Prime - Building AI Fluency
AI Fluency Foundations for New Hires and Employees
Your Al tools are only as powerful as the habits your people bring to them
The way someone works with AI in their first weeks often becomes the way they work with it for years. Prime starts right there, before any habits have quietly set in, building the kind of fluency that lasts. By the end, people know where AI belongs, trust their own judgment, and lead the work instead of following it.
What Your People Leave With
People leave Prime knowing where AI earns a place in their work, and where it doesn’t. They build that discernment themselves, through their own reflection, and cultivate a habit of thinking about their own thinking that sharpens every decision they make, on AI and off it. The relationship they build with AI keeps deepening the longer they use it, because they learned to lead it from day one.
What Makes Prime Different
Prime starts at the layer that actually shapes outcomes, the habits people bring into every tool. Get that starting point right, and everything after it gets easier. Judgment sharpens, intention grows, and confidence gets built in from the start.
What the Program Looks Like
Kickoff Session. Every cohort begins together and leaves with a shared language for what comes next: human in the lead, not human in the loop. By the time anyone moves into their own reflection or their own playbook, that language already belongs to the whole group.
Real Policy, Real Questions. Somewhere between the kickoff and the playbook, people need a real conversation about your organization's actual AI policy, not the version they clicked through during onboarding. This is where the specific questions come out: what counts as sensitive information, what happens when AI gets something wrong, where the gray areas actually sit. People leave with a policy they understand well enough to apply, not just acknowledge
AI Tendencies Reflection. An introduction to AI tendencies helps each person see their own instincts with AI before the real work begins. Some lean on it more than they realize, some hold back without knowing why, and some haven’t thought about it much at all. Everything that follows in Prime builds on that self-knowledge.
The Playbook. The Playbook sits at the center of Prime. It’s built around the real decisions your people make every day, showing where AI clearly belongs and where their own judgment should lead instead. It’s less a list of rules and more a picture of what strong use actually looks like, in their role.
Staying in the Lead. Staying in the Lead closes the program with a personal commitment to how they’ll spend the time AI gives back. That time is theirs to spend well, and entirely their call.
The Grounding
First habits are the ones that last, in the lab, in leadership, anywhere real judgment gets built. That makes the earliest days with AI some of the highest-leverage days your people will have, an opening to build real discernment. In practice, discernment means knowing when AI belongs in a decision, questioning what it hands back with a sharp eye, and using it to see a problem from an angle they’d have missed alone. Used with intention, all three make more room to think clearly, prepare thoroughly, and spend freed-up time on the parts of the work only a person can do.
Why This Works
Prime treats those first habits as the actual product, the judgment someone carries into every project that follows. Build that once, well, and it keeps paying off long after the kickoff session ends.