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The AI boom minted a million instant experts. Many have huge followings, slick decks, and weekend certificates, but have never built or shipped a working AI system in a real organisation. If they have not done the work, they cannot teach your team to do it. This tool rewards the trainers who have actually implemented AI, and docks the talkers.
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BCG's rule of thumb is that only about 10 percent of AI value comes from the algorithms and 20 percent from the technology. The other 70 percent is people and process, which is exactly what training is meant to change. Get the trainer wrong and you have spent the most important 70 percent of your budget on entertainment.
The market makes that easy to do. AI-washing is not only a vendor problem. The FTC's Operation AI Comply named a fake "AI lawyer" and AI-branded business opportunity schemes, the individual version of the same grift. A large following or a strong stage presence is not evidence that someone has built anything.
So this tool scores one thing above all others: has this person actually done the work? A trainer who has shipped AI in production earns marks. A pure trainer who teaches AI but has never implemented it loses them. Someone whose real experience is in another field entirely, now repackaged as AI expertise, loses more.
BCG puts roughly 70 percent of the value of AI in people and process, not the technology. Training is how you move that 70 percent, which is why a weak trainer is an expensive mistake.
MIT found about 95 percent of enterprise generative AI pilots produce no measurable profit impact. The gap between the 5 percent and the rest was capability and approach, the thing real practitioner-led training builds.
The FTC's sweep named a fake "AI lawyer" and AI-branded business-opportunity schemes. AI-washing is not only a vendor problem; it is a personal-brand problem too. Reputation is not proof of capability.
A verdict on this trainer, a scored breakdown across all five areas, a hype and red-flag check, a proof checklist that separates builders from talkers, the questions to ask them next, and a downloadable one-pager. Free once you enter your name and email.