Practical AI literacy for

for Vermont workplaces

Why this conversation needs to happen in Vermont, now.

Large companies are spending heavily on AI. Small- to mid-sized Vermont businesses are more flexible, which provides a different opportunity: to test carefully, work closer to individual client needs, and decide specifically where AI is useful and where it is not.

What AI can make easier — and what still needs human judgment.

We help organizations find where AI can support better work, where it has limits, and how they can use AI tools with care and confidence.

Where AI may help

  • Move faster on first drafts, summaries, and routine communication

  • Find patterns in messy information

  • Prototype ideas, templates, and workflows

  • Reduce repetitive administrative work

  • Strengthen team learning by helping people ask better questions

Where AI needs care

  • Checking accuracy when tools sound confident

  • Protecting private or sensitive information

  • Watching for biased, generic, or misleading outputs

  • Keeping human judgment and accountability in the work

  • Setting policies people can actually understand and use

OUR APPROACH

Methods & mindsets

aiVermont is a nonprofit. We do not sell software and we do not represent any AI platform. We are educators, facilitators, and practitioners helping Vermonters understand AI well enough to make thoughtful decisions about when, how, and whether to use it.

01 Practice over presentation.

Clients and workshop participants work through realistic examples instead of sitting through impersonal demos or pitches.

02 Human judgment first.

We emphasize using AI to support careful and critical thinking, not to replace accountability, expertise, or local knowledge.

03 Safe, visible experimentation.

Teams need room to test AI openly, compare results, identify risks, and decide what belongs in their work.

FROM A VALUED CLIENT

I saw staff members who don’t use or who are hesitant to use AI really leap forward in their understanding of what it can do for them, and those already using AI realize how they can bring it into a collaborative team space.

— Eric Hart· CEO, NPI

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