AI Training

AI training grounded in the tools your business is actually using.

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What training solves, in your terms

Two situations. If either one sounds like your Tuesday, you are in the right place.

The rollout that did not land

Copilot is live. Most of your team is still in their personal ChatGPT account.

Before
Copilot is live. IT sent the setup guide. Three months later, most of your team is still typing the same questions into the same personal ChatGPT account they always have. The license cost runs. The governance gap grows.
After
Two hours, your tools, your workflows. By the end, your team knows when to use Copilot, what to keep out of it, and why the personal ChatGPT habit now has a policy instead of a hope.

Checkpoint: Training uses made-up examples shaped like your business. We never request access to your client files, patient records, or matter documents.

The person handed AI governance

Someone got handed the words "figure out our AI governance."

Before
Your firm administrator got handed the words "figure out our AI governance." There is no playbook. There are articles, vendor pages, and a growing stack of tools nobody has inventoried.
After
Eight hours across two sessions. By Day 2, she has working drafts of five documents: tool inventory, acceptable use policy, data classification guide, risk assessment, onboarding procedure. Real drafts built during the workshop, not templates to fill in later.

Checkpoint: Every draft leaves with the attendee as an editable file. GuardXID does not retain your governance documents.

These are representative situations, not client case studies. The details in your business will differ — the scoping call is where we sort out what actually applies.

Three ways to engage, at a glance

The right product for most businesses

Custom training

Fixed-scope engagement

Length
2 hours or 4 hours
Format
Remote via Zoom or Teams, or on-site — one engagement covers 10 attendees or 300
Built for
Teams that want training built around the tools they actually use
You leave with
Training designed for your environment, reference materials, and a 30-minute follow-up call

Governance Workshop

Public cohort or private delivery

Length
8 hours — two four-hour sessions, one week apart
Format
Public cohort via Zoom or Teams, or private delivery for your business
Built for
The person in your business who owns AI governance
You leave with
Rough drafts of five governance documents, from acceptable use policy to risk assessment

Open cohort workshops

Scheduled public sessions

Length
2 hours each, or both as a four-hour half-day
Format
Scheduled public sessions — same content delivered to whoever shows up
Built for
Individual team members who want grounding in the basics
You leave with
A grounding in prompting and the Big 4 tools — Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude

What this is

You have probably sat through AI training that didn’t take: a generic deck, tools nobody on your team actually uses, and a folder of slides that changed nothing by the next week.

We build training around the tools your business actually uses. The Microsoft 365 Copilot deployment you’re rolling out. The ChatGPT seats your associates have been buying on their personal cards. The Claude experiment your marketing lead started without telling anyone. The Gemini account that came with your Google Workspace. The agents and automations you’ve been hearing about but haven’t built yet. (An agent is AI that takes actions on its own — drafting, filing, sending — not just answering questions.)

The training works because the practitioner running it works hands-on across all four major business AI platforms, and leads the AI program at an institution where Microsoft Copilot runs across nearly 500 people. When we walk into your business, we’re not reading from a vendor’s documentation. We’re describing tools we use.

Three ways to engage

Custom training

The right product for most businesses. A focused engagement built around your tools, your industry, the risks you can’t afford, and your team’s current AI experience level — not a generic course.

We design and deliver one of two formats:

  • 2-hour focused session. A deep-dive on prompting (how you write instructions to an AI tool to get usable answers). Copilot rollout orientation. ChatGPT vs. Gemini selection workshop. AI risk briefing for partners. Whatever the team needs in two hours.
  • 4-hour intensive. Combine tool overview, prompting discipline, governance fundamentals, and basic agent or automation exposure. Best for teams that want a complete grounding in one session.

Both formats include:

  • Pre-engagement scoping call to identify your tools, team experience level, and learning objectives
  • Custom content built for the tools you actually use, not pulled from a template
  • Delivery to your team — remote via Zoom or Teams, or on-site within one hour drive of Lincoln or Omaha. Travel beyond one hour is factored into the proposal.
  • Reference materials the team can return to after the session
  • 30-minute follow-up call within two weeks to answer questions that surfaced after the training landed

A single engagement covers 10 attendees or 300. We charge for the design and delivery, not for chairs filled.

