Teaching non-technical people to use AI is the hardest kind of teaching. The room wants clarity. The room also wants permission to start. Alma Operations has done that work across Tech360 cohorts with America On Tech, the Idea Center at Miami Dade College, and the Miami AI School with Zapier and ChatGPT moving into n8n. Alma Operations was the speaker at Mother of AI and sits on the SMB row at eMerge again this year. The practice has a clear shape.
Written by Matt Creamer, Eduba April 2026 Miami
My colleague Jake Van Clief has a working rule for this space. About 60 percent of what people call an "AI problem" is actually traditional code and database work. Another 30 percent is rule-based logic. Only about 10 percent is genuinely a job for a large language model. Applied to a typical small-business automation, the Zapier or n8n layer handles most of it. A custom GPT covers the rest. The trick is teaching the distinction early, so clients stop trying to put ChatGPT where a spreadsheet and a trigger would do the job.
Teach that split early in a workshop and the rest of the day gets easier. Students stop reaching for ChatGPT by reflex, and start naming which layer each step of their own workflow actually belongs on.
Eduba has run 1,500+ people through enterprise workshops since May 2025. When a corporate invitation lands that is too large to say yes to on your own, a second team on the floor keeps the room, keeps the quality, and keeps the booking.
A reproducible frame your students can leave with, so the workshop keeps working when you are not in the room. Jake's work on interpretable context gives a structural way to teach agents and automations that holds up under scrutiny.
When a scoping call ends with "can you build this for us," there is a place to send it. Eduba partners with NLP Logix for work that sits below the orchestration layer. NLP Logix has been in machine learning since 2011 and runs over 150 data scientists.
Forty-plus executives trained. Regulated-industry audience. Consulting-firm-to-consulting-firm delivery. The shape that matters here: Eduba walks into rooms where the attendees are buyers themselves, and the training is measured on what changes the Monday after.
Jake's paper on folder structure as agent architecture, submitted to ACM TiiS. A structural way to teach context to your students instead of a vibes-based one. Open-source repo under MIT license.
Bring one corporate workshop you turned down or split thin across a calendar that could not hold it. We will talk about what it would have looked like with a second team on the floor, a productised SKU underneath it, and a handoff path for the clients who want the build after.
The call is for scoping. If the fit is partnership, great. If the fit is a warm intro back to Jake or over to NLP Logix, we will say so.