GO AI Academy · Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky

AI Training for Business Leaders in Cincinnati

Built for the whole leadership table and the people who carry out its decisions. Your team practices judgment with AI on the kind of work that moves through this region: consumer brands, banks, health systems and freight.

Guardian Owl is based in Louisville. We come to your office in Cincinnati or Northern Kentucky, or teach your team virtually.

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Why it matters here

In a region of big brands and regulated money, AI mistakes travel.

Product pages reach thousands of shoppers before anyone reads them twice. A lender answers to examiners. A distributor’s weekly report decides where trucks go. When AI gets a detail wrong here, the error does not stay in a draft.

We build each workshop around the work your team already does. The three scenarios below are examples of that tailoring. The companies are fictional. The decisions are the ones leaders face.

Sample scenarios

Three decisions from both sides of the river.

Consumer brands and retail
Practices the backfire

The product page that was wrong for a week

Situation
Linden and Pike Home used AI to rewrite 300 product descriptions. A customer writes in: the page said her skillet was dishwasher safe. It is not, and it is ruined. The same claim appears on eleven other pages.
The decision
Quietly fix the pages, or do more?
What good judgment looks like
Fix all twelve pages today, then make it right with the customers who bought on the wrong claim. Find the cause: the brief never included care instructions, so the model filled the gap. Add a review step for any claim about safety or care. Owning an error fast protects more trust than hiding it.
Financial services
Practices the boardroom

The vendor who promises 40 percent

Situation
Harbor Street Bank’s leadership is asked to fund an AI assistant for its commercial lenders. The vendor promises 40 percent time savings. The evidence is one case study from a much larger bank.
The decision
Fund it, reject it, or ask for something else?
What good judgment looks like
Write a one page decision brief. Separate what is known from what is assumed. Include cost, a compliance review of the customer data the tool would touch, and the result that would justify a full rollout. Then fund a limited pilot with that threshold agreed in advance. Leaders do not need certainty. They need a decision they can defend.
Logistics and distribution
Practices verification

The carrier report that points to a switch

Situation
Tri River Supply, a Northern Kentucky distributor, asks AI to summarize a month of shipment exceptions. The summary says one carrier caused most late deliveries and recommends moving its lanes.
The decision
Move the lanes on the strength of the summary?
What good judgment looks like
Not yet. Rebuild the key number from the raw exception data. Check whether weather delays and dock holds were counted as carrier failures, and whether that carrier simply runs the most volume. A summary is a starting point. The data decides.

These are illustrations of how a workshop is tailored. The companies are fictional and are not Guardian Owl clients.

Try it now

See how we teach in one short round.

Before anyone books a session, play the GO AI Academy free round online at no cost. It starts with four leadership calls that match you to one of four owls, each with its own instinct and its own blind spot with AI. Plan on about 15 minutes.

Module 1, Inside the Machine, then asks you to judge the claims in an AI summary of a business memo: Supported, Contradicted or Not established. It trains the habit the carrier report scenario above calls for.

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What a workshop covers

Five modules. One way of working.

Workshops draw on the GO AI Academy modules. Each one ends with something your team keeps and uses the next week. Module 1 is free to play online today.

Inside the Machine

How AI produces an answer, and why a guess can read like a fact.

You keep: A verification checklist

The Brief

Turn a vague request into a brief and compare what comes back.

You keep: A reusable prompt

The Pilot

Choose one workflow and scope a limited test with an owner and a stop condition.

You keep: A two week pilot plan

The Backfire

Respond well when an AI error has already reached a customer.

You keep: A response checklist

The Boardroom

Recommend an AI investment when the evidence is uncertain.

You keep: A one page decision brief
The Guardian Owl team photographed together against a teal backdrop in the Louisville studio
The Guardian Owls who run the room.

The same team that builds and runs our own AI agents teaches the sessions. The Cincinnati metro is a drive we make, not a satellite office we claim.

Guardian Owl, Louisville
Why Guardian Owl

Practitioners who teach.

We teach it

Jenna Ahern teaches AI to business students as a lecturer at the University of Louisville College of Business.

Recognized leadership

Jenna was named a 2025 Most Admired CEO by Louisville Business First.

Brands and press

Jenna has advised Angel’s Envy, GE and the Kentucky Derby Museum, and has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company and Business Insider.

Part of the AI community

Guardian Owl helped found The AI Distilling Co., a monthly AI meetup in Louisville.

Questions

Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, answered.

Do you work with teams in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky?

Yes. We are based in Louisville and bring the workshop to your office anywhere in the Cincinnati metro, on either side of the river, or run it virtually. Virtual works well when a leadership team sits in more than one building or more than one state.

Who from our team should be in the room?

The leaders who approve AI spending and the people who will do the work with it. For a brand team that might be the category lead and the content team. For a bank or a distributor, include whoever owns risk or compliance. Up to 30 people works well in one room.

How do you tailor a session to our company?

We start with a call about the decisions your team faces: product content, customer communication, reporting, vendor claims. We rebuild the exercises around them and teach in the tools you already pay for. Most sessions run half a day.

What is the first step?

Start with a note through the inquiry form. Name the AI decisions in front of your team this quarter, and we will set up a short call to scope a session around them. The free round is there if you want to see the teaching first.

Owl values

What Keeps Our Wings Steady.

The training changes as the tools change. This part does not.

Transparency.

Because clarity builds trust, and trust builds everything else.

Education.

Because good partners teach what they know, not hide behind it.

Clarity.

Because great marketing should make people feel something and understand it.

Let’s GO further.

Give your team the practice before the stakes are real.

Share where your Cincinnati or Northern Kentucky team is with AI today. We will suggest a sensible first session.

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See all four workshop formats on our AI workshops page, or read about training in Louisville.