A day with your team that ends with one thing decided.

Sounds like you

The problem

Most AI training teaches the buttons and leaves the work alone.

People sit through a prompt webinar, get a certificate, and go back to doing it the way they did last week. They learn faster practicing on the work in front of them. The day is built on your team's own workflows, and it ends with a decision.

What you get

A working day on your team's own work.

• Your workflows. We practice on the tasks your team does every week.
• A before and after. We agree up front what good looks like, so you can tell later whether it worked.
• Hands on the keyboard. Everyone leaves having done it on their own work at least once.
• No certificate. Nobody reads those anyway.

How it works

Questions

Before you hire this, people ask

• Should an AI workshop be on site or remote?On site, when you can. The workshop puts the team's real work on the wall and has them rank it together, and that goes faster in a room. Remote works for distributed teams and for the AI 101 half day. On site anywhere in the Twin Cities is included in the price; travel outside the Twin Cities is at cost.
• AI workshop, AI consultant, or do it myself?Do it yourself if you are the only one who needs it. Book a workshop, $1,500 to $6,500 with me, when the whole team needs to start in the same place. Hire a consultant, by the hour at $150 or a fractional seat from $3,500 a month (about two days a month), when someone has to own the plan and the vendors for months. Most businesses should start with the cheapest one that fits.
• Can a nonprofit use AI without it feeling wrong?Yes, and the places it helps most are the boring ones: grant writing drafts, donor data cleanup, the inbox, the newsletter, the board report. Keep it away from the parts of the work that are about a person being seen by another person. Nonprofits get a rate from me, and the first step is a half day for $1,500 or less.
• Can't I just do the AI stuff myself?Probably, yes. Most owners I meet are already good with the tools. What they cannot do is get the rest of the team using them the same way, or keep it going on the days they are out. Teaching the team is cheaper than people expect. The first step is a 90-minute session at your place for $450.
• How much does an AI workshop cost for a small business?Mine run $1,500 for a half day of AI 101, $3,500 for a full day in a room with your team, and $6,500 for two days that include workflow maps and a plan by department. Speaker bureaus quote $3,000 to $15,000 for a full-day workshop.
• Is AI going to replace my employees?In most businesses I work with, no. The owners want to grow without adding headcount, not cut the people they have. Done right, AI takes the worst hour out of everyone's day, the people stay, and the company handles more work with the same team.
• What happens in a one-day AI workshop?Before the day, a prep call and a short survey for the team. In the morning, each team maps its work step by step on the wall and marks where the hours go. After lunch, the room scores each idea on how much it would help against how hard it would be. The day ends with a ranked list and one decision. It costs $3,500 with me.
• What is a service design session for finding AI uses?A service design session for finding AI uses is a working session where your team maps how the work moves through the business, step by step, and marks where time disappears, where things wait, and where mistakes happen. Then we sort those spots into what a person should keep doing, what a tool could do, and what should just stop. You leave with a ranked list of AI opportunities and one of them decided.