Teemu Piirainen

Over the past year I’ve had the privilege of training teams in generative AI. These sessions range from quick‑hit workshops to multi‑week agent‑building bootcamps, and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. What has struck me most is how quickly teams move from curiosity to impact when the company and its leaders give people the tools […]

Story & Context Over the past year I’ve had a front‑row seat to the weird world of pilot purgatory. In workshops, board meetings and random coffee chats in Finland, the same theme kept emerging: “We’re doing so many AI pilots… so why doesn’t anything change?” New research backs up those anecdotes. Superintelligent’s agent‑readiness study found

What I heard (and didn’t hear) in AI workshops When was the last time your boss said, “You don’t have to hit every target this quarter. Use three hours a week to learn something new.” I can’t remember that ever happening, and neither can most of the people who show up in my AI workshops.