The Opportunity
The AI Advantage is Here. Don't Fall Behind.
The business landscape is changing faster than ever. For the first time, small businesses have the tools to outperform large enterprises. The only barrier is the skills to use them.
The Agility Advantage
Large enterprises are stuck in "pilot purgatory," slowed by bureaucracy and legacy systems. Small businesses, with their flatter structures and faster decision-making, are adopting AI at a historic pace. The "digital divide" is inverting. While big companies talk, you can act.
Source: USM Business SystemsAI Adoption Gap
Vanished
Between small & large businesses since 2024
AI is a Growth Engine
The data is clear: AI is not about replacing people, it's about amplifying them. By automating repetitive tasks, AI frees your team to focus on high-value work like business development, client relationships, and strategic planning. This leads to growth and the need for more, not fewer, employees.
Source: U.S. Chamber of Commerceof AI-adopting SMBs
82%
Have increased their workforce
Your Team is Ready for AI
The single biggest barrier to capitalizing on AI isn't technology—it's the skills gap. Your employees aren't resisting AI; they are clamoring for training. Providing structured learning unlocks team superagency, giving each employee the amplified capabilities of a much larger team and boosting retention.
Source: Boston Consulting Groupof employees
91%
Want more AI training at work
Use Cases
How Texas Businesses Are Bridging the Digital Gap
These use cases illustrate how the Skills Development Fund (SDF) sponsored workshops help North Texas businesses move from legacy operations to the digital future.
Mesquite, Garland, and the I-30 Industrial Corridor
The Challenge: Many manufacturers grapple with a resilience gap, relying on legacy ERP systems and the institutional knowledge of a retiring workforce. Data is trapped in manual logs and siloed spreadsheets.
The Solution: Our workshop focuses on AI readiness, teaching the shop-floor workforce to use AI to digitize knowledge and identify repetitive friction like manual inventory counting.
Dallas, Plano, Frisco
The Challenge: Mid-market firms are tethered to vendor-locked core systems, inundated with manual compliance reviews and slow credit decisioning.
The Solution: We focus on operationalized trust, training staff on AI-driven compliance and data hygiene, using AI as a cognitive assistant to summarize regulatory changes and detect fraud.
Houston, Sugar Land, and the Gulf Coast Corridor
The Challenge: Firms are hitting a digital ceiling, limited by manual data entry, property management spreadsheets, and fragmented communication across dozens of softwares.
The Solution: We focus on "Information as the Other Currency," teaching employees to use AI to automate the categorization of property data, maintenance requests, and lease amortization.
The Process
A Simple Path to Upskilling Your Team
We Handle the Grant
You provide basic business information, and our team of experts writes and manages the entire grant application process with the Texas Workforce Commission on your behalf.
Your Team Gets Trained
We deliver flexible, high-impact training either virtually or in a classroom setting. The entire program is designed to be completed within 30-60 days to ensure momentum and rapid skill application.
You See the Growth
Your team immediately begins to apply their new AI and leadership skills, leading to measurable improvements in productivity, innovation, and a stronger competitive advantage for your business.
Workshop Details
Participation is contingent upon being accepted for eligibility by the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC).
Trainees must be full-time, regular employees of the organization.
All participating employees must be paid at least the 25th percentile prevailing wage for their specific workforce board area.
For employees with the company over a year, the business must provide an average wage increase of at least 1% upon completion.
The business must be up-to-date on all Unemployment Insurance (UI) taxes owed to the TWC.
Training is for the broader workforce; management job titles are generally not eligible (SOC codes starting with 11-1, 11-2, or 11-3).
The business must provide necessary PII (including SSNs) for reporting and maintain an 85% trainee retention rate for 60 days post-training.
Lead Instructor
Greg Adams
Enterprise Strategist & Innovation Lead
Greg Adams is the lead advisor at Trailrock, specializing in the intersection of business strategy and emerging technology. With 16+ years of experience in legacy modernization and digital transformation, Greg has multiple organizations navigate the shift from 'keeping the lights on' to building proprietary technological supremacy within their industries.
As the lead facilitator for Future Jam, Greg brings a pragmatic, hands-on approach to AI upskilling, focusing on the organization as a whole, and the ability for every employee to amplify their capabilities.