Compare Your Options
A live workshop or
an online course?
Online AI courses are cheap, available tonight, and most of them are fine. The problem is not the content. It is that completion rates for self-paced courses are low, the examples are someone else's, and the person who finishes still has to figure out how it applies to Tuesday's work alone.
A live workshop costs more per hour and less per person who actually changes how they work. There are cases where the course is enough, and we say which below.
Side by Side
How they stack up
Course figures are typical for business learning platforms, not quotes.
Figures for the alternative are typical ranges, not quotes. Your numbers will differ, and we would rather you check them than take ours.
When to Pick Which
Which one fits your situation?
Six situations we hear on discovery calls, and the honest call for each.
A few curious people want to go deeper on their own
Online course
Give them the subscription. Self-motivated learners do well with self-paced content, and it costs almost nothing. The workshop is for the rest of the team.
The team needs a shared baseline
AI Foundations, $1,500
Two hours live, any headcount, tailored to your industry, recorded for replay and new hires. It gets everyone to the same starting line on the same day.
You have tried giving people a course and it did not stick
Workshop
That is the completion problem. The hands-on workshop puts the work on the table and builds the first wins live, with the busy people in the room.
Budget is close to zero
Online course, plus the free tools
A learning platform and the free AI for ROI™ Jump Start will get a motivated person started. When there is budget, the workshop is where the team catches up.
Half the team will not touch AI
Workshop (AI Adoption for Teams)
A course cannot change a hesitant person's mind, because they will not open it. The adoption workshop maps how everyone is wired for AI and builds a plan that meets people where they are.
You need people certified in a specific platform
Vendor course
Microsoft, Google, and the rest run good certification programs for their own tools. Use them. Our workshops are about your workflows, not a vendor's exam.
The Honest Answer
Where the course wins
For a self-motivated person who wants to go deep, a good online course is cheap, thorough, and available tonight. For platform certification, the vendor's own program is the right answer. And when there is no budget at all, a course plus the free tools on this site will get a determined person moving.
Where the course loses is the team. The people who most need to change how they work are the ones who will not finish a self-paced course, and nobody learns the team's data rules from a video. A live session fixes both at once, and the recording covers the people who could not make it.
Run Your Own Numbers
What is the course supposed to save?
Pick the task you hope the training will speed up, put in the hours, and see what a realistic pilot gives back. If the number is real, the question is which format gets the whole team there.
Questions
The questions behind the question
Is AI Foundations just a lecture?
It is taught closer to a briefing than a working session, which is why it works at any headcount over video. It is live, tailored to your industry, includes Q&A with real examples from your world, and comes with the AI for ROI™ Toolkit for every attendee and a recording for replay.
Can we get the recording?
Yes. Every AI Foundations session is recorded for replay and for new hires, which is the one thing a course does well that a live session usually does not.
What does it cost?
AI Foundations is $1,500 for any group size. The two hands-on workshops are $3,000 for up to 20 people, in person or virtual. Every price is on one page.
Get the whole team to the same starting line, live.
Three workshop formats, from a 2-hour virtual briefing to a half-day hands-on session, built around your work.
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