How Towards AI Helps Transform Enterprise Teams into “AI-First” Employees

Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team

Originally published on Towards AI.

With recent progress in AI capabilities in just the last six months, effective AI adoption has become more urgent than ever; both for everyday professional usage and for custom LLM development. We have seen this both in recent aggressive company wide “AI-first” initiatives at Shopify and Duolingo as well as recent surveys (such as a Dataiku study showing 74% of CEOs said they could lose their jobs within two years without meaningful AI results).

Today we have a one off special edition discussing how we help corporate teams with this transition.

As you know we have been teaching AI for many years now; both via our free tutorials and paid in-depth courses. Seeing the impact on individual developers has been incredible, but we also saw a recurring theme: entire companies grappling with how to effectively, securely, and strategically adopt AI (both with everyday AI use and custom development).

We have built many client AI projects from delivering custom live LLM corporate bootcamp training sessions to building advanced finance research agents for stealth startups. We help with training AI power users across professional tasks, conversion training for development teams to start building custom LLM apps and advising on or building whole LLM projects or prototypes ourselves. We’re now thrilled to share the next evolution of Towards AI: we’re doubling down on helping organizations make the “AI-first” leap!

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Most enterprise teams find themselves at Stage 1 in the above chart; mostly disorganised, untrained and unauthorised AI adoption delivering neutral to negative value.

Towards AI’s offers are focussed on taking your team or company on to Stage 2 (using AI tools safely and effectively and becoming AI power users) or to Stage 3 (in-house custom LLM workflow and product development).

AI adoption at enterprise is lagging far behind AI’s latest capabilities and benefits vary wildly between individuals. Some AI power users are achieving genuine double or triple digit productivity gains together with improved work quality via AI assistance, but much more often AI users achieve minimal speed gains while introducing new business risks and reducing the quality of their work output. We would guess fewer than 1 million people globally are truly using AI to its full potential at work.

Successful AI adoption is deceptively complex. Superficial results emerge quickly but it is not enough to simply open ChatGPT, type a question and copy and answer, or to download Cursor and start coding. AI has clear flaws and holes in its capabilities; many of these gaps can be filled with the user’s human expertise, guided instructions, and adopting best practices, others are filled by developing LLM customizations for your task while the remainder still require learning to check, edit and iterate on an AI’s outputs effectively.

Towards AI helps organizations master AI strategically and safely. We transform teams into skilled AI collaborators and accelerate the development of high-impact custom AI solutions. Leverage our expertise, honed from teaching 500k+ learners and building complex LLM pipelines and agents for diverse clients.

Here’s how we empower enterprise teams:

1. AI Acceleration Programs: Comprehensive Upskilling.

• A blended approach: Live intro session to motivate your team and demonstrate its potential with relatable examples + bulk discounted access to our 40hr+ online courses + optional follow-on coaching or consultancy. We have Two Tracks:
• AI for Business Professionals: Master safe/effective prompting, tool use (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.), workflow integration for non-technical roles.
• Advanced LLM Developer Conversion: Full-stack training for Python devs (RAG, Fine-tuning, Data Collection and Curation, Agents, Evaluation, Deployment and more).
• Ideal for company-wide readiness. Packages from $3k.

2. Custom Live Bootcamps: Intensive, Targeted Skills.

• Focused 3 or 15-hour live training (online/in-person) for specific teams (AI users or future LLM Developers).
• Includes deep Customization (5–80+ hours) tailored to your industry, data, and objectives (e.g., identifying relevant use cases, mastering model selection or development techniques, successful prompt engineering and context provisioning for your industry).
• Rapid skill injection for specific needs. Packages from $6k.

3. Expert Consulting & Development: Build Your Custom Advantage.

• Strategic Advisory (Hands-Off): Get expert guidance on AI roadmaps, use-case validation, model/architecture selection. (Packages from $3k).
• Hands-On Development Sprints: Engage our team via modular 2 week/75-hour sprints to build custom internal tools or external product features. Significant results often take ~300h (internal) / ~600h+ (external), but custom LLM development can continue towards transformative potential (like $10bn+ firms Perplexity/Anysphere).

Help Your Company Level Up:

Are you struggling to achieve the massive AI productivity gains you hear about either in software development or everyday work tasks? Frustrated by the slow or ineffective pace of Generative AI adoption within your team or company? The potential today is huge, but bridging the gap between basic AI use and true “AI power user” status is challenging, often leading to inefficient workflows and even security risks.

If you see the need for a more strategic approach to AI in your workplace, connect Towards AI with your manager or leadership team. We can provide a detailed overview and tailor a solution.

Referral Bonus: As a thank you, we offer custom affiliate commissions for introductions leading to bulk purchases of our AI Acceleration Program courses.

Ready to bridge the AI adoption gap?

Read more on our B2B offerings page; Transform Your Team into “AI-First” Employees: GenAI Acceleration Programs, Live AI Bootcamps, LLM Development Consulting

Please email Louis-François Bouchard (louis@towardsai.net) now for more information or to organise an “AI First” Adoption Consultation call.

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