Russ Gallivan

AI classes for your company

Hands-on classes by role, from the owner's rules to the foreman's paperwork. They run on your own documents, in English and Spanish, and end in a check. Your people learn to use AI and to catch it when it's wrong.

How every class runs

  • Your own documentsYour specs, RFIs, daily logs and procedures. When yours can't be used, a practice company's documents stand in.
  • By roleOwners, office teams, foremen and builders each get the class for the work they do.
  • English and SpanishSessions and materials in both, with the Spanish checked before anything ships.
  • A check at the endPeople finish by catching what an AI got wrong, not by watching a demo.
  • A person signs offAI drafts. Approvals, pricing, safety and people decisions stay human.

The lineup

Eight classes, grouped by who they're for. Each one is built on work I've already done. On site or remote, for groups of up to about 25 people.

Owners and leaders

Decide where AI goes and set the rules
L1Half day

Where AI goes in your company

Find the few places AI pays off in your business, the places it doesn't, and set the rules before anyone starts.

For
Owners, general managers and operations leads
You leave with
One-page AI rules (approved tools, data that stays out, who signs what), a ranked shortlist of three workflows, and a list of decisions that never go to AI

Built onA Claude prompt library for a structural-steel contractor's project managers: 24 templates, 7 workflows and 10 decisions that never go to AI.

Ask about L1
L290 minutes

AI in hiring and pay decisions

For Colorado employers. The state's law on automated decisions in hiring, pay and other consequential decisions (SB26-189) is set to take effect January 1, 2027.

For
Owners, HR and office managers
You leave with
A list of every tool that screens, ranks or scores people, where a person decides, and a draft notice and review step

Built onSystems where AI drafts and a named person decides. This class covers operations, not legal advice. Bring your employment attorney.

Ask about L2

Office and project teams

Draft faster, then check every line
O1Half day, hands-on

Draft from your own documents

RFIs, submittals, proposals, daily reports and meeting notes, drafted from your files and checked line by line before they go out.

For
Project managers, estimators, coordinators and admins
You leave with
Prompts for your role, written from your real work, with a worked example of each

Built onThe same steel contractor's library: templates across estimating, project management, field operations and contracts.

Ask about O1
O22 hours

Catch it when it's wrong

Spot invented numbers, missing steps and made-up sources before anything leaves the office.

For
Anyone who signs or sends AI-assisted work
You leave with
A short checking routine and a set of test questions from your own documents to try any AI tool against

Built onSoftware of mine that throws out any quote not found word for word in the transcript, and a drawing search that cites sheet and page or says "Not found in the indexed drawings."

Ask about O2

Field

On their phones, in their language
F12 hours, English and Spanish

Turn talk into paperwork

A voice note or a crew talk becomes a draft daily log or hazard analysis that the foreman corrects and signs.

For
Foremen, superintendents and safety leads
You leave with
A phone-sized checklist card in both languages, three practice recordings, and the list of what AI never decides: capacities, load charts and sign-offs

Built onField software that turns a crew's pre-task talk into observations checked word for word, and drafts hazard analyses in English or plain Spanish with a second pass on the Spanish.

Ask about F1
F245 to 60 minutes, English and Spanish

AI on the job site

A toolbox talk on what's safe to type into an AI app, what never to trust, and how to ask for the source. It can also be recorded as a lesson for anyone who misses it.

For
Crews, apprentices and new hires
You leave with
A wallet card and a completion record

Built onA crane-manual assistant that never invents a capacity, a field-safety assistant that cites its sources first, and 20,000+ narrated clips in English and Spanish.

Ask about F2

Builders

For the people who build your tools
B11 day

Run AI coding agents on a short leash

Written work orders, one isolated branch per task, automated tests as the inspection, and nothing ships until a person has checked it.

For
In-house developers, IT and operations staff who build tools
You leave with
A rules file for the agents in your own code and a work-order template

Built on45 of my repositories carry written rules for the AI agents that work in them, and the router in my own AI chief of staff spends at most $0.50 a decision.

Ask about B1

Talks

For associations, chambers and conferences
T160 minutes

AI on real jobs: what works and what doesn't

A talk for a mixed room of owners, office staff and field leads, with live examples from working software.

For
Trade associations, chambers and training centers
You leave with
A one-page AI rules template

Built onEight AI systems, each with its limits written into the code: cited sources, spend caps and named reviewers.

Ask about T1

Every class is scoped with you first. You get a written scope and price before any work starts.

Programs

The classes combine into longer programs when one session isn't enough.

  • Team AI program4 to 6 weeksStarts with L1, then O1 and F1 by role, then O2, with a check at the end and materials in English and Spanish.
  • AI championsAlongside a programOne or two people per office or crew get extra sessions and become the person others ask.
  • Custom AI courseScoped togetherRecorded lessons built from your procedures, narrated in English and Spanish, with a check at the end and completions tracked.

What the classes cover

Mapped to the five content areas in the U.S. Department of Labor's AI Literacy Framework (February 2026), so HR teams, training centers and workforce boards can see where each class fits.

Main focusAlso covered
ClassHow AI worksExploring usesDirecting itChecking its outputUsing it responsibly
L1Where AI goes
L2Hiring and pay decisions
O1Draft from your documents
O2Catch it when it's wrong
F1Talk into paperwork
F2AI on the job site
B1Coding agents
T1AI on real jobs

Start with a 30-minute call

Tell me who needs the class and what the work is. You get a written scope and price before any work starts.