The Scalable Business Blueprint · AI Edition
Up to $15,000 of live AI training. Fully reimbursable.
Massachusetts reimburses the cost through the Workforce Training Fund Express Grant. You learn practical AI skills you can use in your business the next day.
Approved provider · MA Workforce Training Fund Express Grant · Reimbursed by Commonwealth Corporation
Built for the engine of the MA economy
- Service firms
- Studios & agencies
- Nonprofits
- Manufacturers
- Professional practices
The real risk
Falling behind on AI is a growth risk.
Your competitors are already answering leads faster, publishing more and running leaner with AI. It doesn't show up all at once. It shows up as slower replies, lost hours and growth that quietly stalls.
Does this sound like your business?
- ✓Leads go cold because nobody follows up fast enough.
- ✓You're answering reviews, emails and quotes at 11pm.
- ✓Marketing happens in bursts, then stops when things get busy.
- ✓Your team repeats the same admin tasks every single week.
- ✓You know competitors are using AI, but you don't know where to start.
- ✓You've tried ChatGPT a few times, but it never became a real system.
If you checked even two, AI4BIZ Academy gives you a structured way to fix it, and the Commonwealth can cover the cost.
Claim Your FundingWhy this is worth your time
Real skills, live instruction, real reimbursement.
This isn't a course you watch. Every session is live and hands-on, so you leave knowing how to use AI, not just what it is.
$15K
Per Company per year
Reimbursed up to $15,000 per company per year. We structure enrollment to fit cleanly inside the caps.
100%
Instructor-led, live
Fifty hours delivered live over Zoom in small cohorts of up to 30: concept, demonstration, case-study exercise, and group discussion every session.
Day 1
Skills you use on Day 1
Every course teaches you to build and use practical AI tools (assistants, prompt libraries, templates, and workflows) through live demonstrations and a shared case-study exercise.
The cost of waiting
What is manual work really costing you?
Repetitive writing, follow-ups, scheduling and reporting add up. Move the sliders to see what those hours cost your business each year.
Illustrative estimate based on 48 working weeks. Not a financial forecast.
Time lost each year
$48,000
Your net cost after grant reimbursement
$0
Tuition is paid upfront and reimbursed after course completion.
Claim Your FundingWhat $15,000 builds
Five courses. Five layers of your AI infrastructure.
Five courses, taken in sequence. Each one teaches a core skill and the AI tools that support it, practiced live on a shared case-study business.
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Marketing Planning with AI
You learn to build: An AI marketing plan and planning assistant
10 hrs · 4 live sessions
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Marketing Systems with AI
You learn to build: Content and email systems that run every week
10 hrs · 4 live sessions
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Lead Generation & Visibility with AI
You learn to build: A lead pipeline with instant AI follow-up
10 hrs · 4 live sessions
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Building an AI-Integrated Team
You learn to build: An AI staffing map and role-based prompt library
10 hrs · 4 live sessions
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Using AI to Scale & Become Exit Ready
You learn to build: Documented, AI-supported operations buyers value
10 hrs · 4 live sessions
50 hours total. Cohort-based, up to 30 participants, delivered live via Zoom.
Claim Your FundingBefore and after
What changes in a real business.
A new lead comes in
Before: Reply the next day, if you remember.
After: Instant, personal follow-up drafted in seconds.
Monthly marketing
Before: Blank page, skipped weeks, no plan.
After: A month of posts and emails planned in one sitting.
Writing a quote or proposal
Before: An evening at the kitchen table.
After: A polished first draft in minutes.
Customer reviews
Before: Unanswered for weeks.
After: Every review answered, on brand.
Team admin
Before: Same tasks, done by hand, every week.
After: Repeatable AI systems the whole team uses.
Inside a live session
See what happens in the room.
Real moments from our live cohorts: teaching, open discussion and owners building their AI tools in real time.
Course 1 · Capstone session
Build your 90-day marketing plan
Live session
AI for goal setting
Live session
Work smarter, live better
From interested to funded
Four steps. We handle the paperwork.
1
Check eligibility
A quick call confirms your business qualifies: for-profit or non-profit, MA-based, 100 or fewer W-2 employees. If you are the owner and the only W-2 in MA, that counts as well.
2
Choose your seats
Decide which team members join the full five-course program. We map enrollment to the grant cap.
3
We help you apply
We guide you through the Express Grant application and the required documents (MA DOR Certificate of Good Standing, DUA Certificate of Compliance, and a signed W-9). Applications must be submitted at least 21 days before training starts.
4
Train & get reimbursed
Your team trains live. After completing and paying for training, you submit for reimbursement of up to $15,000 per company per year.
Who's in the room
Same program. Owners from every industry.
Every session is live, with open discussion and a shared case-study exercise. Owners from many industries learn the same skills side by side, then put them to work in their own businesses. Here's how the skills apply across industries.
Restaurants & cafés
Fill slow shifts, answer every review, cut manager admin.
See how it applies →Salons & spas
Refill the book, win back clients, a month of content in an hour.
See how it applies →Home improvement & trades
Quote faster, answer leads first, document every job.
See how it applies →Professional services
Reclaim billable hours and keep the pipeline warm.
See how it applies →
Your instructor
Meet Dolores Hirschmann.
Twenty years building, scaling, advising, and exiting businesses across three languages and more boardrooms than she can count. Founder of Masters in Clarity, fractional CMO, investor, TEDx speaker coach, and the person business owners call when the strategy isn't landing and the team isn't moving.
She designed AI4BIZ Academy because most "AI training" still treats AI like a novelty. This program treats it like what it actually is: leverage. Every session ends with a skill you can put to work the next day.
"You don't need more information. You need clarity, a system, and the nerve to ship it."
Dolores Hirschmann · Founder, Masters in Clarity
The parent company
AI4BIZ Academy is built by Masters in Clarity.
Masters in Clarity is the consultancy Dolores founded to help founders move from scattered effort to scalable systems through fractional CMO engagements, strategic advisory, TEDx-grade speaker coaching, and Micro M&A. We've spent two decades getting service businesses unstuck.
AI4BIZ Academy is the same playbook, distilled into five live courses and packaged so Massachusetts businesses can take it on the Commonwealth's tab.
20+
Years advising founders
3
Languages, global reach
100s
Businesses sharpened
Now enrolling · Limited seats
See if the Commonwealth will cover your team.
One 30-minute call. We'll confirm eligibility, walk you through the program, and help you start the grant application, whether you enroll one leader or your whole team.