AI Training & Literacy

I teach individuals and teams to use AI effectively, accurately, and without the hype
Curriculum · live workshops · in person, over Zoom, or self-paced
Most AI projects stall or fail, usually not because the technology is weak, but because people aim it at the wrong jobs, over-build it, let it run up costs, or trust answers they never checked. I teach you to skip those traps: use AI where it actually pays off, spend far less, and build things that hold up.
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Why me, even next to the highly credentialed

A credential proves someone studied AI. It does not prove they can use it, explain it, or keep it from going wrong in the real world. I am a working software engineer with 10+ years building reliable systems in regulated, high-stakes domains, and I learned AI itself the hands-on way: months of immersive building, testing, and breaking it, well past day-to-day use. So I teach what holds up in production, not what sounds good on a slide.

What really sets me apart is the lens I bring. For more than a decade I have studied geometry and patterns on my own, and I apply that directly to AI, because AI represents meaning as geometry, as shapes and directions rather than a list of facts. Seeing it that way is not a gimmick; it is how the thing actually works. I rarely see anyone teach it like this, and it is exactly why my explanations click instead of staying abstract. People do not leave with theory. They leave finally understanding how AI works.

Use AI effectively

On the jobs it is genuinely good at, and plain software for the rest. The judgment to tell which is which.

Save real money

Tokens are money, and most teams burn them paying a thinking engine to do work a simple script should do. I teach where the cost hides and how to cut it.

Avoid the pitfalls

Over-automation, unchecked hallucinations, complexity that only adds cost, and trust quietly eroding until no one believes the output.

Accuracy over hype

I tell you what AI cannot do as plainly as what it can. No magic, no fear, no promises it can never be wrong.

Watch me teach

Two episodes from the series, one for range, one for the business side. The full series is on the series page.

Episode 1 · Demystifying AI. What AI really is, and what it is not, made clear for anyone.
Episode 5 · Tokens. What AI actually costs, and the expensive mistake almost everyone makes.

The curriculum

Six modules that build from the ground up, each anchored in concrete, everyday examples. No coding background required; technical staff get the depth they rarely hear stated out loud.

Module 1

Demystifying AI: what it is, and what it is not

AI as a pattern and prediction engine, not a mind or a search box; the myths cleared; the four behaviors that explain everything else.

Takeaway: the accurate mental model the rest builds on.
Module 2

Can you trust it?

Why AI is confidently wrong, how to catch it, and a repeatable trust process: ground it, make it cite, check every claim against the source.

Takeaway: trust is not a property of the model, it is a process you run.
Module 3

How to talk to AI

What the human brings, practical prompting, and writing a standing directive (role, values, boundaries) that persists across sessions.

Takeaway: AI mirrors your clarity; the skill is direction, not typing.
Module 4

Models and agents

The model is the engine; match it to the job by size, cost, and privacy; meaning as geometry; what an agent is and the governance it needs.

Takeaway: you pick the engine and steer it; more reach demands tighter boundaries.
Module 5

Tokens and the cost of AI

What a token is and how billing works; the costly anti-pattern of automating deterministic work with a paid model; the doing-versus-thinking rule.

Takeaway: spend tokens where there is thinking; everything else is a software job.
Module 6 · advanced

Let AI engineer it

Use AI to simulate a plan before you spend a dollar, then build it lean so it stays cheap and clear.

Takeaway: the highest-value use of AI is design and foresight, not rote doing.

Formats

Self-paced

The video modules in order, with the takeaways as a reference. Free to watch on the series page.

Live cohort (Zoom)

Each module as a guided workshop with Q&A and hands-on exercises, for a team or a group.

In person / team training

Tailored to your organization's tools, policies, and real use cases.

A note on the production

The series was produced on a custom browser-based studio I built using AI-assisted development: script cueing, on-camera coaching, and timeline editing. It is itself a working demonstration of the AI-assisted engineering taught in the later modules, the teaching comes from practice, not slides.

Bring this to your team

If your organization wants its people to use AI well, accurately, and affordably, that is what I do. Let us talk about a workshop, a cohort, or a tailored curriculum.

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