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Join the Contractor AI Institute

Your members are asking how to start with AI. Give them a proven, free curriculum and local experts they already trust, at no cost to the association.

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Cost to the association
$0
No fee to join, ever
Member associations
00
Signed the charter
Certified experts
00
Across member associations
Time to start
6 min
A member's first AI Blueprint

Why it works for you

  1. Contractor AI Institute

    Writes a free AI curriculum, governed by a board of associations from Canada and the US.

    GetsReach: the curriculum gets to contractors through the associations they already belong to.

    Curriculum, free
  2. Associations

    Share the curriculum with members. Identify and certify local experts.

    GetsA new benefit of membership, a clear answer when members ask about AI, and the certification fee as non-dues revenue.

    Certification
  3. Certified experts

    Trusted members who deliver the curriculum locally.

    GetsA credential from their own association, and members who know where to find them.

    Help, as needed
  4. Contractor members

    Learn it free on their own, or hire an expert to go faster.

    GetsFree AI training as part of membership, with expert help only if they want it.

ONE INSTITUTEEach part needsthe others

The institute is the keystone. Take away any stone, the associations, the experts or the members, and the arch does not stand.

What your association does

Signs the charter
One page of principles. Your signature is your endorsement.
Names its experts
Members your members already trust: engineers, lawyers, accountants, consultants.
Certifies them
Sells certification with the tools you use for courses and tickets, and keeps the fee.
Links to the institute
An icon and a link in your member benefits. We host your page.

What your association gets

A benefit of membership
A free curriculum and local experts, offered through you.
Your own page
With your name in the address, your experts and your events.
The certification fee
For every expert you certify, and each year they recertify.
A voice in the institute
National associations take a seat on the governing board.

How to join

  1. 01The board kit
    Read it, or ask us to walk your staff through it in 30 minutes.
  2. 02Your board
    Staff take it to the board as new business. The kit answers the usual questions.
  3. 03Application
    Tell us about your association, your members and who might be your experts.
  4. 04The charter
    Your association signs. You appear on the map and the partner wall.
  5. 05Your experts
    Name your first experts. They enrol in the next bootcamp.
  6. 06The announcement
    Launch to members at an event, with your own page and tagged links.
Association
Placeholder quote from an association about offering the institute as a benefit of membership.
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Executive director nameExecutive director, member association
What is the charter?

One page of principles: public benefit, neutral ground, a free curriculum, experts who answer to their association, and a founding sponsor without control. Read it

Member associations

00 associations
Sample Construction Association
Windsor, Ontario · 00 experts
Charter signed
Sample Builders Association
London, Ontario · 00 experts
Charter signed
Sample Contractors Association
Detroit, Michigan
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