What you'll walk out with.
Prompting & Verification
Fewer rewrites, faster first drafts
Prompts built for your actual job, not generic ones, plus a two-minute check you run before anything AI touched lands in front of your boss or a client. Less time redoing work. Fewer "where did this number come from?" moments.
Judgment
Know when to use it and when not to
A simple test for which tasks to hand to AI and which to keep. You stop wasting an afternoon on output that was never going to be right, and you're the person on the team who can explain why.
Data Privacy
Know what's safe to paste into a chat window
A clear line on what's safe to put into a chat window and what isn't: client details, financials, anything under NDA. So you can use it on real work without second-guessing every paste.
See the full workshop details: agenda and what to bringParticipatory, not a lecture.
Online or in person locally, you spend most of the session doing, not watching. Every exercise uses the kind of work you actually have on your plate.
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Bring a real task: an email, a report, a plan you’re stuck on.
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Write prompts for it together, then compare what comes back.
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Check the output: what’s right, what’s invented, what to verify.
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Leave with your prompts, a one-page checklist, and a plan for the week.
Built for people, not org charts.
Business owners
Find where AI can help with routine work, leaving more room for customers and the decisions only you can make.
Professionals
Get faster at your own work without handing your judgment to a chatbot.
Managers
Learn to guide your team’s AI use on recurring tasks, with clear checks before the work goes out.
Leaders
Build the shared language you need before the next AI budget conversation.
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Subscribe freeQuestions people ask before they book.
What is an AI fluency workshop?
A live, one-hour session on Zoom, where you practice using AI on the kind of work you actually do: writing, analysis, planning, and research. You leave knowing how to prompt for your own job, how to check what comes back, and what should never go into a chat window.
Are the workshops online or in person?
Mostly online, live over video, so you can join from your desk, your kitchen table, or a hotel room. No commute, no travel, and no taking a day off to learn something you'll use the next morning. I also run in-person sessions locally for people who'd rather be in the room.
Who are SummitMark's AI workshops for?
Business owners, professionals, managers, and leaders who already have access to AI tools and want to use them well. No technical background required. If you can write an email, you can do this.
Who leads the workshop?
Don Long, SummitMark's founder and the author of Mostly Right. He brings 12+ years in people leadership and credentials including Claude Certified Architect and Google Generative AI Leader. The About page has the full background.
Do I need AI experience before attending?
No. If you've opened ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or Gemini once and weren't sure what to do next, you're exactly who this is for. If you use them every day, you'll leave using them better.
How is this different from an online AI course?
It's live and instructor-led, not a video library you keep meaning to finish. Even online, you're in a real session with a real person. We work on real tasks from your job, you ask questions as they come up, and it's over in an hour.
Which AI tools do the workshops cover?
The skills carry across the major assistants instead of living inside one vendor's buttons. Good prompting, checking the output, and knowing what's safe to share work the same whether you use ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or Gemini.