AI training for employees, on the work they actually do.
Most AI training teaches prompts. Then everyone goes back to the old way by Thursday. My version ends every lesson with something built for your business, so the training is the rollout.
$397 for your seat plus $97 per teammate, 2 to 25 people. Self-paced, 30-day money-back.
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Justin McKelvey
I train teams on the setup I run my own businesses on
Quick Answer
Justin McKelvey's AI training for employees is The Shop with team seats: $397 for the buyer's seat plus $97 per teammate, for 2 to 25 people. It's a self-paced Claude course, 8 lessons and about 4 hours of reading, and each person saves a Work Order at the end of every lesson: a Business Brain, a draft-and-approve workflow, connectors and skills, and trust rules. A 5-person team is $785, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Teams on ChatGPT or Copilot get live training inside a done-for-you install instead.
Author: Justin McKelvey · Prices as of October 2026
Who can train our staff on AI?
I train the staff myself, at businesses, associations, and nonprofits with teams of 10 to 200. Which version fits depends on size and tool. Up to 25 people on Claude: team seats in The Shop, $397 plus $97 per teammate, self-paced. Bigger than that, or on ChatGPT Business or Microsoft 365 Copilot: the training comes inside a done-for-you rollout, from $4,500 and about two weeks, where I set the tool up with your documents and one real workflow, then train your people on that workflow. Not sure AI fits yet? The $2,500 AI Readiness Assessment comes first, and it's credited in full within 90 days. The first step either way is a free 30-minute call.
Training a bigger organization (multiple departments, 50+ staff, or several tools at once) gets a written custom scope after the Assessment, priced to the work.
What AI training for a team costs
One payment, no per-month fee for the course. $397 covers your seat; each teammate adds $97.
Lessons 1 to 5 run on Claude's free plan. Lesson 6 onward uses the Claude Team plan, which Anthropic lists at $20 per seat per month billed annually ($25 monthly) as of September 2026, paid to Anthropic. More than 25 people? Email hello@justinmckelvey.com.
Two ways to train your team
Pick by who's doing the setup. Either way, people learn on their own workflows, not on generic examples.
Self-paced · your team builds it
The Shop team seats
- ▶8 lessons, 48 chapters, about 4 hours of reading each
- ▶Each teammate gets their own sign-in, progress, and Work Orders
- ▶A printable worksheet for every lesson
- ▶Lifetime access and updates, 30-day money-back
Done for you · I build it, then train them
Training inside an AI Team Rollout
- ▶Claude, ChatGPT Business, or Microsoft 365 Copilot, set up in about 2 weeks
- ▶A training session on the exact workflows I built (60 minutes on ChatGPT and Copilot)
- ▶A plain-language handoff doc your team keeps
- ▶From $4,500, with 30 days of support after
A four-week plan that starts with the rules
Teams stall when nobody knows what's allowed. So the order is: rules first, then one workflow, then everything else. Here's a pace that works for a team doing two lessons a week.
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Wk 1
Set the rules, pick the goal
Before anyone touches customer data, agree what's allowed. The free AI Trust Rules template and the one-page AI acceptable use policy cover it. Then Lessons 1 and 2: a written goal with a name and a date, an automate-first shortlist, and a readiness score.
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Wk 2
Teach it the business
Lessons 3 and 4: the Business Brain document (voice, offers, who you serve and turn away), plus a structured offer and the way work arrives. This is why the drafts stop sounding generic.
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Wk 3
One workflow, run for a week
Lesson 5: each person builds one draft-and-approve workflow and runs it for a week with one honest metric. Claude drafts, a human approves.
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Wk 4
Wire it in and keep it running
Lessons 6 to 8: five connectors and four skills, the pack that matches how the team is measured (B2B growth, DTC marketing, or Team), then trust rules and a 30/60/90 plan.
What each person has at the end
One saved Work Order per lesson. Buyers can collect them all into one Kit to print, save as a PDF, or paste into a Claude Project.
Built for
- ▶Owners up to about $5M, managers, department heads, and directors
- ▶Teams who'll use Claude, or are open to it
- ▶People who'd rather build one real thing than watch ten demos
Not built for
- ▶Anyone who needs a certificate
- ▶Developer or API training
- ▶Teams locked into ChatGPT or Copilot (the install is the better fit)
I run this business on the system I install.
This site is not a client's. It is my own business, and the automated content system I built runs it, with me approving every post. Here is what that did in Google, from Search Console, as of October 3, 2026.
The Shop is the same Claude setup this business runs on, written up as lessons.
Search Console clicks in the 28 days to October 2
Clicks on September 29, the best day on record
Times this site showed up in Google in those 28 days
Published posts, written by the system and approved by me
Google Search Console and this site's live sitemap, read October 3, 2026. When I update the date, I update the numbers.
AI training for employees: common questions
- How much does AI training for employees cost?
- The Shop's team seats are $397 for your own seat plus $97 per teammate, for 2 to 25 people. A 5-person team is $785, a 10-person team is $1,270, and 25 people is $2,725. One payment, lifetime access, and a 30-day money-back guarantee on the whole order. Live training is included in every AI Team Rollout install, which starts at $4,500.
- How long does the training take?
- About 4 hours of reading per person, self-paced: 8 lessons and 48 chapters. Every lesson ends with a saved Work Order, so the time produces something your team keeps using. A pace of two lessons a week gets a team through in about a month.
- Does my team need a paid AI plan?
- Not to start. Lessons 1 to 5 work on Claude's free plan. Lesson 6 onward uses the Claude Team plan, which Anthropic lists at $20 per seat per month billed annually or $25 monthly, for teams of 2 to 150, as of September 2026. Those seats are paid to Anthropic.
- Our team uses ChatGPT or Copilot. Does this still work?
- The Shop teaches Claude. If your team runs on ChatGPT Business or Microsoft 365 Copilot, the training comes with the install instead: a 60-minute session on the workflows I set up in your tool, plus a plain-language handoff doc. Same price and timeline as the Claude install.
- Is it a certification?
- No. It's a completion course: each person finishes with their own saved Work Orders, not a certificate. Anthropic's own free courses live at academy.claude.com. The Shop is the applied version, built for your business or team.
- What does each employee walk away with?
- Their own goal and first workflow, an automate-first shortlist with a readiness score, a Business Brain document, a structured offer and positioning, one draft-and-approve workflow run for a week, connectors and four skills, a pack for how their work is measured, and trust rules with a 30/60/90 plan.
- Who can train our staff on AI, and how does it work for a larger organization?
- I do it myself. I'm Justin McKelvey, an AI consultant in Austin, Texas, working remotely, and I train staff at businesses, associations, and nonprofits with teams of 10 to 200. Up to 25 people on Claude, The Shop's team seats are the fastest route: $397 for your seat plus $97 per teammate, self-paced. Above that, or on ChatGPT Business or Microsoft 365 Copilot, the training comes inside a done-for-you rollout (from $4,500, about 2 weeks): I set the tool up with your documents and one workflow, then train your staff on it and leave a plain-language handoff doc. If you're not sure where AI fits yet, a $2,500 AI Readiness Assessment comes first, credited in full within 90 days. The free first step is a 30-minute call at justinmckelvey.com/book/strategy-call.
- Can I train more than 25 people?
- Team seats cover 2 to 25 people. For more than 25, email hello@justinmckelvey.com and I'll reply within one business day.
- What if it doesn't work for my team?
- Reply to your receipt within 30 days and I'll refund the whole order. No questions, no forms.
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Train the team on real work.
$397 plus $97 per teammate, 30-day money-back. Or a free 30-minute call if you want to talk it through first.