Kairo by Anansi · Executive AI Education
Stop reading about AI.
Start using it.
A 2-day hands-on workshop for working professionals. Open your laptop, learn from someone who actually builds with AI, leave with working tools in your real job by Monday morning.
What you learn
Two days. Real tools, real work.
Day 1
Foundations + your first working AI
- 01
What AI actually is, in plain language
- 02
Hands-on with Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini against your real work
- 03
Prompt engineering that produces useful outputs (5 patterns)
- 04
Working with documents — uploading, summarizing, extracting
- 05
First working automation built before you leave for dinner
Day 2
Custom tools + bringing it back to your team
- 01
Custom GPTs and Claude Projects for your specific job
- 02
Connecting AI to your other tools — sheets, email, calendar
- 03
When AI fails — and what to do about it (the block most workshops skip)
- 04
Bringing what you learned back to your team
Who it's for
Working professionals who've heard about AI everywhere — and are quietly worried they don't actually know how to use it.
You don't need a technical background. You don't need to “be good at computers.” You just need a laptop and a job where AI could probably help, if you only knew where to start.
Director, financial firm
“My team uses ChatGPT but I don’t really. I want to lead, not lag.”
Senior manager, operations
“AI is on every quarterly slide deck. I need to know what’s real.”
20-year IC
“I’ve watched a junior employee do my report in 5 minutes. I’m catching up — fast.”
What makes it different
Not another deck. Not another “framework.”
Built by an operator.
Operator-taught
David doesn't just teach AI. He builds production AI safety systems at American Express, classifying prompts for 75,000 colleagues. Most AI educators have read about this work. David does it.
Hands-on, not lecture
Day 1 hour 1: laptops open. Every concept is followed by 15-20 minutes of “now try it in your context.” You leave with working AI in your actual job, not notes about working AI in someone else's case study.
Backed by a real company
Kairo is part of Anansi, an AI-first technology company. The same instructor who teaches the workshop is shipping AI to production every day. The curriculum is current because the practice is current.
Credentialed and current
David holds a PhD in Computer Science and is an Adjunct Professor at Nova Southeastern University — and a working AI safety engineer shipping production systems every day. Real teaching, real research, real practice.
Format & pricing
Small cohorts. Premium price.
Duration
2 days
intensive
Cohort size
15
seats max
Location
Miami
venue at registration
Format
2-day intensive
Miami in-person + virtual cohorts
$3,000
per seat · in-person
$1,500
virtual · two 4-hr days, one week apart
from $30K
B2B engagements · private cohorts
Two-day virtual cohorts run as two 4-hour sessions one week apart — humane pacing that protects momentum without consuming your week. Same curriculum as in-person, adapted for remote delivery.
Dr. David Noel · PhD
The instructor
Dr. David Noel
PhD, Computer Science · Adjunct Professor · Founder, Anansi
David holds a PhD in Computer Science and is an Adjunct Professor at Nova Southeastern University, where he teaches AI and serves on the university’s Computer Science dissertation committee for AI-focused doctoral research. He is the founder of Anansi Technology LLC, an AI-first technology company building at the intersection of AI and financial infrastructure.
In his day job, David is a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at American Express, where he leads enterprise AI safety — building production LLM-as-judge classifiers, prompt-injection detection systems, and AI vulnerability assessment frameworks that protect tens of thousands of colleagues across the firm's AI tools. His evaluations directly inform which AI systems the enterprise trusts in production.
His path to AI ran through hardware. David began his career as a chip design engineer at Intel, building the silicon that computing runs on, before moving into software and financial technology. That full-stack perspective — from transistors to large language models — is what makes his teaching different: he doesn't just show you which buttons to press, he explains what's actually happening underneath.
David is a builder first and a teacher second. Kairo exists because the professionals he meets — in his classroom, at work, in his network — keep asking the same question: not “what is AI,” but “how do I actually use it in my job?” Most programs don't answer that. Kairo does.
Next cohort
Get notified when the next cohort opens.
Cohorts are small and fill quickly. Add your email and we'll let you know when the next one opens — usually 4-6 weeks before the workshop date.