AI Consulting & Training · Reno-Tahoe
Most AI advice is
dangerously generic.
The AI Odyssey delivers confidential, hands-on AI strategy and professional training for executives and teams who need specificity — not another ChatGPT tutorial, but a genuine operational edge.
Three Ways to Work Together
From a focused diagnostic to an ongoing strategic partnership — choose the engagement that fits where you are today.
Diagnostic
See where AI fits in your operations
One-time investment
Implementation
Hands-on workflow transformation
One-time investment
Advisory
Ongoing AI leadership partnership
Monthly retainer · Cancel anytime
AI Training That Actually Sticks
Knowing AI exists isn't a competitive advantage. Knowing how to use it is. Instructor-led classes with hands-on practice, real scenarios, and the security frameworks your organization requires.
The accounting profession is being reshaped by AI — but most training stops at "here's ChatGPT." This full-day intensive goes deeper. You'll learn how to use AI for transaction classification, anomaly detection, report generation, client communication drafting, and audit preparation — all within frameworks that respect GAAP, data privacy, and professional ethics. We cover what AI can't do and where human judgment remains irreplaceable, so you leave with genuine confidence, not false hype.
AI can generate a thousand social posts in an hour. But can it generate the right one? This workshop cuts through the AI-marketing hype to teach what actually works: using AI as a strategic thought partner (not just a content mill), maintaining brand consistency, and building workflows that amplify your team's creativity. Includes hands-on labs with real campaign scenarios.
Modern AI isn't just text — it processes images, documents, data tables, audio transcripts, and code simultaneously. This class teaches you to leverage multi-modal capabilities to triage complex decisions faster. You'll learn when to use AI (and when not to), how to feed it context from multiple sources, and how to build decision-support workflows that compress hours of analysis into minutes.
Prompting isn't "talking to a chatbot." It's a structured discipline — and doing it well is the difference between AI that saves you 10 minutes and AI that saves you 10 hours. This hands-on workshop teaches enterprise-grade prompting from the ground up: structured instructions, role-setting, chain-of-thought techniques, output formatting, iterative refinement, and building reusable prompt libraries your entire team can share.
You're already the most organized person in the building. Now imagine an AI co-pilot that drafts agendas in your voice, summarizes 40-page board decks in 2 minutes, triages your executive's inbox, and prepares briefing materials overnight. This class teaches you to integrate AI into scheduling, communication, research, document management, and event coordination — with strict confidentiality protocols from day one.
From Conversation to Competence
A straightforward path. No mystery, no black boxes — just clear steps toward real capability.
Discovery
We start with your reality — your workflows, your bottlenecks, your security requirements. No assumptions.
Security First
Enterprise-grade guardrails before anything else. Data classification, access controls, compliance alignment.
Integration
Custom AI workflows deployed for your specific use cases. Hands-on training so your team owns the capability.
Mastery
Ongoing refinement based on real usage. The goal: your team becomes self-sufficient, not dependent.
Why The AI Odyssey
Founded by Eric Castillo in Reno, Nevada, The AI Odyssey exists because most AI advice is either too generic to be useful or too technical to be actionable.
Eric bridges that gap. He works directly with executives, accountants, marketers, and operations leaders — people who need AI to solve their specific problems, not hypothetical ones. Every engagement starts with your reality: your workflows, your compliance requirements, your team's comfort level. The goal isn't to make you dependent on a consultant — it's to make you genuinely capable.
Confidentiality isn't a feature here. It's the foundation. Every consultation is subject to mutual NDA, and every workflow is designed with data privacy as the non-negotiable starting point.
Start a Conversation
Not sure where to start? That's what the first conversation is for. No pressure, no pitch deck — just an honest assessment of whether AI can help with what you're facing.
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