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Spring 2026 Cohort · Starts April 28

Your Engineers Spend 60% of Their Time on Work AI Could Handle. We Fix That in 8 Weeks.

Shane presenting AI Activation Program

Practical AI implementation built by practicing engineers. Your team saves 3 to 8 hours per person per week, starting in Week 1. No disruption to current projects. No full-day workshops. Just measurable results.

70%Proposal Time Reduction
3-8 hrsSaved Per Person Weekly
40+Engineering Projects
+67NPS Client Satisfaction
April 28, 2026
Tue + Thu, 1:00 to 2:30 PM ET
16 Live Sessions + Recordings
Reserve Your Seat  → Only 30 seats. Enrollment closes April 24, 2026.
100% Money-Back Guarantee 12-Month Recording Access 30 Seats, Intentionally Small
100+Engineers Trained
+67NPS, Fall 2025 Cohort
5 hrsAvg. Saved Per Person/Week

These Are the Words We Hear Every Week

Engineering leaders say this in every conversation. If your reality looks like any of these, this program was built for your firm.

"It's the Wild Wild West"

Some people are experimenting with AI on their own, others are ignoring it entirely, and there is no policy, no structure, and no shared understanding of what is even appropriate to use.

"Everything is non-billable"

Your best engineers are spending almost half their week on proposals, document hunting, email triage, and coaching junior staff. That is revenue walking out the door every single day.

"I've become the bottleneck"

Managers and senior engineers are fielding constant questions, reviewing every document, and carrying the institutional knowledge that keeps projects moving. Nothing scales when everything flows through one person.

"The knowledge is walking out the door"

Senior engineers are retiring in the next 2-5 years, and decades of project history, client relationships, and technical judgment live in their heads. Once they leave, that knowledge is gone.

"We keep recreating the wheel"

Every proposal starts from scratch. Every new project reinvents deliverables that exist somewhere on someone's hard drive. Templates, SOPs, and past work are siloed across the organization.

"We know AI matters, but where do we start?"

The options are overwhelming and the tools keep changing. Nobody on the team has time to figure it out, and generic AI training does not connect to how engineering firms actually work.

The Transformation

What changes when your firm implements AI with a structured, workflow-first approach.

Before 20-30 hours Non-billable work per proposal submission
After 2-4 hours First-draft proposals with relevant project comps
Before Inbox chaos Emails pile up with no system for triage or prioritization
After Prioritized daily AI-assisted triage delivers a prioritized action list every morning
Before 10-15 interruptions/day Junior staff pull senior engineers off billable work constantly
After Seniors stay billable AI knowledge base answers common questions instantly
Before 2-4 hours per contract Review falls on one executive for every document
After Under 1 hour AI first-pass review, executive review drops dramatically
Before 50 years locked away Project history trapped in filing cabinets and hard drives
After Searchable in seconds Every project findable by client, type, date, or keyword
Before No AI policy No governance, no structure for safe adoption
After Fully governed Framework in place with PE stamp protection
Before 4-5 hours/week Manual AP invoice processing every week
After Under 1 hour/week AI extraction handles the heavy lifting
80-90% Proposal Time Reduction
3-8 hrs Saved Per Person Weekly
Week 3 Typical Positive ROI

What Participants Are Saying

Once my 'Evil AI Twin' has taken over like SkyNet the Terminator will return to this time now and find Shane Chalupa because it's his fault he is the one that trained me. He is that good!

Jay Clampitt

AI Accelerator Participant

I had a great experience with Obnovit. The AI Accelerator program was challenging and informative. I feel more confident and would recommend this program to my colleagues.

Jay Clampitt

AI Accelerator Participant

This AI Accelerator program has been an excellent experience. We ranged from introductory topics to more in-depth conversations. The Obnovit team does a great job in the program as well as all the supporting documentation they provide. Truly a great program for everyone!

John Fasano

AI Accelerator Participant

This was an exceptional course on how to unlock the potential of AI within your business. If you are struggling to figure out where AI can be applied to your company, how to construct an agent, how to structure prompts, this course is a must.

William

Engineering Industry Professional

We all know we work too hard, so we're not interested in working any harder. Within three weeks, we freed up 6 hours per person per week. My senior engineers went from admin to mentoring junior staff.

Department Manager

Municipal Engineering Firm, 40-person team

I'm a billable company. If we can get people from non-billable tasks quicker, it's a benefit for everybody. By Week 3, we were tracking actuals against our model and already ahead of projections.

Director of IT

Civil Engineering Firm, 80+ employees

A lot of institutional knowledge is going out the door. This gave us a real way to capture it. We are already preserving workflows from three retiring senior engineers before they leave.

