Apply by August 7 — training can be scheduled anytime through spring 2027.
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Category 2 — Training

Train your team on the tool they'll actually use — for half price.

Category 2 splits training costs 50/50, up to $20,000 of state match. Four formats, one goal: everyone leaves with something they built that works.

Straight talk on cash flow: you pay the full amount up front; the state reimburses YOUR business after award, delivery, and documentation. “Final cost after reimbursement” is your true number — not a discount at the register.
Lead offering

Bespoke Team Intensive

A training program built for one organization: your tools, your workflows, your calendar. We design the curriculum around the jobs your people actually do, run it build-lab style — every trainee constructs a working AI workflow from their own role — and certify completion. This is the format that fits most organizations best, because your operation isn't generic and your training shouldn't be either.

Optional deliverable: Documented-as-Delivered — a written record of the curriculum you actually needed, generated from what we actually covered. It doubles as most of your DLR reporting.

Scoped $8,000–$40,000 · state covers half, up to $20,000.

Topic Intensives

Choose your topics, I bring the day. Up to 25 people.

Half day · foundation + pick 2
$3,000 flat · Final cost after reimbursement: $1,500
Full day · foundation + pick 4
$5,500 flat · Final cost after reimbursement: $2,750
Every intensive opens with the Responsible & Beneficial Use foundation — included, always. It's how I keep what you build from becoming what you regret.
Half day: foundation + pick 2 ($3,000). Full day: foundation + pick 4 ($5,500).
1[Tool] 101 — pick your platform (Gemini, Copilot, Claude, or ChatGPT)
2[Tool] 201 — automations, agents, and admin/rollout controls
3AI Play Day — structured hands-on sandbox
4Prompting That Actually Works
5AI for Donor Communications & Fundraising
6Meetings, Notes & Follow-Through
7Documents & Reports in Half the Time
8Spot the Slop — quality control & verification habits
9Build Your First Workflow
10AI & Your Data — privacy, security, what's safe to share
11Can Your Team Tell? — trust & authenticity when AI touches the work
12Making It Stick — the people side of AI
13Your Stack, Updated — what just shipped & what to do about it
14How to Buy AI Without Getting Burned
15Write Your AI Policy in an Afternoon
16AI & the Donor Journey — finding the friction

Tool Sprints

8 training hours: two live 2-hour sessions plus guided practice, in whichever tool fits your stack. Certificate included. Fridays Oct 9 & 16.

$850 / employee (3-seat minimum) · Final cost after reimbursement: $425 / seat
Interest list

AI Working Cohort

$1,450/seat multi-org blocks (Gemini & Copilot tracks). Cohorts run when seats fill — reserved dates: Fall Sept 16–Oct 7, Winter Oct 21–Nov 18. Email to join the interest list.

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Typical bespoke build: development office learns donor-comm workflows, program staff learn reporting and case-note summaries, everyone leaves with one working automation. Typical topics picked: Donor Communications + Prompting.

Your application kit

  1. 1
    Open DLR's web form ↗ (the only accepted submission path) and paste my provider block:
    Provider block
    Provider: Zoss Holdings, LLC (d/b/a Zoss Collaborations)
Location: Sioux Falls, SD
Instructor: Sami Zoss
Phone: (605) 929-9773
  2. 2
    Major Training Requirements (paste these three rows):
    Major Training Requirements
    1. Generative AI fundamentals (Gemini, Copilot, Claude, or ChatGPT - matched to business systems) — 4 hrs
2. Applied workflow mastery - each trainee builds a working AI workflow from their own role — 8 hrs
3. Sustainability & handoff - internal usage norms, teaching it forward, certification — 4 hrs
  3. 3
    Email me for the training outline + cost detail attachments (I send both within one business day).
  4. 4
    Your ROI paragraph starter:
    ROI starter
    We anticipate saving [X] staff hours per week on [tasks], redirected to [mission/revenue work]. Secondary returns: faster turnaround, fewer errors, and staff retention through skill investment.
  5. 5
    Check YES on “will employees earn a credential” — the program certifies. Sign and submit before August 7.
Reserve your training — costs nothing; confirms on award (Aug 25). Apply by August 7 — training can be scheduled anytime through spring 2027.
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