GO AI Academy · Lexington, Kentucky

AI Training for Business Leaders in Lexington

For owners, executives and the teams who report to them, not only marketing. Your people practice the calls AI now puts on their desk: what to check, how to brief it, what to pilot, and what to do when it gets something wrong.

Rooted in Louisville. We bring the workshop to your team in Lexington, or run it virtually.

Why it matters here

Lexington runs on work where a wrong detail costs something.

A sale catalog with the wrong family in the pedigree. A label claim a regulator will read. A student record that should never leave the building. There is little room here for a confident mistake, and a confident mistake is exactly what AI produces when nobody checks.

Every workshop is built around your team’s own work. The scenarios below show how we tailor a session. The companies are fictional. The decisions are real.

Sample scenarios

Three Lexington decisions, three different skills.

Equine operations
Practices verification

The catalog page that reads perfectly

Situation
Larkspur Hill Consignments uses AI to draft catalog pages for a fall sale. The draft for one yearling is polished and specific. It names a stakes winner in the family and quotes a sale price for a half sibling.
The decision
The pages go to print Friday. Trust the draft, spot check it, or check every claim?
What good judgment looks like
Check every claim a buyer could rely on against the official pedigree and race records, and cut anything you cannot source. Fluent is not the same as accurate. In a catalog, one invented detail can cost a sale and a reputation.
Bourbon and spirits marketing
Practices the brief

The release campaign that sounds like everyone

Situation
Copper Fence Distilling asks AI for a month of posts to launch a small batch release. The drafts invent a mash bill, suggest an age the bottle does not carry, and sound like every other distillery.
The decision
Keep editing the drafts, or start over with a real brief?
What good judgment looks like
Brief it like a new hire. Give it the approved fact sheet, the brand voice, the claims your compliance reviewer allows and the ones they do not, and two posts that worked. Tell it to use only the facts provided. A better brief fixes most of what editing cannot.
Campus and health administration
Practices the pilot

The admissions office that wants help

Situation
The graduate admissions office at a fictional regional university answers hundreds of routine questions a week. Staff want AI to draft replies. The dean wants proof before approving anything.
The decision
Roll it out to the whole office, or run a pilot? And what is allowed into the tool?
What good judgment looks like
Pilot one task: drafting answers from the published catalog and FAQ. No student records go into the tool. Measure time per reply and errors caught against the current process for two weeks, with one owner and a clear stop condition. The same approach fits a hospital’s patient access team.

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

Try it now

Play the free round before you call us.

The GO AI Academy free round is online and costs nothing. Four leadership calls show which owl matches your instinct with AI: the Pioneer, the Operator, the Sage or the Protector. The whole round takes about 15 minutes.

Then Module 1, Inside the Machine, hands you an AI summary of a business memo. You mark each claim Supported, Contradicted or Not established. It is the same check the catalog scenario above depends on.

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
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

Before you bring us to Lexington.

Do you come to Lexington, or is it virtual?

Either. We are based in Louisville and come to your office in Lexington for on site sessions, and to teams in the surrounding counties. Virtual sessions suit teams spread across more than one location, like a farm office and a downtown office.

Who should attend?

Leaders and the people who will use AI in their daily work. In Lexington that often means an operations lead, a marketing or communications lead, and whoever owns compliance or records. No technical background is needed. A session runs well with up to 30 people in the room.

How is a session tailored to our work?

Before the session we talk with your leads and choose the tasks your team actually does, like catalog copy, release announcements or routine inquiries. We rebuild the exercises around those tasks, in the tools you already pay for, with your rules about what data can go where. Most sessions run half a day.

How do we start?

Send a short note through the inquiry form with your team size and the work you want AI to help with, and we will set up a short call. If you would rather see how we teach first, play the free round.

Let’s GO further.

Your team’s next AI call deserves practice first.

Send a line about your Lexington team and one task you want AI to handle well. We will suggest where a first session should begin.

See every training format on our AI training page.