Put AI into the work itself
The gains come when AI sits inside the core process that people use every day.
A one day AI workshop for working professionals in any industry. You take the routine work out of your week and keep the judgment. You leave with tools you built yourself.
Below the line is the work that repeats, such as the handover, the status update and the weekly report. AI is learning that work, and it learns more of it each year. Four things stay above the line because no model can do them for you.
A problem report shows a symptom. You decide what the real question is.
Two options can both look right on paper. You choose the one that fits today.
You know things from doing the job that no manual records.
When you raise a concern early, people act on it.
The routine work has hours attached to it. When people add theirs up, most of them find twelve to twenty one hours a week.
The old way of working declines slowly while the new way grows slowly. Then the two curves cross, and the change that took years seems to happen in months.
The gains come when AI sits inside the core process that people use every day.
Rebuild the workflow as if thinking time were free.
Each gain makes the next one easier to reach.
The workshop teaches five moves. Each one takes a kind of routine work off your desk, and the hours go back to the four things above the line.
Handovers, documents and procedures, drafts and requests, data between systems, actions and suppliers, formatting.
Framing, judgment, experience and trust.
Copilot, Claude or ChatGPT. You leave using whichever one your organisation has well.
You learn how to move company data safely and how to find the automations worth the effort.
You see the biggest time savers demonstrated on real tasks.
You take away repeatable patterns you can hand to your team.
You learn the workforce basics for staying above the automation line together.
Capture the handover, retrieve the document, draft the request, check the number and run follow-ups in the background.
Laptops stay open all day. Every session ends with something real, built on your own work with the tools your organisation already allows. There is no coding.
You find where the line sits in your role today and where it is heading.
You list the recurring work that eats the week and put hours against each item.
You set up capture, retrieve, draft and check on your own live work.
You wire the moves into your routine and hand one recurring task to a background agent.
You decide where the reclaimed hours go and who benefits from them.
You agree data handling and safety boundaries, and write a thirty day plan with a partner.
The day shows you which rung you are on now and what the next one takes.
The day is built around your own policy. One careless incident can end the permission to use AI for everyone in the organisation.
Tell us you are interested and we will send dates and pricing for the next session at the Spark Center. You can also ask about a session for your own team.
An international consortium advancing responsible, applied AI across six industry councils. Its work is part of the official U.S. AI Action Plan.
aaiconsortium.org →
The workshop is held in the Spark Center at DePaul University in the Chicago Loop, where the consortium has run its Chicago symposiums since October 2025.
The Spark, 9 October 2026 →Hour ranges are typical, not promised, and are measured against your own week in the first session. Tools, lanes and guardrails are tailored to your systems and policy before delivery.