Your patrons are already asking about AI at the reference desk. We turn that curiosity into a program your board will hear about. Live courses at your branch, taught by two presenters, sized for the crowd libraries actually get.
Book a course for your library →Not a librarian? Ask your local library to participate, branches really do listen when a patron requests a program.
Most AI trainers plan for a conference audience. We plan for the real mix that walks into a branch program, because we have taught that room and we love it.
The over-60 crowd that shows up early and sits up front. Large print handouts, patient pacing, and a presenter within arms reach the whole session.
The patron who whispers that they have never touched this stuff. By the end of session one they have talked to an AI on their own phone, and they usually dont want to leave.
Someone always shows up already using AI daily. The masterclass exists so that person books the next session instead of getting bored in this one.
AI curiosity walks into your building every single day, and lately it arrives holding a book title ChatGPT invented. A live program catches the curiosity and teaches patrons to double-check the machine.
Self-paced tutorials get abandoned by lunch. A live room with help standing beside you gets people all the way through, and finished patrons come back for part two.
We arrive early, test your wifi, and carry our own backup hotspot in case it groans. Your team unlocks the room and takes the credit.
We hand you a paste-ready program description before the event and help you capture attendance and photos after, so the write-up for your director basically writes itself.
Part 1 fills part 2. Part 2 feeds the staff session and the club-style repeat visits. Libraries that start with one course rarely stop at one.
Every course is live, hands-on, and paced for the room in front of us. Book one, or run the full series.
The front door. We explain AI in plain English, laugh together at what it gets wrong, and then every attendee tries it themselves on whatever device they brought. Watching a 70 year old light up at their first answer never gets old.
The follow-up your Part 1 crowd will request. Everyone arrives with one thing they keep putting off, a letter, a form, a decision, and leaves with it handled. This is a technology course and we are careful to say it is not medical advice, in the room and on the flyer.
A staff-only working hour. Your team leaves with next season's program descriptions already drafted, a flyer sitting in the print queue, and a straight answer for the patron who asks whether an AI book recommendation is real.
For the crowd that keeps losing the sticky notes. We set up a single place that catches every thought, teach AI to do the filing, and nobody leaves until the whole thing is alive on their own phone. Take-home files included so it survives the weekend.
Job hunting past fifty is its own kind of hard, and Doug is mid career-change himself so he refuses to sugarcoat it. Resume rewrites on screen, interview practice out loud, and honest talk about age, hiring, and what AI can and cant fix.
For your daily AI users, and every branch has more of them than it thinks. A dozen professional prompting techniques they have almost certainly never seen, practiced live against their own real work until each one sticks.
Two of us come to every booking and we split the job on purpose. One stays at the projector running the live demos, the other never stops moving, crouched beside whoever quietly fell behind until they arent behind anymore. Help arrives before anyone has to admit out loud that they need it, and that is the reason our beginners come back.
One came to AI at 50 with zero tech background. One builds with it every day. Between them, every kind of learner in your room is covered.
Doug spent three decades in hotel hospitality and ran a print shop on the side, then picked up AI at 50 without a single day of technical training. He knows exactly which step loses people, because every one of those steps lost him once. During class he is the presenter crouched next to your patrons, getting them unstuck before frustration wins.
The technical half of the team, and the one who originally put AI in front of Doug and watched it click. Alex builds with these tools daily, drives every demo from the projector, and has a knack for making each step look like something you could do yourself. Which is the point, because you can.
Written after enough booking conversations to know what the real questions are. Tap any question to open it.
Your first program at a new branch is free, we want the room and you'll want the receipts. After that we ask a modest honorarium sized to your programming budget, and we are glad to work with Friends of the Library funding or your state humanities council's speaker money. You will not find a dollar figure on this site because every library's situation is different, we would rather have the conversation.
No, and we know exactly why you have to ask. Nothing is sold in the room, no patron is ever asked to buy anything, and the take-home materials are free. Your programming policy bans solicitation and ours agrees with it word for word.
Thats the exact reason this exists. Patrons now walk up holding book titles an AI invented, and somebody at your desk gets to break the news. The staff toolkit session covers the fake-citation problem head on, and the patron classes teach people to double-check the machine before they drive to the branch.
Chairs, a screen or a blank wall, and whatever wifi you have. We carry our own adapters, a backup hotspot, and a microphone, and we arrive 45 minutes early to test everything. If the tech dies anyway we teach the paper version, no session has ever been lost to a projector.
We bring a sign-in sheet, take a headcount for you, grab photos if your policy allows, and email you a short summary the next morning. Your board report bullet writes itself, and a repeat series builds the program attendance curve your director wants to see.
Weekday late morning or early afternoon fills best for the over-50 crowd, Wednesdays and Thursdays especially. We stay clear of your summer reading crunch unless you want us in the middle of it.
Home turf is the Hudson Valley and Westchester, and we go farther when the calendar allows. Outreach locations get the same class, senior centers and community rooms included.
Because track records beat promises. Your first booking costs nothing, we collect the attendance numbers and the testimonial, and the next library pays the honorarium because yours proved it works. That is the whole business model, said out loud.
Libraries, senior centers, and community groups. Tell us your branch, your crowd, and a month that could work. We reply within two days with date options and a paste-ready program description for your newsletter.
No commitment, this just starts the conversation.