AI is not the hard part. Knowing where to start is.

Novativ AI Academy turns AI from something people talk about into something you can trust and actually use.

Business owners, consultants, professionals, corporate teams, and government. Some come to build capacity in a business. Some come to add a skill their next job will ask for. Everyone learns on real work, and everyone leaves with something they built.

Built by Merilyn Thompson. Thirty years in enterprise technology, ten of them alongside working as a board-certified psychotherapist, and a Maxwell Leadership Certified Team Member. Every session is taught live, by her or by a trainer with ten years or more.

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Live and virtual. Nothing pre-recorded. Curiosity is the only prerequisite.

A woman working at a laptop late in the evening, city lights behind her.

You have probably tried to learn this already.

A course sitting in a tab. Half finished. Waiting for a version of you who had more time, more space, more breathing room.

That is not a discipline problem. It is a human one. You wanted the change. The course never gave you a real chance at it.

Most AI training talks at you. You watch the videos, you nod along, you close the tab, and on Monday nothing feels any different.

No one has ever given you the moment where it clicks.

Four ways in. Start where you actually are.

Whether you need more capacity, a career you can stand on, a team working the same way, or simply a place to start, there is a path here that fits.

You run the business

The work you keep putting off starts getting done. Without you doing it.

You are behind, you are the last stop on everything, and you cannot afford to hire. In six weeks you build four AI employees that do the work. Chasing leads, answering the same customer questions you have answered four hundred times, writing proposals, keeping clients moving. You approve what goes out. The business keeps moving at the standard you set, even when you are not in it.

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You want to do this for a living

A career you can stand on

Anyone can run a demo. Clients need someone who can deliver under pressure. Twelve weeks, live and weekly, whether you are consulting already or working toward it. You run discovery with a real business, build two working systems, and prove they hold up. You finish with three credentials and a capstone you can put in front of a client. Proof you can do the work, not just talk about it.

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You want to learn this for yourself

You show up exactly as you are

You do not need a team. You do not need a title. You do not need six weeks. Just one day, live and guided, whether you are employed, in transition, or starting fresh. You will learn what AI is truly good for, practice it with someone there to help, and leave with routines you can use immediately in a job, in a business, or in finding the next thing.

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You want to bring your people along

Everyone on the same page, in one day

Your people are already using AI, each in their own way. A day together turns that into something shared, built around your actual workflows rather than someone else’s examples. Everyone leaves working from the same playbook, with agreements you made together. Delivered privately to your department, your company, or your agency.

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Two programs for two different problems.

Both run live, over several weeks. Both end with something built and working rather than something understood. What they build is not the same, because what you need is not the same.

For the person who runs the business

AI Workforce Buildout Bootcamp™

You cannot hire. You also cannot keep doing all of it.

You are behind, you are the last stop on everything, and the work you keep putting off is the work that would grow the business. Six weeks changes who does it. You build an AI Business Brain that holds how your business actually works, then four AI employees that work from it. Chasing leads. Answering the same customer questions. Writing proposals. Keeping clients moving.

Not prompts. Configured workspaces with a named job and a defined point where they hand back to you. You approve what goes out. The business keeps moving at the standard you set, even when you are not in it.

Six weeks. Thursdays. Powered by the AI Freedom Engine™ Method.

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What you leave with

  • One AI Business Brain your whole team works from
  • Four AI employees, running, doing the work
  • Every process written down for the first time

For the person who wants to do this for a living

AI Consultant Elite Bootcamp™

Anyone can run a demo. Very few can carry the whole engagement.

You already know more about AI than most of the people who will hire you. What you may not have yet is a method. Twelve weeks gives you one. How to sit down with a business and find the real problem, scope it so it does not sprawl, build it, put guardrails around it, and show the client it held up.

By week four you are running discovery with a real business, not a case study. By week seven you have built a working automation and a working agent. You finish with a capstone you can put in front of a client. Not a portfolio of ideas. Evidence.

This is the difference between knowing about AI and being the person a business trusts when something important is on the line.

Twelve weeks. Tuesdays. Runs on the Novativ AI Workflow Method™.

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What you leave with

  • One method you can run on every engagement after
  • Two working builds, an automation and an agent
  • Three credentials, earned by assessed work

One day can change what is possible for you.

A full day, live, on whatever you bring. Start with one and see where it takes you.

$247

4 hours live · no experience needed

AI for Everyone Foundations™

AI explained in plain English, at a pace that lets you ask anything. You will leave knowing which tools are worth your time, how to write a prompt that actually works, and how to recognize the scams, deepfakes, and cloned voices that are catching people out. Knowledge worth passing on to the people you care about.

