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Half-day or full-day · On-site Calgary · Remote anywhere

A Practical AI Workshop for Calgary teams

Not a ChatGPT demo. A hands-on working session built around your team's real workflows — quoting, reporting, SOPs, intake — so people leave with AI applied to their actual jobs, not a slide deck about the future.

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Most corporate AI training teaches the tool. This one teaches your work.

Calgary has no shortage of AI training: tool vendors demoing Copilot, training mills running generic curricula, institutes teaching governance frameworks. All of it answers "how does AI work?" — and none of it answers the question your team actually has: "where does this fit MY job?"

This workshop starts from the opposite end. Before showing anyone a prompt, we find the workflows that cost your team the most hours every week. Then people work hands-on — on their own real tasks, with proper guardrails — until the use cases stick. It's AI training built by an operations consultant, not a software trainer.

Tailored to operations, maintenance, projects, and admin teams — the people AI training usually skips. No tech background required.

What a full day looks like

Morning — find the time

  • Where the week actually goes: mapping your team's repetitive, information-heavy work
  • The five workflows AI helps first — quotes, reports, SOPs, triage, buried answers — matched to yours
  • Guardrails before tools: privacy, data rules, and what never goes into a public model

Afternoon — hands on, real tasks

  • Every participant works on a live task from their own role
  • Role-specific use cases for operations, projects, and admin, built and tested at the table
  • What to adopt Monday morning: each person leaves with their top use cases and the take-home reference guide

Half-day format covers the same arc with one role group instead of several. Both formats run on-site anywhere in Calgary, on-site across Alberta (Edmonton, Red Deer, and beyond — travel is straightforward), or fully remote.

Who it's for

Leadership groups deciding where AI fits. Operations and continuous-improvement teams who own the workflows. Project and admin teams drowning in documents. Mixed groups work — the exercises split by role, so the estimator and the office manager each leave with their own wins.

Privacy is built in from the start: business-grade tools only, clear usage rules set before the session, and nothing from your business used to train public models. For regulated and government teams, content is scoped around your data-residency requirements.

Workshop questions, answered

Does the team need a technical background?

No. The workshop is built for operators, managers, admins, and field or floor staff — not developers. If someone can use email and a browser, they can apply everything covered.

Which AI tools does the workshop cover?

The proven, business-grade tools that fit your environment — typically ChatGPT for Business, Microsoft Copilot, or Claude — plus clear guardrails for privacy and quality. The tools matter less than the workflows; we start from where your team's time actually goes.

How many people can attend?

Working sessions run best with 6 to 20 participants. Larger groups split into role-based cohorts — operations, projects, admin — so every table works on workflows they actually own.

What does it cost?

Fixed fee by format: half-day or full-day, on-site in Calgary or remote. Quoted on the free 25-minute call once headcount and focus are clear. Travel across Alberta is available.

What happens after the workshop?

Every attendee leaves with a take-home reference guide and use cases mapped to their own job. Teams that want the top workflow actually built typically move into an AI Opportunity Audit or a 90-day Implementation Sprint.

Scope it in 25 minutes

Tell me who's in the room. I'll build the day around them.

The free call covers your team's roles, the workflows eating their week, and which format fits. No pitch — if a workshop isn't the right first step, I'll say so.

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