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Five Mindsets Vibe Coding Sprint

Intensive · Five Days

The Five
Mindsets Vibe
Coding Sprint

Five phases. One live challenge. From in-field empathy to working code.

In the age of AI, the traditional Plan-then-Build model is a structural risk. Most organisations plan for months — but fail to learn from what they ship. The Five Mindsets Vibe Coding Sprint flips this entirely.

The sprint is structured around five phases, each applying one of the Five Mindsets to a live challenge — whether inside your organisation, across your product and service portfolio, or in existing and new markets. The phases are cumulative — each one builds the conditions for the next — and the format is flexible enough to stretch across multiple days or sessions to fit your organisation’s rhythm.

In-field customer empathy. AI-powered vibe ideation. Strategic filtering. Coded iteration with real adoption tests. A formal demo with a Strategic Alignment story ready to roll out.

We don’t teach you to be innovative. We steady the bicycle while you find your balance on a real, high-stakes problem.

The Five Days

Each day applies one of the Five Mindsets to a live challenge inside your organisation. The work is cumulative — each day builds the conditions for the next.

Day 1 Radical Empathy & Worldview Witnessing
MindsetMove from “what customers say” to “what customers do”.
ActivityThe Product Trio — Product, Design, Engineering — enters the user’s environment for in-field interviews and radical witnessing.
GoalTo understand the customer’s worldview, values, and unspoken constraints — not just their feature requests.
The ShiftMoving beyond proxied understanding to a direct claim on the truth of the customer’s daily reality.
Day 2 Vibe Ideation & Intuitive Hacking
MindsetGenerative divergence over evaluated convergence.
ActivityUsing Vibe Coding — leveraging AI as an augmented brush — teams rapidly translate Day 1 insights into functional concepts.
GoalTo explore a meaningful solution space by building multiple, divergent ideas that address the prioritised problem landscape.
The ShiftReplacing rigid specifications with high-velocity, intuitive “pokes” to the system to see what resonates.
Day 3 Strategic Filtering & The “No” Discipline
MindsetRigorous discipline in saying no to maintain focus.
ActivityWe evaluate the Day 2 vibe-concepts against the organisation’s Strategic Learning Map and desired impacts.
GoalTo kill ideas that dilute focus and select the single direction most likely to heal a Wicked Problem.
The ShiftShifting from a responsive culture that tries to please everyone to a criteria-driven culture of impact.
Day 4 Coded Iteration & Adoption Pressure Tests
MindsetTreating early versions as learning instruments, not compromises.
ActivityParallel work-streams. One track iterates on the product prototypes in real code. The second conducts intense adoption tests — inside the organisation’s backend systems and at the client organisation.
GoalTo ship a Minimum Learnable Product that is technically viable and operationally ready.
The ShiftMoving from polish-first to evidence-driven iteration in real-time.
Day 5 Solution Demo & The Strategic Alignment Meme
MindsetStorytelling as a strategic capability.
ActivityA formal demo of the coded solutions followed by accelerated storytelling. We use AI to synthesise the week’s learnings into a Strategic Meme — a narrative and visual map for rollout.
GoalTo secure buy-in through a coherent story that explains what we believed, what we tried, and how we will anchor this new practice.
The ShiftEnding organisational amnesia by turning a five-day experience into an aligned, permanent cultural reflex.
Is your organisation ready to stop planning
and start practising?
Run the Sprint

The Five Mindsets Vibe Coding Sprint is available as a standalone engagement or as part of a longer product culture programme. To explore whether it fits your situation, write directly to michael@mckayconsulting.dk

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