Vice President

Engineering Consulting Firm, multi-state practice

How It Works

Three steps from where you are now to a team that runs on AI-powered workflows.

1

Reserve Your Seat

Secure your spot in the Spring 2026 cohort before enrollment closes April 24, 2026.

2

Build Real Workflows

Over 8 weeks, you build AI workflows for your actual projects in live sessions with your cohort peers.

3

Measure the Results

Track your hours saved starting Week 1. By Week 3, your firm should already be in positive ROI territory.

Reserve Your Seat

Only 30 seats available, intentionally small. Enrollment closes April 24, 2026.

Why This Program Works When Others Don't

A few years ago, facing an impossible deadline with no budget for outside help, I completed a project in 4 hours that would normally take 3 weeks waiting for a consultant. Not a rough draft. A complete, validated, expert-level deliverable.

What that proved is that AI does not replace engineering judgment. It removes the friction between knowing what to do and actually getting it done. The knowledge, the standards, the experience are still yours. AI is just the gap between intention and output.

The first time we brought this to a firm, we tried to implement everything at once and failed. Scaling back to the highest-friction workflows first is what made adoption click. That failure gave us the framework you are going to learn. We have refined it by training over a hundred engineers, and the result is consistent: Fall 2025 cohort participants averaged 5 hours reclaimed per person per week, with firms tracking positive ROI by Week 3. This program delivers what it promises because we built it by breaking it first.

Shane Chalupa presenting AI workflows to engineering teams
Industrial engineering structure

Built by Engineers, for Engineers

Every framework in this program was developed and tested inside real engineering firms, on real projects, with real deadlines.

Everything Included in Your Seat

Every tool, resource, and live session you need to build AI-powered workflows and see measurable results within weeks.

8 Weekly Deep-Dive Workshops

90-minute live sessions on Zoom covering everything from AI foundations to agentic automation. All recorded with 12-month access.

$3,500 value

8 Weekly Office Hours + Labs

90-minute hands-on lab sessions where you build real workflows alongside the Obnovit team. Bring your actual projects.

$2,500 value

Pre-Launch AI Foundations Course

Self-paced modules that open one week before kickoff so everyone starts from the same foundation on Day 1.

$997 value

90-Min Company Strategy Session

A dedicated session with the Obnovit team to map your specific workflows, identify quick-win opportunities, and build your custom implementation roadmap.

$1,500 value

AI Prompt Library (30+ Prompts)

Daily-use prompts engineered for engineering workflows, from proposal drafting to email triage to contract review.

$497 value

5 Custom AI Assistants

Pre-built, plug-and-play AI assistants trained on engineering-specific tasks. Start using them on Day 1.

$997 value

Frameworks, Templates, ROI Tools

Implementation frameworks, workflow templates, and ROI calculators so you can measure and communicate results from Week 1.

$1,497 value

365-Day Community + Recordings

Full year of access to the peer community, all session recordings, and ongoing resources. Your learning does not stop at Week 8.

$2,997 value

Exclusive Peer Network

Direct access to engineering professionals across 8 weeks and beyond, all working on the same adoption challenges inside real firms.

$997 value
Total Value: $15,482 Your Investment: $4,797

Additional seats from the same company: $1,497 each

Value based on comparable standalone rates: live coaching at $175-250/hr, alumni communities at $200-300/month, strategy sessions at $1,500-2,000, and custom AI assistant builds at $800-1,200 each.

Get $15,482 of AI Training for $4,797

Enrollment closes April 24, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET.   Only 30 seats available, intentionally small.

Your 8-Week Journey

A structured, progressive path from AI foundations to fully automated workflows. Each phase builds on the last.

Wk 1-2

Get Your Tools Running

Configure your AI toolkit, build your digital knowledge base, master effective prompting, and start saving time in the first week.

Wk 3-4

Reclaim Proposal Hours

Automate first-draft proposals, streamline project management tasks, and cut non-billable admin by 3 or more hours weekly.

Wk 5-6

Automate the Routine Work

Apply AI to engineering operations, build automated KPI dashboards, streamline financial processes, and reduce invoice processing by 75%.

Wk 7-8

Build Systems That Run Themselves

Deploy AI-powered knowledge systems, launch agentic workflows that run daily without supervision, and build the rollout plan for your whole organization.

This Program Is Right for You If...

Check the boxes that apply. If most of them fit, you are in the right place.

  • You run a civil, structural, MEP, environmental, or infrastructure engineering firm with 5 to 200 people.
  • Your senior engineers spend 30-50% of their week on proposals, document review, email triage, or mentoring questions they should not be fielding.
  • You are a billable-hours firm and every hour your best people spend on admin is revenue your firm will never recover.
  • You have senior engineers retiring in the next 2-5 years and institutional knowledge that has never been documented.
  • Your team ranges from AI beginners to daily users, and you want a structured program that moves everyone forward on the same framework.
  • You are ready to invest in your team's capability rather than wait for competitors to figure this out first.

