Sessions & Workshops

    AI Workshops for Everyone

    For teams ready to make something real.

    Learning AI isn't just about tools. It's about unlocking the spark that makes people want to build. Everyone arrives somewhere on the curve, including stuck, skeptical, or quietly furious. That's a fine place to start.

    The 60-Minute "AI Power Hour"

    AI is fundamentally changing what it means to call yourself a builder. That's why every workshop includes an AI builder Power Hour where everybody (yes, even non-engineers!) leaves with something real.

    Workshop participant demoing the tool they built on the big screen
    AI Power Hour workshop session with students in classroom setting
    A full room of workshop participants building at laptops during a Build First session

    What People Actually Build

    01

    Working Tools & Mini-Apps

    Purchase-order builders, client dashboards, internal tools teams keep using

    02

    Live Websites

    Real sites, built and deployed to a shareable URL before the hour ends

    03

    Reusable AI Context

    Brand brains, proposal libraries, saved instructions that work in every chat

    04

    Automations & Agents

    Weekly digests, report generators, workflows that run while you sleep

    Where your team is today

    We help your team move up the AI adoption curve

    • Level 4

      Apps & agentic workflows

    • Level 3

      Skills: reusable AI context

    • Level 2

      Artifacts & mini-apps

    • Level 1

      Chat: prompting with intent

    The rule we teach at every rung: use the simplest level that solves the problem.

    Formats

    Workshop Formats

    Whether you're looking for a single team or a full immersion, we customize each workshop to fit your company's needs. All trainings can be virtual or in person.

    01

    Functional Deep Dive Workshop

    Get your team in the builder mindset with a fully deployed mini-app and design thinking basics.

    • Scoping call & design thinking
    • 60-minute AI Power Hour
    • Up to 25 people

    02

    AI Org Accelerator

    4-session organizational transformation to scale AI fluency across departments.

    • 4 departmental deep dives
    • 1 executive or team-wide 90-min training
    • Customized AI app access
    • Strategic transformation report

    03

    AI Buildathon

    Half-day company-wide event focused on building and rapid prototyping.

    • AI design thinking mini-lesson
    • Team breakouts & expert tips
    • Full facilitation
    • Individual or team sprints
    • Strategic transformation report

    The software behind the sessions

    Purpose-built tools, trained on how people actually learn AI

    Everyone arrives at a different comfort level with AI, so every Build First experience runs on software we built for exactly this job.

    Tooling built around your team. Before we arrive, we configure our POP-IT Builder for your company, your workflows, your systems, your real problems. Each participant's actual pain point becomes a personalized build sprint scoped to their goals and comfort level, so nobody sits through a demo of someone else's use case.

    A method that keeps getting sharper. A year of running real trainings has taught us where people get stuck: 2,800+ learning moments and 200+ recurring stuck-points, each mapped to the intervention that resolved it. That pattern library is built from our own teaching practice, not your company's data, so we walk into your room already knowing where teams like yours tend to stall.

    Reports grounded in what really happened. During sessions, our tooling logs questions, confusion, and friction as they occur. Your transformation report is built from that record, and it measures the outcome that matters: whether your people can start, drive, and judge a build on their own afterward.

    POP-IT Builder screen: choosing a build track for your team's real problemsPOP-IT Builder screen: a personalized three-sprint build plan

    120 first builds | 93% intent to keep building

    See how a 150-person SaaS company catalyzed org-wide AI fluency in 6 weeks.

    Read the case study

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