GO AI Academy · Guardian Owl Digital · Louisville

AI training for Louisville business leaders. Taught hands-on.

Your leaders and your teams leave using AI on their own work, not holding a slide deck. On-site workshops, executive sessions, and a free first round you can play in about 15 minutes.

UofL College of BusinessTaught by an AI lecturer at the University of Louisville
5.0 on GoogleFrom 45 client reviews
Louisville’s AI meetupCo-founders of The AI Distilling Co.
Most Admired CEOLouisville Business First, 2025
The problem

Most companies bought AI. Few taught anyone to use it.

The licenses are paid for. A few people use them well, most use them like a search box, and some use them quietly on client work with no rules at all. Leadership is expected to have a plan.

The GO AI Academy closes that gap. We teach on your real work, in the tools you already pay for, and we leave your team with prompts, checklists and a policy they will actually use on Monday.

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Before you train anyone, find out who owns AI here.

The Ownership Audit is fifteen questions about accountability, exposure and return: whose name is on the line when AI writes a bid or a safety document, which tools are already in use and on whose account, and what number has to move for any of it to be worth doing. Most leadership teams stall on four or five of them. That is the finding.

Get the Ownership Audit

PDF · 15 questions · 4 pages · Built to fill in with your leadership team

Three ways in

Start free. Bring the whole team when you are ready.

Free · Online · 15 minutes

The Free Round

A short strategy game for leaders. Find your AI owl, then learn how AI actually produces an answer and catch the confident lie in an AI summary.

  • Your AI owl and blind spot
  • A starter prompt built for your role
  • The BS Detector verification checklist
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Teams · On-site in Louisville

Team Build Day

A half-day working session for up to 20 people. Your team builds two or three working AI assistants around its own workflows and tests them on real inputs before lunch.

  • Built on your workflows, not generic demos
  • Clear rules on what data can go where
  • Optional 30 days of launch support
Plan a Build Day
Leadership · On-site or virtual

Executive AI Briefing

For owners and leadership teams who need a plan they can defend. What to adopt, what to govern, and what to skip.

  • A short list of pilots worth running
  • An AI use and disclosure policy draft
  • How to measure whether it is working
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What your team learns

Five skills that separate teams that use AI from teams that use it well.

This is the core of every Academy session, whichever format you choose.

See it

How AI actually produces an answer

A language model predicts the most likely next words from your prompt and what it learned. It does not look things up unless it is connected to search. Anything you leave out, it fills with the most typical guess, and a fluent guess reads exactly like a fact. That is why verification is a skill, not a formality.

Brief it

Briefing AI like a sharp new hire

Vague in, vague out. A strong prompt has six parts, and running down the list is how a team gets useful output on the first try instead of the fifth.

Role who it should beTask the exact jobContext what it needs to knowFormat the shape of the answerConstraints the rulesExamples what good looks like
Choose it

Choosing a tool without guessing

Put the same task and the same prompt into each tool on the same day, then score the answers on criteria chosen in advance: accuracy, usefulness, voice, rounds to get it right, and fit with where the work already lives. There is no best AI. There is best for this task, under these rules.

Prove it

Running a pilot that proves something

Pick one task that happens every week, set the data rules first, and measure time saved and errors caught against how it was done before. A pilot that cannot show a number cannot earn a budget.

Guard it

Using it responsibly

Verify every number, name and quote before it leaves the building. Disclose AI use where it matters. Keep confidential and customer data out of public tools. A written policy turns these from good intentions into how the team works.

How a Build Day runs

One conversation, one working session, one month of support.

Before

Pick the work

A short call with your leads to choose two or three recurring tasks worth automating and to set the rules on which data can be used.

The day

Build it together

A short teach, then hands-on building in pairs. Every assistant is tested on real inputs before the session ends.

After

Keep it running

Optional 30 days of launch support to refine what was built, answer questions, and measure the time it saves.

Who it is for

Leaders who were handed AI without a plan.

Owners and executives whose teams have AI licenses and no shared way of using them.
Leadership teams asked by a board or an owner to come back with an AI plan they can defend.
Department heads whose people already use AI quietly, without guardrails.
Why Guardian Owl

Practitioners who teach, not trainers who read slides.

We teach it

Jenna Ahern lectures on AI at the University of Louisville College of Business.

We use it daily

Our team builds and runs AI assistants for clients across marketing and operations.

We are local

Louisville-rooted, on-site across the metro, and co-founders of the city’s monthly AI meetup.

We are tool-neutral

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot. We teach on the one you already pay for.

Free every month

Meet the community at The AI Distilling Co.

Guardian Owl co-founded The AI Distilling Co., Louisville’s monthly AI meetup for veterans and the curious alike. Small batches, big ideas. Come see what other Louisville leaders are building before you bring AI to your own team.

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The free round

Every leader has an AI owl. Find yours.

Four leadership calls match you to one of four AI owls: the Snowy Owl (Pioneer), the Barn Owl (Operator), the Great Grey Owl (Sage) or the Guardian Owl (Protector). Then Module 1 shows you how AI really writes an answer and asks you to catch the invented claims in an AI summary. About 15 minutes, no sign-up required to play.

Questions

AI training in Louisville, answered.

Who offers AI training for businesses in Louisville?

Guardian Owl Digital runs the GO AI Academy in Louisville, Kentucky. It offers on-site AI workshops for teams, executive AI briefings for leadership, and a free online first round. Sessions are led by Jenna Ahern, who lectures on AI at the University of Louisville College of Business.

What does an AI workshop for employees include?

A Team Build Day is a half-day, hands-on session for up to 20 people. We cover how AI produces answers and where it goes wrong, how to write a six-part prompt, and how to check the output. Then the team builds two or three working AI assistants around its own recurring tasks and tests them on real inputs.

Is there AI training for executives and business leaders?

Yes. The Executive AI Briefing is built for owners and leadership teams. It covers which AI pilots are worth running, how to govern AI use with a clear policy, and how to measure whether it is paying off.

Do we need technical staff to take part?

No. The Academy is built for business teams, not engineers. If someone can write an email, they can do the work in the room.

Which AI tools do you train on?

We are tool-neutral and teach on the tools you already pay for, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot. The skills carry across all of them.

Is the training on-site or virtual?

Both. Build Days run on-site anywhere in the Louisville metro. Executive Briefings can be on-site or virtual, and the free round is online.

How much does AI training cost?

It depends on team size and format. We scope it in a short call so the session fits the work your team actually does.

How do we find out what AI models already say about our company?

That is a different job from training, and we measure it with Visibility & Trust Intelligence: what ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Mode say about your brand, where those answers come from, and what to fix. A free Digital Diagnostic is the quickest first look.

How is the Academy different from The AI Distilling Co. meetup?

The AI Distilling Co. is a free monthly community meetup open to anyone. The GO AI Academy is private training for your organization, built around your team’s own work.

Let’s GO wisely

Bring AI to your team the right way.

Tell us about your team and the work you want AI to take on. We will recommend the right starting point.

Not sure where you stand? Start with the free Digital Diagnostic, or see how AI models describe you today with Visibility & Trust Intelligence.