Workshops for Working Professionals

Something feels
different.
We're figuring
it out together.

The ground has quietly shifted. AI is no longer on the horizon — it's already changing how we work, think, and decide. We're building the room where curious professionals come to understand it, together.

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What if you could see past the edges of your own worldview? Pressure-test your thinking through frames you don't naturally hold. Find the blind spots that come from being you.

Zoe Scaman — Terra Nova Framework

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What This Is

Not a demo.
Not a lecture.
A working session.

We started Humans Gain AI because the conversations happening in boardrooms and break rooms about AI were missing something critical: honest, hands-on exploration with room for real questions.

Strategist Zoe Scaman calls this moment Terra Nova — new ground. And new ground requires a different approach than what most AI training offers. Less performance, more practice. Less hype, more clarity.

Our workshops bring working professionals together to explore tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini in the context of problems they're actually wrestling with. The room is richer for the range — beginners and power users learning from each other.

The Workshop Experience
01

Hands-On With the Real Tools

We work live with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini — not slide decks about them. You'll leave having actually used them on problems that matter to you, not hypotheticals.

Practical Use
02

A Room That Lowers the Stakes

AI shouldn't feel like a test you can fail. We design for the full range — from first-timers to those already thinking about agentic workflows. Both groups make the room better.

All Levels Welcome
03

The Connective Tissue

The best thing that happens in our workshops isn't the prompts — it's the connections. Ideas surface between people's work that would otherwise never meet. That's the room we're building.

Peer Learning
From Our Recent Workshops

What we were hoping for — and what actually happened.

We've run two workshops now. In our first, we brought a small group together — some just getting comfortable with AI for the first time, others already deep in. The range didn't divide the session. It enriched it.

Terranova, our new format, pushed further. We asked participants to bring a real problem they'd been stuck on — and work through it together, with AI and each other. What surprised us most wasn't what the tools did. It was what the room did.

The communal format turns out to be the differentiator. Watching someone else struggle with AI — and then break through — changes your relationship to it. People arrived worried they were too far behind, or too guarded. They left with a working relationship with AI that felt like their own.

"I was able to be vulnerable in this space. I felt safe to share. And because of that, I got so much out of it."

Workshop Participant

"I walked away from this crossing the boundary, and it was okay. It actually taught me things about myself as well as how I want to use this technology."

Workshop Participant

"The methodology used to construct the prompts is distinctive and I found those prompts particularly useful — learning how to have Claude think with me, not for me."

Workshop Participant

"There's a natural, expected learning curve best overcome with practice — and this gave me the push to start."

Workshop Participant

What We're Exploring

The questions we're still sitting with.

We don't pretend to have clean answers. One participant wanted to understand how AI usage varies across people — what they reach for, how often, and why. Honestly, nobody does yet. The patterns are still forming.

Others are still working out which tool to use for which task. Our honest answer: clarity mostly comes through use. We can lower the activation energy, but we can't shortcut the learning curve. That's what the room is for.

We're also hearing from people who want to bring this into their teams and organizations. If that's you, we'd love to talk.

"AI becoming the connective tissue between everyone's thinking — surfacing connections between people's work that would otherwise never meet."

Zoe Scaman, Terra Nova — read the full framework →

Who We Are

Run by practitioners.
Built for professionals.

Humans Gain AI was created by Amy Lipner and John Normoyle — two people who are genuinely trying to figure this out alongside you. We're not AI evangelists selling you on a future that hasn't arrived. We're practitioners who believe the best way to understand these tools is to use them, together, on real work.

John brings deep expertise in brand strategy and content design — built across Meta, Google, and two decades of enterprise and startup work. Amy brings a background in strategy and facilitation. Together, we design workshops that are honest about what AI can and can't do — and focused on what it can do for you, right now.

Amy Lipner

Amy Lipner

Co-Founder, Humans Gain AI

Strategist and workshop facilitator with experience at Patreon and Lyft. Believes the best learning happens when smart people are in a room together with real tools and honest questions.

John Normoyle

John Normoyle

Co-Founder, Humans Gain AI

Brand and content strategist based in Sausalito. Former content design leader at Meta and Google, with a decade of agency experience before that. Brings a practitioner's eye — and a computer science foundation — to the question of where AI genuinely helps and where the hype gets ahead of reality.

Next Workshop

Terra Nova
with Humans Gain AI

28
May 2026 Thursday
6:00 pm
Township Sausalito Sausalito, California

Terranova is a small, hands-on workshop where you bring a real problem you've been stuck on, and spend three hours untangling it using AI tools and in-person facilitated conversation.

You'll leave with a clearer map of where to go next and a new perspective on AI.

Registration subject to host approval

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We got a glimpse of what's possible,
and it was enough to keep going.

If you want to be part of the next workshop — whether you're just getting started or you're already deep in — we'd love to have you. And if you're thinking about bringing this to your team, reach out.

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