AI training, strategy and implementation
AI should expand human capability, not complicate it.
AKW helps organizations understand where AI creates real value, where human expertise matters, and how to put both to work effectively.
Practical AI, built around how your organization actually works.
AI changes quickly. Organizations need more than another tool. AKW helps teams understand what AI can do, identify where it belongs in their work, and turn those opportunities into practical training, workflows, systems, and operating practices.
Ways to work together
Organizational AI Training
Practical training that helps teams understand, evaluate, and use AI effectively in their actual work.
Explore Training 02AI Strategy and Implementation
Identify high-value opportunities, redesign workflows, test approaches, and turn AI capabilities into practical systems.
Explore Strategy and Implementation 03Founder and Small Business Advisory
Hands-on support for founders and small teams using AI to improve operations, research, systems, marketing, and growth.
Explore AdvisoryDeciding where AI belongs is as important as knowing what it can do.
AI implementation is not simply about identifying what can be automated. AKW evaluates where technology creates value, where human participation creates value, and how responsibility should be structured between the two.
Productivity
Where can AI reduce unnecessary work, increase capacity, or create new capability?
Participation
Where do expertise, context, judgment, creativity, trust, or relationships depend on meaningful human involvement?
Governance
Who reviews, decides, owns the outcome, and remains accountable?
The goal is not maximum automation. It is using people and technology where each contributes the most value.
What the work looks like in practice.
Organization
Turning AI interest into an implementation roadmap
- Challenge
- Many AI ideas, no clear sense of which were worth implementing.
- What AKW helped with
- Discovery, training, retrieval testing, feasibility work, and a roadmap.
- Progress
- A structured set of priorities, tested workflows, and implementation paths.
Founder
Building the infrastructure around existing expertise
- Challenge
- Deep expertise, but weak systems around how it was found and purchased.
- What AKW helped with
- Positioning, website, acquisition, and operating infrastructure.
- Progress
- Clearer positioning and systems the founder can manage independently.
Team
Moving a team from access to practical understanding
- Challenge
- Employees had AI access but not practical understanding.
- What AKW helped with
- Fundamentals, prompting, verification, and workflow-specific examples.
- Progress
- A shared foundation and a clear process for evaluating use cases.
The breadth of the work.
Training and Adoption
- AI foundations
- Team workshops
- Executive education
- Tool-specific training
- Prompt and context development
AI and Workflow Strategy
- Workflow assessment
- AI opportunity identification
- Use-case prioritization
- Human/AI role design
- Implementation planning
Automation and Systems
- Workflow automation
- Custom assistants
- Knowledge systems
- Research and retrieval
- Internal AI tools
Implementation and Governance
- Pilots
- Testing
- Human review
- Source boundaries
- Adoption practices
- Operating guidance
I learn AI by using it.
AKW continuously tests emerging AI capabilities across models and tools before recommending them to clients. Advice comes from hands-on use, not vendor claims.
Explore → Test → Compare → Learn → Apply
Close to the work.
I’m Amanda Wion, founder of AKW AI Consulting. I work directly with every client, combining hands-on AI experimentation with an understanding of business workflows, adoption, and how people actually take on new tools.
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Practical guidance and original thinking on AI, work, and human capability.
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Read insightWhat clients say.
“Working with Amanda definitely helped me become more comfortable and confident using AI. She is great at explaining new technology in a way that feels simple and useful.”
Mehra Ardeshiri, MPA
Senior Planner
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Let’s figure out where AI can create real value.
Bring the workflow, challenge, opportunity, or idea. We’ll determine what AI can improve and what a practical next step looks like.