AI training for firms, teams and professionals
Your team brings the expertise. We train them to get more out of it with AI.
AI Forward is hands-on AI training for firms and teams that run on expertise. Your people learn to use AI on the work they already do: first drafts, research, summaries and client follow-up. Less of their day goes to groundwork, and more goes to the judgment your clients pay for.
Team Program $4,500. One-on-One $997. Buy online or book a call first.
In person in DC, Maryland and Virginia, or virtual anywhere in the U.S. Afternoons, evenings and weekends available.
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Your expertise. Amplified.
What your firm gets
- 01A team that uses AI with confidence on real client work
- 02Drafts, research and summaries that start further along
- 03More of everyone's time spent on judgment and clients
- 04A written policy and handbook that protect the firm and your people
What changes
What your firm gets when the whole team knows how to use AI.
Work starts further along
First drafts, research summaries and meeting notes start from a solid draft instead of a blank page. Your people spend their time reviewing and improving.
More capacity from the team you have
When the groundwork takes less of the day, the same people can take on more client work before you need to hire.
Better work for your clients
More time goes into the parts clients notice and value: the analysis, the advice and the follow-through.
The whole team at the same level
Instead of one or two people figuring it out alone, everyone learns the same skills and shares what works.
Your people stay the experts. AI handles the groundwork, and they make the calls and sign the work.
Who it's for
Built for any team whose work is knowledge, judgment and client trust.
If your people write, research, advise or serve clients, the program fits. A few of the teams it's built for:
- Accounting and bookkeeping
- Law firms
- Insurance agencies
- Financial advisors
- Consulting firms
- Government contractors
- Real estate brokerages
- Property management
- Medical and dental practices
- Engineering and architecture
- Marketing and creative agencies
- Staffing and recruiting
- Nonprofits and associations
- Schools and university departments
Don't see your field? If your team has 5 to 100 people and handles client or sensitive information, it likely fits. Ask us on the call.
How it works for firms
Your leaders set the direction. Then the whole team learns on real work.
- 01
Your staff tell us, anonymously
Before we meet, your team takes a short anonymous survey about the tools they use and what worries them. It collects no names or contact details, so you get honest answers.
- 02
Leadership decides
A two-hour session with your partners or owners. We go through the survey results and your client obligations, and you decide what's allowed and who reviews it.
- 03
The team learns on real work
A half-day workshop for up to 15 people, built on the documents and tasks your firm handles every week. Everyone leaves knowing the rules and how to work inside them.
- 04
You get it in writing
Your AI use policy and company handbook, written for your firm and owned by your firm. Thirty days later we check in on what's working and what needs changing.
Protection built in
The training comes with rules that protect your firm and your people.
Odds are some of your staff already use AI tools on their own. That's a good instinct. The trouble is that without shared rules, each person decides alone what's safe to put into a tool. A written policy settles it, so your people can use AI with confidence instead of guessing.
80%
of AI users at small and medium-sized companies bring their own AI tools to work.
Confidentiality
Client documents go into free tools whose terms nobody at the firm has read.
Client contracts
Engagement letters and client agreements can limit where client data goes. The person using the tool may never have seen them.
Review standards
A draft nobody checked can go out under your firm's name, with your firm's signature on it.
Ten people, ten habits
Without a shared standard, quality depends on who happened to work the file.
A firm with a written policy can answer "how do you use AI with my information?" in one sentence. That answer is worth having before a client asks.
Ways to work with us
Buy online, or talk it through first.
For firms
Team Program
$4,500
Founding rate: $3,500 for our first founding firms, arranged on a discovery call.
In exchange, founding firms give a testimonial and a short case study, both approved by you before anything is published. Published testimonials will say they came from a founding firm.
- Anonymous staff AI survey before we start
- Two-hour leadership session
- Half-day team workshop, up to 15 people
- Written AI use policy your firm owns (general guidance, not legal advice)
- Company AI handbook
- Check-in 30 days after the workshop
In person in DC, Maryland or Virginia (preferred) or virtual. Afternoon, evening or weekend sessions available.
Add-on to the Team Program
AI Advisor
$1,500/month
- A monthly advisory call
- Email support between calls
- Quarterly updates to your policy and handbook
- Alerts when a new tool or risk affects your firm
Add it when you buy the Team Program. Nothing is charged at checkout. Billing starts at your 30-day check-in, with a 3-month minimum.
For individuals
One-on-One Program
$997
- Four weeks, one-on-one, virtual
- Built around the work you do now
- Ends with your personal AI playbook
Why AI Forward
Training built around the work your firm already does.
