AI set up and working
Installed, signed in, and pointed at one task you actually do, so the first useful result happens in the room and not later.
AI workshops in East Texas, taught by a local engineer.
Most people around here have been handed AI tools with nobody local to show them how to use them properly. I run two kinds of workshop within ninety minutes of Lindale: an open session in Tyler for anyone with a laptop, and a half or full day on site for a business and its team. You leave with AI set up and working on your own tasks, not with a slide deck about the future.
$79 a seat · Teams from $1,500 · Tyler, Longview, Kilgore, Athens, Canton, Mineola, Jacksonville, Palestine
$79
A seat at the open session
$1,500
Half day on site for a team
90 min
Drive radius from Lindale
30 yrs
In technology · 11 in SRE
Two and a half hours, your laptop, your own work.
The open session is a Saturday morning in Tyler. Bring a laptop and one real task you do every week: writing up quotes, answering the same customer emails, summarizing a meeting, pulling numbers out of a PDF. By the end of the morning it is set up and working on that task, in your own accounts, with a habit you can keep after you leave.
A team workshop is the same thing on your premises, for your people, on the tools you already pay for. A half day covers the setup, the rules, and the first three uses. A full day adds an afternoon working through your own processes, and ends with a written list of what is worth automating next and what should stay exactly as it is.
The rule that keeps you out of trouble comes first: what never goes into a chatbot, and how to check an answer before you act on it.
I'm Byron Walker, a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with thirty years in technology and a decade spent keeping large enterprise systems online. I build production AI systems for companies, and the habit I teach in a workshop is the same one those systems are built on: the tool is the easy part, and checking its work is what makes it safe to rely on. That is a habit anyone can learn in a morning, and it is the difference between a tool that saves you an hour a day and one that costs you a customer.
Six things, all working before you go home.
This is not a list of topics. Each one is something you do in the room, on your own laptop, and can do again on Monday without me.
The rules
What never goes into a chatbot: customer records, passwords, anything under a contract or a privacy law. Written down, with the reasons, so you can hand them to your staff.
How to check an answer
A confident wrong answer looks exactly like a right one. You learn the three checks that catch it, and when a task is not worth trusting to the tool at all.
Your first three uses
Quotes, emails, summaries, or whatever your week is made of. Three tasks set up and saved, each one tried on real work before we move on.
Your accounts, your data
No product to buy and nothing routed through me. Everything runs in your own accounts, on the tools you already pay for or the free ones.
What to automate next
For a team, a written list of the jobs worth automating, the ones that are not, and what each would honestly cost.
Business owners, office managers, and anyone who wants to use AI properly.
For a business: the owner of a ten-person shop who does the quoting at night, the office manager who handles the paperwork for everyone, a crew or a front office of five to twenty people who have been told to use AI and given nothing to go on. For an individual: anyone within driving distance who would rather spend a Saturday morning learning this properly than another month guessing.
It is not a sales pitch for anything else I do. Some businesses come out of a workshop with a list that leads to an automation sprint or an assessment, and most do not need either. If a workshop is all your business needs, that is the recommendation you will get.
Nothing to buy on this page. Email to hold a seat or to book your team, and I reply with the details and a payment link.
The next open session is posted here as soon as the room is booked. Until then, a plain email holds a seat. Team workshops are scheduled by arrangement, usually a weekday morning, anywhere within about ninety minutes of Lindale.
If you want to read first, start with what happened when Samsung engineers pasted source code into a chatbot, one record in a library of documented AI failures that the rules in this workshop are drawn from. The guides cover the same ground for specific kinds of paperwork, and the full price list is published in the open.
East Texas AI workshops, answered plainly.
Where and when is the open session?
Tyler, on a Saturday morning, two and a half hours. The exact date and room are posted on this page as soon as they are booked. Sessions run roughly once a month while there is demand.
What do I need to bring?
A laptop you can sign in to, and one real task from your week. A phone is not enough for the setup part. If you already have a paid AI subscription, bring the login; if not, the free tiers are enough for everything covered.
Which AI tools do you teach?
The ones you already have or can get for free: the major chat assistants, and the AI features inside the office tools most businesses already pay for. I have no product to sell and no partner to push. The habits transfer between tools, which matters because the tools change every few months.
Is this a sales pitch for a bigger project?
No. A workshop is a complete thing on its own, and most businesses that take one do not need anything else from me. When a team workshop turns up a job worth automating, it goes on the written list you leave with, priced honestly, and you decide later without any pressure from the room.
How far will you travel for a team workshop?
About ninety minutes from Lindale covers Tyler, Longview, Kilgore, Athens, Canton, Mineola, Jacksonville, Palestine, and most of East Texas. Dallas and further are possible by arrangement when the group is large enough to justify the day.
What does it cost?
An open session seat is $79. A team workshop on site is $1,500 for a half day or $2,500 for a full day, for up to about twenty people. Seats and team bookings are paid by a link I send by email; there is nothing to buy on the site. Full detail on the pricing page.
Hold a seat, or book your team.
One email is enough. Say whether you want a seat at the next open session in Tyler or a workshop on site for your team, and I reply with the details and a payment link.
Hold a seat ↗Prefer plain email? byron@walkeraisystems.com