AI Literacy Workshop

Give Your Team a Clear-Eyed Understanding of AI

A plain-language, half-day session for boards, staff, and owners: what these tools actually do, where they fail, and how to decide what is worth adopting.

No pitch. No product demo. Breakwater sells no software and takes no vendor commissions, so the workshop teaches judgment, not a shopping list.

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Available Formats

Bring the Workshop to the Setting That Fits

This workshop can be delivered in person, live online, or hybrid for a team, board, association, institution, or public group. Based in Northern New Mexico, Breakwater can also serve groups online beyond the region.

What We Cover

Four Things Every Team Should Understand Before Adopting AI

The goal is not to turn your staff into engineers. It is to give everyone in the room enough grounding to ask good questions and make sound decisions.

What AI Actually Does In plain language: what today's tools are, what they are genuinely good at, and what they are not, without the hype or the jargon.
Where It Fails How these systems get things wrong, and what that means for privacy, accuracy, sensitive data, and the trust you have built.
Spotting Snake Oil Concrete red flags in a vendor pitch: unverifiable ROI, urgency pressure, demo-only proof, and no answer on data governance.
How to Decide A simple way to weigh whether to improve a process, use what you have, buy something standard, adopt AI, or wait.

What Your Team Leaves With

A Shared Vocabulary and Steadier Judgment

Nobody leaves as a convert or a skeptic. Everyone leaves better equipped to have the conversation and make the call together.

A Common Language

Board and staff can discuss AI decisions without talking past each other.

A Question Checklist

The questions to ask any tool, vendor, or proposal before committing.

Risk Awareness

Where privacy, accuracy, and dependence deserve real caution.

A Takeaway Guide

A plain-language reference your team keeps and returns to later.

Format & Where It Happens

Built to Fit a Working Team's Day

Half a Day, No Prerequisites

A single half-day session in plain language. No technical background required from anyone in the room.

Online First

Early cohorts run live and online, so teams anywhere in Northern New Mexico can join without travel.

In Person, Coming Soon

In-person sessions follow in Albuquerque and other New Mexico communities as the schedule fills.

Board, Staff, or Both

Shaped for a leadership team, a full staff, or a mixed room, and tuned to your sector and real use cases.

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We will talk through the audience, format, location, and timing. Public-event and private-team pricing differ and are confirmed after scope.

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