WoRKSHOPS & TRAINING

Your team isn’t going to figure out AI on their own.

The tool doesn’t solve the problem or win the adoption. People do, once they know why. Our workshops are hands-on, run on your team’s actual work, and teach the reasoning behind it all, so it sticks after we leave.

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Workshops

Learn it. Build it. Lock it down.

Four workshops.
Your work, not sample data.

  1. 01. Essentials

    ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code & Design.

    The daily tools, used well. Prompts, files, projects, and the judgment calls: what to hand it, what to keep, when to stop. Everyone leaves with shared language and real confidence in the tools.

    Foreveryone, or one department at a time.

  2. 02. Build

    Internal tools, agents & automations.

    Hands on the keyboard. Your team maps one workflow that eats their week and builds the automation, agent, or small tool that takes it. Something running before we leave.

    Forops, admin, and whoever owns the process or system.

  3. 03. Govern

    Security & governance.

    What data goes where, who is allowed to use what, and the rules your team will follow because they helped write them. A policy you can enforce, not a PDF nobody opens.

    Forowners, department leads, and whoever gets the call when something leaks.

  4. For the people who decide, not the people who use.
    04. Lead

    Where AI fits in your business.

    For owners and department leads. Map the workflows first, pick the tools second, and decide what stays human. You leave with the short list of where AI pays and where it won't.

    Forowners and the leads who sign off.

Formats

Half day or full day. Whole company or one team: owners, department leads, ops, admin. Every session runs on your work, not sample data.

Not sure which one fits for your team?

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How it works

One call. Then a room full of people building.

Four steps.
No surprises.

  1. Step one

    01

    The call.

    Where the business is headed and what's in the way. Which team, which workflows, and what you need them doing on their own after we leave. We scope the workshop to that, and we'll say so if a workshop isn't the fix.

  2. Step two

    02

    We build it on your work.

    You pick the workshop. We build the session around your files, your inbox, your job notes. Nobody has to translate a demo back to their own desk.

  3. Step three

    03

    Workshop day.

    Half day or full day, in the room or on Zoom. Everyone on their own machine, no slides to sit through. You leave with something you built.

  4. Step four

    04

    One week of office hours.

    The question that decides whether this sticks shows up on Tuesday, when someone tries it alone and it breaks. So we stay on for a week. Bring us what broke.

Length
Half or full day
Where
In the room or on Zoom
After
One week of office hours
Check availability

The AI Readiness Model

Start with your people. End with your people.

The tech isn't the problem. We start with your people and leave it with them. Machine in the middle.

FromOperator intuition
ThroughBusiness infrastructure
IntoWorking AI & automation
ToOwned by your team
Across every stepDon't automate your edge.
The judgment, taste, and relationships that make you the obvious choice stay human. Always.
Without itYou automate the one thing that made your business worth choosing.
01 Start here

Your people

Operator intuition

The knowledge, judgment, and buy-in everything is built from. Your people are the strategy.

Operator knowledgeGoalsFrontline realityBuy-in
Without it

You automate a guess‚ and no one owns the result.

02

Your data

Clean, trusted data

Operator knowledge, captured and made trustworthy. One source of truth.

One source of truthOwnershipQA
Without it

Every step after inherits broken inputs.

03

Your workflows

Defined workflows

How the work moves, mapped once so it runs the same no matter who's on shift.

RoutingApprovalsHandoffs
Without it

AI runs on inconsistent inputs, returns inconsistent output.

04

Your AI & automation

AI & automation

Agents, copilots, and automations running in your real stack‚ AI production work, not pilots.

CopilotsAutomationsActions
Stalls when

The steps around it get skipped, then it dies in legal or IT review.

05 End here

Your people

Your team owns it

We teach your team to run it, improve it, and handle the exceptions, so the AI capability doesn't walk out the door when we do.

TrainingOwnershipException handling
Without it

You're renting capability instead of building it, dependent on a vendor forever.

↩ Measurement loop

Track what actually changed, then keep improving it.

We don't build it and walk. We're in it with you, wherever you are.

AI isn’t magic.

The operators who win with it aren't the ones who adopted it fastest. They're the ones who knew where to put it.

We help you figure out where.

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  • Cris is a warm and welcoming instructor, able to meet the participants where they are and help guide learning. I was especially impressed with her ability to keep multiple students, with different skill sets and projects, engaged at the same time

    Allison, San Mateo Outdoor Education

  • Cris is the best. Her experience and intelligence are evident in everything she does. She is also ridiculously hard working and professional and will over-deliver on her promises.

    — Matt, The Block Climbing

  • I have loved learning from Cris! She was very helpful to widen my view on what is possible with AI and laid some fundamental groundwork for how to build and further use AI moving forward.

    Chris, Silverstone Building

  • Cris has the right tools, knowledge, and team to take a business to the next level of success.

    — John, Commercial Electrician