Workshops and design sprints · Arkansas
Hands-on AI workshops for teams that have to use it on Monday.
Executive design sprints, team training on the AI tools you already have, and talks for owners and operators. Half a day to three sessions. No slides about the future; work on your work.
Formats
Four ways to run it.
Half day · leadership
Executive design sprint
Competing AI priorities turned into a sequenced roadmap with owners and the first two use cases. The usual first step before an engagement.
Half day · staff
Team workshop
Hands-on, in the ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or in-app AI seats you already have, on your own documents and inboxes. One-page cheat sheet per role.
45–60 minutes
Talk for owners and operators
What AI does and does not do for a business like yours, with examples from the lab and from client work. Not for engineers.
Free · community
Prompt Play and AI Tinkerers
A creative-AI night that ran at Hey, Let's Play in Benton, with a take-home kit that stays online, and the monthly AI Tinkerers meetup in Little Rock.
What you leave with
Something done, not something heard.
- Leadership: a roadmap on one page, sequenced, with owners.
- Staff: a task from their own week completed with AI during the session, and the cheat sheet to repeat it.
- Everyone: the take-home prompt kit, by skill level and category, with an honest best-tool-for-the-job guide.
Who hosts
Corey Boelkens
Hosts AI practitioner meetups including AI Tinkerers Little Rock, sat on a University of Arkansas AI panel, and advises the Academies of Central Arkansas on AI in education. Twenty years of marketing technology at Acxiom, Merkle and Acoustic before that. Full profile →
Pricing
Per session, quoted on request
Half day or a three-session series. Community nights are free.
Group size
Leadership team to a room of 25
Larger groups split into a talk plus hands-on tables.
Where
Across Arkansas, on site or online
Benton, Little Rock and wherever your team sits.
Measured by
What got done in the room
Each attendee finishes a real task; leadership sprints end with a written roadmap.
Questions
Straight answers.
What does a workshop cost?
Priced per session and quoted on request; a half day for a leadership team or a staff workshop is one number, a three-session series is another. Community nights such as Prompt Play and AI Tinkerers are free.
Who are the workshops for?
Leadership teams who need to sequence competing AI priorities, staff who will use AI in their own work, and communities, schools and groups across Arkansas who want a hands-on introduction. Not for engineers who want a model-training course.
What do people leave with?
A leadership sprint ends with a sequenced roadmap, owners, and the first two use cases. A team workshop ends with each person having done real work in their own tools, plus a one-page cheat sheet per role. Every attendee gets the take-home prompt kit.
Do you train on our tools or yours?
Yours. The session runs in the ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or in-app AI seats you already have, on your own documents and inboxes. If you have none yet, we start with free tools and the kit.
Can a workshop turn into an engagement?
Often. A half-day sprint is the usual first step before the 90-day setup or a fractional quarter, because it settles which workflows go first.
Where do you run them?
Across Arkansas, on site or online. Prompt Play ran at Hey, Let's Play in Benton; AI Tinkerers meets in Little Rock.
Tell me who is in the room.
Who attends, what they do all day, and what you want different on Monday. That is enough to propose a format and a date.
Prefer the form? Tell me what's not working, or email corey@talewatersandtides.com.
Recent
- Prompt Play, Hey, Let's Play, Benton, June 2026
- AI Tinkerers Little Rock, monthly
- University of Arkansas AI panel
- Academies of Central Arkansas, AI in education