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$695

6 hours live · no subscription needed

AI Fundamentals for Business & Workforce Transformation™

A day that turns scattered AI knowledge into something solid. You will learn what these tools genuinely do, practice on real work, and leave with a readiness picture showing exactly where you stand and what to do next. Come on your own to get your footing, or bring your department and leave with everyone speaking the same language. Either way you leave able to talk about AI with confidence rather than caution.

Or two payments of $365

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$795

6 hours live · bring a paid Claude plan

Claude AI Business Productivity Accelerator™

Bring three tasks that eat your week and spend the day building routines that handle them, with someone beside you the whole time. You leave with routines that are yours to keep and a clear picture of what those tasks used to cost you.

Or two payments of $415

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$795

6 hours live · bring your Microsoft 365 login

Microsoft Copilot Business Productivity Accelerator™

Copilot is already sitting inside your Microsoft apps. This is the day it becomes genuinely useful. Practical routines for Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and a clear answer to which Copilot you have and what it can actually do.

Or two payments of $415

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Coming soon

Dates and enrollment open shortly

Claude Projects & Business Brain Builder™

Build a workspace that holds your offers, your clients, your standards, and the way you write, so drafts come back sounding like you rather than like a press release. Not notes about how to build it. A workspace you have built yourself, on your own material, with someone beside you while you do it.

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$795

6.5 hours live · no coding, free tool accounts

AI Workflow & Automation Accelerator™

One day on one real process. Map how the work genuinely runs, remove the steps that no longer earn their place, then build the automation that runs it. Tested against twenty real cases and running before you leave.

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Every course here except Foundations carries six structured learning hours you can self-report to PMI.

What is coming up next

Free event

The AI Unbound Summit™

Live, online, and free to attend. A working session rather than a webinar, so bring something real and leave having actually used AI on it.

Tuesday, September 15, 2026. Free to attend.

Full details and registration are published Thursday, September 3.

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Tue Sept 29
AI Consultant Elite Bootcamp™
Founding Cohort. Twelve Tuesdays.
$2,997 founding
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Wed Sept 23
AI for Everyone Foundations™
One day, 10:00 to 2:00
$247
Reserve
Thu Oct 1
AI Workforce Buildout Bootcamp™
Cohort 1. Six Thursdays.
$3,997 founding
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Wed Oct 7
Claude AI Business Productivity Accelerator™
One day, 9:00 to 4:30
$795
Reserve

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Most AI training ends with people feeling informed. Informed is not an outcome.

You build something

Every program produces a working asset, not a worksheet. You leave with the thing itself.

You use your own work

No case studies about fictional companies. You bring what is actually on your desk.

You measure it

Pre-work captures what your tasks cost you now. The last session measures the same tasks after. The number is yours.

Human judgment stays

AI does the work. You approve it. Nothing reaches a client without a person saying yes.

Merilyn Thompson, founder of Novativ AI Academy.

Thirty years in enterprise technology. Ten of them alongside working as a board-certified psychotherapist.

Which means she has spent a decade watching what carrying a business alone actually does to people, while spending thirty years building the systems that fix it.

That is why Novativ AI Academy does not start with tools. It starts with what is eating your week, and who has to do it.

She has spent thirty years being the person accountable when a system had to work on Monday. Not the person selling the idea of it.

Merilyn has led large-scale technology implementations. Multi-year programs, cross-functional teams, and enterprise rollouts where failure was not a recoverable option. PMP, Certified Scrum Master, MBA, Master’s in Education, a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, and a Maxwell Leadership Certified Team Member. Twenty-four years running Novativ Technology, implementing systems for organizations where they had to actually work.

Now she builds the same discipline for people running small businesses.

About Novativ AI Academy

Most AI programs are taught by people who found AI two years ago.

Most AI programs
This one
Taught by somebody who discovered AI eighteen months ago
Thirty years of enterprise technology delivery. Twenty-four running the company.
Experience is a personal launch and a funnel
Large-scale implementations. Multi-year programs, cross-functional teams, enterprise rollouts where failure was not recoverable.
Credibility is a revenue screenshot
PMP, Certified Scrum Master, MBA, Master’s in Education, board-certified psychotherapist, and a Maxwell Leadership Certified Team Member
They teach what worked in their own launch
She teaches what happens when it fails at 2am and somebody has to fix it
Everything is an opportunity
She will tell you what not to automate
Income claims, then a disclaimer at the bottom
No earnings claims anywhere on this site

Merilyn teaches both bootcamps herself. Every other course is taught by a trainer held to the same standard.

You are not behind.

You just have not been shown the part that works.

Start with one session. Bring the work you are actually behind on.

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