Meet Your Instructor

Shane Chalupa, PE

Shane Chalupa, PE

Founder, Obnovit LLC

Shane is a Licensed Professional Engineer with 13+ years of experience in engineering, construction, and project delivery. He has trained over a hundred engineers on AI workflows, helping teams reclaim thousands of non-billable hours and build systems that scale without adding headcount.

His Fall 2025 cohort scored a +67 NPS. Participants averaged 5 hours reclaimed per person per week, with firms tracking positive ROI by Week 3. Every workflow and framework in this program was tested inside a working engineering practice before it was ever taught to a client. What you learn here has already been stress-tested on real deadlines, real projects, and real teams.

The Math Is Simple

Before looking at the investment, see what AI adoption is worth for your firm's bottom line.

Your Firm's AI ROI Estimate

Estimated Annual Value Created

$180,000

That is $3,750 per week your team is currently leaving on the table.

Your Investment

A team of 5 reclaiming 5 hours each per week at $150/hr pays back the $4,797 investment in less than 3 weeks. Add team members from your firm for $1,497 each, and the per-person cost drops fast.

Individual Seat

$15,482 total value $4,797 One-time investment
  • 8 weekly deep-dive workshops (90 min each)
  • 8 weekly office hours + lab sessions
  • Pre-launch AI foundations course
  • 90-min company strategy session
  • AI Prompt Library (30+ prompts)
  • 5 custom AI assistants
  • Frameworks, templates, ROI tools
  • 365-day community + recordings
  • Exclusive peer network access
Reserve Your Seat

100% money-back guarantee

At $150/hr billing rate, a team of 5 recoups this in 17 days of saved time.

Our 100% Money-Back Guarantee

Show up to all 16 live sessions, complete the assigned work, and if you have not saved at least 3 hours per person per week by the end of the program, we will refund your full investment.

We put this guarantee in writing because we have watched it work in firm after firm. The results are predictable when the process is followed. We are betting that if you do the work, you will not want your money back, because what you will have built is worth far more than what you paid.

Reserve Your Seat

Attend every session, complete the work, and save 3 hours per person per week. If you don't, you get a full refund.

Questions We Hear Most Often

This program is designed for engineering professionals at every AI skill level. We start with foundations and build systematically from there. Previous participants ranged from department heads who had never opened ChatGPT to IT directors using AI daily. The non-technical participants in our Fall 2025 cohort averaged 4 hours saved per person per week by Week 4.
The program covers Claude (including Cowork and Code), M365 Copilot, ChatGPT, and specialized tools aligned to your tech stack. The frameworks you learn apply regardless of which tool or platform your firm decides to use.
Data security is covered directly in the program. We walk through data classification protocols, explain which types of information are appropriate for AI tools, and provide a governance template you can customize for your firm. No client data or proprietary information is used during demonstrations.
Yes, and we encourage it. The more people from your firm who attend, the easier it is to build momentum for AI adoption internally. Team pricing drops significantly: from $4,797 per person for an individual seat to as low as $1,827 per person for a team of 10. Additional seats are $1,497 each after the first seat.
All sessions are recorded and available for 12 months. That said, the live interaction, Q&A, and hands-on labs deliver the most value. We recommend attending live whenever possible, especially during the lab sessions where you build workflows in real time.
About 3 hours per week: a 90-minute workshop and a 90-minute lab session, both on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:00 to 2:30 PM ET. Homework is practical and designed to apply directly to your daily work, so it replaces tasks you are already doing rather than adding to your plate.
No preparation needed. A pre-launch AI foundations course opens one week before kickoff to get everyone on the same page. Just show up with a general idea of where your team spends the most time on manual, repetitive tasks.
Enrollment closes on April 24, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET. This is the only Spring 2026 cohort. The next program will not open until Fall 2026. We cap enrollment at 30 seats, intentionally small, to ensure every participant gets real interaction, real Q&A time, and genuine peer problem-solving. Once the seats are gone, registration closes.

Every Week You Wait, Your Best People Are Doing the Wrong Work

Spring 2026 AI Activation Program. 16 Live Sessions. Starts April 28.

At 5 hours per person per week across a team of 5, that is $3,750 in recoverable capacity leaving your firm every single week. In 8 weeks, you will have the systems, the skills, and the confidence to stop the bleed permanently. Enrollment closes April 24, 2026. Only 30 seats available, intentionally small.

Reserve Your Seat
100% Money-Back Guarantee 12-Month Recording Access Only 30 Seats, Intentionally Small

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