AI work documented in 2018
Experience beyond the latest tool.
Our writing-assessment work with Analytic Spot for Avant and LearningWrite predates today’s LLM wave.
Read the original profile Oregon Business · Sponsored Brand StoryHiVE Shift / AI training & coaching
Help your team
do more
with AI.
Hands-on training. Coaching on real projects.
Practical AI skills your people can keep.
Start with a free 30-minute consultation.
Built around the work you do.
Learn together. Apply it together.See what changes
When the tools are ahead of the shared practice
Turn AI experiments
into team progress.
When useful discoveries stay with individuals and reviews pile up, more tools alone won’t help. We help your team build the skills and shared practices to move forward together.
Let AI move the work.
Keep people directing it.
Illustrative workflowYour team
sets directionGoals · boundaries · tasks
sets directionGoals · boundaries · tasks
Explore a featureCompare possible approaches
Start a scoped taskCreate the ticket. Begin the work.
Prepare a reviewPull changes. Run checks. Summarize.
People review.
People decide.Inspect · question · accept or revise
People decide.Inspect · question · accept or revise
This is part of our own practice: parallel work, useful handoffs and human review. HiVE Shift helps your team develop its own.
Why learn with Twenty Ideas?
We work this way.
And keep learning.
Building products since 2014. Applying AI before the current LLM wave. Adapting our own team’s practices as the tools change.
Building and using DevSwarm today
Advice tested in our own work.
We build DevSwarm for sibling company 21st Idea Inc. Our team uses it to coordinate AI agents, checks and human review.
See how we put it into practice Your team can work with other agreed tools.
People make the difference
Your expertise.
New possibilities.
We work alongside your people. There’s room for questions, skepticism and different starting points. Your team helps shape the change.
Learn how to
put AI to work.
Hands-on sessions to direct coding agents, give useful instructions and assess their output.
Try a techniqueInspect the result
Make it work
on your projects.
Work with a coach on real tasks: delegation, parallel work, reviews, tests and the next bottleneck.
Apply it togetherKeep the practice
Choose training, coaching or both. A focused assessment can help you choose where to start. See what taking part involves ↓
Before we begin
Make the next
step a useful one.
What happens in a coaching session?
Start with a real task and its constraints. Work through it together: give the AI useful instructions, inspect what it produces, and decide what needs a check or a different approach. Capture a worked example the team can use again.
What does our team keep?
Worked examples, decisions and guidance from the work we do together. We agree the deliverables with you before the engagement.
Who controls the tools and the work?
Your people retain judgment and review responsibility. Together we agree tools, data access and what AI can do. We also agree participation, the time commitment with your manager, and what is shared with the sponsor. No hidden individual rankings.
Do we need an assessment or DevSwarm first?
No. Start with training or coaching if you know where help would be useful. An assessment is optional, and DevSwarm adoption is not required. We agree scope, price, participation and schedule before paid work begins.
A useful first conversation
What should AI help
your team do better?
Start with a free 30-minute consultation about the work, the people and what you have already tried.
Request your free 30-minute consultation
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