AI Within Reach

AI Within Reach

A diverse group of people reaching up toward a glowing AI sphere surrounded by icons for learning, money, ideas, creativity, community and growth.
Build It. Earn From It.

A half-day, hands-on seminar. In one morning, people who have never touched AI go from watching it happen to building something real, and leaving with a plan to earn from it.

Led by Duvale Murchison · Applied AI Expert Practitioner · Charlotte, North Carolina

The gap we close

Everyone has heard AI is coming. Almost no one has been shown how to use it.

Most people in your community have been told, over and over, that AI is going to change their work. Far fewer have ever sat down and actually used it for something of their own. That gap — between hearing about it and doing something with it — is exactly where this seminar lives.

It isn't a lecture about the future. It's a working session. People bring their devices and their real ideas, and they leave having built something and knowing how to earn from it.

Within reach

AI is just another tool on the bench.

You already know how to pick up a tool and figure out what it does. This is the same thing. We set AI on the workbench next to the skills you already have — and you leave knowing how to use it.

A navy pegboard of hand tools and creative gear around a framed, glowing AI panel: AI as one more tool on the bench.
Where we start

First, you learn to train the AI.

Before any tool or trick, we teach one habit that changes everything: how to get an honest answer instead of a cheerleader. Most people let the AI agree with them. You'll learn to make it push back.

The first thing we practice
You: Before you answer, tell me where this idea is weak. I don't want encouragement — I want the truth, and the three things I'd have to fix first.

An example of the kind of prompt we open with — swap in your own goal and the AI becomes a straight-talking advisor instead of a yes-man.

How the day runs

A working morning, start to finish.

Hands-on and interactive the whole way through. You teach with it, not at it — everyone works along on their own device.

1

Train the AI

Set the ground rule: how to prompt for honesty, context, and real feedback — the skill everything else depends on.

2

What AI is — and isn't

A plain-language picture of what these tools actually do, so the room stops guessing and starts trusting what they see.

3

How to prompt

The handful of moves that separate a useless reply from a genuinely useful one. Practiced live, not just described.

4

The toolkit

Which tools to reach for, and when. We work in the ones people can start using that afternoon, for free or close to it.

5

Build something live

Everyone turns one of their own ideas or skills into a first working version — a plan, a pitch, a product, a page.

6

Earn from it

Where this goes next: using what you built to stand out at work, launch something, or open a door that was closed before.

Half-day format Bring your own device Mixed experience levels welcome Taught live with five leading AI platforms
What people leave with

Not inspiration. A plan.

01

An idea, built

Turn something you've been sitting on into a working first version you can show.

02

A skill, put to work

Use AI to package and present what you can already do, so it's easier to sell.

03

Groundwork for a business

Draft the pieces — the plan, the materials, the presence — in an afternoon's worth of work.

04

A new direction

See where your experience fits in a changing job market, and the first step toward it.

You leave with a plan you can act on — a clear next step and the tools to take it. Not a promise about income, and not hype. A real starting point.

Who it's for

Built for the whole room.

Who's in the seats

  • People who have never once opened an AI tool
  • People who've tried AI but never got much from it
  • Job seekers, career changers, and the recently displaced
  • Anyone with a skill, a side hustle, or an idea they haven't moved on

Who brings it in

  • Workforce development programs and career centers
  • Nonprofits, CDFIs, and community lenders
  • Churches and faith-based groups
  • Any organization serving people navigating work and change
Who's teaching it

Duvale Murchison

Applied AI Expert Practitioner, youth mentor, and longtime teacher. He's been building with AI every week since January 2023, working across leading AI platforms side by side — not as a hobby, but as the engine behind real projects.

He brings a mentor's instinct for meeting people exactly where they are. Nobody leaves confused, and nobody gets talked down to.

Built with AI A strengths-based career-fit assessment Built with AI A full Purpose Pathway 18-week curriculum for high schoolers Built with AI An AI-literacy course for high-schoolers Built with AI Business plans & business one-sheets Built with AI Marketing materials & sales sheets Built with AI Digital study guides Built with AI A live stock-trading system for mentees to learn and trade Built with AI Video & brand content for clients Built with AI Program curricula, reports & proposals
Bring it to your community

How hosting works.

  • 01
    You host, we deliver.Your organization sponsors the seminar with a flat fee. We handle the teaching, the structure, and the materials.
  • 02
    Free to your people, where we can.The goal is to keep it free for the attendees who need it most. A per-person option is available where that fits better.
  • 03
    Sized to your room.Works well for a group of roughly 25 to 50, mixed experience levels, in a space where everyone can work on a device.

Start the conversation

Reach out to check dates and fit:

A quick note with these helps us move fast:
  • Your organization and who you serve
  • Rough group size and a few possible dates
  • The space — can everyone bring a device?