BuildCamp

AI Coaching and Training

Most AI training teaches the tool. Almost none of it teaches your job.

You watch somebody summarize an article, write a poem, and generate a picture of an astronaut. Then you go back to your actual inbox, and none of it maps onto the thing you do all day.

The approach

The useful version runs the other way around. Start from a task you genuinely repeat, work out what it takes to do that specific task well, and learn where the tool is wrong and how you would catch it before it reaches a customer.

That last part matters more than it sounds. Knowing what good output looks like is the skill; producing output is the easy half.

How sessions run

Your work, on screen, in the session

The real document, the real inbox, the real spreadsheet. There is no sandbox exercise and no sample dataset about a fictional bike shop.

You drive

Watching somebody else be impressive teaches you very little. You type, and the correction happens while your hands are on it, which is the part that transfers.

Every session leaves something behind

A prompt that works on a task you repeat, a checklist for reviewing output, or a small workflow. It is yours, and it works the same way on Monday when nobody is watching.

Recurring beats one-off

A standing short cadence beats a single long workshop. The questions worth answering are the ones that come up after you have tried it alone and something broke in a way the workshop never covered.

Who it is for

Teams

Usually the team inheriting a system we built, though not always. The goal is that the knowledge stops living in one person's head, and that somebody other than the enthusiast can change things safely. Sessions run on the live system rather than on a copy.

Individuals

You are good at your job and quietly behind on this one thing. Not behind in a way anybody has said out loud. Behind in the way where a colleague turns something around in an hour, you are not sure how, and it has become slightly awkward to ask.

Fit

Good fit: real work with tasks that repeat, a few honest attempts already behind you, and a goal of being genuinely good at this rather than conversant in it.

Wrong fit: you want a certificate for your profile, or you want to learn to train models and write production code. Both are reasonable goals. Neither is what happens here.

No certificate is issued at the end. What you get instead is a handful of things that work on your own job, which is harder to fake and more useful to own.

Contact

buildcampllc@gmail.com

Describe one task you repeat every week and wish took less time. You will get a straight read on whether coaching would help, including the times the answer is that you can work this one out on your own.