AI TRAINING BUILT FOR COHORTS.
Workforce development, trade ally, incubator, and supplier diversity programs are all getting the same question from participants right now. What do we do about AI. This is the answer, built to run inside a program rather than around it.
YOUR PARTICIPANTS ARE ASKING. MOST ANSWERS ARE USELESS TO THEM.
Neither a general AI overview nor a tool list survives contact with a contractor's week. The small businesses in your cohorts are running lean, and anything that takes more setup than it saves gets abandoned inside a month.
What works is narrower and less exciting. Start from the work they actually do, their bids, their invoices, their follow-up, their scheduling. Put one thing in front of them that removes real hours. Then give them a way to see what to do next without hiring a consultant.
That is what this is built to do, and it is built to report cleanly back to a program manager who has to account for outcomes.
FOUR PARTS, AND YOU CAN TAKE ANY ONE OF THEM
Each part stands on its own. Most programs start with the session and add from there.
THE COHORT SESSION
A working session built around the trades and businesses actually in the room, not a general AI overview. Participants leave with tools they can open the next morning and a specific first move for their own operation. Delivered live, in person or virtual, sized to your program's format.
For your participantsTHE READINESS ASSESSMENT
Each participant answers a short set of questions about their business and receives a personalized report with a scored readiness picture and a named action plan. It scales to a whole cohort without adding facilitator time, and it gives the program a consistent baseline to point at. Already built and running for a trade ally cohort.
For your participants, at cohort scaleONE-ON-ONE IMPLEMENTATION
For participants ready to go further, direct work with the business owner until something is actually running inside their operation. Built in their own accounts, handed over with an operating manual so they own it after the engagement ends. This is the tier that turns training into a result a program can point to.
For participants who are ready to movePROGRAM STAFF TRAINING
The same work pointed at your own team instead of your participants. Intake, reporting, outreach, scheduling, and the administrative load that eats program capacity. Delivered as a working session with your staff, using your actual workflows.
For your teamALL FOUR PARTS HAVE ALREADY RUN
All four parts have been delivered inside a utility trade ally development program.
THE SESSION
An AI session delivered to a utility trade ally development cohort, built around the specific trades in the room.
THE ASSESSMENT
A live readiness assessment tool built for energy efficiency contractors, returning a personalized report and action plan.
THE IMPLEMENTATION
One-on-one engagements with individual contractors from the cohort, funded through the program's own stipend structure.
THE STAFF TRAINING
Two days of in-person AI training delivered to the program implementer's own administrative team.
NO PACKAGE UNTIL WE KNOW YOUR PROGRAM.
Every program runs on different funding, different reporting, and a different cohort. Pricing gets built against yours, not against somebody else's.
- How many participants are in a cohort, and how many cohorts run per year
- What stage participants are at, from pre-revenue through established operators
- What the program is actually trying to move, and how that gets reported
- Which funding line this would sit in, and what procurement that path requires
- What formats already work in your program, in person, virtual, or a mix
One call answers most of this. Nothing gets priced before that conversation, and nothing gets proposed that your program has not asked for.
THE PRACTICE IS WIDER THAN AI
Project Baseline is a strategy and innovation practice with two decades behind it. AI is the sharpest tool in that kit right now, which is why it is usually the first conversation, and it is not the whole kit.
Programs come with problems that have nothing to do with software, like a community that is not showing up, a cohort that keeps under-filling, or brand and outreach that is not landing with the people it was built for. Partnership structures, program design, and the experiential work of getting people into a room all sit in the same place.
That is the same practice from the same people, and we were doing it long before we were doing AI. If what your program actually needs sits on that side, say so and we will talk about that instead.
LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR COHORT
Tell us what your program runs and what your participants keep asking for. We will tell you honestly where AI helps and where it does not.
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