Governance Workshop (public cohort or private in-house delivery)

A different product for a different buyer: the person in your business who has been handed responsibility for AI governance and doesn’t have a playbook for it.

Eight hours, structured as two four-hour sessions one week apart. By the end, the attendee leaves with rough drafts of the operational governance foundation most small and mid-size businesses are missing:

Two delivery modes:

  • Public cohort — capped at 20 attendees from any combination of businesses. Scheduled by GuardXID, virtual via Zoom or Teams. Built for the AI lead at a single business attending alongside peers from other businesses.
  • Private delivery — one business, as many seats as you want to fill. Same eight-hour structure, scheduled around your team’s availability. Best for businesses sending their leadership team or AI committee together.

Both modes include a shared channel for questions during the three weeks after Day 2, plus one 30-minute 1:1 follow-up per participant.

Open cohort workshops

Scheduled group sessions of GuardXID’s two-hour standalone formats:

  • Generative AI Prompting Workshop — the DOCCS framework, our five-question checklist for getting consistent, usable output from AI tools. Replaces the usual “tell the AI to act as an expert” advice with questions that work for every prompt.
  • AI for Business: Tools, Tiers, and Tradeoffs — the Big 4 tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude); free, paid, and business-grade versions — what each actually costs, and which ones protect your business data.

Either runs alone, or both are delivered consecutively as a four-hour half-day.

Open cohort workshops are the right fit when you have individual team members who want grounding in the basics, or when you don’t have the budget yet for a custom engagement. They’re not customized — same content delivered to whoever shows up.

How an engagement runs

Custom training and Governance Workshop engagements run the same general pattern:

  1. Scoping call — 30 minutes, free
  2. Design — custom engagements get fully tailored materials; the Governance Workshop pulls from a refined template
  3. Delivery — on a date that works for your team
  4. Materials handoff
  5. Follow-up call

Public workshops skip the scoping and design phases — content is templated, you register for an upcoming date, you attend.

Who this is for

You’re a fit if:

  • You’re a small or mid-size business deploying AI tools and need your team grounded in how to use them well
  • You have a designated AI lead (or have been handed the responsibility) and need to build governance that holds up
  • You want training that engages with your actual tools and what’s at stake for your business, not a generic overview
  • You operate in an industry where the consequences of getting AI wrong matter (legal, medical, CPA, ag, financial services)

You’re not a fit if:

  • You want a one-hour overview to check a compliance box — there are cheaper options for that
  • You’re looking for vendor-certified training on a specific platform — Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic all offer their own certification paths
  • You want a recorded course your team can watch asynchronously — we don’t offer that; the value of this work is the live engagement

The boundary

We assess the container, not the contents.

GuardXID examines who has access to your tools and what those tools can reach inside your business. We do not read your client files, patient records, or matter documents — and we never will. This is what makes the work appropriate for law firms, medical practices, and any business where the contents of the work are protected by professional duty.

During training engagements specifically: we work with the tools your business uses and your team’s actual workflows, but we do not request access to or review the substantive data those tools process. Training materials use made-up examples shaped like your business — never your real data.

What comes after

Training is often the first engagement that opens broader conversations:

  • AI Program Assessment — Governance Workshop attendees upgrade to finished documents and an external opinion, instead of the rough drafts their team built (ask about the graduate credit during your consultation)
  • AI Automation & Systems — the same practitioner who delivered your training scopes and builds your automations
  • Fractional AI Officer — ongoing AI program support instead of one-off training
  • AI Strategy & Planning — if you’re not sure training is the right first move, a strategy session names the starting point

What does your team actually need to learn — and which of your tools matters most?

Book a free consultation. The first conversation is free and runs about 30 minutes. We’ll figure out whether you need a custom session, a public workshop, the Governance Workshop, or something else entirely. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll tell you and point you somewhere useful.

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