Red Acorn combines 18+ years of experience in digital strategy, design, development, content, CMS, and education with practical AI training built around your goals and the work you actually need to get done.
ONE-TO-ONE TRAINING · SMALL GROUPS UP TO FIVE · LIVE ONLINE · RECORDINGS INCLUDED
WHAT WE TEACH
You don't need more AI tools simply for the sake of using AI. You need to understand where AI can genuinely make your work faster and clearer. You also need to know where your own experience, judgment, and creativity still matter most.
Explore unfamiliar topics, organize information, compare ideas, summarize complex material, and ask better questions.
Develop and improve website content, emails, reports, proposals, presentations, outreach materials, and social content.
Turn repetitive tasks into useful, repeatable workflows that save time without adding unnecessary complexity.
Use AI alongside websites, CMS platforms, editorial workflows, SEO, content strategy, and digital operations.
Move quickly from an idea to something you can test through AI-assisted design, coding, troubleshooting, and prototyping.
Evaluate AI output, recognize weak information, provide better context, and know when human expertise is essential.
WHO IT'S FOR
A nonprofit team, a small business owner, a student, and a developer may use the same technology in completely different ways. Red Acorn training starts with your work, your responsibilities, and your goals.
AI Training for Nonprofits
AI Training for Small Businesses
AI Training for Students & Educators
AI Training for Designers & Developers
FROM TOOL TO WORKFLOW
The goal is not to memorize prompts or become an expert in every new AI product. The goal is to become more capable at using AI as part of the way you think, create, communicate, and work.
Use instructions, context, examples, constraints, and follow-up questions to improve AI results.
Reduce time spent researching, organizing information, preparing drafts, and completing repetitive work.
Move from a blank page to something useful faster, in writing, ideas, strategy, design, or code.
Turn successful AI interactions into processes you can use again instead of starting from scratch.
Know when to trust, verify, revise, challenge, or reject what AI gives you.
Use your own projects, content, questions, and problems as part of the learning process.
HOW TRAINING WORKS
All Red Acorn AI training is conducted live online. Ask questions, share your work, test ideas, solve problems, and apply what you are learning during the session.
Tell us what you do, what you want to learn, what is taking too much time, and where you think AI could help.
Work directly with Jae in an interactive online session. Ask questions, experiment, troubleshoot, and apply AI as you learn.
Every session is recorded, so you can revisit lessons, repeat exercises, review workflows, and continue learning at your own pace.
TRAINING OPTIONS
Both formats are live, interactive, tailored around participant goals, and include recordings of every session.
The most personalized way to learn.
Work directly with Jae in private live sessions built around your goals, experience, tools, and current work. Bring a project, a workflow, a problem, an idea, or simply a skill you want to develop.
Learn together. Keep it personal.
Small group training combines live instructor-led learning with the energy of learning alongside others. Groups stay intentionally small so everyone can participate and receive meaningful attention.
PERSONALIZED TRAINING
There is no single AI curriculum that works equally well for everyone. We begin with what you want to accomplish, not a predetermined list of AI tools, and recommend the training content, session length, and number of sessions that make sense for your goals.
Jae Barclay
Founder, Red Acorn Agency · Designer · Developer · Educator
WHY LEARN WITH JAE?
People + Ideas + Content + Technology + Real Work
OUR APPROACH
We focus on applications that are useful in real work, not trends simply because they are new.
Training starts with the participant, the organization, and the work that actually needs to be done.
Understand what AI can accelerate and where people still need to think, decide, verify, and create.
You need the right tools, useful workflows, and enough understanding to use them well.
EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE TRAINING
Red Acorn's teaching experience did not begin with AI. Jae has spent years helping people understand digital tools, websites, content systems, design, development, and technology through university instruction, professional training, webinars, courses, and hands-on project work.
As a former professor at SUNY, Jae has taught through university courses, live webinars, video courses, one-to-one instruction, and hands-on technical support. His approach goes beyond showing people which buttons to press: the goal is to help people understand how a system works, make better decisions, and apply what they learn independently.
CRAFT CMS TRAINING
Red Acorn's training work extends beyond AI. Jae is a Verified Craft CMS Partner and longtime CMS educator with deep experience in Craft CMS and ExpressionEngine. Live technical training and existing Craft learning resources remain available for individuals and teams who want to strengthen their CMS skills.
You don't need to know exactly what course you need before contacting us. Tell us what you do, what you would like to improve, and where you think AI could help. We'll recommend a training approach that makes sense for your goals.
ONE-TO-ONE TRAINING · SMALL GROUPS UP TO FIVE · LIVE ONLINE · SESSION RECORDINGS INCLUDED
No commitment required. We'll review your goals and recommend an approach that makes sense for you.