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07/16/2026

Big week for teachers. Anthropic just made premium Claude free for every verified K-12 educator in the US — a full year, with lesson planning tied to your state's actual academic standards. claude.ai/teachers is the way to access it.

I've spent 25+ years in classrooms and the last few running AI training for school districts, and the pattern is consistent: the free account is the easy part. Knowing which tasks to hand it, what to double-check, and how to keep student data safe is where teachers either save six hours a week or give up by October.

If your district is planning fall PD, this is the month to lock it in. Teachers, has your school said anything about AI training yet, or are you on your own? I'm booking training for this school year now.

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07/01/2026

Plenty of leaders tell me they feel behind on AI. Almost none can say what "behind" means for their team.

That gap is why I built the AI Pulse. It's five questions, about five minutes, and a straight read on where your organization stands and where the quick wins are.

It's the same starting point I use with the businesses, schools, and financial firms I work with. There's no login and nothing to buy. You get a snapshot you can use this week.

Take the AI Pulse: vossaiconsulting.com/ai-pulse-5min.html

Curious where you'd land?

06/10/2026

AI will draft your policy manual in 90 seconds and then miscount a twelve-row table.

That's the frontier right now. Jagged. Brilliant at one task, unreliable at the task sitting right next to it. And the boundary moves every few weeks.

I spent three days this week with leaders at Royal Health to help them understand that frontier. The parts of their work that can go to AI Agents, how to work with AI Agents, and when not to use Agents. The human is always there, but that understanding has changed.

Of course like clockwork, when ever I give a major presentation, there is a new model release. Fable 5 is that new model that has wild implications.

The same question runs through everything on my desk this month. An accounting firm brought me in to build AI governance for client data in accounting and payroll. Diana Alt and I dug into people-first AI adoption on her podcast, 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙁𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙙 — the episode is out now. And OpenAI's Education team featured my work at Northwest Missouri State, where I've trained 500+ educators as one of 89 OpenAI Academy Faculty worldwide.
Healthcare, accounting, education are all different industries, same problem. The frontier moved since the last time their leadership looked at it.

When did yours last look? Send me a message or book a consult at vossaiconsulting.com.

05/20/2026

Feeling behind on AI? You probably are, and that's the rational response to what's actually happening.

Since the start of 2024, a major new AI model has come out about every seven days. Thirteen different companies. A fresh "best" before you've finished trying the last one.

It's hard to keep up with all of that. So if you feel a step behind, it isn't a personal shortcoming. You're reading the speedometer correctly.

I'm a historian, so when a moment feels this loud, I go to the data. I plotted every major release from the last three and a half years, 114 of them. The pace quickened, then leveled off, so it isn't "halving every six months" like the headlines claim. Chinese labs went from nothing to about a third of all releases. And many models now run privately on your own systems, which changes what "keeping your data private" can mean.

So do you switch to open models? Commit to just ChatGPT? Buy the enterprise plan? How do you keep up with every release?

You don't. The goal was never to keep up with all of it. It's knowing which handful of these shifts actually changes your decisions, and ignoring the rest on purpose.

I built a two-minute scroll that maps it for you: vossaiconsulting.com/frontier_weather
If your team feels behind, let me help you stay on top of it.

114 AI model releases, 13 labs, 3.5 years, visualised as a cinematic scroll — and what it means for organizations betting on AI.

05/19/2026

Your team is using AI, but you don't know what they are doing. You need governance and training to secure both you and your company. Let's talk governance and AI or come see me at KC Community Days May 28 and let's talk more.

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04/10/2026

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03/30/2026

Big week at Voss AI Consulting.

Our founder Dr. Rob Voss was appointed to the Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development's Advisory Committee for Building Missouri's AI Talent Pipeline — one of about 30 people statewide advising on how Missouri prepares its workforce for AI. The same week, he was named founding chair of Northwest Missouri State University's new Standing Committee on Artificial Intelligence.

On Saturday, Rob delivered a keynote at the AI Prompt Championships KC Regional, presenting the "Two Literacies" framework to 100+ competitors and judges — why knowing how to prompt is only half the equation, and why organizations need people who understand how AI fits into process, policy, and people.

In between, we shipped PageForge AI — a tool that generates HubSpot landing pages in 60 seconds — built using Anthropic's Cowork, and continued adding to the free Voss AI Labs tool suite at vossaiconsulting.com.

New tools. New appointments. New stages. Just another week at Voss AI Consulting.
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03/09/2026

It's getting tough to describe all of my AI work. This is Gemini's version.

03/04/2026

Here's a stat that should bother everyone:
78% of companies have AI tools. Only 6% of their employees feel comfortable using them.

That's a $5.5 trillion problem. That's a teaching problem.

One year ago this month, I launched Voss AI Consulting from my office at Northwest Missouri State with a pretty simple idea: people don't need more AI hype. They need someone who can actually teach them how to use it.

12 months later, I've trained over 500 people — business owners, employees, school teachers, administrators, university faculty, and everyone in between. Dozens of workshops. Near-universal satisfaction. Real, measurable improvements in how people understand and use AI.

I was also selected as one of 89 OpenAI Academy faculty worldwide. Missouri's only representative. Still a little surreal.

But here's the part I didn't plan.

Every training, every workshop, every conversation kept surfacing the same thing: people didn't just need to learn about AI. They needed tools that actually worked for them. I needed a better teleprompter. I needed my research tools to talk to each other. I needed image optimization that didn't send my files to someone else's server.

So I built them. And then people started asking if they could use them too.

Today I'm officially launching Voss AI Labs — the product side of Voss AI Consulting.

Five tools, all live right now:
PromptFlow — A smart teleprompter with AI coaching
ScrollStop — Content tools to make social media work for you
CiteBridge — Connects Zotero to Google's NotebookLM for researchers
Photo Optimizer — Compress and convert images right in your browser
LitHelper — Literature discovery built for academics

Check them all out at vossaiconsulting.com/pages/labs

And there's more coming. ContentForge is next — AI-powered content creation that keeps your voice and your ideas front and center.

If you know someone whose team needs help figuring out AI — not the hype, just a clear path forward — send them my way. That's exactly what we do.

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