off when the output is wrong, and what review habits survive once the novelty wears off. Ninety days, three phases, in that order, because dropping agents into a team that's unclear on its purpose just moves the confusion faster. Built for CTOs and engineering managers already running agentic teams who suspect the problem isn't the agents. The close is the free AI toolkit, nine tools and the Claude skills behind them, run against the room's own numbers instead of a case study from someone else's team. What the room walks out with: [Get the AI toolkit →](https://www.marian.coach/ai-coaching-tools/) ## Quick answers Who is "90-Day Playbook for Building a High-Performing AI Team" for? 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