AI training for teams and solo professionals
Practical AI training built around your actual work. Learn to use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other AI tools well and responsibly, whether you're one person or a whole team. In person in Los Angeles or virtual anywhere.
Who this is for
Anyone who keeps hearing they should be using AI and has no idea where to start. Consultants, lawyers, stylists, creators and founders running their own practice. Executives who need to talk about AI credibly. Teams at nonprofits, newsrooms, universities and businesses that want the time savings without the risk.
We've run these sessions one-on-one and for organizations like USC, the United Nations and media production houses.
What you walk out with
- A short list of tools you'll actually use, and the ones to skip
- Custom prompts and templates built on your work
- A written AI guideline for your business, if you don't have one
- A recording and prep guide to come back to
What happens in a session
No slides about the future of AI. You bring real work, and we build on it live.
- The tools, sortedWhat ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Canva AI, NotebookLM and more each do well, where they fail, and which one fits which job.
- Prompting that worksA simple formula, action plus context plus outcome, practiced on your actual tasks until the output is usable.
- Workflows and agents you keepThe three or four repetitive jobs in your week that AI can take, set up before you leave, plus an introduction to agents that can run them for you.
- The ethics that matterDeepfakes, privacy, data handling and disclosure, covered in plain language.
Media training and AI training
from one team
Most media trainers stop at the camera. Most AI consultants have never been on one. We do both, and we combine them: executives who can talk about AI on camera without sounding lost, teams that use AI to prep for interviews and press, custom GPTs and agents that take your communications expertise to the next level, and a plan for the day a deepfake of your CEO shows up.
Ask about a combined programFormats
Hourly, half-day, full-day or multi-day. One-on-one or groups of any size. In person across Los Angeles or virtual.
Done for you
Want it handled instead of taught? AI Business Setup audits how you work, picks the tools and builds the system for you.
Who leads it
Olivia Smith is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, a professor at USC Annenberg, where she created the school's first journalism-and-AI course, and a former member of Meta's GenAI content engineering team. She teaches AI the way a journalist would: verify everything, disclose when it matters.
"Olivia is a standout instructor whose expertise and professionalism are notable. She made faculty participants feel immediately at ease."Allison Agsten, Director, USC
Start with a 15-minute call
Tell us what you're stuck on.
We'll tell you what a session would look like.