Voss AI Consulting

10/02/2026

I added up how I used Claude last week and had to check the math twice. I finished 13 projects! In 22 hours I completed what would have taken 264 hours of work by hand!

A new website. A brand system. A year of weekly emails. A launch with live checkout. A course crosswalk for my university.

AI did the heavy lifting. I set the direction and checked every piece before it went out, and that check still caught real mistakes.

Swipe through for the full breakdown. What would you do with six extra work weeks?

09/30/2026

How is anyone supposed to keep up with AI? Sixty-six releases came out in September, and you have a business to run.

That question is why I started the Upgrade Circle.

Think about the CPA firm that built its client intake on custom GPTs. OpenAI retires them December 11, and nobody in the office has heard. Or the firm that lost a week trying to figure out Jev, only to learn it doesn't apply to them yet. In the Circle, each of those is a ten-minute conversation.

Every Thursday at 7 PM Central, I sort the week's AI news for you on Zoom: what changed, what touches your business, what you can skip. Then you trade what's working with other owners. It's $79 a month, and a teammate comes free. The first session is tomorrow night.

09/24/2026

The tools that served us best were rarely the ones we fought hardest to dominate.

Put a powerful new tool in front of people and the instinct is ancient: master it. Underneath that sits its mirror image, the fear that we end up yoked to something that runs us. Ruler or ruled.

That is the only frame most AI conversations can picture, and it is a small, frightened frame for a question this large.

Look where earlier versions of this story went. The plow did not master the farmer, and the farmer did not master the plow. They shared a field and a harvest. The tools that changed us most were the ones we learned to work alongside.

I'm writing a book on this, seventeen chapters of it. The short version: the arc runs from mastery toward partnership.

When the work is done, are you still the one who decided? Or are you afraid AI will take your job?

09/22/2026

Every AI rollout follows the same shape: leadership buys licenses, IT turns them on, and three months later two people are using the tool. Leadership knows that the team needs an AI plan, but buying a license is only one part.

IDC's 2025 enterprise survey put a number on that pattern: 78 percent of companies have deployed AI tools, but only 6 percent of employees feel comfortable using them.

Close that gap with one document. Pick the report, memo, or client email your team writes most often, turn it into a single reusable prompt, and hand that to everyone instead of a login.

What's the one document your team rewrites from scratch every week?

If your team needs help with AI - let's talk.

09/14/2026

AI is here and changing classrooms this fall. Here's how teachers can get started with it.

Teaching with AI changes this Fall - here’s how to get started

09/10/2026

I stopped keeping a list of what AI can do. It goes stale faster than I can type it.

Twenty-five years of teaching history leaves you suspicious of any list that changes that fast. The specifications of the first steam engines fit in a footnote. What the engines were for filled a century.

So I ask the question underneath the list. Not what can it do. What is it for?

A printing press is worth the ideas it spreads, not the perfection of its ink. A plow is worth the harvest, not the furrow. And the tool that drafts your memo in ninety seconds is worth exactly what the memo was for.

When I sit down with a CPA firm or a school district, that is the first question on the table, before anyone opens a feature list: Who is this for?

09/08/2026

Pick one task your team does every week.

Preparing for a client meeting. Drafting a parent communication. Turning meeting notes into a clear set of next steps.

That’s a useful place to begin with AI.

Choose something your people understand well enough to judge the result. Try it with information you’re comfortable sharing. Then ask:

• Did this make the work better?
• What did we have to correct?
• Would we feel confident putting our name on it?

Those conversations help build AI judgment. They also show leaders where training, clearer expectations or ongoing support could make a difference.

Through Voss AI Consulting, I help organizations work through those decisions and build their people’s confidence along the way.

**What’s one recurring task you’d like your team to spend less time wrestling with?**

Share it below. Or, if you’d rather talk about your organization privately, send me a message. We can explore a practical starting point.

—Rob

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.

Claude is Anthropic's AI, built for problem solvers. Tackle complex challenges, analyze data, write code, and think through your hardest work.

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.