Your people stay the experts
AI writes the first draft. Your staff decide what goes out and sign it. Clients get the same judgment they hired you for, with less time spent getting to it.
Leadership-led, not tool-led
A lot of AI training starts with a tool demo. Ours starts with the people who carry the risk deciding the rules. The tools come after, and they can change without the policy changing.
Built for firms that handle other people's information
Confidentiality, client contracts and review standards sit at the center of the program, from the survey questions to the handbook.
A direct line from training to building
When your team finds work that should run on its own, Onyx Works can build it, from client intake to call answering. You'll already know who you're working with.
For individuals
You used to have a team behind you. You still can.
In uniform, at the department or in a federal office, you had people behind you. Now you might be in a corporate role, working at a university, running a real estate business, consulting or building your own firm. The research, the first drafts, the briefings, the follow-up: the work your people used to carry, AI can carry now. Let it run the whole job or fill the gaps, whatever fits how you work. You bring the judgment and the standards.
The One-on-One Program is four weeks of virtual sessions with Jason, built around the work you do now. You finish with a personal AI playbook that lists your tools, what each one is for, and where your own review stays in the loop.
You're not doing this on your own. You're doing it with a team again, and it keeps you sharp, current and hard to compete with.
| Task | Then: your team | Now: you, with AI |
|---|---|---|
| Research and background | Then: An analyst pulled it together | Now: AI gathers it, you check the sources |
| First drafts and reports | Then: Staff wrote the first pass | Now: AI drafts it, you make it yours |
| Briefings and presentations | Then: Someone built the slides | Now: AI builds the outline, you tell the story |
| Admin and follow-up | Then: Support staff tracked it | Now: AI keeps the list, you make the calls |
Where they are now
- Corporate
- University
- Real estate
- Consulting
- Your own business
Who runs it
Twenty years of leading people. Now applied to how teams use AI.
AI Forward is run by Jason Williams, founder of Onyx Works. He's a U.S. Air Force veteran who has built his career on being responsible for people, setting standards and making sure they hold when nobody is watching.
Onyx Works builds AI systems for businesses and runs its own outreach, follow-up and call answering on them. What AI Forward teaches comes from running those systems every day, including what goes wrong and the rules that keep it from happening again.
Onyx Works is a private company. Nothing on this page is endorsed by the U.S. Air Force, the Department of Defense or any government agency.
Questions
What firms ask before they book.
Is this in person or virtual?
Either. In person is our preference for firms in DC, Maryland and Virginia, because the workshop goes better in a room. Virtual works anywhere in the U.S. The One-on-One Program is always virtual.
Can we schedule around client work?
Yes. Sessions can run in the afternoon, the evening or on a weekend, so billable hours don't take the hit.
Will our client data be safe during training?
We never ask you to put client information into any AI tool during the program. Workshop examples use documents you choose and clean up first. The staff survey is anonymous and collects no names or contact details.
Is the AI use policy legal advice?
No. The policy and handbook are general guidance, written for how your firm works. They are not legal advice. Have your own counsel review the policy before you adopt it, especially against your client contracts and any rules your profession sets.
Which AI tools do you teach?
Whichever ones your leadership approves in the first session. We'll recommend tools that fit your work, and the policy is written so that it still holds when the tools change.
Is this only for professional service firms?
No. It fits any team of 5 to 100 people whose work is writing, research, advice or client service, from real estate brokerages and medical practices to nonprofits and agencies. The workshop is built on your team's own work, whatever field you're in.
We already have an AI policy. Is this still useful?
Often, yes. The survey shows whether staff actually follow it, and the workshop teaches them how to work inside it. If your policy holds up, we build the handbook and training on it instead of starting over.
Can we buy without a call?
Yes. Buy the Team Program or the One-on-One Program online and tell us which days and times work for you. We'll confirm dates with you within two business days. Cancel 14 or more days before your first session for a full refund, and if we can't agree on dates, you get a full refund.
What happens after the workshop?
Thirty days later we check in on what's working. From there, you can keep us on as your AI Advisor, have Onyx Works build automations for the work your team found, or run it yourselves. Any of those is a good outcome.
Next step
Find out where AI would save your team the most time.
No pitch deck, nothing to prepare. Tell us about your firm or your work, and you'll leave knowing what we'd do, whether or not you hire us.
For firms
Twenty minutes about your firm, your people and your clients' rules.
Book a firm discovery callOr buy the Team Program online: $4,500For individuals
Twenty minutes on your work and whether the four-week program fits.
Book a fit callOr buy the One-on-One Program online: $997AI use policies and handbooks provided by Onyx Works are general guidance, not legal advice. Have your own counsel review them before adoption.
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