01 · Shared foundation
Team training
Private, live sessions that give leaders and staff a shared foundation, practical data-handling rules, and hands-on practice.
AI workshops and training · Austin, Texas
AI Upskilling for Teams, Executives, and Operators
For owners, executives, and operational leaders: get your leadership team and staff using AI on real work, with clear rules for data and a concrete next step at the end of every engagement.
Want a seat in a public workshop? See Austin dates →Three ways to get started
Start with the decision your organization needs to make.
02 · Leadership alignment
Leadership briefing
A focused conversation for decision-makers about AI capabilities, limits, risk, and where it may fit in the organization.
03 · Prove one use case
Scoped workflow pilot
A narrowly scoped workflow or AI agent pilot for one recurring task, with clear success criteria and human review.
Your Instructor
Patrick "Pat" Hughes
Google · Coinbase · Base · Vercel
Pat has worked in technical customer-facing and product-education roles at Google and Coinbase (including Base), spanning sales engineering, solutions architecture, and developer advocacy. Throughout his career, he has supported builders and founders, from hands-on technical workshops to one-on-one office hours.
His teaching approach is practical: explain just enough to understand what is happening, put it to work hands-on, and have fun doing it. Every question is welcome, and he keeps the room a safe place to ask it.
Public workshops
Hands-on AI workshops in Austin
Prefer to start on your own? Grab a seat in a small, in-person workshop and leave with a working first version of a product or workflow.
In person, AustinAdmit One
Build With AI
Use AI to build a working tool or workflow. Bring a laptop and a real task, and leave with a working first version, plus two follow-up office hours.
- Format
- In person + office hours
- Length
- 2-hr workshop + 2 office hours
- Price
- $495
- Class size
- Maximum 8
- Next workshop
- Sat, Nov 14 · 10:00 a.m. CT
- Location
- Central Austin, Texas
Small group, in person. Requires 4+ paid seats by the registration deadline, or every attendee receives a 100% refund.
For teams
Want this for your whole team?
Private workshops run on your schedule, built around your team's real work.
See team options →Office hours
Stuck on an agent?
Free 15-minute office hours, live online, Mondays and Wednesdays, 8 to 9 PM CT. Bring your agent or your question.
Book office hours →A course of study, not a one-off
The agent-building series
Four 2-hour sessions, live and mostly hands-on. Each session keeps concepts to about 20 to 30 minutes, then you build for at least an hour with coaching. Every session uses the same four parts of an agent: instructions (its job), knowledge (what it knows), tools (what it can do), and a trigger (when it runs).
- Session 1Foundations and Your First AgentA plain-language view of the AI landscape, the four parts of every agent, and a working agent you build yourself.
- Session 2Connecting Your SystemsHook an agent up to the tools your team already uses, for example sending project updates into team chat.
- Session 3An Agent for Your Real WorkBuild an agent around a real workflow from your own job or organization.
- Session 4Evaluate, Secure, and PlanHow to tell if an agent is working, what data stays out, and a short plan for where AI fits your team.
Live, small group · 4 sessions · 2 hours each
Online booking for the series is not open yet. Book a discovery call to ask about the next one.