AI consultant and training questions, answered.

An AI consultant helps a business decide where AI fits, which tools to use, what rules to set, and how to train people. Understanding Your AI does this through workshops with a 30-day adoption report, one-to-one coaching, and ongoing leadership through AI Strategy Partner.

Training teaches people to use the tools on their own work. Consulting helps leadership make decisions about tools, rules, and priorities. Most small businesses need training first, because a good decision doesn't help if nobody uses the tool.

With the tools you already pay for and the tasks your team repeats every week. A workshop built on those tasks, followed by a 30-day check on what stuck, shows where AI is worth more investment.

Tim Bish spent eight years as a school principal and system administrator, then used AI to run marketing and training solo across five business units and a nonprofit at Vantage Plastics. He builds the systems he teaches, cites the source for every number, and checks back 30 days after every team workshop to see what actually stuck.

Start where they are, practice on their real work, follow up, and measure. Skeptics often come around once AI saves them time on a task they already dislike, and their objections usually reflect what the rest of the team is thinking.

For most small and mid-sized businesses, AI changes how work gets done faster than it changes who does it. The teams that benefit most use AI to take the first-draft work off skilled people so they can spend more time on judgment, customers, and the work only they can do.

Measure it. Understanding Your AI surveys the team before every workshop and again 30 days later, then reports how many people use AI weekly, for how many kinds of tasks, and what's still getting in the way.

Usually the one you already pay for. Many businesses already have Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, which may include Copilot or Gemini features. ChatGPT business plans are another strong option. The best tool is the one your team will use with the right settings.

With business accounts, the right settings, and clear rules, it can be. Personal accounts are riskier. Every Understanding Your AI workshop covers what should never go into any AI tool, and AI Strategy Partner clients get written governance guidelines.

Yes, even a one-page one. It should cover approved tools, what data stays out, who reviews AI output before it goes anywhere important, and who to ask when something's unclear.

Understanding Your AI workshops start at $999 for teams up to five, including a 30-day adoption report. One-to-one coaching is $199 for two hours. Team rollouts and speaking start at $1,499. AI Strategy Partner starts at $2,500 per month.

Most small and mid-sized businesses don't need one first. They need a team that uses AI well. When AI is spreading across departments and decisions are piling up, ongoing leadership through AI Strategy Partner covers the core of the role.

Tim Bish builds working AI systems, including a custom CMS and an AI video pipeline, and custom builds are scoped case by case. Most teams get more value first from using the tools they already pay for.

Yes. Understanding Your AI runs workshops on-site anywhere in Michigan or live online. Travel for on-site sessions is settled on the scoping call, before anything is booked.