Workshop IT presents Jessica: The AI Requirements Elicitation Platform that interviews stakeholders before discovery workshops, synthesises their input into a project-wide view of requirements, identifies conflicting perspectives and prepares Business Analysts to review the findings and lead more productive discovery.
Your workshop can’t start until everyone’s calendars align.
If an unexpected requirement emerges, you’ll need another workshop.
And another search for a free slot in everyone’s diary.
A stakeholder introduces a new requirement.
The trouble is, it belongs to a different project.
Instead of progressing today’s agenda, you’re negotiating where the conversation should happen.
The stakeholder whose input matters most is called away five minutes before the workshop.
They eventually return, but spend the rest of the session replying to urgent emails.
Are you really getting their full attention?
Someone mentions a requirement.
Within seconds, two developers are sketching a system diagram that nobody asked for.
The facilitator now has the awkward job of dragging everyone back to the actual discussion.
An extra attendee joins “just to stay across things.”
With nothing specific to contribute, they deploy the classic rhetorical questions:
“What problem are we really trying to solve here?”
You wrote it in the meeting invite.
You put it on the whiteboard in big letters.
Someone still asks about it.
Then someone arrives late… and asks again.
Direct Jessica towards your stakeholders. Then let the interviews happen.
Jessica highlights conflicting requirements and perspectives without assuming which stakeholder is right.
Use these insights to investigate the differences and facilitate faster, more informed decisions during your workshop.
Go into your workshop with a clearer view of what stakeholders want, where they agree and where their requirements conflict.
Review and validate requirements with stakeholders, then focus workshop discussions on conflicting perspectives and decisions that need to be made.
Some stakeholders may be able to contribute asynchronously without attending the entire workshop, leaving more time for the people needed to explore issues and make decisions together.
Other AI-chat products exist to give answers.
Jessica exists to ask questions.
One of the Senior Managers insists on getting an invite to your workshop and is being vocal elsewhere about the project’s lack of progress.
He needs to be involved. But he is not available for two weeks and will spend the session distracted, with one eye on his phone.
He receives an invite to use Jessica and gives requirements in his own time.
The workshop goes ahead as scheduled and you have a smaller session with him when he is available the following week, to play back the workshop outcome. Which already includes his inputs.
Your key SME – the person who works with real customers every day – knows the impacted process back-to-front, but is only allowed to spare one hour for your workshop.
With other attendees involved, there is not enough time to hear all of their valuable information.
They give requirements to Jessica in advance of the workshop. You review the output and identify which points to cover more in the workshop, versus those which just need a quick mention.
You also see a specific template was called-out that may be useful for the group, so you ask them to bring it to the workshop.
A manager heard about your project at a town hall and decided that one of their team needs to attend your workshop.
The invite was forwarded before you even knew.
This invitee only has one requirement to add and your workshop is taking time away from what they should really be doing
They give their requirement to Jessica, gain additional context about your project and realise that it is too early to be involved.
They are comfortable not attending your workshop and instead opt to receive the outputs offline, where they can see the requirement is included.
The scenarios above are fictionalised examples for demonstration purposes. Images are AI-generated. Any similarity to real colleagues, past clients, or that one specific stakeholder you are thinking of right now, is purely coincidental.
We heard that during market research (and we disagree).
Every experienced Business Analyst knows what good practice looks like.
Traditional BA frameworks assume you have unlimited time and undivided stakeholder attention. Reality dictates otherwise. Priorities change for both Projects and the wider business.
Jessica gives Business Analysts more time to practise good business analysis.
No. Jessica is an AI-Powered Requirements Elicitation Platform designed to reduce the amount of time spent preparing for workshops (which in reality is often zero).
This is a tool to ensure that your analysts are fully prepared for the workshop.
No.
Jessica helps gather and structure stakeholder input before your workshop, so the group can spend more time exploring conflicting perspectives, validating requirements and making decisions together.
AI can help identify patterns and potential conflicts, but it cannot replace the judgement, discussion and shared understanding needed to make project decisions.
Jessica allows you to complete the pre-workshop activities that you are meant to do, but never have the time to do.
Even if you do currently have the time to do them, Jessica will now do these activities for you.
You will receive easy to interpret insights. You will know exactly who agrees with who and which requirements are in conflict. Allowing you to focus your agenda on the items that matter.
Additionally, peripheral stakeholders who are less engaged and have fewer requirements to add, or those who are moderately engaged but have no time allocated, can elect to no longer attend the actual workshop
Surveys often yield ambiguous or out-of-scope answers.
Our AI requirements elicitation platform clarifies the respondent’s understanding in real-time to ensure data is specific and actionable.
CoPilot transcribes what happened.
Jessica captures what should happen before your workshop even starts.
Workshop IT is a software development company dedicated to engineering practical, efficient digital tools that simplify everyday business operations.
Jessica is the flagship, AI-powered requirements elicitation platform developed and owned by Workshop IT.
While Jessica is currently our core offering focused on project discovery, Workshop IT plans to launch additional software solutions under our brand umbrella in the future.
Requirements remain available across the project as understanding develops.
Changes and new information can be reviewed as the project progresses, with stakeholders and Business Analysts responsible for validating the requirements and decisions.
Jessica is designed to help with requirements elicitation and project discovery. The aim is to capture stakeholder input, formalise requirements and identify areas of agreement or conflict before a workshop.
Jessica complements your existing project delivery processes rather than requiring you to replace them. Outputs can be exported for use elsewhere.
Jessica identifies and highlights conflicting requirements and perspectives so they can be explored during the workshop.
Rather than attempting to resolve disagreements automatically, Jessica helps business analysts understand where stakeholders agree, where they differ and what needs further discussion.
Workshop facilitators will be aware of disagreements and conflicts in advance and will be able to bring supporting data to the workshop to resolve.
Jessica conducts stakeholder interviews asynchronously, allowing participants to provide input in their own time rather than requiring everyone to attend another meeting.
The intention is to make it easier for stakeholders to contribute while helping business analysts prepare for discovery workshops.
The user interface your stakeholders will see will feel familiar to them and requires minimal input from them.
Jessica is designed to support project discovery and requirements elicitation across a range of projects. It can help business analysts understand stakeholder needs, formalise requirements and identify areas requiring further discussion before a workshop.
The suitability of Jessica will depend on the project’s objectives and discovery needs.
Yes.
Jessica supports current-state interviews to help capture how things work today. These are configured using a different interview ‘type’ when configuring interviews.
This allows business analysts to conduct current state and requirements interviews separately.
The output of current state interviews are process flows in both text and visual form.
Security and privacy are important considerations in the development of Jessica. Our About Us page explains our approach to data protection and privacy and the measures we have implemented. You can download a supplementary capability statement in PDF format on the same page.
WORKSHOP IT is also participating in the Digital track of Australia’s Buy Australian AI Partnership, delivered by Stone & Chalk and supported by the National AI Centre.
The program connects Australian AI companies with enterprise organisations to strengthen their understanding of enterprise expectations around security, governance, risk, compliance and procurement readiness.
Jessica wasn’t built by people guessing how business analysis works. It was designed around real stakeholder interviews, discovery workshops and the practical challenges Business Analysts deal with every day.
Our goal is not to replace Business Analysts.
It is to help them start workshops with better information and fewer surprises.
