Gies College of Business

Augmented Intelligence for Marketing Teams

A hands-on workshop where your team works with AI on real launch materials — and walks out with real deliverables.

What This Is

Not a software demo. Not a lecture about AI. Your team works on the actual MSBA Online launch — with an AI agent that reads your files, knows your strategy, and produces marketing artifacts at the speed of conversation.

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Real Materials

The AI reads your Box folder — strategy docs, competitive analysis, email threads, meeting notes. Not fake data. Not generic prompts. Your institutional knowledge.

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Real Deliverables

Every person walks out with artifacts they can use tomorrow: competitive briefs, audience personas, messaging matrices, brand-checked content, live tools, automated workflows.

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Self-Paced, AI-Guided

Each person works at their own pace through guided lessons. The AI is the instructor. A facilitator manages the room and handles questions — no deep technical expertise required.

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The Training IS the Work

Brad gets a sample go-to-market package at the end. The team's training outputs become actual campaign inputs. Nothing is wasted.

What Each Role Gets

Every team member works on tasks relevant to their function, using the actual MSBA Online materials.

Two Half-Days

Can be consecutive or split across a week. Designed for a full team but works just as well for a single pilot participant.

Half-Day 1

Learn & Analyze (~3.5 hours)

  • Setup and connections (30 min)
  • First prompt — competitive landscape from Box
  • Pattern-finding across all source materials
  • Build marketing deliverables from templates
  • Run parallel analyses — your team just got bigger
  • Write your AI's "brand book" (project memory)
  • Connect to the MSBAi knowledge bot
  • Team sync — see what everyone built
Half-Day 2

Build & Ship (~3 hours)

  • Choose your track: Build a Tool or Build a Workflow
  • AI-guided planning and build session
  • Deploy or demo your finished product
  • Capstone — build something for your actual role
  • Team showcase — Brad gets the go-to-market package

How It Works

The course is built as a set of AI scripts. The AI teaches. A facilitator manages the room.

1

Open the course folder

Participants open the course folder in OpenAI's Codex app and say "let's start." The AI reads the course script and begins teaching.

2

Work at your own pace

Each person moves through guided lessons independently. The AI adapts to questions, provides feedback, and keeps everyone on track.

3

Facilitator manages the room

One person handles setup issues, keeps time, and runs the group sync sessions. They do not need to be an AI expert — the AI handles the instruction.

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Walk out with real work

Every deliverable — briefs, personas, tools, workflows — is saved to the team's Box folder. The training outputs become campaign inputs.

Train-the-Trainer Ready

The AI does the teaching. That means anyone on your team can facilitate future sessions.

The AI is the instructor

17 lesson scripts with precise teaching flows, exercises, and success criteria. The facilitator does not need to prepare content or know AI deeply.

Facilitator role is light

Manage setup, keep time, run two group sessions, troubleshoot if someone gets stuck. A capable project manager or coordinator can do this.

Scales to any scenario

Swap the Box folder materials and the course works for any launch, any campaign, any team. The structure is reusable; the content is yours.

Pilot first, then scale

One person runs through the full course as a pilot. They experience it as a participant, then facilitate for the team. Low risk, high signal.

At a Glance

Format
Two half-days (consecutive or split)
Team size
1 to 25 people
Prerequisites
Codex installed + Box Drive synced
Technical skill required
None — if you can write a brief, you can do this
Materials
Your actual MSBA Online launch documents
Output
Real deliverables saved to the team's Box folder
Facilitator expertise
Project management level — AI teaches itself
Built by
Vishal Sachdev, Gies College of Business

Ready to Pilot?

One person. One day. Real deliverables. If it works, your team runs it themselves.

Vishal Sachdev — vsachdev@illinois.edu