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Build useful AI systems, not just prompts.
Practical AI literacy: personal assistants, automations, and agentic workflows built with tools you already use — ChatGPT, Claude, Gmail, Notion, and Calendar.
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Workshops
Hands-on sessions, not lectures.
Beginner-friendly, practical, and built around one question: what can you actually ship after this session?
- freeIntro: AI personal assistants — agents, tools, safety, and what's realistically possible.
- paidLab: Personal chief-of-staff — a 2-hour guided build.
- tbdAdvanced lab: Automation safety — guardrails, checkpoints, and escalation rules. Get alerts
Featured build
Personal chief-of-staff assistant
A beginner-friendly workflow students personalize in the paid lab — an assistant that helps with email triage, meeting prep, notes, and next-step planning.
- Goal
- reduce admin drag
- Tools
- ChatGPT or Claude + Gmail + Calendar + Notion
- Safety
- human approval before sending, deleting, paying, or committing
Courses
Go deeper than a single workshop.
Full self-paced courses for anyone who wants to build past the live sessions.
- soonYouTube — free walkthroughs, recordings, and short build breakdowns.
- soonUdemy — structured courses with exercises and project files.
Consulting
Bring SolarFunk Labs in to build with your team.
Hands-on work with individuals and small teams on practical AI adoption — automations, agentic workflows, and safe rollout for tools you already use.
- AI workflow audits — a working session to map where an assistant or automation would actually save time, and where it shouldn't.
- Custom builds — hands-on help designing and shipping a specific assistant, agent, or automation.
- Team training — private workshops for your team, adapted from the SolarFunk Labs curriculum.
Projects
A few things built along the way.
- mentraASLTranslator — an ASL translator using a vision-language model for Mentra Live smart glasses. View on GitHub ↗
- RetellAI EduMinds call analysis — a three-system architecture pulling call metadata from a Retell AI voice agent for post-call analysis. View on GitHub ↗
Resources
Templates, recordings, and worksheets.
- soonWorkshop recordings — added here after each session.
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Prompting 101 — goal + context + constraints + output.
VagueHelp me make an assistant for my email.ClearCreate a personal chief-of-staff assistant that reviews my Gmail each morning, summarizes urgent messages, checks Calendar for upcoming meetings, pulls relevant Notion context, and gives me a concise action list. Do not send, delete, or schedule anything without my approval.
- soonWorkshop kit — slides, checklists, and assistant templates, growing with the series.
About
Optimistic technical education for the AI era.
A workshop studio for people who want practical AI literacy: not hype, not doom, and not abstract theory. The goal is to help students build useful systems they understand, control, and can safely personalize.
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