Live, hands-on AI courses for small-business leaders and their teams. No jargon, no coding — you work on your own tasks and leave with results you can use Monday morning.
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Voices, 2026
73%
say more training would help them get results from AI
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Voices, 2026
91%
of small businesses using AI say it boosts revenue
Salesforce SMB Trends Report, 2025
10%
of small-business workers have been offered formal AI training
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, 2026
79%
become regular AI users after 5+ hours of hands-on training
BCG AI at Work, 2025
Most small businesses use AI. Few get real results from it.
76% of small businesses now use AI in some form — but only 14% have it working inside their core operations. That gap is where time and money leak, and closing it takes training, not another tool. Our courses are live and plain-language: you and your team practice on your own real work, and every session ends with something running — a workflow, a policy, or a working AI agent.
The courses
Two tracks. One for the corner office, one for the whole team.
Leaders decide where AI pays off and set the rules. Teams put it to work on the daily grind. Take one course or run the tracks side by side — every session is live, and every session ends with something your business keeps.
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For executives
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AI Essentials for Business Owners
Owners, partners, and senior managers — no technical background needed
Length
Half day (4 hours)
Format
Live workshop · small leadership cohort
What AI can and can’t do todayThe tools worth knowingSpotting use cases in your operationsJudging results without the hype
You leave with
✓A plain-language map of what today’s AI tools actually do — and what they cost
✓A shortlist of 3–5 use cases matched to your own business, ranked by payoff and effort
✓A one-page brief you can share with your team about where you’re heading
Teams who know the basics — sales, admin, service, finance, marketing
Length
One day (7 hours)
Format
Live hands-on workshop · everyone works on their own job
Role-by-role workflowsTurning a recurring task into an AI routineChaining steps: draft, check, refine, sendQuality control that keeps a human in charge
You leave with
✓2–3 of your own recurring tasks rebuilt with AI, working before you leave
✓Reusable templates and checklists for your role
✓A realistic estimate of hours saved per week, measured on your own work
Every exercise runs on your own quotes, inboxes, reports, and schedules. Training sticks when it changes how your Tuesday goes — not when it shows someone else’s slides.
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Live, in plain language
Live cohort courses get finished — 64% completion versus about 13% on big self-paced marketplaces. An instructor in the room, no jargon, questions answered as they come up.
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One focused day, not a semester
BCG found five or more hours of hands-on training is the threshold where people become regular AI users. Each course clears that bar in a single half or full day.
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Follow-up built in
One-off demos fade. Monthly coaching keeps workflows improving, answers the questions that pile up, and turns a good workshop into a lasting habit.
Straight answers
The questions every owner asks first
We’re not a tech company. Is this really for us?
Yes — that’s exactly who these courses are for. 95% of small-business decision makers say they need more AI training (TeamViewer, 2025), and 41% of small-business workers point to a skills gap as a barrier (U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, 2026). Nothing here requires coding or a technical background. You practice on your own real work — quotes, invoices, customer emails, schedules — in plain English, with an instructor in the room.
We don’t know where to start.
You’re in good company: 41% of small-business workers say it’s unclear how AI applies to their specific business (U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, 2026). That’s what the first executive course is for. In half a day we map what AI can genuinely do against how your business actually runs, and you leave with a shortlist of three to five use cases ranked by payoff and effort. Start there; everything else builds on it.
Is our data safe in these tools?
That worry is healthy — and common. Data privacy and security is the top barrier for small businesses still testing AI, cited by 38% (Reimagine Main Street / PayPal, 2025). Every course covers the ground rules: what should never be pasted into a public AI tool, how to set up business accounts so your data isn’t used to train anyone’s models, and which tools meet which standards. The AI Playbook course goes further — your leadership team leaves with a written data-safety policy your staff can follow.
What does this cost in time and money?
Each course is a half day or one day — on purpose. BCG found that five or more hours of hands-on training, with live sessions and coaching, is what turns people into regular AI users: 79% versus 67% for those who got less (BCG, 2025). One focused day clears that bar. On budget: live team AI workshops in this market run $3,000–$12,000 per session for 10–25 people — roughly $200–$1,000 a head (Pertama Partners, 2026), compared with $3,850 for a single seat in MIT Sloan’s online AI program. We price per team session, so your whole team trains for around the cost of sending one or two executives to a business school.
Couldn’t we just learn this from YouTube?
You can get some distance that way — 57% of small businesses name YouTube and social media as their main AI training source (Thryv, 2026). The problem is follow-through. Self-paced courses finish at 48%, big course marketplaces average about 13%, while live cohort courses finish at 64% — and well-run cohorts with coaching reach 85–96% (Ruzuku, 2026). BCG’s research names live instruction, in-person sessions, and coaching as the parts of training that actually work (BCG, 2025). Videos explain AI. A workshop changes how your Tuesday goes.
Will this end with AI replacing my team?
The evidence points the other way. 87% of small-business owners say AI supports their employees rather than replacing them (Goldman Sachs, 2026), and 82% of small businesses using AI grew their workforce over the past year (U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 2025). The point of training is to hand the repetitive work to software so your people spend more time on the work your customers actually pay for.
Bring the first course to your team
Tell us about your business and we’ll suggest where to start — usually a single half day.
