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This has been an exciting year for us at Whispering AI. This business started as a mission to start teaching people how to use AI to make their work easier, faster, and more productive than ever before. This year we saw lots of layoffs due to AI, even one of our employee's family members lost her job for the same reason.

2025 will be the year where almost all working professionals are going to need to understand how to leverage AI tools for their work. That saying, "AI isn't going to take your job, but someone who knows it will", will be a fundamental truth. If you, or someone you know, is already thinking about that, we can't recommend our first course, "AI For Everyone", enough.

To prove that we are mission focused, we gave almost 100 free courses away this year to help people take that first step.

Celebrating Our Accomplishments

2024 was exceptionally tough for many people, but it provided some opportunities for us to learn and grow as we continue to teach people the value of AI. One of the sayings that we came up with, and is sticking with everyone, is "They teach you how the engine works, we teach you how to drive". This is the fundamental difference between courses that require a degree in computer programming and ours, which just requires fundamental skills on a computer and mobile device.

Below is a list of our proudest accomplishments this year:

People

We added two new people to our team this year. Craig Conrad who is our course development lead, and Isabel Prado who is our engagement and social media lead. They bring inspiration with their enthusiasm, great ideas, and dedication to our purpose.

Academy

Developing online courses has been quite the journey. Here's a list of what we accomplished this year:

We launched our first course, "AI For Everyone" on March 31 and have had hundreds of people take the course with great feedback.
Within 3 months we launched "Advanced Prompt Engineering" and "AI For Designers" (our first industry specific course).
We will soon be launching "AI For Nonprofits" and "AI For Golfers" (our first non-professional course).

Next year the focus will be on generating significantly more video. Video content is the most time consuming and probably the hardest content to generate to get it right. We have been working on our methods this year, and will be adding significant video content to all of our courses starting in 2025.

Solutions

This year involved some interesting pivots. When we started, we assumed this part of our business would be about AI powered chatbots, digital workflow automation, and AI consulting for small to medium sized businesses.

This proved to be a significant challenge as many of the business owners we talked to were either not ready or overwhelmed by all of the "AI" services that have popped up.

In what started as an exercise to develop a no-code programming curriculum in our 3rd AI course in the general AI series, actually taught us that we were capable of offering application development services. After working in technology consulting and software development for over 25 years, working with some of the biggest tech companies in the world, our founder, Jack Skates, knew we were on to something.

This means that we can now develop complex mobile apps and web applications in weeks (vs months) at a fraction of the cost. The best part, it is all driven by a best practice user experience approach to design.

In the time since, we now have opportunities in Japan and have setup a small presence in India, where we are working with developers who are experts at not only software development with AI, but we are also training proprietary AI models to provide a specific function for the entire enterprise.

WGolf.app

During one of our meetings in a golf simulator, we talked about why golf courses don't have apps. It's because most of their services for customers are managed on separate platforms. However, with API's it's possible to create a single branded mobile app that integrates all the services into one customer experience.

So, we got to work on a Friday morning using Cursor AI, one of the premiere AI powered no code programming apps. By Friday afternoon, the first version was built. The following week we refined the offering and within 6 weeks of the idea, we had a functional app, a marketing website, and will be starting to market in early 2025.

Imagine having an idea for a mobile app and, within 6 weeks and $0 cost, having an entire application and business ready to go. That's what AI can do for you.

Academy Promotion

Kickoff 2025 with a 25% discount on all courses

We are running a special on all of our courses through the end of January. Use code NY2025 at check out and receive a 25% discount. If you haven't take a course yet, there's never been a better time. Start the year off with learning some valuable new skills in an easy non-technical course.