Build or buy your AI upskilling program
See what building AI training in-house takes, when it’s the right call, and how Maven for Business gets live training running within 30 days.
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Should you build AI training in-house?
Build AI training in-house when it’s about your own company, like your tools, your data and how your teams work. Nobody outside knows those better than you. Buy it for the skills every company needs and that keep changing, like prompting, agents and AI coding. If you build those yourself, someone on your team has to rewrite the course every time the tools change.
You don’t have to pick one. Lattice’s L&D team normally builds its own programs, and it taught AI basics in-house. When people needed intermediate and advanced skills that differ by role, it brought in Maven.
A 10-hour course takes about 430 hours to build.
That’s the work before you teach the first session. The Chapman Alliance surveyed 249 organizations and found each hour of instructor-led training takes 43 hours to develop on average, and 22 to 82 across the range.
Chapman Alliance. The benchmark predates AI tools, so treat it as a rough guide.
Getting employees to train others didn’t scale at Lattice.
Lattice ran AI 101 sessions, lunch and learns and learning circles with its own people. “I’m learning alongside everyone else,” said Mollie West Duffy, who leads L&D. “We’re missing out if we only look to people internally to teach this.”
Lattice hit a ceiling after the basics.
Lattice taught AI basics in-house without trouble. It hit a ceiling at the intermediate and advanced level, where the skills are specific to each role.
From Lattice’s Head of L&D
“People have gone from basic to expert AI fluency.”
“We normally build our own L&D offerings, but this has been hands down one of the best L&D investments we’ve made.”
Mollie West DuffyHead of L&D, LatticeMaven vs building AI training in-house
Decide which skills, which people, and what good looks like.
Building in-house
Your team picks the skills and decides how to assess them.
Skills differ by role. At Lattice, even people inside one function needed different AI skills.
With Maven for Business
A learning plan within a week
A Maven partner maps it with you, and every pilot includes a skills assessment before and after.
We reply within 1 to 2 business days.
Why L&D teams add Maven for AI upskilling
In a 3-month pilot at Lattice, 47 employees took 28 Maven courses. Notion ran a private cohort for its global sales team.
87%
of Lattice’s learners reported higher confidence using AI at work.
Read the Lattice story68%
of Lattice’s learners said they reach for AI more often day to day.
Read the Lattice story81%
of participants on Notion’s sales team said they could apply what they learned to customer conversations.
Read the Notion story
“I came to the course with an intermediate understanding of how agentic AI works, and I’ve walked out feeling like a true expert. I could build anything now.”
Solutions Engineer, LatticeAfter Hands-on Agentic AI for Leaders 
“We needed to quickly increase the technical aptitude of our customer facing teams. By partnering with Maven, we shifted from talking about workflows to actually building them for CTOs & CPOs.”
Sam WenerGTM Enablement Leader, Notion 
L&D stays in charge
You decide who learns what. Maven supplies the instructors and runs the cohorts.
Experts stay on their jobs
A 10-hour course takes about 430 hours to build. Your experts get that time back.
Low stakes to try
A 3-month pilot you can cancel with no penalty, at 3 to 5 hours a week per person.
Nothing to rewrite
Instructors update the material every cohort, so it keeps up with the tools.
Reporting you don’t have to build In beta
When leadership asks what the training changed, you’ll have the answer for every person and every team.
See usage, attendance, projects and reviews on a live dashboard, down to each person.
Every pilot includes a skills assessment before and after, so you can show how AI fluency grew on each team.
A certificate of completion for everyone who finishes a course.
If you build in-house, this reporting is yours to build too.
How to upskill your team in AI
These 5 lessons come from how the L&D team at Lattice did it.
Teach the basics yourself
At Lattice, AI basics were straightforward to run in-house.
Lattice rolled out enterprise model access, worked AI into manager programs and team onsites, ran live lunch and learns, and kept an internal channel where people traded prompts and use cases.
Assess skills first
Measure what people can do, and skip token usage.
Lattice built a framework to assess 5 advanced AI competencies. Assess before and after training, so you can show what changed.
Let people choose
47 people at Lattice picked 28 different courses.
Lattice didn’t assign courses. Even inside one function, people needed different AI skills.
Teach it live
Put it on the calendar, with a cohort and deadlines.
Lattice’s video licenses went mostly unused, at under 5% usage. “People learn best when they get information… they can try out in real time, and not have to watch videos,” said Mollie West Duffy, Lattice’s Head of L&D.
Decide what to hand off
Keep what’s specific to your company, and hand off what changes fast.
Your own tools, data, processes and onboarding are yours to teach. On role-specific AI skills, Mollie said, “We’re missing out if we only look to people internally to teach this.”
Plan an AI upskilling pilot for your team
Tell us how many people you’re training and we’ll send a plan with courses, dates and a price.
Live cohorts
Maven for Business
Live courses over Zoom with hands-on projects and Q&A, taught by practitioners.
- Subscriptions start at 30 seats. One seat is one live course a year, and you can reassign seats between people.
- Every subscription starts with a 3-month pilot you can cancel with no penalty. 10+ companies have started one.
- A Maven partner maps a learning plan within a week, and first cohorts start within 30 days.
With 20 people, you can buy seats in public courses or book a private training for your team. Subscriptions start at 30 seats.
Free series
The AI-Native L&D Leader
A free series of live lessons on how to become the AI upskilling leader for your org.
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Tue, Aug 25
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Wed, Aug 26
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Let’s design your AI upskilling pilot
Tell us about your team and we’ll design a pilot around your goals.
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Share your goals
Tell us where your organization is on its AI upskilling journey.
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Get your pilot proposal
Meet with a Maven partner to build a custom catalog and learning plan.
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Launch
First cohorts can begin within 30 days. We'll help you assess engagement with a live dashboard.