You bought the tools. You ran the workshops. You sent the emails.
Three months later, your team is still doing things the old way. Your AI adoption metrics are embarrassing. And someone in leadership is quietly asking if it was worth it.
Here's the hard truth: the problem isn't your team. The problem is the training model.
The Workshop Problem
Most corporate AI training is built around the workshop model: gather your team, spend a day learning prompting techniques, walk away with a certificate and a PDF of tips.
There's one thing wrong with this approach: it doesn't match how humans actually learn.
People learn skills by using them in the moment they need them—not by memorizing them in advance and hoping they remember weeks later. When your accountant needs to write a formula and she remembers vaguely that "AI can help with Excel" but can't remember how, she's not going to consult a PDF. She's going to do it the old way.
What Actually Works: Contextual Learning
The research on skill acquisition is clear: people retain what they practice in context. A surgeon learns by operating. A developer learns by shipping code. A knowledge worker learns AI by using it to solve real problems, in real time, in their actual workflow.
That's the design principle behind Freddy.
Instead of asking your team to go somewhere new to learn AI, Freddy meets them where they already are—inside Slack. When they have a question about how to use AI for their job, they ask Freddy. When they need to understand a concept, Freddy explains it in the context of their actual work.
No workshops. No certificates. No PDFs they'll never open.
The Adoption Curve Problem
Every new tool has an adoption curve. The steeper the curve, the more people fall off before they get value.
AI tools have an unusually steep adoption curve because:
- The interface (chat) is deceptively simple but the skill (prompting) is genuinely hard
- Results are inconsistent until you understand how to get consistent results
- There's no immediate feedback loop—bad prompts just get bad results with no explanation
Freddy solves this by making the learning invisible. Your team isn't "learning AI"—they're just asking questions and getting answers. The skill builds gradually through use.
What This Means for Your Rollout
If you're planning an AI adoption program, the question isn't "how do we train our team?" It's "how do we get our team to actually use AI in their daily work?"
The answer isn't another workshop. It's removing the friction between your team and the answers they need.
That's what Freddy does. See how it works → braingem.ai
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