Week 1
Understand
Get clear on what AI really is and isn't, and where it can move the needle inside your business, without the hype and without the fear.
You leave with A shared, honest read on where AI fits, and where it doesn't.
In partnership with Drouin RH
Your team won't learn AI from a slide deck.
Your team won't learn AI from a slide deck.
They learn it by shipping something real.
Résidence IA is an immersive program. Your team picks a real problem inside your business, builds a working AI tool for it, and puts it into production with us beside them. Four days in person, spread over six weeks. No certificate. No black box.
Week 2
Map
Find the real friction, the daily workarounds, the steps nobody outside would ever see, and choose one problem worth solving, together as a team.
You leave with One chosen problem, scoped and agreed on by the people who own it.
Weeks 3–5
Build
Design and build a working AI tool with your own hands, guided every step of the way. Your team writes it, we make sure it holds up.
You leave with A functioning tool your team built and can explain line by line.
Week 6
Deploy
Put it into real use and make sure the people around it actually adopt it. This is where most programs stop. It's where this one earns its keep.
You leave with The tool live, in use, and owned by a named team inside your company.
4
phases, problem to production
4
days together, in person
6
weeks, in small cohorts
1
working tool the team keeps
The problem
Your team has already sat through AI training. Nothing changed.
There's a reason it didn't stick — and it's the same reason every time.
It taught tools, not judgment
A tour of five AI products teaches your team what buttons exist. It doesn't teach them where AI actually helps, where it quietly makes things worse, and how to tell the difference.
It ended before anything shipped
The workshop finished on a high, and then everyone went back to their inbox. Nothing reached production, so nothing about the business actually changed.
Nobody owned it afterwards
The expertise left with the vendor. The next idea needs another statement of work, another budget cycle, another wait — and the capability never lands inside your walls.
You didn't need a course. You needed capability — and something real to show for it.
The difference
Six weeks either way, and only one of them leaves you a working tool
Typical AI training
Résidence IA
What you work on
Typical AI training
Generic exercises in a sandbox, disconnected from how your company actually runs.
Résidence IA
One real problem your team chose, in your own workflow, with the friction they live with daily.
Who builds
Typical AI training
A vendor demos. Your team watches.
Résidence IA
Your team builds, hands on the keyboard. We sit beside them and unblock.
What you leave with
Typical AI training
A certificate, a slide deck, and a shared drive nobody opens again.
Résidence IA
A working tool in production, plus the people who know exactly how it was built.
Adoption
Typical AI training
A change-management slide at the end, then an announcement email.
Résidence IA
A full phase of the program, run with Drouin RH — people who do change for a living.
Six months later
Typical AI training
You call the vendor again for the next idea.
Résidence IA
Your team builds the next one themselves — and knows when not to.
What you keep
Two things your team keeps
The AI doesn't change your organization. The people who decide to change do, so the program works on the tool and on the people at the same time.
The participants
Your people
They leave equipped and confident, not certified. They've built a working AI tool with their own hands, and they carry that instinct into everything they do next.
- The judgment to see where AI helps — and where it quietly hurts
- Hands-on experience taking something from idea to production
- The confidence to lead the next one without outside help
The organization
Your company
You integrate AI without the chaos. Instead of a scattered pile of experiments, you get one real tool in production and a team that knows how to build the next one, on your terms.
- One tool solving a problem you actually have, in daily use
- AI capability that lives in your team, not in a vendor's account
- A repeatable way to decide what to build — and what to skip
Who it's for
AI skills that stay inside your own team
Résidence IA is for companies that don't want AI to stay a vendor's black box. It's an honest fit for some teams and a bad fit for others — here's the line.
This is built for you if…
- You want the AI capability inside your team, built by the people who know the real friction.
- Your team already lives with a painful manual process and could name it in one sentence.
- You've run a pilot or a workshop before and it went nowhere.
- You'd rather have one tool actually in use than ten slides about AI strategy.
- You can free up four days across six weeks for a small, committed group.
Look elsewhere if…
- You want a certificate for the wall. We don't issue one, on purpose.
- You'd rather a vendor own the AI forever and hand you a monthly invoice.
- You need someone to build it for you without your team in the room — that's Build & Integrate.
- You're hoping AI will patch a process that's already broken. Fix the process first.
- Nobody internally has the mandate to put a new tool into real use.
In partnership with Drouin RH
Technology on one side, people on the other
The technology
Neo Carbone
Builds the tool, hands-on with your team.
The people
Drouin RH
Handles adoption and the psychology of change.
Adoption is a phase, not an afterthought.
Most AI programs treat change management as a slide at the end. Here, adoption and the psychology of change are a full phase of the program, delivered by people who do the human side for a living — because a tool nobody uses transforms nothing.
Before you ask
The questions we get first
Do we need technical people on the team?
No. The people you want in the room are the ones who live with the problem — ops, finance, HR, customer service. They know the workarounds nobody documented. We handle the technical depth; they bring the domain knowledge and do the building with us beside them.
What if we don't know which problem to solve?
That's phase two. Most teams arrive with a vague sense that "there's a lot of manual work" and leave the Map phase with one specific, scoped problem everybody agrees is worth solving. You don't need to have it figured out before you start.
How much time does this actually take from the team?
Four days in person, spread across six weeks. The gaps between sessions are deliberate — they let the work settle and let people keep doing their jobs. It's a program that fits around real work, not a week away from it.
Who owns the tool at the end?
You do. Your team built it, your team can explain it, and it stays in production inside your business. That's the whole point — the knowledge and the tool both stay in-house when the program ends.
Can you run it in French?
Yes. We're based in Québec and work bilingually in English and French — cohorts run in whichever language your team actually thinks in.
What does it cost, and when's the next cohort?
Cohort dates, formats, and pricing live on the dedicated program site: residenceia.ca. If you'd rather talk it through against your specific situation first, book a call — we'll tell you straight whether it's the right fit.
Next cohort
Six weeks from now, your team can be running a tool they built themselves
Dates, cohort formats, and pricing live on the program site. Or start with a call and we'll tell you honestly whether Résidence IA is the right move for your team.
In partnership with Drouin RH · In person, small cohorts · EN / FR